Peter Frampton - Best Of FCA!35 Tour: An Evening With Peter Frampton (3 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 FCA! 35 Tour: An Evening With Peter Frampton, directed and produced by Pierre & François Lamoureux, features two February 2012 shows—one performance in Milwaukee at the Pabst Theater and another in New York City at the Beacon Theatre. The Best Of FCA! 35 Tour 3CD was executive produced by Zach Bair and Mark Fischer of Disc Live Network.

The performances featured classics such as “Show Me The Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do” as well as tracks from Frampton’s most recent albums Thank You Mr. Churchill and the Grammy®-Award winning instrumental album Fingerprints. The 2 DVD/Blu-Ray/3CD set features Peter's favorite tracks culled from the world tour.

From 2011 to 2012 Frampton toured the world in celebration of the 35th anniversary of his landmark 17 million selling live album Frampton Comes Alive! Each stop on the tour was divided into two sets: a first set featuring Frampton Comes Alive! performed in its entirety and a second set including songs from throughout his career.

 

The Dead - Wave That Flag 2004 Tour (36 shows)

 The Dead was an American rock band composed of some of the former members of the Grateful Dead.

After the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann formed the band The Other Ones, performing concert tours in 1998 (without Kreutzmann), 2000 (without Lesh), and 2002, and released one album, The Strange Remain. In 2003, they changed their name to The Dead.

 In 2004, Herring and Chimenti remained in the lineup, and were joined by Warren Haynes. The band played a brief winter jam and a three-month summer tour called the Wave That Flag Tour. In 2006, guitarist Jimmy Herring joined the group Widespread Panic after George McConnell's departure from the group. 

    Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

    Phil Lesh – bass, vocals

    Mickey Hart – drums, vocals

    Bill Kreutzmann – drums

    Jimmy Herring – guitar

    Jeff Chimenti – keyboards, vocals

    Warren Haynes – guitar, vocals

The Dead.20040209 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA

The Dead.200405xx Rehearsals

The Dead.20040612 Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester TN

The Dead.20040615 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

The Dead.20040616 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

The Dead.20040618 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

The Dead.20040619 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

The Dead.20040620 Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

The Dead.20040622 Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix AZ

The Dead.20040623 Coors Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA

The Dead.20040624 Verizon Arena, Irvine, CA

The Dead.20040626 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA

The Dead.20040627 Sleep Train Amphitheater, Sacramento CA

The Dead.20040629 Usana Amphitheater, West Valley City, UT

The Dead.20040701 Idaho Center Amphitheater,Nampa, ID

The Dead.20040702 Columbia Meadows,Portland, OR

The Dead.20040703 The Gorge ,George, WA

The Dead.20040723 UMB Bank Amphitheater, St. Louis, MO

The Dead.20040724 Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI

The Dead.20040725 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Noblesville, IN

The Dead.20040727 DTE Energy Music Theater, Detroit, MI

The Dead.20040728 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH

The Dead.20040730 Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA

The Dead.20040731 Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA

The Dead.20040801 SPAC Saratoga, NY

The Dead.20040803 Hartford Meadows Music Theater Hartford, CT

The Dead.20040804 Ford Pavilion at Montage Mountain Scranton, PA

The Dead.20040806 Darien Lake Performing Arts Centre Darien Center, NY

The Dead.20040807 Tweeter Waterfront Camden, NJ

The Dead.20040808 Tweeter Waterfront Camden, NJ

The Dead.20040810 PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ

The Dead.20040811 PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ

The Dead.20040813 Jones Beach Amphitheater Wantagh, NY

The Dead.20040814 Jones Beach Amphitheater Wantagh, NY

The Dead.20040815 Nissan Pavilion Bristow, VA

The Dead.20040817 ALLTEL Pavilion at Walnut Creek Raleigh, NC

The Dead.20040818 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte, NC

The Dead.20040819 HiFi Buys Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA

Buddy Miles discography [1968-2008]

 

Best known as the drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, Buddy Miles also had a lengthy solo career that drew from rock, blues, soul, and funk in varying combinations.

Born George Miles in Omaha, NE, on September 5, 1947, he started playing the drums at age nine, and joined his father's jazz band the Bebops as a mere 12 year old. As a teenager, he went on to play with several jazz and R&B outfits, most prominently backing vocal groups like Ruby & the Romantics, the Ink Spots, and the Delfonics. In 1966, he joined Wilson Pickett's touring revue, where he was spotted by blues-rock guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Bloomfield had left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band earlier in 1967 and was putting together a new group, the Electric Flag, which was slated to be an ambitious fusion of rock, soul, blues, psychedelia, and jazz. Bloomfield invited Miles to join up, and the band made its debut at the Monterey Pop Festival; unfortunately, the original lineup splintered in 1968. With founder Bloomfield gone, Miles briefly took over leadership of the band on its second studio album, which failed to reignite the public's interest.

With the Electric Flag's horn section in tow, Miles split to form his own group, the similarly eclectic Buddy Miles Express. Signed to Mercury, the group issued its debut album, Expressway to Your Skull, in 1968, with Miles' fellow Monterey Pop alum Jimi Hendrix in the producer's chair. In turn, Miles played on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland album, and later took part in an all-star jam session that resulted in Muddy Waters' Fathers and Sons album. Hendrix also produced the Miles Express' follow-up, 1969's Electric Church, and disbanded his backing band the Experience later that year; shortly afterward, Hendrix, Miles, and bassist Billy Cox formed Band of Gypsys, one of the first all-black rock bands. Bluesier and funkier than Hendrix's previous work, Band of Gypsys didn't last long in its original incarnation; Miles departed in 1970, replaced by Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell, but not before his powerhouse work was showcased on the group's lone album, the live Band of Gypsys.

After backing John McLaughlin on 1970's Devotion, Miles returned to the role of bandleader and recorded his most popular album, Them Changes, in 1971; it stayed on the charts for more than a year, and the title cut became Miles' signature song. From December 1971 to April 1972, Miles toured with Carlos Santana, which produced the CBS-released concert document Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!; recorded inside an inactive volcano in Hawaii, the album sold very well, climbing into the Top Ten. Miles cut a few more albums for CBS, participated in a short-lived Electric Flag reunion in 1974, then moved to Casablanca in 1975 for a pair of LPs. Aside from a one-off album for Atlantic in 1981 (Sneak Attack), Miles kept a low profile over the next decade, partly to battle personal problems.

Miles returned in 1986 as the lead voice in a TV ad campaign that featured clay-animated raisins singing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; the ads proved so popular that a kid-friendly musical franchise was spun off, and thus Miles became the lead singer of the California Raisins, performing on two albums (mostly R&B covers) and a Christmas special. Additionally, Miles rejoined his old friend Carlos Santana as the official lead vocalist of Santana during part of the late '80s, making his studio debut on 1987's Freedom. In the early '90s, Miles played with Bootsy Collins (both solo and as members of Hardware), and in 1994 he formed a new version of the Express and recorded Hell and Back for Rykodisc. Miles Away From Home followed in 1997 on Hip-O. Miles toured steadily through the '90s, and subsequently formed a more straightforward blues band called the Blues Berries with guitarist Rocky Athas; their first album, Blues Berries, appeared on Ruf in 2002.

Buddy Miles.1968- Expressway To Your Skull

Buddy Miles.1969- Electric Church

Buddy Miles.1970- Them Changes

Buddy Miles.1970- We Got To Live Together

Buddy Miles.1971- A Message To The People

Buddy Miles.1971- Live

Buddy Miles.1973- Booger Bear

Buddy Miles.1973- Chapter VII

Buddy Miles.1974- All The Faces Of Buddy Miles

Buddy Miles.1975- More Miles Per Gallon

Buddy Miles.1976- Bicentennial Gathering Of The Tribes

Buddy Miles.1977- Roadrunner

Buddy Miles.1981- Sneak Attack

Buddy Miles.1984- The Return Of The Band Of Gypsys (FM Radio Broadcast)

Buddy Miles.1991- Greatest Christmas Hits

Buddy Miles.1993- Tribe Vibe

Buddy Miles.1994- Hell And Back

Buddy Miles.1997 The Best Of Buddy Miles

Buddy Miles.1997- Miles Away From Home

Buddy Miles.1997- Tribute To Jimi Hendrix

Buddy Miles.2002- Blues Berries

Buddy Miles.2006- The Band Of Gypsys Return

Buddy Miles.2008- Food For The I

Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles-(1972)-Live!

Hardware-(1994)-Third Eye Open

Santana & Buddy Miles-(1997)-Viva Percussion

Rory Gallagher - Kickback City [3 CD, 2013/FLAC]

 

Kickback City is a compilation of crime noir inspired music from Rory Gallagher that is a perfect marriage of content and presentation.

Three CDs come packaged in a glossy bookset, featuring The Lie Factory, an exclusive new ‘novella’ by Ian Rankin. The story comes stunningly illustrated in full graphic novel style by Timothy Truman. The first disc here features a selection of 14 studio recordings from the late rock-blues guitarist (see track listing below), with a second CD offering a selection of live performances. The third disc has actor Aidan Quinn narrating Ian Rankin’s story. The set also includes four glossy Lie Factory postcards.

The presentation is truly fantastic, and the whole crime novel concept works beautifully. In an age of cost-cutting and budget reissues, you have to admire conviction with which this set has been produced. It’s sure to attract a new audience to the talents of the Irish musician, and we it is a commercial success, in the hope that it encourages record labels to match these high standards with their reissues.

 

VA - New Orleans Guitar (4 CD, 2006/FLAC)

New Orleans of a hundred years ago teemed with a host of pianists playing blues and boogie in establishments both legal and recreational. Then came the guitarists. Here’s one: ‘You ought to have heard Smiley Lewis in person – he made the walls rattle!’ said drummer Earl Palmer. 

Lewis was born in July 1913 in DeQuincy, LA. His mother may have died while he was young – a sister-in-law recalled the family moving to West Lake, LA, where he was raised by a stepmother. Somewhere in his teens, he took up the guitar. Then he ran across trumpeter Thomas Jefferson’s band which he joined. ‘(He) always was a good entertainer,’ Tuts Washington remembered. ‘He sang the blues and all of them sentimental numbers. He would walk off the bandstand and sing to the people in the audience. See, Lewis had a voice so strong he could sing over the band, and that was before we had microphones.’ During WW2, Lewis found work where he could – ending up in a band with Tuts. At the end of the war, the band split up but Smiley and Tuts recruited drummer Herman Seale to form a blues trio. ‘We had the hottest trio in town,’ Washington boasted. They also hung around J&M Records. The following year, the New York label DeLuxe came to record local talent, using J&M as a source. When DeLuxe returned in September 1947, Lewis’ trio was one of the acts he decided to record. No copy has ever turned up. Although popular around New Orleans, Smiley’s record failed on the national market. He was dropped by DeLuxe. Nevertheless, his status as a recording artist ensured that Smiley’s trio was in demand around Louisiana and for some months they had a residency at the Cinq Sou Hall, next door to the Dew Drop Inn. Occasionally, he would drop into the Dew Drop to make guest appearances with Dave Bartholomew’s orchestra, billing himself as ‘the drifting blues singer’. As with most of the other artists here, Lewis had a life of ups and downs (his ‘One Night’ was cut by Presley). He died in 1966.