The Animals (feat.Eric Burdon) - Wembly Empire Pool (April 11,1965)

                                 Eric Burdon - Hilton Valentine-Alan Price- Chas Chandler

    Boom Boom Boom

One of the most important bands originating from England's R&B scene during the early '60s, the Animals were second only to the Rolling Stones in influence among R&B-based bands in the first wave of the British Invasion. The Animals had their origins in a Newcastle-based group called the Kansas City Five, whose membership included pianist Alan Price, drummer John Steel, and vocalist Eric Burdon. Price exited to join the Kontours in 1962, while Burdon went off to London.

                                         John Steel

    Don,t Let It Be Miss Understood

  The Kontours, whose membership included Bryan "Chas" Chandler, eventually were transmuted into the Alan Price R&B Combo, with John Steel joining on drums. Burdon's return to Newcastle in early 1963 heralded his return to the lineup. The final member of the combo, guitarist Hilton Valentine, joined just in time for the recording of a self-produced EP under the band's new name, the Animals. That record alerted Graham Bond to the Animals; he was likely responsible for pointing impresario Giorgio Gomelsky to the group

    Talkin About You

In May of 1965, immediately after recording "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place," Alan Price left the band, citing fear of flying as the reason; subsequent biographies of the band have indicated that the reasons were less psychological.

 The lineup shifts continued, however: Steel exited in 1966, after recording Animalisms, and was replaced by Barry Jenkins, formerly of the Nashville Teens. Chandler left in mid-1966 after recording "Don't Bring Me Down," and Valentine remained until the end of 1966, but essentially "Don't Bring Me Down" marked the end of the original Animals.

 Hey Gyp
https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2019/04/eric-burdon-and-animals-hey-gyp-woburn.html

 Paint It Black/Monterey
 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2017/11/eric-burdon-new-animal-paint-it.html

Bob Dylan - "Something" Madison Square Garden, 2002

Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay Buffalo Springfield Rehearsal 1986

// In the summer of 1986, the original members of the Buffalo Springfield met at Stephen Stills’ home to rehearse new material that Stephen and Neil Young were working on and to make tentative plans to reunite for a 20th anniversary reunion tour. The 2 day practice session marked the first time that the five founding members had played together since their break-up in 1967. The rehearsals were kept a secret and my understanding was that management was not keen on having the sessions videotaped. However, after some deliberation, the band over ruled management and decided that they wanted to document the get together
.The practice session began with a “theme" that was in Neil’s head and moved onto Stephen shredding the guitar on a new blues tune that he was in the early stage of conceptualizing. In this clip, the band is working out the nuts and bolts on a new tune of Neil’s that he would later develop into “Road of Plenty” which made its performance debut during the Crazy Horse tour in November of 1986. The song would, subsequently, evolve into its studio version, “Eldorado”, which was recorded 2 years later and released in the states on Neil's Freedom album.
                                          

Junior Wells & Buddy Guy - Crying Shame

Filmed in a Chicago club as part of the 1970 documentary "Chicago Blues" featuring Junior Wells (harmonica and vocals), Buddy Guy (guitar), David Myers (bass) and Sam Lay (drums)

 Junior Wells and guitarist Buddy Guy worked together frequently starting in the 1960s, and featured Guy on guitar when he recorded his first album, "Hoodoo Man Blues" for Delmark Records. Wells and Guy supported the Rolling Stones on numerous occasions in the 1970s. Although Juniors albums "South Side Blues Jam" (1971) and "On Tap" (1975) proved he had not lost his aptitude for Chicago blues, his 1980s and 1990s discs were inconsistent. However with his 1996 release "Come On in This House" he redeemed himself an intriguing set of classic blues songs with a rotating cast of slide guitarists, among them Alvin Youngblood Hart, Corey Harris, Sonny Landreth and Derek Trucks. Wells made an appearance in the film Blues Brothers 2000, the sequel to The Blues Brothers, which was released in 1998.

  Wells continued performing until he was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 1997. That fall, he suffered a heart attack while undergoing treatment, sending him into a coma. Wells died in Chicago, after succumbing to lymphoma on January 15, 1998, and was interred in the Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago.

Van Morrison - Botanic Gardens ,Belfast (June 23th -2019)

                            Botanic Gardens is a public garden in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Occupying 28 acres (110,000 m²) of south Belfast, the gardens are popular with office workers, students and tourists. They are located on Stranmillis Road in Queen's Quarter, with Queen's University nearby. The Ulster Museum is located at the main entrance.

 Concerts and music festivals are held at the Stranmillis Embankment end of the gardens. From 2002 to 2006 the Tennents ViTal fest)ival was held in the gardens. Performers included Kings of Leon, Franz Ferdinand, The Coral, The Streets and The White Stripes. In 2006 Snow Patrol, The Raconteurs, Editors and Kaiser Chiefs played at the festival.
 This evening was for Van Morrison,

with songs that I missed a week earlier in Grolloo....

My Lagan Love (TheSweetthing2011) Thanks!!!   album Irish HeartBeat

"My Lagan Love" is a song to a traditional Irish air collected in 1903 in northern Donegal. The English lyrics have been credited to Joseph Campbell (1879–1944, also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil and Joseph McCahill, among others). Campbell was a Belfast man whose grandparents came from the Irish-speaking area of Flurrybridge, South Armagh. He started collecting songs in County Antrim. In 1904 he began a collaboration with composer Herbert Hughes. Together, they collected traditional airs from the remote parts of County Donegal.



    (TheSweetthing2011) Thanks!!
The title track, "Saint Dominic's Preview", was said by Morrison to have been composed after seeing an ad for a peace vigil to be held at St. Dominic's Church in San Francisco.The song is written in a "stream of consciousness" fashion as with the Astral Weeks songs. Lyrics in the song refer to different stages of Morrison's life: "chamois cleaning all the windows" (teenage years) and "The record company has paid out for the wine" (his contemporary status as a pop music star). Erik Hage calls it "expansive and groundbreaking, representing an enlarging scope and ambition in Morrison's music."

                         https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWxzWJi5RWyaJ2xgB3EpMQ

The Mahavishnu Orchestra

The Mahavishnu Orchestra was a fusion and jazz rock group active between 1971 and 1976. The band's leader was guitarist "Mahavishnu" John McLaughlin and its founding members were Billy Cobham (drums), Rick Laird (bass guitar), Jan Hammer (keyboards) and Jerry Goodman (violin). This is the original line-up, great musicians with special attention to master drummer Billy Cobham!


You Know You Know

I once saw the band "live" at a festival at the trot and racecourse in Hilversum in 1974. Jerry Goodman and Billy Cobham were no longer there, Jean Luc Ponty and Michael Walden were their replacements. In my memory a beautiful but also a very hard performance. By the way, it was a beautiful festival with Earth and Fire, Alquin (great) Tim Bucley, Dooby Brothers, Allman Brothers, and the closing act would be Van Morrison, unfortunately The Allman Brothers had played for a very long time, people complained. local residents about noise nuisance, so that was no longer possible.


                                                Alquin (Summerfestival Hilversum, 18 juli 1974)

Eric Gales - H.I.B.F Grolloo (Holland) 15 Juni 2019

                                foto,s Lenneke Vork

Het waren weer twee prachtige muzikale dagen in het Drentse Grolloo.Dag 2 was vooral voor de gitaarliefhebbers Op "een" avond twee giganten als Eric Gales en Gary Clark jr.op het podium ,wat kan je nog meer wensen.Half jaar geleden gaf Eric nog een memorabel optreden in De Spot in Middelburg ,nu deed hij er voor zo,n 13000 man nog een schepje bovenop.Eric Gales is een geweldige gitarist/performer/entertainer ,en maakt gebruik van het hele podium.Dat Gary Clark Jr.in de coulissen toe stond te kijken was waarschijnlijk ook een inspiratiebron. Voor mij was het optreden een van hoogtepunten van een zo wie zo prachtig festival.


South Paw Serenade (album The Bookends)
 Film by Edwin Birkhoff (thanks Edwin)
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6KLx23w6QpJWOMieFDJyyg

https://www.ericgalesband.com/

Van Morrison - Wiltern Theater - Los Angeles CA - Feb 26 2018.

   The Band:Van Morrison - vocals/sax.David Hayes-bass,Dana Reeves -vocals.Teena Lyle -perc/vocals.Dave Keary -guitar.Mezz Clough -drum ,Paul Moran - keyboards/trumpet


In The garden/Into The Mystic

Johnny Winter & Dr John - Live in Hamilton,Canada(studio) 23 Nov.1983

Op het eerst gezicht een wat vreemde combinatie,Dr John en Johnny Winter,maar in de intieme setting van een kleine studio blijkt het toch behoorlijk te klikken tussen die twee.


A Right Place At The Wrong Time
Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. (Geb. November 21, 1940) beter bekend onder de naam Dr. John (of Dr. John Creaux), is een Amerikaanse singer/songwriter,pianist en gitarist.Zijn muziek is een combinatie van blues.pop,jazz,zydeco,boogie woogie en rock &roll.


Johnny Be Good

In de jaren 50 was Mac Rebenack al aktief als studiomuzikant.Bekend werd hij in het begin van de jaren 70 onder de naam Dr John toen hij optrad met theatrale shows ,geinspereerd op mardi gras en voodoo ceremonies. Hij maakte meer dan 20 albums en scoorde in 1973 een hit met het funky "Right Place, Wrong Time," misschien wel zijn meest bekende song.


Junior Parker's song

John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (Geb. February 23, 1944) is een Amerikaanse bluesgitarist ,zanger en producer. Hij werd bekend en de jaren 70 door zijn energieke bluesrockalbums en zijn geweldige live optredens.Hij produceerde drie Grammy winnende albums voor blueslegende Muddy Waters .



Talk To Your Daughter

Johnny Winter profiteerde eind jaren zestig van het succes van een nieuwe generatie van rockgitaristen, zoals Jimi Hendrix ,Eric Clapton en Carlos Santana . In 1968 wordt hij door het blad Rolling Stone samen met Janis Joplin uitgeroepen tot één van de grote beloften in de rockmuziek. Johnny valt, behalve door zijn virtuoze gitaarspel, op door het feit dat hij, net als broer Edgar, een albino is. Winter maakt vanaf 1968 verscheidene succesvolle albums, en raakt dan verslaafd aan heroïne. Zijn muziek neigt steeds meer naar hardrock totdat hij in 1977 begint samen te werken met Muddy Waters. In de jaren tachtig maakt Winter een aantal albums met bluesrock in een geheel eigen stijl, waaronder Guitar Slinger en Third Degree.



She Doesn't Mean Mistreated

De Band:Johnny Winter : guitar, vocal
Dr John : piano, vocal
Brian Russell : guitar
Jon Paris : bass, harmonica
Terry Clark : drums


Tipitina

Deze studio stond in Hamilton Ontario, en was bekend door hun mooie opnames met muzikanten als Freddie en Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughn,en Canadese acts als The Phantoms, Jeff Healy,e.a

BOB DYLAN the songs from TELL TALE SIGNS

///////////////////// Feest voor de Dylan liefhebber, het 'nieuwe' album Tell Tale Signs
Het gaat om afgekeurde opnamen en/of demo,s outtakes en live opnames uit de periode tussen de albums 'Oh Mercy' (1989) en Modern Times(2006)
Hij zit hier al dagen in de player en verveeld nog geen seconde.
Het mooie van de bootlegseries, dit is alweer deel acht, dat de songs allemaal weer net even anders klinken.
Mississippi staat er b.v in twee totaal verschillende versies op.
Ik vindTell Tale Signs een mooi overzicht van de laatste twintig jaar van Dylans carrière .
Zijn stem mag dat niet meer zijn wat het geweest ,de songs
zijn,zoals gewoonlijk, allemaal even sterk.
Ook leuk om toch weer net wat andere versies op te zoeken.




Mississippi (Medford,Oregon 9 okt.2001)
Rolling Stone's Mikal Gilmore

...Tell Tale Signs is less an anthology than an album in its own right. It seems designed to tell a story that sharpens and expands the vista of mortal and cultural disintegration that has been the chief theme of 1997's Time Out of Mind, 2001's Love and Theft, and 2006's Modern Times - perhaps the most daring music he's ever made. Tell Tale Signs makes plain that Dylan knows the caprices of the world he lives in, now more than ever.




Dignity ( MTV Unplugged 1994)

Los Angeles Times' Robert Hilburn

Bob Dylan's latest collection of material from his musical back pages, "Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8," is a rich, revealing look at how this master songwriter put together one of the most dramatic creative renaissances in pop history...."Tell Tale Signs" is not just "extra" Dylan. It's essential Dylan.


Most of the Time (with David Lindley)
The Independent's Andy Gill

The eighth instalment of Dylan's Bootleg Series covers the years spanning his 1989 return to form with Oh Mercy up to the present day, a period in which he managed to conquer a long-standing blight of writer's block, establish himself as the pre-eminent repository of American roots-music forms, and ultimately find the route to the Indian summer of Time Out of Mind, "Love and Theft" and Modern Times....It's a remarkable collection...


Ring them Bells (Dublin 13 Sept.200)
The Telegraph's David Cheal

There's stuff here that leaves the listener wondering: why have we never heard this before? What possessed him, for instance, to excise Red River Shore from his Time Out of Mind album? It's a haunting classic. Ditto the wistful Born in Time (from the Oh Mercy sessions)...what's captured here is the restless, questing creative spirit of the man. He never stops.


Someday Baby
The BBC's Chris Jones

If you love the trilogy of Time Out Of Mind, Love And Theft and Modern Times you're going to adore this. It lays bare the process that led Dylan to not only revisit the work that got him fired up in the first place but remake them in his own image: the Carter Family (Tell Ol' Bill) amongst many others...As a companion to his best work from the period this is essential. It even stands as a fine album on its own—the work of a man obviously in love with his muse once more, and totally unafraid of fessin' up to his roots. Beautiful, brave and beguiling.



God Knows (Praag 16 Juli 1994)

ROLLING STONE: "...Tell Tale Signs is less an anthology than an album in its own right. It seems designed to tell a story that sharpens and expands the vista of mortal and cultural disintegration that has been the chief theme of 1997's Time Out of Mind, 2001's 'Love and Theft', and 2006's Modern Times - perhaps the most daring music he's ever made. Tell Tale Signs makes plain that Dylan knows the caprices of the world he lives in, now more than ever."


Born in Time (Nashville 8 nov 1994)

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: "...there had never been anything quite like Bob Dylan in the 1960s, and there's nothing quite like him today."