Luxor Shorts - Vol. 3 (DVD)

Three Don Kirshner shows plus a clip from Italian TV.
Sabbath are amazing. Filmed around the time of the
Sabotage album - surely their greatest period.
This is the best quality version I've seen.
The Cameo footage has a code stamp in the middle
of the screen plus a timecode at the bottom.
Despite those niggles it's still superb. I have never
seen an alternative version. If you don't enjoy
this performance you'd better check your pulse.
The T.Rex broadcast is reasonable quality and certainly
shows Marc Bolan in a better light than the TV series.
Last is a nice B&W video of Soft Machine with Alan Holdsworth.
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Titus

Black Sabbath (DKRC)
Santa Monica Civic Center
September 4th 1975
1. Killing Yourself to Live
2. Hole in the Sky
3. Snowblind
4. War Pigs
5. Paranoid

Cameo (DKRC)
broadcast : June 20th 1980
1. Cameosis
2. I Just Want to Be
3. Shake Your Pants

Marc Bolan & T.Rex (DKRC)
The Concert Hall, Long Beach, California
October 8th 1974
1. Jeepster
2. Zip Gun Boogie
3. Token of My Love
4. Get It On

Soft Machine
Radiotelevisione Italiana 1974
1. Hazard Profile (Part 1)

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Cake - Atlanta 1995 (wave)

Short FM show from this great band.
There are a few small glitches but it's
generally very good.
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Titus

Daria
Frank Sinatra
Ruby Sees All
It's Coming Down
Friend Is A Four Letter Word
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
The Distance
I Bombed Korea

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Supersonic - Vol. 4 (DVD)

Another batch. A few audio 'phuts' on the first episode
otherwise decent quality. Some good 'uns on this one.
Even David Essex does two of his better numbers.
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Titus

featured acts :
The Troggs
Leo Sayer
Gene Pitney
Slade
Melanie
Gary Glitter
Osibisa
Smokie
Twiggy
Catherine Howe
Sailor
The Dodgers
David Essex
Climax Blues Band
Marmalade
Guys 'n' Dolls
Ace
Sweet
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
The Rubettes
Barry Ryan
Golden Earring
Charlie
Hazel Dean
Andy Brown
Cliff Richard
Pilot
Bay City Rollers
Chris Farlowe
Albert Hammond
Suzi Quatro
Alvin Stardust
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Linda Lewis

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Van der Graaf - Hull 1977 (wave)

Remastered audience recording. Not bad compared
to most 70s Graaf boots. I saw them in Preston
the day after this show. A lesser quality 'Crying Wolf'
and a two minute section of 'Door' are also available
from this show but I haven't included them prefering to
stick with the better quality material. This is the five piece
line-up with Graham Smith & Charles Dickie.
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Titus

Lizard Play
Chemical World
Habit of the Broken Heart
Ship of Fools
A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers/Sleepwalkers
Cats Eye Yellow Fever
The Sphinx in the Face
Last Frame

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Progressive Nation tour - Manchester 2009 (wave)

Complete show from the Apollo.
More prog-metal than you can shake a stick at.
This is a remastered audience recording.
Not perfect but not bad.
To be truthful I'm not really that big a fan
of Dream Theater. I prefer the other three acts.
Sure, DT are great musicians but those bursts of genius
are buried in some naff (to me) Iron Maiden stylings
and the pseudo-religious lyrics make me cringe.
Parts of their set are, I readily concede, simply stunning.
Unexpect are my latest fad. Highly inventive and ambitious.
They have a new album in the pipeline and I'm really
looking forward to hearing it.
Bigelf is another band I like, often described as
a blend of Black Sabbath & Pink Floyd.
Opeth are, as always, superb. They steal the show for me.
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Titus

Unexpect :
Novae
In Velvet Coffins We Slept
Unfed Pendulum
Desert Urbania

Bigelf :
The Evils Of Rock And Roll
Neuropsychopathic Eye
Disappear
Money Machine

Opeth :
Windowpane
The Lotus Eater
Reverie / Harlequin Forest
April Ethereal
Deliverance
Hex Omega

Dream Theater :
A Nightmare To Remember
A Rite Of Passage
keyboard solo
Sacrificed Sons
Wither
Scene Seven: I. The Dance Of Eternity
Scene Seven: II. One Last Time
Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On
In The Name Of God
The Count Of Tuscany

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Sykotik Sinfoney - studio sessions (mp3 at 320kbps)

An unusual US band who's only official release
was on the 'Bad Channels' movie soundtrack.
Active from 1988 - 1994 they developed an elaborate
stage show with costumes, masks and stilts!
I got these mp3s from their old website many moons ago.
The music is very diverse drawing on multiple genres
incuding metal, punk, prog, rap, Frank Zappa
and Beer Keller music complete with yodeling.
I've listened to this a lot. Oh no! I'm listening to it again
...growing taller...growing taller...
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Titus

Mr. Cool
Daddy Long Legs
Little Ol' Lady Polka
Brain Dead
Maggots With Guns
Manic Depresso
Gardeners From Hell
Ignorance
Estupido
Posers
Life
Cake Fuck
Sex Cells
Gumby

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The Babys - Cleveland 1980 (FLAC)

I didn't pay much attention to The Babys when they
first appeared. They seemed like a bubble-gum rock
outfit who would mainly appeal to American girls.
When the Union Jacks album came out I read a review
by a similarly sceptical hack who admitted he had been
won over by the songs after a couple of listens. So I bought it.
To this day it remains a classic. They are much more
rockin' than their image suggests. The title track from
Union Jacks is a prog metal anthem. This UK band
really hit their stride in 1979 with the arrival of two
US musicians: Ricky Phillips on bass and Jonathan Cain
on keyboards. John Waite, who had previously played bass
was now free to concentrate on the lead vocals and Cain
added substantially to their sound. Waite would later
enjoy huge solo success with the song 'Missing You'.
In late 1980 they opened for Journey. Before long The Babys
had split and Jonathan Cain was Journey's ivory tinkler.
This is a remastered FM recording.
If only they'd played 'Union Jacks'!
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Titus

Money
Broken Heart
Anytime
True Love
California
Turn Around in Tokyo
Every Time I Think of You
Isn't it Time?
Midnight Rendezvous
Keyboard Solo
Back on My Feet Again
Looking For Love
Head First
Run to Mexico
Love Don't Prove I'm Right
In Your Eyes

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