Category Archives: Live Albums Bootleg

Bob Dylan, live at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 1965
16
Feb

Here’s a little gem of a Live bootleg for all you Bob Dylan Fans. This is the young American Folk singer performing Live at THe Manchester Free trade Hall, in England on the 7th of May, 1965.

However, this is not to be confused with the 1966 ‘Judas’ concert at the same venue. That gig was known as that due to a comment hurled at the American Folk singer from the audience after he astounded the crowd by putting down his acoustic guitar and going electric. That caused quite a storm amongst his fanbase, many preferring the traditional Folk Dylan as opposed to the Traditional Folk Dylan.

But this concert was still in the height of his Folk period and is an amazing show. Hope you Enjoy!


Bob Dylan, live at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 1965

Track list

  1. The Times They Are a-Changin
  2. To Ramona
  3. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (or Else You Got to Stay All Night)
  4. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
  5. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
  6. Mr. Tambourine Man
  7. Talkin’ World War III Blues
  8. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
  9. With God on Our Side
  10. She Belongs to Me
  11. It Ain’t Me Babe
  12. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
  13. All I Really Want to Do
  14. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American Folk singer who has released over 100 albums over the 63 years of performing. Born Robert Zimmerman in Hibbing, Minnesota he grew up listening to old school Rock and Roll artists like Little Richard, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis. However, Bob wanted to play too and he was involved in a few Rock n Roll band bac home. But he knew that If he wanted to find the fame he sought, then he’d need to think bigger.

So, in 1962, he set off for New York City where he became Bob Dylan. Playing in Small clubs, Coffee Shops and Cafe’s around the Cities Greenwich village area, he soon attracted a following of his own. Playing songs from old folk singers of a previous generation such as Leadbelly, Doc Watson, Etta James and his own folk hero Woody Guthrie whom he visited in the hospital. The aged singer and songwriter was dying of Huntingdon’s Disease.

Dylan soon attracted the attention of A&R man John Hammond and by the end of that year had released his self titled Debut Album ‘Bob Dylan’. The Following year saw the release of his Second Studio Album ‘The Freewheelin Bob Dylan’ which was soon followed by a Third album ‘The Times they are a Changin’. But, this concert was right at the height of this Era just before the singer reinvented himself as more of a Rockstar than Folk singer. This is a Collectable album for sure.

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Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight Café, 1962
13
Feb

Here’s a very early live recording of Bob Dylan. Not his First gig, but one of the first. Here Dylan is playing at the Gaslight Café’ in Greenwich Village, Newyork City. This isn’t the full show, but we have Four songs from this early folk set from the American Singer-Songwriter. Hope you Enjoy!



Bob Dylan live at The Gaslight Café’, 1962




Tracks;

  1. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
  2. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
  3. John Brown
  4. Ballad Of Hollis Brown



Bob Dylan & The Gaslight Café

The Gaslight Café was a small Café in the Greenwich Village area of New York city. In the early 1960’s it was known for it’s vibrant music scene with the Folk Revival singers. Bob Dylan was known to play here quite regularly in his early days on arrival in New York Town.

It was here that Dylan first met A&R man John Hammond which led to Dylan signing up to Columbia records and releasing his Debut album ‘Bob Dylan’ the same year. This album was almost all covers, but his follow up album ‘The Freewheelin Bob Dylan’ had much more of his own songs. But it wasn’t until his Third album, ‘The Times They Are A Changin’ that we got a whole album of his own original material.

The venue was tiny and the audience was very small. But the quality of music Dylan gives us here is impeccable. But, it wouldn’t be long before Bob Dylan was playing much bigger venues worldwide. In 1962 at the time of this recording, Dylan was very much a folk singer committed to Folk ballads of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. However, in 1965, Dylan went Electric and put out some amazing material. But many of the die hard Folkies weren’t too impressed. But I think even most of them came around to it soon enough.



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Matt McGinn Live in East Kilbride, February 1975
7
Feb

Here we are with a little gem here from the legendary Matt McGinn. This is a live set where the Glaswegian Singer n Songwriter sings a set at The Bonnie Prince Charlie Bar in East Kilbride in February of 1975. A great mix of songs and patter. Hope you enjoy!

Matt McGinn Live in East Kilbride, 1975

Tracks;

  1. Granda
  2. The Cradle of Civilisation
  3. Cider Wi’ Yer Maw,
  4. Ma Darlin’ Is a Charlie
  5. My Dearest My Darling
  6. My Wee Auntie Sarah
  7. Crofter Story
  8. Suzie
  9. Screwtops..including Leaving In a Police Van and Amazing Grace
  10. Gaelic Joke
  11. Heiderum Hauderum
  12. Come back to Sorrento
  13. Maggie Might
  14. Glaswegians Would
  15. Two Wee Germs
  16. Somebody’s Wean
  17. The Schmitt Family
  18. Nelly May

The Legend who was Matt McGinn

Matt McGinn was born in just off the Gallowgate in the Colton area of Glasgow in January, 1928. Born into a family of Nine, McGinn grew up in the are which was rich in Irish culture. This where he hoovered up many of the tunes often chanted with a mixture of colourful sectarian overtones and made them his own.

Although he was never to play a musical Instrument, and in some opinions, couldn’t sing either, McGinn wrote some amazing lyrics which he put with these tunes. His lyrics addressed social and political issues, yet he had a skill of being able to make them comedy, child friendly songs.

The Politician

McGinn was expelled from Primary school and sent to approved school as a child. However, this was no reflection on his intelligence. At age 31, he obtained a Trade Union Scholarship to the Ruskin College in Oxford. Here he saw how society really worked. After a brief period as a school teacher, his beleifs were solidified and McGinn returned to Glasgow, vowing never to work again. However, Matt was a an enthusiastic campaigner for local social and housing issues and helped establish the Gorbals Adventure Playground.

In 1962, Matt won a song writing competition with his song ‘The Foreman O’Rourke’ which earned him a place at the Carnegie Hall. Here he met a young Bob Dylan and the American Folk Singer and Songwriter Pete Seeger whom he would forge a lasting Friendship with. Matt McGinn was a member of the Communist Party of great Britain and was a committed Socialist, trade unionist and a keen observer of nature which reflected in his songs.

Being a father himself, he was great at writing children’s songs too. He was really good fusing these components together to make songs that can be understood by all ages with an appreciative meaning as one grows older. However, in the 1960’s Britain and America were still in the height of the Cold War and while McGinn was a big name in the Folk Revival scene, he was limited in his publicised and very few TV appearances of Matt McGinn in his life and one from his early era.

The Entertainer

As the 1970’s came along, the songs McGinn sang had started to become less of a threat to the status Quo and the singer had also adopted a more humorous approach to his material. This live show here is a prime example of Matt McGinn the entertainer. It was recorded in the singers latter years. But it has no shortage of humorous jokes and the craic which Matt was always good at. In fact, he was often considered the Mentor of his banjo Player Billy Connolly who would later go on to become a world famous Stand Up comedian.

Sadly Matt McGinn passed away in 1978. Unfortunately his home in Govan hill in Glasgow’s South Side suffered a fire when matt came home drunk one night and fell asleep in bed with a cigarette. He died in the fire and was pronounced dead by smoke inhalation at age 50.

The Legacy

Matt McGinn’s works are still very much celebrated and many musicians and songwriters including myself can say that McGinn was a big Influence on them. McGinn’s songs are still performed by folk musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. In Scotland and in America at tribute concerts. His songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Theodore Bikel, The Corries, Luke Kelly, The Chinese Man, The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Barry Dransfield & Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, among others.

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The John Peel Show on 5th of October,1988
2
Feb

Here we have another awesome Two hour radio show from the late and legendary, one and only John Peel. This show is from the 5th of October, 1988. Hope you enjoy the show!

The John Peel Show – 5th of October, 1988

Tracks;

  1. Fall: Wrong Place, Right Time (7″ – Big New Prinz) Beggars Banquet
  2. My Bloody Valentine: I Can See It But I Can’t Feel It (Peel Session)
  3. Public Enemy: Terminate X To The Edge Of Panic (LP – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back) Def Jam
  4. Jad Fair and Kramer: Twist And Shout (LP – Roll Out The Barrel) Shimmy Disc
  5. Siouxsie and the Banshees: Overground (v/a LP – 21 Years Of Alternative Radio 1) Strange Fruit 16:56 Satellites: Beardman Ska (v/a LP – Dance Crasher: From Ska To Rock Steady) Trojan
  6. Beat Hotel: Smile (7″) Household
  7. Funky Ginger: Jack The Knife (Peel Session)
  8. Fear Of God: Prisoner Of Your Ideals (7″) Temple Of Love
  9. Public Enemy: Night Of The Living Bassheads (LP – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back) Def Jam
  10. Datblygu: Gwlad Ar Fy Nghefn (LP – Wyau) Anhrefn
  11. My Bloody Valentine: Lose My Breath (Peel Session)
  12. Bridget St. John: Many Happy Returns (LP – Ask Me No Questions) Dandelion
  13. Dinosaur Jr.: Freak Scene (LP – Bug) Blast First
  14. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock: Keep It Going Now (LP – It Takes Two) Supreme
  15. Bob, Bob, Bob And Bob: What Do They Mean? (12″ – A Loud E.P.) 808 Records
  16. Four Brothers: Nhaka Yemusiiranwa (LP – Makorakoto) Cooking Vinyl
  17. Autry Inman: Ballad Of Two Brothers (v/a LP – Wavy Gravy: Four Hairy Policemen) Beware (tape flip in middle)
  18. Funky Ginger: Money Passion and Vice (Peel Session)
  19. Sore Throat: D.T.C.H.C. (LP – Death To Capitalist Hardcore) Acid Rain
  20. Close Lobsters: Loopholes (12″ – What Is There To Smile About) Fire
  21. Singers & Players: Run Them Away (LP – Vacuum Pumping) On-U Sound
  22. Plaid Retina: Sugarfit (7″ EP – Untitled) Lookout!
  23. My Bloody Valentine: Colm’s Song (Peel Session)
  24. John Lee Hooker: No Shoe (LP – Solid Sender) Charly
  25. Bitch Magnet: C Word (LP – Star Booty) What Goes On
  26. Bolt Thrower: In Battle There Is No Law (12″ – The Peel Sessions) Strange Fruit
  27. Odolites: I’ll Show You Why (LP – Face Down In The Violets) Rampant
  28. Funky Ginger: Slaughter House (Peel Session)
  29. Jay Bees: Good Times (v/a LP – Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 3) Stone Age
  30. My Bloody Valentine: Feed Me With Your Kiss (Peel Session)
  31. Flatmates: Heaven Knows (7″) Subway Organization
  32. Lindisfarne: Mandolin King (12″ – The Peel Sessions) Strange Fruit
  33. Outro “In June 2013, Patrick Kimura-Macke, aka John Leonhard’s Dad, kindly started uploading his collection of Peel Shows from the 1980s, and a handful from the 1990s. The majority of these are complete shows previously unshared.” (From Fandom/John Peel Wiki)

The John Peel show

The John Peel show was a Radio Show on BBC Radio 2 which ran for years up til the DJs death in 2004. He was one of the first broadcasters to play Psychedelic Rock and Progressive Rock records on British Radio. He was most famous for his promotion of small, obscure Bands that wee unheard of and promoted them. Way back before the days of the Internet, if you had a band, you sent your demo tape into John Peel and hope it got heard by him and played.

However, he got thousands of Demo tapes sent into him. I once saw a documentary where he’d enter his office of a normal day and his door would have a massive pile of mail lying piled up behind it. He’d have to shoulder the door to get in. So you can imagine the backload of tracks he had to play. But when he died, the barn that he owned was stacked full of stuff that he still hadn’t had a chance to listen to yet.

Respect for the Tunes

But I think the thing I loved most about John Peel as a D.J was the fact that he let each single play fully right to the end before he said a word. Most DJs rabbit on over the music. Disturbing it. So annoying. Again, Back in the pre internet days before MP3 Downloads that take a few seconds, we used to tape things from the radio.

This required putting a cassette tape in the player and pressing record n play to capture songs we liked on the Radio. Since Peely was an ex pirate ship radio D.J from the Radio Caroline days, he was onboard with this. So he always made sure he let the track play right to the end before talking. He also liked to be constructive when he did talk. As far as John Peel was concerned, he was there to play music.

However, broadcasting rules required DJs to have a certain amount of taking in the 2 hour slot he’d gave on a Tuesday and Thursday nights between 8pm and 10pm. So instead of just babbling Luke most D JJ s seemed to do for the same of it, he’d use the time wisely. Between every second song he would tell you the song that had just played and introduced the next track. But every half hour or so, hed spend about Five minutes telling all about a group or a new release, etc

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The Velvet Underground – “Live at The Boston Tea Party”1969
26
Jan

This is a live recording from The Velvet underground playing at The Boston Tea Party, New York city, on the 20th of January, 1969.

The Velvet Underground – “Live at The Boston Tea Party”

Track listing

1. Heroin (0:00)
2. Move Right In (8:26)
3. I’m Set Free (13:12)
4. Run Run Run (17:49)
5. I’m Waiting For The Man (25:39)
6. What Goes On (34:35)
7. I Can’t Stand It (39:05)
8. Candy Says (45:23)
9. Beginning To See The Light (50:10)
10. White Light/White Heat (56:00)
11. Pale Blue Eyes (61:42)
12. Sister Ray (68:10)

The Velvet Underground Bootleg Recording

There’s been quite few bootleg recordings of this gig in circulation. But this is the best one I’ve been able to find online. It does have the sound of a 46 year old Audio Cassette bootleg recording, captured by the Technology of the time. But it still sounds brilliant. Anything else just adds to the atmosphere of this gig.

The Velvet Underground delivery an amazing performance and even better sound. They give us a mix of rock n Roll with Tracks like “White Light, White heat” and Run Run Run” along with the anthems such as “I’m Set Free’ ,’Heroin’ and ‘Candy Says: ‘They also give us a raw rendition of ‘Move Right in’,. Am instrumental version of this song was put out on their ‘Odds n Sods’ compilation album. But this version was the raw version. With Moe tuckers amazing performance

You can hear the exited sounds of a mixed audience , including some now famous names. One of such was American Punk artist Jonathan Richman. Later famous for his punk band  “the Modern Lovers”, , a young Richman recalls the show vividly. “sometimes you just plain couldn’t figure out where on the stage those strange sounds and harmonics were coming from, because of the eerie calm with which they played and improvised in front of you, and because every time they’d come to town they’d introduce at least one new song that would, for better or worse, sound like nothing else that had gone before in rock music.”

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