Filed under: Adventures in Stereo favourite, Blind Melon, Bootleg of the Month, Downloads, Imperial Teen, Izzy Stradlin, Mark Lanegan, Scott Weiland | Tags: Blind Melon, Bootleg of the Month, Download, Imperial Teen, Izzy Stradlin, Live, Mark Lanegan, Scott Weiland, Shannon Hoon
It’s June! How quickly has the last 6 months passed? It seems that the older I get the quicker I grow older (if that makes sense to anyone but me) … I can’t believe that just about 10 years ago the soundtrack to my summer was Imperial Teen’s What Is Not to Love, 12 Bar Blues by Scott Weiland, Mark Lanegan’s Scraps at Midnight and Izzy Stradlin’s 117 Degrees.
Another band that I listened to a helluva lot (although not active) around this time was Blind Melon.
Blind Melon’s debut album was one of those records that sorta defined the generation … when rock music was breaking into the mainstream without the bands sacrificing their integrity.
No Rain and Change where big hits and people knew what you were talking about when you mentioned the “song with the bumblebee girl”. The debut, Blind Melon, was in many ways a rock classic. It was seeped in all the 70’s influences that each member had, whilst sounding fresh.
Their second album, Soup, was superior in many ways … the song craft was perfected and diversified. The band was inspired! Sadly, this wasn’t everyone’s belief and the album never really took off … many people looked for the big hit in the foil of Change or No Rain.
Soup never had a song like that … it offered more than a few hits. It was a master class in how to write and compile an album that consisted of nothing but great songs.
Sadly, Shannon Hoon died during the touring to promote Soup.
June’s Bootleg is a brilliant show from Vancouver, Canada, October 3rd 1995. A great performance and one of my favourite shows … and as always it’s a soundboard recording. Enjoy.
2×4
Toes Across the Floor
Tones of Home
Wilt
Vernie
No Rain
Walk
Lemonade
Time
St Andrew’s Fall
Skinned
Change
Soup
the Duke
Galaxie
Car Seats (God’s Presents)
Filed under: Black Crowes, Bootleg of the Month, Cypress Hill, Downloads, Foamfoot, Jayhawks, Jellyfish, JuJu Hounds | Tags: Black Crowes, Cypress Hill, Foamfoot, Jayhawks, Jellyfish, JuJu Hounds
The Black Crowes are one of my favourite bands and I had the pleasure of seeing them during the Sho’ Nuff tour around 10 years ago. Chris Robinson is one of the truly incredible ‘rock n’ roll’ singers …
I was gonna upload one of the really good Crowes boots that I have, however I thought of something a little more special. This month’s show is from a project known as ‘Foamfoot’, which features Chris Robinson and Marc Ford of the Black Crowes as well as Jimmy Ashurst (who was part of Izzy Stradlin’s JuJu Hounds), Eric Bobo (of Cypress Hill), Andy Sturmer (Jellyfish) and Gary Louris (The Jayhawks). It’s also worth noting that David Crosby appeared on stage for ‘Long Time Gone’.
As far as I’m aware, the show was recorded at the Troubadour in Hollywood on January 8th 1994 and an actual release was planned. However, none ever surfaced (likely due to the master being copied) and this soundboard recording has been doing the rounds in various trading circles.
I hope you enjoy it.
Walk in my Shadow (Free)
Bottle of Red Wine (Eric Clapton/Bobby Whitlock)
Tin Soldier (Steve Mariott)
Take the Highway (The Marshall Tucker Band)
Deal (The Grateful Dead)
Love me till the sun shines (The Kinks)
Long Time Gone (Crosby, Stills & Nash) (with David Crosby)
Jemima Surrender (The Band)
One Way Out (Elmore James)
Presence of the Lord (Eric Clapton)
Get it here
Filed under: Bootleg of the Month, Downloads, Richard Buckner | Tags: Adventures in Stereo favourite, Bootleg of the Month, Download, Richard Buckner
One of my favourite artists is the songwriter Richard Buckner. I got into his music around 8 years ago when a friend of mine loaned me ‘Bloomed’.
I listened to the record that much that when the time came to return it I duly purchased the Rykodisc reissue, which featured 5 quite amazing bonus tracks.
Through the years I’ve introduced a few folk to the work of Mr Buckner. Sadly, not all have been enamoured enough to go out and buy his albums.
Anyway, this recording, from January 4th 1996, is one of my favourites (and again, like the other monthly bootlegs on here it’s a soundboard recording). A real gem of a performance from a very, very, talented man.
Home
Catfish Song
Pull
Fater
Figure
Down, Demon, Down
On Traveling
Boys, The Night Will Bury You
Song of 27
Emma
This Is Where
Cradle To The Angel
Guazy dress In The sun
Filed under: Bootleg of the Month, Downloads, Stone Temple Pilots | Tags: Bootleg of the Month, Downloads, House of Blues, Stone Temple Pilots
January is gone already!? I get the feeling that this is gonna be a very quick year. Anyway, although it’s slightly late, here’s January’s ‘Bootleg of the Month’. I hope you folk enjoy it.
I was dead set on posting the 1993 MTV Unplugged show from ‘Live’, however, as the news of Stone Temple Pilots’ summer reunion got me kind of excited I thought I’d share that excitement with the visitors of ’Adventures In Stereo’.
The Stone Temple Pilots are one of my favourite bands, though I have to admt to not being particularly keen on the majority of their debut record ‘Core’. I got into them through ‘The Crow’ movie after hearing ‘Big Empty’, deciding to purchase ‘Purple’ and thinking it was absolutely incredible. My friend, on the other hand, dispised them … I believe he called them a ”second rate Pearl Jam”.
But, the output from STP just got stronger (though the band got a little torn up) and ‘Tiny Music … Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop’ (their third effort) remains my favourite. ‘No.4′ was also a fine record, a return to form after the DeLeo brothers and Kretz flirted with a new vocalist on their ‘Talk Show’ project (Weiland also released a solo record, ‘12 Bar Blues’, which I thought was an incredible album, but apparently no-one else did?). Their last album, ‘Shangri-La Dee Da’ has some good moments, but it’s patchy and largely disappointing. However, you’ll find something worthwhile on each of their albums. They were astounding.
They were also quite brilliant Live. I caught them only once, on their ‘Shangri-La Dee Da’ tour and I thought they were quite brilliant. Powerful.
This show, from the ‘House Of Blues’ on Sunset Strip, was STP’s first ‘proper’ show since the 1997 (mainly due to Weiland’s problems and incarceration). I also believe that this was the first time the band had performed ‘Sex & Violence’.
Enjoy.
Stone Temple Pilots, House of Blues, March 15th 2000
01 Crackerman
02 Meatplow
03 Vasoline
04 Tumble In The Rough
05 Big Empty
06 Kitchenware and Candybars
07 Sour Girl
08 Interstate Love Song
09 Plush
10 Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart
11 Sex & Violence
12 Down
13 Unglued
14 Dead & Bloated
15 Piece Of Pie
16 Sex Type Thing
17 Roadhouse Blues
Filed under: Bootleg of the Month, Downloads, Nirvana | Tags: Bootleg of the Month, Dowloads, Live, Nirvana, The Last New Year's Eve
So, as you’ll know, there’s gonna be a different bootleg posted in the “Downloads” section every month. I’m just figuring out which one to put up this month and thought I’d re-post December’s choice, Nirvana’s last New Years Eve.
‘The Last New Years Eve’ is one of my favourite recordings of Nirvana live. I’ve had the CD for a while now and still like to take it from the shelf, dust it down and revist it every now and again.
“MTV was pre-taping a big New Year’s Eve concert in Seattle. Nirvana was one of the bands on the bill, but the headliner was Pearl Jam. Not at all surprisingly, come the day of the show, Pearl Jam (an excellent group, don’t get me wrong) flaked out. Maybe Eddie Vedder was having some sort of crisis of conscience, who knows? But they’d decided, out of nowhere, not to play. An enormous pain for all concerned. In frank desperation, the MTV producers approached Nirvana and asked the band to step in and save the show, headline it. This was a considerable imposition: Essentially, we were asking them to play all night. Nirvana said they’d think about it. And they did. They thought about it for, oh, 10 minutes or so. And they said, sure”. Kurt Loder, MTV.com
Nirvana: The Last New Years Eve
1. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
2. Drain You 
3. Breed
4. Serve The Servants
5. Come As You Are
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. About A Girl
8. Lithium
9. Pennyroyal Tea
10. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
11. Milk It
12. Rape Me
13. Territirial Pissings
14. Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For A Sunbeam
15. The Man Who Sold The World
16. All Apologies
17. Scentless Apprentice
18. Heart Shaped Box
