Grateful Dead- Summer 76- The Complete Broadcasts [12 CD, 2017]

  

5 Show, 12CD Limited Edition/1000 only. The ’76 sound in all its glory, bridging the gap between the early post-hiatus shows and the tightly spun symphonies of ’77. Five shows across twelve cd s remastered from the original broadcasts.
 
The Grateful Dead managed to make one shrewd and long-lasting move in 1976. Everyone knew that the Dead had a loyal audience, but truthfully, even the Dead didn’t know how that would translate into ticket sales. How big a place could they really play, and how many cities would it be profitable to tour through? The band bypassed all that. In the booming rock market of 1976, playing a 12,000-capacity basketball arena and only selling 9,000 tickets would have been seen as a failure of sorts, and the Dead couldn’t afford that in their comeback attempt.

Charlie Sayles - The Raw Blues Of Charlie Sayles [1976]

 

 

Talent does not always get you recognition, as Charlie Sayles can tell you. A hugely talented harp player with a superb technique and a great voice, he incorporates the style of Chicago‘s early legends into his wide repertoire of Blues, Rock and Funk influenced material. Charlie has recorded only four albums in forty years of playing and spent most of his career blowing his harp on street corners.

Charlie Sayles was born in 1948 in Woburn MA, and a hard life got started. He grew up in a series of foster-homes and, like many of his generation, wound up in the Army posted to Vietnam. He began playing harp while he was a ‘grunt’ and when he got home, he played on street corners for tips. That has sustained him down the years, never seeming to have had a job, and speaks volumes for his abilities as an entertainer. Like the old-time ‘wandering songsters’, he journeyed to New York, St. Louis and Atlanta on his travels, developing a broad chording tone, with a bag-full of elegant, agile phrases and percussive tricks which served to hold his audience while playing alone. Charlie’s voice has a soulful quality and he has written a lot of his own material over the years. He recorded an excellent album, ‘Raw Harmonica Blues’ for the Dusty Roads label in 1976, and was picked up by The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, where he made several appearances with Pete Seeger. By the early 80s, Charlie was settled in Washington DC, where he formed a band, and he continued to make a living from gigging and busking, but his reputation remained extremely local.

Regular playing gave Charlie a warm, confident performing style, as he engages in witty banter with his audience between songs, and an unreleased recording of Charlie performing with his band in 1982 is well worth finding on You-Tube. Charlie’s recording career got going again in 1993 with the release of ‘Night Ain’t Right’ on the British JSP label, which contained many of Charlie’s own compositions. The follow-up, ‘I Got Something to Say’ had Washington club legend Bobby Parker guesting on guitar, but again sales were not huge outside his East-coast stomping grounds, and ‘Hip Guy’, released in 2000, didn’t fare any better.

1.  New York - St. Louis
2.  Goin' Up - Goin' Down
3.  Baby, You Done Wrecked My Life
4.  Atlanta Boogie
5.  Here Comes The Train
6.  I'm Mad With You
7.  Makin' Love To Music
8.  Almost Gone
9.  Banjo
10.  Vietnam

Dave Matthews Band / Dave & Tim - SBD+ Vol.1-6

  

SBD+ is a project to bring classic Dave Matthews Band shows to fans in a way they've never heard them before. They are legal soundboards that have been mastered for a fuller sound for the enjoyment of the DMB community.

VA - Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004 [10 CD]

 

Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004
June 04, 05 and 06, 2004
Cotton Bowl,
Dallas, TX,


Soundboard Recording / 10 CD

Jefferson Airplane - Ultimate Vol. 1 & 2 - 1963-1972 [6 CD]

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of counterculture-era psychedelic rock, the group was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve international mainstream success. They performed at the three most famous American rock festivals of the 1960s—Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969) and Altamont (1969)—as well as headlined the first Isle of Wight Festival (1968). Their 1967 record Surrealistic Pillow is regarded as one of the key recordings of the "Summer of Love". Two hits from that album, "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit", are listed in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

This collection was assembled as a favor to Jeff Tamarkin, author of "Got a Revolution - The Turbulent Flight of the Jefferson Airplane". It has been used as a soundtrack not only to the book but also to many of the radio interviews that Jeff has done to promote the book. We felt that it was a shame not to "share a little joke with the world." So here it is.  This collection was treed by Brian Lehrhoff.