Endless Boogie performs live at The Bootleg Theater, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California (April 5, 2016 ).
Sorry, don’t have the setlist for this one. You could probably figure it out if you wanted to. Otherwise, just jam.
Players:
Jesper Eklow (aka "The Governor") on guitar
Paul Major (aka "Top Dollar") on guitar and vocals
Mark Ohe (aka "Memories from Reno") on bass
Harry Druzd on drums
I haven’t visited my old tape-trading days (though I had this one on CDR) in quite a while. I remember listening to this CDR for the first time. I won’t share the details except to say that it was one of my favorite live recordings for a long time.
Full soundboard recording from the Aloha Tower in Honolulu - September 26, 1991. Second night of a two-night run and the last to feature the original lineup until 2008. Apparently, band members got nude.
Enjoy.
Setlist:
Up the Beach
Whores
Standing in the Shower... Thinking
Ain't No Right
Thank You Boys
Three Days
Been Caught Stealing
L.A. Medley - L.A. Woman - Nausea
Then She Did...
Mountain Song
Stop!
Ocean Size
Chip Away
As I’ve mentioned before, one of the things I like doing here at Ye Olde Music Blogge is to post concerts that I first came across when I used to do a lot of tape trading. Yes, through the mail. People would make copies of concerts and trade them and mail them across the world. It was glorious and probably still goes on. I never had many Soul Coughing shows but I did have a cassette copy of this 11.01.97 show from the Urban Art Bar in Houston, TX.
I just realized the other day that there is also video for the show. So, I says to myself: “Self: why not go ahead and post that video for the fine folks who happen by Ye Olde Music Blogge?” And, well, danged if you didn’t know; that’s exactly what I did.
Enjoy.
The Deets:
Soul Coughing - (live)
Urban Art Bar
Houston,Tx
11.1.96
(8mm Master)
Setlist:
Soft Serve
White Girl
Disseminated
Down to This
Don't Go Wreck the Car
Soundtrack to Mary
City of Motors
Moon Sammy
Paint
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
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
One of the things I periodically do here at the music blog is revisit some of the things I picked up when I used to do a lot of tape-trading. Years ago, I picked up this little three-song Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters radio appearance and it’s been one of my favorite live recordings for a long time.
There’s something undeniable about Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters. Primordial, gutteral, visceral, groove-yo-booty stuff right here. Even Pitchfork agrees.
Today, for your interstellar auditory transport, we present: Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters November 1974 on Radio Sendesaal. I don’t know if live Herbie shows are your sort of thing, but if they are, I highly recommend visiting the Herbie Hancock section over at the blogspot (yes, that’s still a thing) Never Enough Rhodes, which is currently up to 53 concert recordings!
At only 3 songs and 39 minutes, this one deserves to be on repeat.
Today’s little nugget features:
Herbie Hancock - keyboards
Bennie Maupin - reeds
Paul Jackson - bass
Mike Clark - drums
Bill Summers - percussion