A Holiday Gift to All....

Heres alittle gift to everyone to everyone for the holidays. A great sounding GNR show from 1988.

Special thanks to Let it Rip Productions, the Mad Taper, John Atyim, and Eric for this. I am leaving all files in flac, if you d/l be sure to do the same if you post anywhere to preserve traders wishes and keep lossy shows off the web. For more information on flac format go here http://flac.sourceforge.net/ or here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC
thanks,

Show info:
The Band: Guns And Roses
Venue: Montezuma Hall; SDSU
Location: San Diego, California USA
Date: February 8, 1988
Source: Audience
Lineage: Master cassette>cdr
Title: Chrystal Meth City
The Taper: The Mad Taper
Recording Equipment: Sony Cassette recorder,
model unknown
Engineering & mastering: John Atyim
Artwork by: Eric
Label: Let It Rip Productions
Set list:
(79: 53)
1. It's So Easy
2. Move To The City
3. Mr. Brownstone
4. Out To Get me
5. Sweet Child 'O Mine
6. I Used To Love Her
7. My Michelle
8. Rocket Queen
9. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
10. Welcome To The Jungle
11. Night Train
12. Patience
13. Paradise City
14. Mama Kin
From John's txt file from the show," It's not every day you see a recording like this surface. I finally got permission from the taper to bring
this recording out to you. From what I've gathered there was no known source to this show in the trading circles. I searched the internet high & low and nothing pertaining to this show turned up. So... here it is !
Guns & Roses in their prime, the boys are playing a pretty tight set and Axl's voice is strong, singing on all cylinders hitting the highs & the lows this night. At the time this show was recorded, Guns & Roses were showcasing new songs from their "G'nR Lies" album. The master cassette used
for the transfer was starting to suffer from "tape oxidation" at the very beginning and at the end of the show-I don't think you'll notice that too much as I gave my very best efforts in the digital restoration part of doing this production. I think you are really going to like this show! There is feed back coming from the speakers every now and then and no noise or hiss reduction was used in this production. I did add some bass eq to balance this recording, and the reason for that
is the taper doesn't recall where he was standing when he recorded this show, he recalls he was extremely stoned on marijuana and mentioned to me that it was loud as hell in that Montezuma Hall at SDSU. This is evident in the recording itself, the band is almost overpowering the taper's recording equipment. The taper refers to himself anonymous as the; "Mad Taper", he's brought you other recordings in the past under Let It Rip Productions. Well, anyways, I'm just glad to bring this show out to you all and as with Let It Rip Productions, justtrade 'em, torrent 'em and please do not exchange currency for the recordings we bring to you
because this recording, and especially this recording, is intended to be shared amongst fans.
Enjoy !
John "

Its So Easy
http://www.mediafire.com/?ejdjky9uexa
Move to the City
http://www.mediafire.com/?czdmnnldc2m
Mr. Brownstone
http://www.mediafire.com/?2nxwxwjmnn0
Out To Get me
http://www.mediafire.com/?cqmgrdhlya2
Sweet Child 'O Mine
http://www.mediafire.com/?5em911dgs1t
I Used To Love Her
http://www.mediafire.com/?65hc0ctdgb0
My Michelle
http://www.mediafire.com/?1gxujtig1f2
Rocket Queen
http://www.mediafire.com/?4mgkp2im1wl
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
http://www.mediafire.com/?2xjyjw5y5w4
Welcome To The Jungle
http://www.mediafire.com/?cj2tzzsbg92
Night Train
http://www.mediafire.com/?1mmexmmmtmd
Patience
http://www.mediafire.com/?8i54xw9qfgi
Paradise City
http://www.mediafire.com/?etwixvlx5bx
Mama Kin
http://www.mediafire.com/?fd0vxyjmpov
Artwork,show info txt,etc.
http://www.mediafire.com/?cxyms1gm2ky

Also, this is still the coolest pinball machine hands down.


More GNR goodness
Guns N' Roses - Nightrain (Ritz, 1988.02.02)


Guns n Roses Civil war live (Voodoo Child intro)

The Cure

As hinted at through previous posts I am a pretty big Cure fan. Heres some tracks off one of my favorite Cure bootlegs: "Full Moon Concert" from July 6,1990
@ Leysin,Switzerland. These files come from my own copy and thats why they're in mp3 format.
Enjoy
The Same Deep Water As You
http://www.mediafire.com/?8ev9dbgvdxs

A Forest
http://www.mediafire.com/?dsysds3xnx3

Disintegration
http://www.mediafire.com/?0nqlxxemodg

Back into Gear

A single final obstructs my free time, otherwise I am back to posting. I am a little bummed, my recent acquisition of the Fluid's Clear Black Paper's B-side is fucked up after Try Try Try, I emailed the ebay seller to notify him of this glaring problem, no resolution. total weak sauce. Anyhow, by sheer luck I stumbled upon this blog Wilfully Obscure http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2007/10/fluid-clear-black-paper-lp-freak-magnet.html
[Still working on linking issues]
that has vinyl rips of both Clear Black Paper (Glitter house version) and Freak Magnet (Also Glitter house version). However what truly makes this link the tits is that there is another link to another blog that has their entire discography up for dl. Anyone that has any bootlegs of their shows I want them so send me emails. I have to go decode Cure bootlegs to cdrs now.
heres a sick Radio Birdman video from 1978 [PS- Radio Birdman Slays, so does fellow Aussie Rockers Asteroid B-612]

Counter Productive

So after running all day for job interviews/internship circus hoops and a group Q&A for a final, I was supposed to be working on another paper. But I got a totally rad package from ebay today. The Fluid's Subpop debut Clear Black Paper on vinyl and a cd comp of some of their later work Glue and Roadmouth. I heard about the Fluid about a year ago thanks to Dave Clifford/Buddyhead collective. Ive been looking for this on and off since then and now I finally got the treaure. The Fluid were a rock band from Denver in the late 80s and they rock. A blend of the best parts of the Stooges/MC5 and the Dolls-Option (from promo sleeve). I am kinda phoning it in tonight, too much wine and subsequently too much coffee to counter balance (not counter balancing) has left me incapable of literary merit or listening samples. Oh and check this sweet Philip K. Dick blog http://totaldickhead.blogspot.com/ it slays. I am adding it to the links in the corner. This is me leaving.

Lack of Updates

Sorry for lack of updates. Finals are getting into gear. So heres a photo of me guest bartending (on far left) to raise money for the CSB (College Students in Broadcasting).
Regular Updates in the next few weeks. A JAMC @ Fillmore review from SOMA, Spiritualized Bimbos review, possibly a Goon Moon recap. Cool Shows coming up: Wooden Shjips are playing the Independent w/ Autolux Jan . 31 tix $16, and Black Mountain w/ Howlin' Rain on Feb 2 tix $14.

Hot Snakes

When I first began digitizing my music files I was excited now 3 days later the Honey Moon has worn off drastically. I am slowly realizing how disorganized I keep everything. I am nearly half way through official releases (about 23 gigs @192kbs) I am going lossless for live shows, though. I know nobody cares so here's something to care about HOT SNAKES!!!!

Hot Snakes (1999-2005) were a San Diego rock band comprised of John Reis, Rick Froberg, Gar Wood, Jason Kourkounis (first 2 albums)and later Mario Rubalcaba (took over for Jason on drums). They released 3 albums, a live set from JJ studios
and the last ever peel session. I think the winning formula is when Reis & Froberg join forces they make great music. Reis has a new project in the works. The new year is supposed to bring the RTFC last ever show dvd, Hot Snakes dvd and the new Beehive album.

Heres a few of my favorite cuts off a show in Colorado on November 4th 2004.
*Note files are left in wav as per show tapers request.

10th Planet
http://www.mediafire.com/?euzybymml1b

This Mystic Decade
http://www.mediafire.com/?dzm8y25mygz

Automatic Midnight


Braintrust


More information about all Reis related projects at
www.swamirecords.com

Buy Shit from Swami
http://merchlackey.com/swami/

The Manhattan Love Suicides

from magic marker records.

Trev over at Lost Music and Indie Mp3 keened me onto the fine band. For fans of the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and Velvet Underground. MLS play fuzzed out, catchy noise pop. Infact, this is how Sister Vanilla (the Jim, William and Linda Reid's studio side project) should sound. No word on when they are touring the states, but they say they will be over here soon.
Here is a track from their latest 7'' out on Lost Music Records, Called "Head Over Heels" and probably my favorite MLS song to date. (links to Lost Music Records can be found to the right under better stuff on the internet).
http://www.mediafire.com/?9ztyknoibz3

Buy their music here also Squirrel Records http://www.squirrelrecords.co.uk/details.php?id=23

The bands myspace page http://www.myspace.com/themls

Tour Dates:
Nov 21 2007 The Cockpit w/The Raveonettes Leeds 7:00P

Feb 26 2008 The Glebe w/The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart & Horowitz Stoke-On-Trent 8:00P

Feb 27 2008 Don’t The Kids Just Love It @ The Royal Park w/ The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 8:00P

End of Week Stuff

The week is over. Well, technically for me it is. School is in the can for the holidays. I am headed home w/ all my music to digitalize. I am rolling a baby suit case deep (mostly disorganized live stuff). The prospect of getting everything into my ipod is making me excited. I am also going to sink my teeth into my free read books that have been momentarily been put on the shelf.

Wooden Shjips

One of my favorite current bands. The Wooden Shjips are based out of SF. I had the great opportunity to see them slay at Bottom of the Hill in October. They have a slew of releases that are available right now, their S/T is killer, as are their vinyl. If you dig hypnotic drone this is your cup of tea. Sorta like Spacemen 3. I was wrecked out of my head on caffeine today trying to finish a few papers (which I did, thank you caffeine) and I threw the S/T on and it almost threw me into a primordial mush.
Heres a excerpt from the review I wrote on soundsect.com,
Wooden Shjips is a woozy, hypnotic monster of droning guitars, caveman beats, eerie keyboard melodies and sleepy hushed vocals. The album contains five tracks of pure droning bliss that swoons in a fierce, trance-like rhythm; which is both overwhelming and evocative.
Songs like “We Ask You to Ride” and “Losin’ Time” chug and hiss primitively before white shards of guitar noise sear your ear drums. Whalen’s organ shifts nonchalantly between fuzzed out spookiness and dirty boogie. “Blue Sky Bends” is all grimy swagger. Ahsanuddin and Jermier’s chunky rhythms sway coolly while Johnson takes off on a spaced out lingering guitar jam with subtle organ flourishes.
for the rest of the review head to www.soundsect.com. To Buy their shit (which I hope you do)
go here http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/w14.html

Heres a track off their out of print 10'' Shrinking Moon For You
http://www.mediafire.com/?czj9udj1o9j

More Band Info
http://www.myspace.com/woodenshjips

Shows:
Wooden Shjips
November, 14 2007 at Hemlock Tavern w/ Pink Reason and Psychedelic Horseshit
1131 Polk St, San Francisco

Final Word Red Whine and the SOL 7'' combined with head phones make the best combination.

Dinosaur jr. Forget the Swan + More

J, Lou, and Murph play Forget the Swan. 2006-05-29
(From freesofree.net)

This was going to be my first post on a blog I attempted to create a year or so ago entitled "Forget the Swan," after arguably my favorite Dinosaur Jr. Song. Here it finally is. A great performance from the Henry Rollings Show on the IFC channel. They have a great 2007 release entitled Beyond on Fat Possum Records, the first record since 1988's BUG, with Lou back on bass. I highly recommend it!

RAISINS
Performing live in studio on MTV Europe in 1994. J. Mascis (guitar), Murph (drums), Mike Johnson (bass). Jay will melt your face off with this solo



JUST LIKE HEAVEN
They kinda own this song, sorry Robert. How I would give to hear J play A Forest.
J, Lou, Murph from 2007's Live From the Middle East dvd.



for further Dinosaur Jr. Info
http://dinosaurjr.com

Check Out the bands live data base of shows
http://freesofree.net

New Dinosaur Jr ** 2007 ** Tour Dates featuring J,L,M -- f.y. Dinosaur Jr Tour

* 20 Nov 2007 - Mr. Small's - Pittsburgh PA USA
* 21 Nov 2007 - Town Ballroom - Buffalo NY USA
* 23 Nov 2007 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston MA USA
* 24 Nov 2007 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston MA USA
* 27 Nov 2007 - Black Cat - Washington DC USA
* 28 Nov 2007 - Lincoln Theatre - Raleigh NC USA
* 29 Nov 2007 - Blue Cats - Knoxville TN USA
* 30 Nov 2007 - The Orange Peel - Asheville NC USA
* 01 Dec 2007 - Freebird - Jacksonville FL USA
* 02 Dec 2007 - The Club at Firestone - Orlando FL USA
* 03 Dec 2007 - 40 Watt Club - Athens GA USA
* 05 Dec 2007 - Young Avenue Deli - Memphis TN USA
* 06 Dec 2007 - House of Blues - New Orleans LA USA
* 07 Dec 2007 - Emo's - Austin TX USA
* 08 Dec 2007 - House of Blues - Dallas TX USA
* 09 Dec 2007 - Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City OK USA
* 11 Dec 2007 - Picador - Iowa City IA USA
* 12 Dec 2007 - Slowdown - Omaha NE USA
* 13 Dec 2007 - Voodoo Lounge - Kansas City KS USA
* 14 Dec 2007 - Ogden Theater - Denver CO USA
* 15 Dec 2007 - Belly Up - Aspen CO USA

Spiritualized Set List (Pretty Certain)
1. Sitting On Fire
2. Lord Dont Let It Rain On Me
3. True Love Will Find You In The End
4. Cool Waves
5. Amen
6. Going Down Slow
7. Feel So Sad
8. Soul On Fire
9. Walking W/ Jesus
10. Stop Your Crying
11. All of My Tears
12. Baby Im Just A Fool
13. Anything More
14. Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space/I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
15. Broken Heart
16. Lord Can You Hear Me
17. Oh Happy Day

Simple Kid Set List: (Need to Double Check this)
1. Lil' King Kong
2. Cold Like A Stone
3. Its Not Easy Being Green (Duet w/ Kermit on a Projection Screen)
4. Old Misty Cap
5. Truck On
6. Serotonin

Show Notes: Very intimate show, overall extremely enjoyable. Simple Kid was a pleasant surprise and hearing the sequence of Anything More/Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space/I Can't Help Falling In Love With You was my personal high light of the evening. A little saddened there was no Straight & Narrow played or Come Down Easy (I assumed this wasn't going to get played but hope kept me blinded until I saw the set list and it was absent.) A greater review to follow....

Spiritualized @ Bimbo's 365

I am going to see Spiritualized at Bimbo's 365 tonight. I am stoked. Jason and company will be performing an acoustic set featuring the music of Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, and others, accompanied by strings and gospel singers.

heres a video

at Primavera Sound Festival 2007 in Barcelona

To New Beginings...

Greetings, my name is Alex. Welcome to Non-Linear Enjoyment, a blog about things I am into. More stuff to follow...