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Monday, February 19, 2007

Michael Jackson - Salamat Datang Ke Brunei

MJ-BRUNEI0001One of the richest men in the world doesn't go to rock concerts. The shows come to him. This is one of the private performances that rock's superstars occasionally do for a huge fee. This one is estimated between US$15 and US$20 million. This show took place during Jackson's History Tour and over 60,000 Bruneians were invited. Finally, a copy sneaked out onto the internet.
What a coincidence that this show appeared on the net around the time of the Sultan's 60th birthday. Perhaps a light-fingered guest managed to get a copy from someone's private stash.
Jackson plays all his hits, no surprises there, and a wonderful time was had by all. Excellent soundboard stereo quality.


MJ-BRUNEI0002Disc 1
01 Carmina Burana intro
04 Human Nature
05 Smooth Criminal*
06 I Just Can't Stop Lovin' You
07 She's Out Of My Life
08 I Want You Back
09 The Love You Save
10 I'll Be There
11 Thriller*
12 Billie Jean
Disc 2
01 The Way You Make Me Feel*
02 Beat It
03 You Are Not Alone*
04 Dangerous*
05 Black Or White*
06 Man In The Mirror*
Michael Jackson - Brunei 199607 Earth Song*

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Michael Jackson - Bad

MJbad001In 1987, Jackson released Bad; his third album for the Epic record label, and final album with producer Quincy Jones. He initially wanted to make the album 30 tracks long, but Jones cut this down to 10. According to Jones, Jackson wanted the title track to be a duet with Prince who later declined the duet. Jones said the reason given by Prince was that he thought the song would be a hit whether he was in it or not.
In comparison to Thriller, Bad had lower sales but it was still a huge commercial success. It spawned seven hit singles, of which five went to number-one, those being: "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Man in the Mirror", and "Dirty Diana". The album went onto sell 29 million copies worldwide; the RIAA eventually certified Bad at 8x Platinum.
In September 1987, Jackson embarked upon his first solo world tour, the Bad World Tour. The tour lasted sixteen months, in which he performed at 123 concerts, to over 4.4 million fans worldwide. Jackson insisted on a personal bus, plane and helicopter to be available to him all at the same time.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Michael Jackson - Live History tour Munich 1997

MJhistorytour101The first leg of the History Tour began in Prague, Czech Republic at Letna Park on September 7, 1996, and ended in Honolulu, Hawaii at Aloha Stadium on January 4, 1997. The second leg of the tour began in Bremen, Germany at Weserstadion on May 31, 1997 and ended in Durban, South Africa at King's Park Rugby Stadium on October 15 1997.
During the HIStory tour, Michael performed 82 concerts in 58 cities to over 4.5 million fans.The HIStory Tour visited 5 continents and 35 countries.




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Monday, September 24, 2007

Floetry - Manchester Say Yes

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Floetry is an English R&B, soul, neo soul, and hip hop duo. The members of the group are singer/songwriter Marsha "the Songstress" Ambrosius and rapper, MTV personality and radio hostess Amanda Diva. Amanda Diva temporarily replaced member Natalie "The Floacist" Stewart. Original members Marsha and Natalie met through their love of basketball and formed a friendship. Ambrosius attended Brits Performing Arts School and studied business and finance. Stewart experimented with acting and directing. For college, Ambrosius planned to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia on a basketball scholarship but could not due to an injury. Stewart attended Middlesex University in London and later transferred to North London University. During these years, both women continued to keep in touch. she was part of a girl group named 3 Plus 1. After the split of the group, she and Ambrosius decided to concentrate on a group together.
They began their career as songwriters in 1997. They have written for Jill Scott, Jazz of Dru Hill, Glenn Lewis, Bilal, and Michael Jackson, for whom they penned the hit 2002 single "Butterflies".
In 2000, the duo moved to the United States to further pursue their music career. After frequenting such Atlanta spoken word/poetry spots such as Yin Yang Cafe (to rave reviews), they moved on to Philadelphia. There they met J. Erving, son of basketball player Julius Erving. He became the manager of the group and introduced them to DJ Jazzy Jeff. In 2002, they signed with DreamWorks Records and released their debut album Floetic, which featured the singles "Floetic", "Say Yes", and "Getting Late". The album was also released in the UK with additional tracks, one of which features British singer/songwriter and producer Sebastian Rogers. Floetry released a live album titled Floacism in 2003. The two-disc set consisted of a CD and DVD and included the single "Wanna B Where U R (Thisizzaluvsong)" featuring rapper Mos Def. Their third album Flo'Ology was released in November 2005 and included the single "Supastar" featuring rapper Common.


Floetry - Live Manchester 2003


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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Pulp - Joyful & Triumphant

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Most bands, when they break up, do so in a welter of recrimination. They might play law-suit tennis for a time afterwards, like moneyed divorcées. Or they limp along, minus a few members, drawing on the strength of session musicians like ticks on bare ankles. Few just fade away with dignity. Fewer still throw a cutting-edge goodbye party in a giant former steelworks outside their home town and invite dozens of other bands, DJs, visual artists and a few thousand revellers along and call it a festival. But then, Pulp are not - were not - an ordinary band.
The verb tense is tricky: Pulp haven't spelled out their end in neon lettering. True, they are without a record deal; their relationship with Universal Island ended with the greatest hits compilation of last month, which creaked into the charts at a dismal 71. And Jarvis Cocker, their totemic singer, doesn't quite say goodbye. 'This'll be the last time you see us for a while,' he announces gruffly. 'But we may meet again, who knows?' He leaves it open, half like a contrite, caddish lover, unable to say the words, half like a man who's merely moving to Paris to be with his new stylist wife. Cocker has always looked a bit like a French filmmaker from the Sixties - it'll be a novelty for him to fit in.
The truth is that the band are still unsure. But Pulp's last chart position did have a clang of finality about it. For a while, Pulp have seemed like a band in the evening of their day. The signs? The diminishing returns of their singles, for one - even though later songs like 'Trees' or 'The Last Day of the Miners' Strike' are among their best. Their extramural activities, for another - Cocker and bassist Steve Mackey started their own, terribly hip, club night, Desperate, last year; Jarvis also performed a few distinctly un-Pulp-like songs supporting a hero of his, Lee Hazlewood, last September. Then there was keyboard player Candida Doyle's departure to live in a shed in Maine.
Being clever people, Pulp read their own signs. They saw the slope leading downwards from the giddy heights of chart acclaim and Glastonbury headline slots and tabloid interest. And they rode it stylishly to a finish.
What a finish, too. Cocker and Mackey's club experience and wide tastes have dictated that Auto is a carnival of esoteric sound (like laptop troubadour Four Tet), chic disco (like Royksopp and Lemon Jelly) and dirty rock'n'roll (like raucous new duo the Kills). Its spiritual antecedents are Spain's excellent Sonar festival of electronica and our own All Tomorrow's Parties (née Bowlie); by delicious contrast, Oasis are on across town: everything that Pulp are not and are proud of not being. Auto, furthermore, suggests that Pulp wish to be remembered not as a cult band who triumphed in the major leagues against the odds, or for Jarvis's subversion of Michael Jackson on live TV, but for their ineffable coolness.
The Magna Centre lurks just outside Sheffield; awe-inspiring enough in its naked state, it is transformed by video screens and (ineffectual) heat lamps and pumping sound systems into a glacial, dystopian resonating chamber. If anything, Pulp are incongruous here. The severity of the décor and the electronicness of the acts only serves to throw their unfailingly melodic, keyboard-enhanced guitar pop into relief. They begin their mid-evening set in time-honoured tradition, with 'Do You Remember the First Time' - all the more poignant as this is, probably, the last time. 'Happy Endings', one of the rarities of the night, feels as if it too has been chosen for an obvious reason. For the most part, though, the Pulp classics tumble out compulsively, like end-of-affair confessions: 'Lipgloss', 'Something Changed' and the epoch-defining 'Sorted For Es And Wizz', all greeted by a victorious home-crowd atmosphere.
If they secretly hate each other's guts, Pulp don't show it, although relative newcomer Richard Hawley's ascendancy on lead guitar (at the expense of Mark Webber) could be read as significant. Jarvis doesn't have the air of a man tired of the stage, either: he's up on the monitors, cuffs flapping, elbows jutting, shirt untucked, vogueing and cutting loose as the music demands it.
His wit will be missed. A heckler shouts: 'Jarvis, I love you!' Jarvis deadpans: 'That's worrying.' Later, he throws peanuts and snack food at the crowd, after a disarming preamble about dinner parties, crudités ('or crudities') and nut allergies. 'This is Hardcore' gets a lengthy introduction ('We're going to dig a hole now'), Cocker alluding to how the album of the same name in effect ended their career as a clever, good-time band and began their tenure as a wiser, bad-time band. 'This is Hardcore' itself is tremendous: mantric and heavy and wreathed in bad vibes. It proves that, at their worst on paper, Pulp were also at their perceptive, ambitious best.
The encore could only be 'Babies', the tune that captured the essence of Pulp's anthems of longing and shame, and 'Common People', a song so perfect - artistically, melodically, sociologically - that it should be handed out to every middle- class young person in Britain, along with the vote, when they come of age. Pulp play the minor-key acid disco version tonight and omit 'Disco 2000', another important hit from their zenith.
If any of Pulp's faithful are disgruntled, it's disguised by the whoops and hugging and cries of 'More!' as the band wander off in a clang of dissonance. As possible exits go, it is an extraordinary one.


01 Do You Remember The First Time
02 Lipgloss
03 Bad Cover Version
04 Something Changed
05 Sorted For E's And Whizz
06 Razzmatazz
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08 This Is Hardcore
09 I Love Life
10 Sunrise
11 Babies
12 Common People


SOURCEDABSOUND QUALITYA+FORMATMp3BITRATE256TRACKS #12
LOCATION / VENUERotherhamAuto Festival - Magna CentreDATE2002/12/14
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

the Jam - Set the sky ablaze


Although not stated on the artwork, this is live at the Westfallenhalle, Dortmund, Germany, November 30, 1980.
Just barely two days before (if the release dates are correct), The Jam had released what would have been one of their best albums. Paul Weller certainly thinks 1980's Sound Affects was the group's best work.
On this show, of the album's 11 tracks, the group left out Monday, Music For The Last Couple and possibly one of The Jam's biggest hits, That's Entertainment. Perhaps the group was trying to promote their then latest single, Start!, and didn't want to detract any attention from it. Not surprisingly, The Jam's greatest hits compilation, Snap!, features the trio of That's Entertainment, Start! and The Man In The Corner Shop from the Sound Affects album.
Even without That's Entertainment, this is still a solid show with a good selection of oldies thrown in. The sequencing of the songs in the setlist is quite exquisite - Weller opens with a new song, Dream Time, then goes into Thick As Thieves. With the exception of Going Underground, five of the first seven songs are from the new album. The mix of the new with the familiar continues in the later half of the show where But I'm Different Now, Start! and Scrape Away are bunched together.
Weller is in fine attacking form - it's as if the pent-up energy from the recording sessions has seeped over and he's singing like there's no tomorrow. While he generally introduces the new songs, there isn't much banter between the songs - Weller preferred to let the songs do the talking: the group's take on the Beatles and Michael Jackson as well as a comment on working class aspirations (The Man In The Corner Shop), dealing with the '80s (The Modern World), skinhead violence (Down In The Tube Station At Midnight), anti-authoritarian rule (The Eton Rifles), loss of childhood (Dreams Of Children), anti-war (Little Boy Soldiers) and general apathy (Scrape Away).
This was recorded in Germany from a Rockpalast TV broadcast but the show has never been officially released. The sound is superb, and so is the band. They were two years away from calling it a day - catch them when they were still hot and angry (bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler reformed The Jam earlier in 2007 without Weller).


Dreamtime
Thick As Thieves
Boy About Town
Going Underground
Pretty Green
Man In The Cornershop
Set The House Ablaze
Private Hell
Liza Radley
The Jam - Set The Skies AblazeDreams Of Children
The Modern World
Little Boy Soldiers
But I'm Different Now
Start!
Scrape Away
Strange Town
When You're Young
In The City
To Be Someone
David Watts
Eton Rifles
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight 

SOURCETVBSOUND QUALITYA+ FORMATMp3 BITRATE? TRACKS #22
LOCATION / VENUEDortmund WestfallenhalleDATENovember 30, 1980
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

FatBoy Slim: Brighton Big Beat - 2 new sets added

FBS003Fatboy Slim is an English musician in the dance music genre. His style is known as big beat, a combination of hip hop, breakbeat, rock, trance, house and rhythm and blues. He stopped using 'Quentin' and began calling himself 'Norman' long before he adopted any other pseudonym.

The Fatboy Slim album Better Living Through Chemistry (released through Skint Records) marked Cook's emergence into the big time. Filled with retro samples and funk-laden grooves, the album was among the first in the then-new big beat sound. It also spawned one Top 40 UK hit, "Everybody Needs a 303". After Cook's remix of Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha" topped the charts, such musical heavy hitters as Madonna and U2 asked him to produce for them.

Fatboy Slim's next work was the single "The Rockafeller Skank" which was released prior to the album You've Come a LongFBS002 Way, Baby, both of which came out in 1998 to rave reviews. This album also produced the single "Praise You", which also became a major dance hit, giving Cook his first UK solo number one. Its video, directed by Spike Jonze, won numerous awards. Further Fatboy Slim works have appeared in movies, television series, and more ads and started a trend where Norman Cook appeared in each video in some shape or form.

Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars was released in 2000 and featured two collaborations with Macy Gray. It also included "Sunset (Bird of Prey)", a slower tempo piece based around a sample of Jim Morrison from The Doors, and "Weapon of Choice", which also boasted an award-winning video starring Christopher Walken.

FatBoy Slim – Live at the metro Chicago circa Y2K

Set1

Alan Braxe - Vertigo FBS004 Bassbin Twins - Out of Hand Wubble u - Petal (Freestylers mix) Wildchild - Renegade Master Josh Wink vs Public Enemy - Higher State of Noise DJ Stew feat. Buddha - Funky Fresh DJ Tonka - Phun-ky Progress Funk - Around My Brain (Miami by Night mix) Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook original remix) Fatboy Slim - Going Out of My Head Lionrock - Rude Boy Rock ??? - ??? Art of Noise -Metaforce FBS005 ??? - ??? Groovezone - Eisbaer The Prodigy - Out of Space Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

Set2

Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank Fatboy Slim - Everybody Loves a Carnival Bassbin Twins - Stick 'EmFBS006 ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? CLS - Forget It ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? Daft Punk - Da Funk (Chemical Brothers remix) ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit ??? - ??? Fatboy Slim - Michael Jackson

 

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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Van Halen - Atomic Punks

VH001The band was formed in 1974 and was originally called Mammoth. However, when they discovered that another local band was already using the name Mammoth, they decided on a new name. It was actually Roth who suggested Van Halen as the new name for the group. The Van Halen brothers initially didn't like the idea, but eventually warmed up to it. Roth stated in his autobiography, "I felt that the name Van Halen was like the name Santana, it had power to it.
With Ted Templeman at the helm, the band moved into the studio and quickly recorded their first album. Simply titled Van Halen, the album was released to immediate commercial success, reaching #19 on the Billboard pop music charts. All of the tracks were laid down very quickly (about three weeks), with little over-dubbing or double tracking. Minor mistakes were left on the record and a very simple musical set-up was used to give the record an almost-live feel. After adding vocals, the album was essentially ready to be mixed. Despite the simple studio set-up, Van Halen featured innovations in musical technique, production, and arrangement.

The first album, one of rock's most commercially successful debuts[8], is widely regarded as one of the most influential rock albums ever produced[9]. While it included original songs by the band, such as "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," "Eruption," and "Runnin' With The Devil," the album also featured covers of the Kinks' song "You Really Got Me" and John Brim's "Ice Cream Man." The band toured for nearly a year on the basis of Van Halen, establishing their reputation as a talented and exciting live band. The early chemistry of the band was based upon the interplay of Eddie Van Halen's technical wizardry and David Lee Roth's flamboyant antics (a contrast that would later erupt into full-blown conflict). They returned to the studio in 1979 for Van Halen II, similar in style to their debut. VH004This album yielded the band's first hit single, the poppy "Dance The Night Away."

Over the next four years, the band alternated album releases and touring to increasing commercial and critical acclaim. By 1980, Van Halen was perhaps the world's most successful and influential hard rock band (a legacy the band sustained throughout their career; in 2000, VH1 cited Van Halen as #7 on their list, "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock"). Their party-loving spirit and hard rocking anthem-like sound made them extremely popular with teenagers and the worst nightmare for parents. Their third album Women and Children First was released in 1980, further cementing Van Halen's status as an elite rock group with such loud and popular songs as "And The Cradle Will Rock" and "Everybody Wants Some!!". In 1981, during the recording of their fourth album, Fair Warning, tensions began to rise within the band. Eddie Van Halen's desire to experiment with more serious songs and complex structures was at odds with Roth's pop instincts and increasingly cartoonish, irony-laden persona. Although Roth (and producer Templeman) acquiesced to Eddie's wishes, Fair Warning was a relative sales disappointment, yielding no hit singles. VH003The following album, Diver Down, featured a hit cover of Roy Orbison's classic rock and roll song "Oh, Pretty Woman". After a successful tour to support Diver Down, Van Halen became the highest paid music group for a single appearance, earning a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for their inebriated, $1 million, 90-minute set at the US Festival in 1983. (This record was eventually eclipsed in the 1990s.)


Cover art for the hit single "Panama" (1984)Van Halen's next album, 1984 (released on January 9, 1984) was their commercial, and many claim, artistic pinnacle. Recorded at Eddie Van Halen's newly built 5150 Studios, the album was also a breaking point for the original line-up. Keyboards, previously heard only rarely, were now fully integrated into the band's sound. The album's lead single, "Jump", featured a bouncy synthesizer hook and anthemic lyrics by Roth. "Jump" became the band's first and only #1 pop hit and resulted in the band's first Grammy nomination. The other huge hits off the album were "Panama," "I'll Wait," and "Hot For Teacher." Many of the songs also became major music videos on MTV, especially "Hot For Teacher," which featured a skimpily dressed model playing the part of elementary-school teacher and also school-age boys portraying younger versions of the band members. The video appealed to numerous teenage and college-aged males. VH002The album 1984 was praised by critics and fans alike, peaking at #2 on the Billboard charts behind Thriller by Michael Jackson (Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on the hit song "Beat It," on that album). In the midst of their greatest commercial success and tour, the artistic and personal tensions between the musicians reached a breaking point. Roth was upset about Eddie Van Halen playing with artists and bands outside of the band, and Eddie was upset at Roth for his continuous flamboyant behavior and cartoonish stage persona. Roth exited the band on April 1, 1985.

Van Halen – Live in Indianapolis 1984

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

R.E.M. - Unplugged

Rem_unpluggedcompletely_allR.E.M.’s first appearance on MTV Unplugged took place on April 10, 1991, the year the band came to worldwide attention, at Chelsea Studios in New York City. The band, along with hired hand Peter Holsapple, lined up on stools in front of an invited audience. Michael Stipe defied the studio lights by wearing the black fisherman’s hat he favoured that year and a three-quarter-length mustard-coloured coat (over a yellow shirt, no less), although for the latter part of the set he did resort to rolling the legs of his jeans up over his knees.
Of the less predictable selections, ‘It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’ was the strangest candidate for an acoustic revamp, and it certainly didn’t occur to the band themselves initially, as Stipe announced that it was a last-minute request from MTV. Indeed, they had to have the lyric faxed through from Athens. The vocals, for its part, received more care and attention than it had on the Green tour, and the attempt amused both the band and the audience alike.
The cover of the Troggs’ ‘Love is all Around’ was subsequently included on the longform video This Film Is On. A photograph taken during the performance by Retna’s Frank Micelotta can be found in the image section in the middle of Adventures in Hi-Fi: The Complete R.E.M., a book written by Rob Jovanovic and Tim Abbott, issued in 2001.
Remu2Although the edited broadcast programme was structured like a non-stop concert, recording actually took two hours. In addition to breaks while the band members exchanged instruments and Berry went to the men’s room, there were delays while technical adjustments were made. During these moments, the band entertained themselves and the audience by playing a quartet of cover versions: Classics IV’s ‘Spooky’, the Undisputed Truth’s ‘Smiling Faces Sometimes’, ‘Egyptian Reggae’ (Jonathan Richman), and J.J. Jackson’s ‘But it’s Alright’. They also recorded second takes of ‘Disturbance at the Heron House’ (Buck having broken a string during the first attempt) and ‘World Leader Pretend’. The latter song, ‘Fretless’, ‘Swan Swan H’, and ‘Get Up’ were subsequently dropped from the final running order, which aired on April 24, 1991:


Remu3Edited Version Setlist


‘Half a World Away’
‘Disturbance at the Heron House’
‘Radio Song’
‘Low’
‘Perfect Circle’
‘Fall on Me’
‘Belong’
‘Love is All Around’
‘It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’
‘Losing My Religion’ (“We’ve got one more,” announced Stipe. [The audience audibly showed their disappointment.] “Oh, you want us to quit now?” quipped Mills.)
‘Pop Song ’89’


Line up


Bill Berry – congas, tambourine, maracas, vocals
Peter Buck – acoustic guitar, mandolin
Mike Mills – acoustic bass, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ, vocals
Michael Stipe – vocals
Peter Holsapple – acoustic guitar, Hammond organ, accordion


R.E.M.  -  Unplugged

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