Bill Withers live for Musikladen/Beat Club (1972)
Bill Withers for German TV show Musikladen/Beat Club (1972).
The Band:
Melvin Dunlap on Bass
James Gadson on Drums
Benorce Blackmon on Guitar
Ray Jackson on Keyboard
Muddy Waters Copenhagen 1968
Muddy Waters live at Copenhagen Jazz festival (October 27,1968).
The Band:
Muddy Waters - guitar & vocals
'Pee Wee' Madison – guitar
Luther "Snakeboy" Johnson - guitar
Otis Spann – piano
Paul Oscher – harmônica
Sonny Wimberley – bass
S.P. Leary - drums
Setlist:
"Back At The Chicken Shack"
"Train Fare Home Blues"
"(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
"Long Distance Call"
"Nobody Knows My Trouble"
"Cold Cold Feeling"
"Got My Mojo Working"
"Tiger In Your Tank"
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Rockpalast (06/13/80)
One of the fun parts of doing this music blog has been revisiting concerts that I first came across through tape-trading. I don’t know if you were ever part of that culture, but I have a lot of good memories and was privy to a lot of great music through the U.S. postal system. I once had stacks of tapes of CDRs that I wish I had kept. But sometimes life leads you in other directions and you revisit those memories through the Internet.
Today we’re re-visiting Bob Marley and the Wailers live for Rockpalast (06/13/80). I gave this CDR away several years ago during one of our moves, but I have kept digital versions of the show. Until just the other day, I didn’t know that video of the show existed (I know, I know, you all knew this video existed a long time ago). But it does and it’s worth your time.
The Dealio:
Bob Marley & The Wailers at Westfalenhalle (06.13.80, Dortmund)
Filmed for the German live music television program Rockpalast.
Setlist:
Marley Chant
Natural Mystic
Positive Vibration
Revolution
I Shot the Sheriff
War
No More Trouble
Zimbabwe
Jamming
No Woman, No Cry
Zion Train
Exodus
Encore 01:
Redemption Song
Could You Be Loved
Work
Natty Dread
Is This Love
Get Up, Stand Up
Encore 02:
Coming in From the Cold
Lively Up Yourself
Stevie Wonder live for Musikladen/Beat Club (1974)
Get down with Stevie Wonder live on the German television program Musikladen/Beat Club in 1974.
The Youtube page provides the following information:
“Stevie Wonder 1974 concert on German TV show Musikladen/Beat Club.
I recorded from the European TV channel VH1 in 2003. I wish this would be released on DVD! If someone can help me identify the musicians, it would be great. One of the ladies, Afro and a polo shirt, singing backing vocals is Denice Williams. She was part of Wonder's female background singing group Wonderlove. I think this is the partial lineup, based on what Stevie says at 23.15: Reggie McBride plays bass. Michael "Mike" Sembello on guitar and keys, Ollie E. Brown on drums.”
Rainer Plays That Voodoo Music
Rainer Ptacek performing "Voodoo Music" in the kitchen of "The 818 Club" during a live cablecast of the local music show "Electric Window".
Hosted and Produced by Chris Wagganer
Cameras: Don Dalen, Chris Babbie, Ben Minot
Audio: David Slutes
Engineering: Roy Knappenberger, Chris Babbie
Cablecast Support: Mark Taylor
June 6, 1986
Anathallo Live In Japan
Anathallo was a band from Michigan (though they later relocated to Chicago if I remember correctly?). The fluctuated in size and the arrangements grew in complexity and beauty. The early recordings are great but they don’t quite yet arrive at the sophistication of the later work. And isn’t that all of us? Hopefully as we grow older we also mature and grow more nuanced in our thinking, even learning to allow time for the quiet moments which are as much part of the story as the loud parts. Can you really feel a crescendo when it’s all loud to begin with? The hills and valleys of the journey. And I’m rambling.
So allow me to ramble a bit more.
I’m sure you know what I mean when I say that music often carries with it memories and feelings associated with particular time periods. Certain albums or artists or songs often carry with them very specific memories. And now I’m digressing. Let me get back to rambling.
I have always loved music. That’s just part of who I am. And in hindsight, I should have paid more attention to the red flags early on. I had just graduated seminary and was moving in to my first role as “Lead Pastor,” though this church used the title “Teaching Pastor.” My family had not yet moved from Kentucky to Texas yet but we had already accepted the position and I flew to Minneapolis to meet the staff and elders for a pastors conference.
I was wearing a Tortoise shirt that disappeared some time over the years. It was yellow and I wish I still had it. I was in the elevator with one of the staff members who made a comment about liking my shirt and being surprised that the new pastor knew who Tortoise is but that I might want to keep things like that to myself because the other leaders weren’t really into secular music. I’m paraphrasing of course, but you get the gist. And then we moved there.
I don’t know if you’ve ever visited a church that just didn’t feel like “home”? If you have, then you might be able to imagine pastoring a church where you felt like that all of the time. If you’ve never had that experience, just imagine that you are continually not allowed to be yourself because when you do, it just seems to cause trouble, so you create a version of yourself that pleases the other people and you have to live in it 24 hours a day. It’s something like that.
Anathallo was touring the amazing Floating World album and I took several of the college students in the church to go see them. The next day I got called in to my own office where I rebuked by the other elders of the church because I was a small group leader and had missed small group in order to attend the concert. Even though I arranged for someone to facilitate in my absence. And, even though I knew it already, it was then confirmed for me the rest of the leadership of that church and I shared very different visions and approaches. It was totally worth it.
We left Texas in 2008 and Anathallo went on “indefinite" hiatus in 2009 and I guess that’s my story.
Here is a full show from the band’s 2008 tour. Apparently this was released on a very limited (now out of print I think ) tour DVD which some fine person uploaded for the rest of us and I could pass it along to you and we could watch it together. Let’s:
From the video’s Youtube page:
Anathallo @ O-Nest Japan during their 2008 tour. I was searching for this for a long time and couldn't find it anywhere. Finally got a hold of the DVD from Japan. Absolutely fantastic band, lucky to have seen them live a few times.
Dokkoise House 00:00
John J. Audubon 07:05
Hanasakajijii (four: a great wind, more ash) 10:55
Hanasakajijii (one: an angry neighbor) 15:25
Hanasakajijii (two: floating world) 18:55
Italo 25:20
Northern lights 28:42
Holiday At The Sea 32:26
All the First Pages 39:15
Cuckoo Spring Blood (Encore) 45:40
Kasa no hone (Encore) 49:00
An Hour With Pink Floyd
From the official Pink Floyd Youtube page:
“‘An Hour with Pink Floyd: KQED’ sees the band filmed performing live in April 1970 by San Francisco cable TV station KQED. Taken from the version featured on 2016 ‘The Early Years 1965-1972’ box set, the film includes performances of Atom Heart Mother, Cymbaline, Grantchester Meadows, Green is the Colour and Careful with that Axe Eugene. Appearing as part of the @YouTube Film Festival until May 17th.
Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 Go To Church
Japanese psychedelic rockers Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 recently posted a fantastic new live video to the social messengers. And it is my duty as a Certified Eboy Internet Courier (not a real thing) to pass awesome nuggets like this along to you, my fellow, faithful Internet friends.
We’re all in this together. The band says the following on their Facebook page:
“We are very happy to share our improvised live session with our friends Jacco gardner & Bruno Pernadas :).
The set was performed & recorded at at St. George church in Lisbon, Portugal back in 2018.
Big thanks to Barking Dog Agency for the video production and incredible opportunity.”
The video's Youtube page provides the following details:
• Live session at the St. George Church in Lisbon with Kikagaku Moyo, Bruno Pernadas and Jacco Gardner.
• RECORDING Rui Antunes Emil Lloyd
• CAMERA Francesco Giacomini David Breda Silva André Chaby Mendonça Ulpiano Capalbo
• EDIT Ulpiano Capalbo
• PRODUCTION Barking Dogs
Browse other Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 posts here at Holiday at the Sea.
Listen to "Kogarashi”" by Kikagaku Moyo on Episode 10 of the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.
Visit the group's official website.
Follow the group on Facebook.
Follow the group on Twitter.
Purchase the group's music at Bandcamp.
Purchase the album at Amazon.
Sun City Girls: Cloaven Theater
Deep from the bowels of the Interwebs, we spelunked this gem from 1994.
From the notes on the Youtube page:
“1994: VHS video (Abduction: Video 1)
A mind control experiment shot and edited at the cable public access studios of Viacom in Seattle (after TCI pulled the rug out from under us). It was supposed to be aired, but Viacom's tech guy screwed up the dub and it never did. So it was released on VHS. “
Guest appearances by:
Eddy Detroit and Adam Burke (percussion on "The Venerable Song"),
Eddy Detroit (goat calls on "Sam Manilla" and "Brothers Unconnected").
Includes a "video comic book" by Blaine Thurier, narrated by Charles Gocher.
Filmed by: Charles Gocher, Greg Hynes, Javier Gallegos, Keith Parry, Steve Reetz, Erin Lofton, and Bohemia Afterdark.
Songs and ???:
* Flippin the Bird
* An Old Eyeball in a Quart Jar of Snot
* Music For the Funeral of Drama City
* Nay Bah Zay
* Bail Out of Jail
* The Brothers Unconnected
* Bliss of Coma
* Drifting in Smiles
* The Venerable Song Pt. 1 (the meaning of which is no longer known)
* Hitman Boy
* No, There I Go
* Out on the Dixie
* The Momentary Fugitive
* The Venerable Song Pt. 2
* Sam Manilla
* Mamas Milk (Too Dry)
* It's Not a Real Knife
* Let the Night Roar
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (BBC Documentary)
In 2005, the BBC released a short (an hour or so) documentary on Jazz legend Sun Ra. The Guardian wrote:
"Letts's BBC4 documentary, Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet, is an attempt to make some sense of the man whom he describes as "The Salvador Dali of jazz", who was born in Alabama in 1914 but proclaimed himself to have come from Saturn, on a mission to save the black race in particular from the bondage of planet Earth. Letts himself, however, admits that, even having voyaged extensively through Ra's back catalogue, "a lot of the music goes right over my head. He certainly appeared to be a bit bonkers," he concedes. "But to him, all this stuff was deep and meaningful and had a continuity to it. But it was hard to get a handle on. [Even] Marshall Allen, his saxophonist, admits he didn't quite get it."
Featuring Wayne Kramer, Thurston Moore, Archie Shepp, Marshall Allen and more, and interview segments with Ra himself, the documentary tries to make sense of the Sun Ra legacy. Watch for yourself.
Mississippi Fred McDowell: Blues Maker
From the video’s Youtube page:
Fantastic documentary which shows Mississippi blues singer, Fred McDowell, singing and talking about his blues. Producer: Univ Of Mississippi; Dept Of Educational Film Production
It’s actually not quite a documentary, more like an extended musical profile. McDowell plays several pieces and they show lots of film from his life and surroundings with a short narrator explanation of his playing style. But still, at just shy of 14 minutes, you have time for this, especially with the live footage of
David Eugene Edwards: The Preacher
In 2000, filmmaker Sarah Vos made a short documentary about 16 Horsepower and Wovenhand frontman David Eugene Edwards. The IMDB synopsis says:
“About David Eugene Edwards upbringing, culture, poetry and music. DEE created Sixteen Horsepower - an alternative music group producing religious imagery dealing with conflict, redemption, punishment, and guilt through DEE's lyrics and the heavy use of traditional bluegrass, gospel, and Appalachian instrumentation cross-bred with rock.”