David Bowie - Strange Fascination 1974-09-05 Bootleg

Hello out there.
It's awfy quiet. Contrasting the noise inside my head, caused by the need to reduce the dose of steroids I have been taking for about 13 years. These things are fucking terrible. You don't notice it when you go on them of course, in fact they seem like some kind of miracle drug! Pretty soon after you start taking them, in my case at least, but generally, for most illnesses that respond to them, this is what happens...you go from feeling very weak, being sick and unable to eat to feeling full of energy(!) full of the joys of life(!!) and the great thing for a Crohns diseaser is that you cultivate this amazingly ravenous appetite. It is like having the munchies every waking moment for a few years!!!
If you know anything about life by now my friend you will realise already that things come at a price.
Is there such a thing as a 'miracle' drug?
I can tell you the answer is no.
You see, the magical steroid health is only a temporary help. It is a temporary 'solution' to your ill health.
Without going into it too much, let me simplify it:
Steroids reduce inflammation. Inflammation is a process that is involved in many diseases from a simple cold to HIV. These particular steroids (hydrocortisone) can reduce inflammation in so many areas of the body and in so many illnesses, they are used a lot and can seem like a cure-all at times.
Alas, they are not a light substance to ingest so much. your body produces it's own amount of this hormone (hydrocortisone) every day. You need it to live. When you get stressed, excited, scared, emotional and even just when you are walking, talking and doing your usual shit (pardon my technical jargon here, you may have to use wikipedia)you NEED this stuff. Generally, a persons body will be producing the amount they require. That's how it goes.
This isn't really the place to go right into the workings of it so let me cut to the chase..
When you are taking steroids for inflammation, you need a dose that is much higher than your body would ever produce. you take this high amount every day until your body is used to the higher level. also your body will pretty much give up and eventually stop producing any of its own, due to the fact that it is getting enough already.
This is where the problem is when you come off the shit.
Steroids also bring side effects. Shitty effects that you don't want but are guaranteed to get if you continue to go along the steroid road of fake pseudo-health and hyperactivity(!!). These are too many to list but include cataracts and diabetes as well as Osteoporosis which I already have due to them.
So I must try to reduce or come off of them altogether. The problem is that my body has almost forgotten how to produce its own and wow ... does it make me feel like shit. Talk about feeling weird. This is worse than tripping on mushrooms sometimes I swear! (I mean a bad trip, obviously)
I'm sure this diatribe will speak for itself (was that an unintentional pun-joke there...? Oh I'm probably the only one that got it so fuck it...forget it) but, just in case you didn't grasp it, it's weirdness all around. Fleeting thoughts that disappear before you grab the thread...flickering sight, things look warped and then suddenly snap back to their usual state. As you go into more days of reduction you sweat. Lots. You sit on the sofa to watch TV and you feel sweat running down your temples...then your neck is soaked and you realise just how much its making you sweat. Shaking! I never had the shakes so much in my life. Nervousness is another thing. Really nervy..
This is going to be a long haul too. I feel a wreck already to tell the truth. Fuck this and the horse it rode in on. Oh yeah, that was me.
I chose to keep taking them over the years but hey, when faced with the gut-fucking-body-wrenching alternative then who wouldn't eh?
It is only now that I am reducing them I realise just how steroid-soaked my existence is/has been.
It is highly time to get back to reality FFS!
I am so eager I almost did myself an injury by reducing them too fast. I just want to get through it to the other side. I'm on 15mg and I am to reduce by 1mg every two weeks ONLY if it feels OK. well, in the first week I reduced it 3mg.
Yeah I'm fucking hurting now. It's the end of week two.
Urgh...! I will wait a week before doing anything now.
If I make it. Heh.
I know though, its no joke.
You really can get sick if you reduce them too fast on account of your inability to make your own supply. so you can faint, fit, go into a coma and erm die if you were faced with a lack of steroid when you needed it.
Best to do it slowly then like they say. Balls.
Am I making your day go in a generally positive direction so far?
Great. :)

Welcome.
You made it through all of that so I mean it, well done.

Today is Bowie.
Ground Control to Major Tom...



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Swings & Roundabouts.

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The Ricky Gervais Guide To... The Human Body

Hello there.
Here is a wee diversion from the music for you.

It's actually pretty funny!

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Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum [1968]{{Stoner Collection #10}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 010-===

Hello again friends and enemies...(?)
I always thought that honesty was the best policy.
Not always of course. I mean, when you are young, trying your hardest to grow up, getting it wrong, going down some stupid and maybe illegal paths before eventually realising what a twat you were. So yeah, not always.
But I have probably grown up a bit by now and I do, nowadays try to stick to the old Honest-Best-Policy thing.
So let me be honest here.
I have never ever even heard of the band that I am presenting to you today!
Not a thing. I do not know what type of music they do, where they hail from, how many band members there are, all of it.
I know nothing!!

Yeah, I should have went to wikipedia and allmusic and did some googling before I posted this eh?
Then I could have written some facts that I had pretty much copied and pasted...at least then I wouldn't have looked like a bit of a twat eh.
But that wouldn't have been honest now would it.!
Hehe.
So I am as green to this as you are(that is, assuming you haven't heard this either).
I wasn't able to have a listen to this before now due to computer and health problems. So the situation is this: I will have a listen tomorrow and so will you...I hope, then we can both, if we can be bothered, report back on what we made of it.
At least the album cover looks promising as far as that it reminds me of some of my old vinyl covers.
A bit hippie.

Well it is part 10 in this HUGE 'Stoner Music Collection' that I am attempting to post so I'm gladly going to give it a try and see why it made the collection.
If you are a horrified fan of this band then please leave a comment and let me know whats so good! Sorry if I offended you

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Come on!!! Give my meaningless life some purpose!

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland [1968]{{Stoner Collection #09}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 009-===

Hello again.
I know it's a bit shite and all but I'm still very unwell and not able to write much.
Yeah, it's tedious like I sai9d.
Howeever, you have the whole of the world wide web, the internet(!) to explore so really, if you think this is shit then you have many places to go besides so think yourself lucky ;)

Now this ios one of my all time favourite albums.
It was the record I bought that made me realise just how much of a friggin' GOD Hendrix was. It was the record that made me then go and buy books about him and read about his life, get obsessed with listening to and reading and watching him...this was THE defining record regarding Hendrix, in my life.
Brings back so many memories too.
Anyway, just have a listen.
I wish I could write more cos' there's a story or two behind this album, not just the fact that Hendrix was taking so much acid and smoking so much weed that it took him much longer than planned, he had loads of hangers on around him, pissing the other band members off, nebver sticking to time scales etc...he was being a bit of a wreck but wow...what he created was little more than genius!

OK then I wrote a little more anyway. Great.
I recommend you go look up some info on the album!

Whatever you do, enjoy.
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Have a good day now won't you
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Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets [1968]{{Stoner Collection #08}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 008-===

Hey people!
More heavy times of illness around here.
Much lying down.
Much not eating and much feeling like the epitome of 'shite'.

Apart from that everything is just fine.

This is such a friggin' groundbreaking masterpiece of vinyl - OK well digital bits nowadays but I HAVE THE VINYL damn you! - that I am kind of glad I feel too weak to attempt to describe or set it up for those who have never had the pleasure. Believe me, you young 'uns might well think your trance or psych or whatever new names they have for techno-ambient-psych-trance-etc-bleeeuuurrrgh music these days but let me tell you - it all began here.
With this very album.
As far as I know.
Yes go on someone, tell me how wrong I am and that there is actually this or that album I should have mentioned..
I'd accept it.
I try but I'm no music encyclopedia!
More like a music pocket guide but I strive to bring you things of particular interest and this is one of those that everyone MUST own.
It is NOT negotiable.
Every music listener must have a copy of this somewhere.
End of story.
Download it.

Then fire up some nice green, um herbs and lie back and enjoy the journey.

I'm off to take some harsh chemicals (Tramadol) and at least attempt to relax..heh.
Life goes on and all that.

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Cream - Disraeli Gears [1967]{{Stoner Collection #06}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 006-===

Call it laziness if you like, call it crap. Whatever you think, my illness is coming down heavy right now. I will carry on posting but don't expect too much in the way of words for a bit.
No one reads them anyway right?
Heh.. Maybe every third post?.

Next up in the Stoner Collection...an album I just love.
That's it.
DOWNLOAD and LISTEN and COMMENT.

Never heard of this one?
This might just help a bit then. :)


TRACKLIST :
1 Strange Brew (2:50)
2 Sunshine of Your Love (4:13)
3 World of Pain (3:05)
4 Dance the Night Away (3:36)
5 Blue Condition (3:32)
6 Tales of Brave Ulysses (2:49)
7 Swlabr (2:34)
8 We're Going Wrong (3:29)
9 Outside Woman Blues (2:27)
10 Take It Back (3:08)
11 Mother's Lament (1:47)


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Have a good Christmas did you?

Answers on a postcard please.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced [1967] {{Stoner Collection #5}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 005-===

An out of character short post today! (Yes that was irony).
Had so much snow here over the last week or so. The country 'grinds to a halt' etc etc. It's beautiful but cold. Very friggin' cold. When you can't get around much or do much to keep the blood flowing, it's freeeeezing cold!.

Next part of the stoner collection is, surprise surprise, another Hendrix classic.
I wish I felt well enough to write about this one but I'm sorry: I don't.
Been up all night in pain and it's lasted all day too. Things are gettin' scary but maybe it'll get better. I will see I suppose.

Please do enjoy this fine album and leave a comment if you can be arsed...

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love [1967] {{Stoner Collection #4}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 004-===

Hello again.
Isn't it fucking COLD now!. At least in Southern england it is. I remember an American friend I used to know, he always laughed or took the piss whenever I said something like 'Southern England' or 'up North' as he said the country seemed so small to him that it didn't seem large enough to nominate anywhere as the south or the North part of it,. Well I disagree! Oh and if you know anything about British folk in general, you would know that they regard such names and designated areas highly. Nobody from the South would like to be mistaken for someone from the North. I'd say that the same goes for Northerners, they don't want to be Southerners either! There is a bit of a divide ... it's quite a topic and one I like to go on about sometimes but, I am guessing that you didn't come here to read about that.
At least if you are from outside the UK, you have learned a little factoid for the day!
As I was saying, it is COLD in the South! It went down to -4C last night and I can confirm it really felt like it.

So on with the show.
Next in the list is a band I really have no interest in and, to be honest I can't f*ckin' stand them.
The guitarist especially is weak and I feel he drags down the rest of the band into his scantily talented void of piss and wind. It took a lot of determination to listen to this abhorrent maudlin drivel to the end. In fact to be honest I didn't listen, I just had to stop it after 3 tracks.
I mean it's just outstandingly bad.
OK OK I just cannot continue with this.
I thought it would be novel to slag off what I consider to be one of the best bands ever but I just cannot do it.
This album is a defining moment in the history of music and has influenced so many others that to not see this, to not understand this and to not have listened to this ... well that would be criminal as well as awful.
Where do you start, trying to explain tracks like 'Spanish Castle Magic' or 'Little Wing'?!!
Little Wing is one of my all time loves let me just say.
Then you have the absolutely brilliant 'Castles Made of Sand' and then 'Bold as Love'?! The only possible way to understand these tracks is by hearing them!
The way these tracks make me feel is really hard to define.
I am stuck for words so if any of this is new to you, I urge you to listen now.



It's unoriginal but, I sometimes wonder, what Jimi Hendrix would have been if he hadn't died when he did?
I mean, how would his music have become, shaped by the years and the way the world has changed so dramatically since his death?
Would he still be setting fire to guitars?
I doubt it.
I think he would have become a wiser and possibly calmer, sage of a man. His talent would never leave him of course.
Maybe a bit of a David Gilmour but with harder balls. Hehe.
Make sure you have a listen ;)

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Well that be all for now fans.
Leave a friggin' comment or I may kill myself soon.

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The Doors - The Doors [1967] {{Stoner Collection #3}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 003-===

Next in the list, be it a bit later than I planned to post it, it's here now and a nice bit of music to accompany the arrival of winter here in England.
The frosts are starting to come in during the nights, the stars are amazingly clear with not a cloud in the sky, I love this time of year.
I could watch the sky for hours.
Oh and there is another meteor shower due here on the 14th. If it's a clear sky that night get outside and have a look...you might be lucky.

So here we have the next album and Band in the 'Stoner Collection' which will be a long series of posts and this is a great one!
Been listening to this a lot this week and it made me get my other Doors albums out, been a bit of a Doors week really. I urge you to grab this one and get into the rock that was The Doors. There is no other band like it.
Rock.
Blues.
Poetry...
They were unique and I wish Jim hadn't gone so far downhill into the depths of erm, his mind...the band fell apart.
Anyway have a listen to them in the days when things were going great for them and the music was blinding!

Christmas looms ever nearer..

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OK back to my grindstone...hehe I wish.
Not been so well the past two weeks so things are slow.

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GONG! The corn Exchange, Brighton UK

Hello HELLO HELLO!!!!!

I just wanted to come by and gloat, well not gloat...OK then, GLOAT about the fact that it has finally arrived!!!
tonight I go to see my favourite band, Gong, for the first time ever!
Steve Hillage Band there too and I really am so excited to be able to see Hillage playing...yeehaaa!

I was going to post some Gong in honour of such an event but, sorry to say that time has gotten the better of me (or I am just a lazy twat you might read that to be!) that I can't post it now til later, maybe tomorrow.
anyway I'll be thinking of you when I'm being a pot head pixie for the night.
Bye!


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Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! [1966] GUEST BLOGGER TODAY! {{Stoner Collection #02}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 002-===

Hello again my friends...
first off I just have to point out that, nope, I hadn't neglected to notice something that is really crap around here (and I don't mean my 'reviews') and that is these extra large sized Capital Letters starting each new post.
It looks crap. It doesn't quite fit into the stream of writing at all and I want to get rid of it but I'm not sure what way to go with it...
anyway, that's all very interesting right?

Ladies and Gentlemen!
Let me introduce, today's exclusive Guest Blogger for the day...

My 9 year old son, James!


I must add that the photograph has been subjected to a few random and funny filters so he doesn't always (or ever!) look like that!

As James is not so well versed in writing on blogs or indeed doing much writing at all if he can help it, I told him to sit down and I put on this album. I gave him some guidelines of what people might want to know about the album and left him to write some stuff.
If we get more than two lines then we are doing good!

Why didn't I do it?
Well a couple of reasons...I always planned to see if James would do this for me as I think it would be interesting so that's the first reason, the second is that I am not and never really have been a Zappa Aficionado.
I don't know why ... I just don't really get his music. I know, you're not supposed to get it right?
Well I don't.
Although I love the album that goes on about religion and has the track 'Heavenly Bank Account' on it. That's because it appeals to my beliefs though and it's hilariously funny!


I now hand you over to today's Guest Blogger...

Hello my name is James and I am nine. My Dad asked me to do a review of this album.
I will just type the stuff I wrote on a piece of paper when I was listening to this album now cos my dad gave me a list of some things I should try to explain when I hear it and what it makes my mind feel like and what I imagine when I close my eyes to it.
I quite like the song: Who Are The Brain Police cos it sounds like Gong and I really like Gong.
The song at track number 4 is like an old fashioned love song and I don't like it.
I don't really like most of the songs but Who Are The Brain Police is my fave song.
My mind says "I hate this album" (and so do my eyes when I close them!)
Don't buy this album it is RUBBISH!
From James.


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Well I hope that was a bit of fun. I enjoyed it and James' viewpoint is pretty accurate from my perspective!


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The Monks - Black Monk Time [1966] {{Stoner Collection #01}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 001-===

Damn! All I had to do was post the album in position number one of the list I was telling you about in my last post. Just look at a list, get the album at the beginning of it, have a good few listens to said album, take the title etc of said album and, post it on the blog.
Well I somehow posted the wrong one!!!
The FIRST one in the list of Stoner Rock albums that everyone should hear (apparently) is...

The Monks - Black Monk Time (1966)
Well I must admit before going any further here, I had never heard this until today AND, I hadn't even heard of the band so ... if that makes me a shite music blogger with no idea about music then so be it.
In fact there's a few on the list that I haven't heard of so got a lot to look forward to.
I love discovering 'new' artists, that's what it's all about right?

This band are interesting.
I am a bit stuck on what tags I should be choosing to put this into a certain genre.
They don't fit too well in any to be honest. I know I can just cop-out and select 'stoner collection' and of course, 'rock' but It's deeper than that: On first listen to this album I was pretty mesmerised. The first track hits you right off the start with the pounding drumbeat. The vocals jump in with faint memories of 'The Doors' and the lyrics are quite cutting, referencing Vietnam and quite angry. A forward moving beat with some great organ behind it, Doors fans will start to feel pretty comfortable but ... don't get too comfortable!
There are a few surprising twists and turns on this record.
The second track, again, kicks off with the beat. Pounding drums and then it eases a bit when the organ creeps in to help it out and back it up...The organ isn't so much 'Doors' on this track as maybe early 'Floyd' - well, that is, if I MUST keep trying to compare this...which is a bad habit I have.
It's a very experimental song and I have to say I like it. :-)
A total gear change for the next track ... all 1 minute 26 seconds of it! I won't try to compare this track, it's just a cool surfy/garage rock tunes and again, it gets my thumbs up!
The same goes for most of the tracks on this. I can't say there is a track I really dislike. Perhaps a couple or three that would irritate me if I wasn't in the right frame of mind but all in all this is just a great piece of work and deserves to live in every collection!
I was pleasantly surprised to hear something very Syd Barret-ish too..see if you can spot what I'm talking about. It isn't difficult!
Later on there are obvious signs of 'surf rock' and more than a hint of The Beach Boys' thrown into the mix.
There are so many different styles and brilliantly arranged riffs in there that this album really is a classic and, as such deserves to appear on probably most lists or collections of music from the days before music went corporate! (When was that exactly?)
I regret not having heard or known of this until 2009 however, better late than never and now it's YOUR turn!

That is all.

Now go forth and listen.


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Hey ho I would have written more folks but I'm just feeling fuckered so I'll leaver it for now...
Do let me know what you think of this album, if you download it then an opinion would be interesting so leave a comment!

More soon ...
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Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1965){{Stoner Collection #07}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 007-===

Hello hello hello.
It will soon be that pagan celebration time known as 'Christmas'.
Oh fuck.
Don't you just hate it?
I mean REALLY dislike it?
Let me get something clear here: I suppose 'hate' is too strong a term but I really do get irate when the corporate world/capitalist world makes us; the public; society; the suckers that suck up their media, have a so-called 'holiday season' that is nothing more than a huge, all out, no-holds-barred marketing ploy, done with such attention to detail that they leave nothing to chance for those who wish to perhaps NOT makes themselves poor for the sake of buying their kids or their family or friends some 'gifts' that bring them close to bankruptcy or at least a huge overdraft or emptying of the credit card limit, and for what?
Do people really believe in the Xmas spirit?
Please don't get me wrong.
I am all for anything that enables people to get together. People spending time with each other - Families, friends etc. I am all for any situation or event that enables people to feel free of the usual social restraints and stuff and be true and caring towards each other. So they can give each other a gift and maybe even tell them how much they love them.
Letting people know how much you care about them is one of the greatest things you can do as a human being, to another.
The problem is people...no one fucking bothers too much about that part of it!!!
Christmas is all about BUY! BUY! BUY!
I fucking detest it!!
I hate the way my son is supposed to be, like all his friends, desperate to have the latest this or that and, what really pisses me off, he is supposed to feel bad, even ashamed, if he cannot obtain the gift that is the latest fashionable gift to have.
If you told your kids these days 'We don't have enough money so this year we are going to have a nice cosy Christmas at home with a nice meal and spend some great family time together' they would be so disappointed that they might not even bother getting out of bed that day!
I don't expect the kids of today to appreciate a stocking with an apple and an orange in it (like we used to get eh?! he-he!) but I do wish parents - and the fucking media! - would at least still try to instill the sense of value in them, let them know that they should be grateful. Let them understand that things cost money and that you don't always get what you want in life. Let them see that there are kids in the world that don't even have clean water, never mind a friggin' xbox360!
If you did tell them these things they wouldn't care. They'd just think you were being cheap for not getting them an xbox360 and they'd surmise that all the stuff you just told them was all part of your bullshit excuse to justify not buying it for them.
You cannot win.
My main beef with Xmas is that our kids and, to a great extent, many many adults, are being brainwashed by the barrage of marketing by all the forms of media we put upp with today. Christmas follows Halloween. It will soon be Easter and then valentines day. Or is it the other way around?
I don't know.
Or care.
Rant over!

Music?
You are looking for music?
Oh yeah, well you came to the right place then!

I recently joined a music site. I won't tell the name in this climate of UK Government piracy bills and the paranoia surrounding torrent sites and all that crap...but!
I mentioned it for one reason: They have lists of albums and categories for all genres and styles you could ever dream of.
One such list is of 'stoner' music. In case you aren't educated even that much (fuck man you need to get back to school you thick twat!) I will just enlighten you: This is the kind of music a stoner (someone who smokes cannabis, probably a lot of it) would listen to. Usually this means the music is either of the type that takes yopu on a journey of sounds and great expanses that you can hang your stoned head on, whilst the music virtually controls you...or it can be reggae music, music that glorifies cannabis and sings about it, music that is just bloody brilliant (as the stoner generally can appreciate many forms of music probably due to the fact that ingesting cannabis causes you to have an enhanced musical experience in general - try it it's great!).
Well I hope that's a bit clearer.
Clear as mud probably.

So, I decided to go through this very long list and, starting with the band at position 1, I will post every one here, one by one, letting you hear and then hopefully leave your reviews in the comments.
I am not assuming everyone here is a stoner - far from it.
The reason for this list to be the one /I have chosen is simply that it has so many different genres and a lot of great bands and artists in there that I have posted before and of course a lot I haven't.
In fact, forget the stoner part.
Just look upon each posting as an album and give it a try to see what you think!
That's all you have to do OK.
It's not friggin' complicated.
If you need any help though, don't ask me.
Oh yeah, one more thing. these albums are not in order of who is the greatest or anything like that. The list is just in chronological order (the oldest ones are first).

So!!!
First up!!
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1965)

Here's a little info on the band, stolen from wikipedia. If you want more click the link.
Iron Butterfly is an American psychedelic rock band, known for music such as 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". Their heyday was the late 1960s, but the band has been reincarnated with various members. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the 31st best-selling album in the world, selling more than 25 million copies.

First impressions after listening to the album?
Hmm. Hippies.
I used to want to be a bit of a hippie and even lived the lifestyle - to a point. However those times are gone and nowadays I don't grow my hair long and I certainly don't listen to Iron Butterfly.
The thing is I would never have listened to them even back then because they are what I would call 'Formulaic Hippie Shit'.
Now, before anyone gets annoyed and starts telling me how wrong I am and how this band were so influential etc etc. Let me just say I am telling you how I see it.
I may be wrong, of course. I'm not an oracvle of fucking wisdom.
I am just saying, Iron butterfly=hippie shit.
there you have it.
It's the kind of music you would hear on a woodstock type movie or some film from the sixties and there'd be people with flowers in their hair, dancing with their arms steretched out, spinning around in circles, to make the acid feel so much better.
I don't mind these kinds of tunes in that context but, seriously, when I put this album on I thought...oh shit, how long does this go on for?
It seemed to go on forever.
I'm not usually against music from that era but there are certain bands and certain music that does do my head in and Iron Butterfly fit the bill.
Annoying, whining on, hippie shit.
As I always said, don't listen to me: I KNOW NOTHING!
Download it and try for yourself.
I mean, they can't have such a huge following and fans for no reason I suppose.
Some people actually love this music.

You may be one of them.
Have a listen and then please, tell me what exactly it is that makes you like them.
Of if you listen and agree with me, even better! Leave a comment stroking my ego!
See you soon folks.
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Got to go to a hospital appointment Monday so it's a long day. May not be able to update til Tuesday.
Ciao!
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Pink floyd - Azimuth Coordinator 3 Parts (6 Discs) & the Tale of The Dog Bite ...

Hello and good evening.
I got bitten by a dog about two weeks ago now.
It was pretty terrifying. Just walking across the road with my 9yr old kid and felt this collie sink its teeth into my left leg on the thigh. Pain ensued as I tried to free my leg and the dog was growling like it had rabies or something.
I spent the next three or four minutes wrestling and trying to get the bast'd thing off my leg and it wasn't trying to make it an easy game...
Eventually I pulled my leg toward my body whilst pushing the dogs neck/head away and telling the young girl holding the lead to 'PULL NOW' just at that same time, and it was free.
The result was a bit of a chunk out of my leg.

I have censored the pic below but, feel free to click on it to open in a new window, the wound, uncut. Hehe.
If you are eating, don't bother.
You don't need to see this.
No one does.



The music today is a rare treat. Ok I know, it is in MP3 and not FLAC but this is great to have for the personal MP3 player so grab it.
Pink floyd - The Azimuth Coordinator Discs.
1975 - 1980

Or in slightly more detail, three shows released as a 3 disc set:
WISH YOU WERE HERE - Vancouver, B.C, April 8th 1975.
ANIMALS - Montreal, Quebec, July 6th, 1977.
THE WALL - Los Angeles, USA, February 7th, 1980.
As the titles suggest, each show plays the tracks from those albums they are named after.
Click the image below to see it enlarged, showing the track lists.


Techy Speccys
Genre : Psychedelic Rock
Supplier/Ripper : HitMeWithIt
Date Posted : 21/10/2009
Format : LAME 3.98
Bitrate : VBR 256K/s~320K/s
KHz : 44100Hz
Channels : Joint Stereo
ID3 Tag : ID3v2.3



The more musically addicted of you - or those who do not know the magic of the portable MP3 player, may be asking WHY 128K? Why no FLAC?
Leave a comment here and tell me about it. I have the FLAC too.

I just like to share a scene released version of stuff sometimes as they do a great job on a rip and to be honest, in the ipod this sounds great.

UPDATE! - I re-ripped the FLAC files to a higher bitrate MP3. those scene release MP3s were just too low. I think they sound OK but 128K? Naa.
So now I bring you the COMPLETE set of 6 discs, ripped to HQ VBR 256-320K MP3.


I'll leave the review to the one I read myself. I'm shite at describing music sometimes and tonight is one of those times.
It's Pink Floyd, it's great friggin' music, the quality is nice for a bootleg.
***

On the Animals show:
This was the last show of the 'In The Flesh' Tour where Roger gets upset a couple of times.
At 'Pigs On The Wing' a fire cracker goes off (and not for the first time) which makes Roger so angry that he stops playing and tries to put an end to it by speaking the famous words: 'Oh for fuck sake [...] I'm trying to sing a song'.

Later on in the show, Roger allegedly spat a fan in the face ("Who was told not to spit on the fans" :-).)

David Gilmour apparently wasn't too pleased with this performance but he surely was wrong.

The show was awesome. One (if not THE) best versions of Pigs.
Steaming and powerful.
Roger can clearly be heard shouting the numbers (90 and 61)
Not just for the events that took place, but also from a musical point of view, this show is highly recommended.
***
On the Wish You Were Here show:
The crowd certainly was in an evil mood that night, you can tell
by listening to this record. Nevertheless, it makes for a showcase
of Floyd at the height of its power (save some of the vocals, as usual).
There is some remarkable, moody intensity saturating the event.
Much has been said about the show, climaxing with the final,
feverish rendition of Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 6-9.
I would only like to mention David Gilmour, who for me reaches his
crowning event in the midst of the maelstrom of this concert.
Just listen for yourselves.
The pre-Comfortably Numb Gilmour's finest hour. -ANON
***



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I dropped the password too and am even considering using 7-zip or some other open source compression instead of this cracked Winrar all the time...it's boring, always updating..

DO YOU USE FIREFOX?
If so then go and install Greasemonkey add-on which then enables you to do some great tricks for downloading files like these..
Now install the script for greasemonkey, called Rapidshare Links Checker. The task of this fine software and script is to make all megaupload and rapidshare links automatically LIVE and CLICKABLE, like the ones on this page for instance, no need to ever copy and paste a link again. Plus it tells you if the link is dead or not on the filehost too. Without leaving the page.
Try it...rapidshare links checker

Remember ... if you want the FLAC of this, let me know in the comments ;)

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Bob Dylan & the Hawks - Hartford 30 Oct 1965 [FLAC] [bootleg]

Hello again.
Wow.
I'm on a roll here it seems!

Today I bring you something a little different. Well, it's Bob Dylan so nothing different there but it's Dylan in his very early days, playing with a band, 'The Hawks'. which is actually 'The Band' as you will no doubt have heard before, only with a member missing and another added!
Go have a wee read here if you wish.

Further info on this recording is here and I highly recommend you go read it before downloading!
This is an audience recording and, as I just learned from that link, was recorded on a Woolworth's handheld tape recorder. Quality is not great. In fact it's not even 'good'.
It's distant, it's got noise, crackles and well ... don't be expecting to put this on CD and have a crystal clear sound. It isn't happening! Hehe.
However! This is great to listen to for many reasons.
The first being that you get the chance to sit in on a concert that would have been great to go to ... Dylan, in his formative years, singing some of those tracks that were bound to become huge and are now classics that we all know.
You can almost hear the songs taking shape before they grew into the songs we know today.
I wouldn't recommend a new Dylan fan to listen to this as they may not feel the magic that I feel when I hear it, but to anyone who is a fan and loves early Dylan, you MUST get this.
You will not be disappointed!

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CARMEN (Bizet): Grace Bumbry, Kostas Paskalis, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni Conducted by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos.[FLAC]

Hello again!
More bloody opera I hear you say?
Yep!
This is the version that came as part of the Audiobook set I posted already. It is different to the Maria Callas one and I recommend it...it's great to compare too, hard to decide but my favourite has to be Callas just because I love her voice so much.
Mind you, after just typing that I felt that maybe I'm not being truthful to myself hehe! For when I listen to Grace Bumbry, on this version, her voice is beautiful too!
Oh I don't know. I'm not exactly an expert on this stuff.
I just listen to it and I know what sounds good.
This sounds good.
OK?
So if you didn't get the audiobook I already posted then do so now!
this is your chance to be inducted into the world of Opera!
A world you maybe thought you would never have an interest in?
Me too.
Now get the audiobook and the discs in this post too, then sit yourself down and have a listen.
Let the music take you on a journey and really allow yourself to hear it.

Some Details.
EAC Rip in FLAC with CUE & LOG Files
Total: 828 MB
Show recorded: 1970-71
Here is an excellent review of this one at amazon.

'... This 1969-1970 studio recording is a valuable recording all opera lovers and hardcore fans should own because it's the original Bizet concept- the Choudens score featuring spoken dialogue. This provides an immediate, realistic, visceral and verisimo quality to the opera, and Bizet wanted it that way. Carmen is not a pretty story. It's a dark, cynical tale about a liberate Gypsy woman who corrupts an innocent soldier/mama's boy who becomes so obscessed and possessive of her he kills her when she becomes unfaithful. Furthermore, the setting is the dangerous world of smugglers. The opera includes a nasty brawl in the cigarette factory, seduction and a murder. Yet, for all these things, we are treated with beautiful music where sex as power is the undercurrent and moreover, Death as Fate is the absolution. No wonder this was philosopher Friedrich Nietzche's favorite opera!! In this recording, we are blessed with the best possible interpretors of Carmen and Don Jose- Grace Bumbry and Jon Vickers. They have electricity coursing in their confrontation scenes, and genuine chemistry. Vickers portrays Don Jose as a strong but mentally unbalanced man, who is consumed by passion and jealousy. Grace Bumbry makes for a realistic Carmen. ...'

If EAC RIP Logs are of interest to you, check them out here: Disc 1, Disc 2.


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I hope you enjoy this one and ... if you do, leave a comment won't you.

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CARMEN: A guide to understanding and appreciating opera (Audiobook) FLAC Rip EAC

Hello..just a quick post here to share with you, a book I got from the library at the same time I got the Maria Callas Carmen Opera.
This book is .. well, let me put it in the publisher's own words...save me typing eh! Not only that it will no doubt me more succinct!

The Black Dog Opera Library presents the world's foremost operas, from the most respected composers, performed by the finest singers, conductors, choirs and orchestras. Each tide comprises three CDs - one introductory and two containing the complete opera. The introductory CD includes background information, a synopsis of each scene and act, and biographies of the lead performers.

Everyone knows Carmen - the melodies from Georges Bizet's score are among the most familiar in all of music. But the opera itself is a mesmerising drama of fatal attraction, startling in its erotic power and violent intensity, seductive in its imagination and potent musical personality.
Taken from THIS page.

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After just having read a bit on the opera that came with this, I have decided to also rip the Opera Discs. They are of a different lead vocal and orchestra and so I suppose people would like to have the version that came with the book!

DOWNLOAD THE REST HERE!

More when I can ok.

Hope you enjoy :)

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VIDEO! Paolo Nutini LIVE at T in the Park 2009 (AVI or MKV)

Hello
As I said yesterday, here is the video of that great Paolo Nutini set at T in the Park 2009.
Have a little read of opinions of the show here to give you an idea:
Here, Here, Here and Here!

It's a faultless set in my opinion. There isn't much I can say really as I just love the guy's voice and could listen to him for hours. Not much chance of an objective review here!
If you like him then you must download this.
If you don't then I'd say it's time you reconsidered cos this guy is on fire here!

I got the file in MKV format which is high quality but a lot of people won't know what to do with such a format..or, they won't be able to just burn it to disc and play it on their DivX player (Like I have! they're great!!). so I decided to do a conversion to DivX too, and have also upload this as an AVI file.
So you can take your pick really. I'll just give some technical stuff on each file and then the links.
Enjoy won't you!
Tech Stuff
MKV File
File Name : paolo nutini-t in the park-x264-2009-mv4u.mkv
Format : Matroska (x264 PAL) at 2905 Kbps
Length : 745 MiB for 35mn 51s 480ms

Video #0 : AVC at 2653 Kbps
Aspect : 704 x 560 (1.779) at 25.000 fps

Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 128 Kbps
Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz


DivX (AVI) File
File Name : paolo nutini-t in the park.2009.AVI
Format : AVI (DivX 4) at 2107 Kbps
Length : 540 MiB for 35mn 51s 480ms

Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1902 Kbps
Aspect : 704 x 560 (1.778) at 25.000 fps

Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 192 Kbps
Infos : 2 channels, 44.1 KHz

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And that's all you need!

The track list is the same as the previous post with the mp3.
Ok then here..
1. New Shoes (3:46)
2. Pencil Full Of Lead (2:50)
3. Candy (4:49)
4. High Hopes (3:22)
5. Alloway Grove (4:34)
6. These Streets (3:53)
7. Down in Mexico (cover) (3:13)
8. Coming up Easy (4:27)
9. Jenny Don't be Hasty (4:52)


Now. Download.


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Leave a comment and I'll be a happy chappy.

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Paolo Nutini LIVE at T in the Park 2009

Hello folks.
I know. It's been too long. Let's just get straight to todays offering which I am rather pleased to be bringing you, not only for the fact that you will NOT find this anywhere else but here!
An exclusive no less!

Over recent month's I have become a fan of this guy Paolo Nutini. His voice is just excellent, real soul.
I was surprised to learn he is from a town called Paisley, near Glasgow in Scotland.
Why?
well just take it from me, I've been there a few times and it isn't the sort of place you'd expect singing to come from. apart from the singing drunks that are in the streets that is.
It's not the most pleasant place you can visit. Apologies to anyone from there but it's really a dump. Or how can I put it? the people there are a bit um.. boisterous?
That's one way of putting it.
I think it's safe to say that if you go there, not knowing anyone, trying to go to one of the pubs for a quiet drink, you may find yourself getting either threatened or just subjected to random attacks of a violent nature! Hehe! It happens!
On with this music...
I searched all over for such a long time, trying to locate what I knew had been released on newsgroups, which I do not subscribe to. I did in the past but I couldn't justify the massive amount of downloading and was requiring too much hard drive space! (Don't let me put you off cos' those ads on the left there for usenext, that's the place I used and you really do have free reign to download everything and I mean so much stuff that you end up going a bit mad at first! Plus so much of it never makes it to torrent land or elsewhere so can be handy).
So there I was searching the net for this file and eventually I actually found it waahaaaay!
Paolo Nutini Live at T in the Park, the video of it.
I have uploaded this file and will be posting it tomorrow but, for now I am giving you the audio which I ripped from the movie.
The format wasn't MP3 to start with it was mp2 which most people wouldn't want. I therefore converted it with the least possible quality loss. Decode to WAV, then recode to MP3 with a high bitrate.
It sounds great.
His performance on this is fucking amazing.
Seriously.
I may be biased of course, being such a fan already but, have a listen and tell me different!
He only has two albums out and it seems that bootlegs are a rare thing of his shows. there is one going around from 2009, a gig at Dunfermline in Scotland. I have this too but the audio quality is baaad.
An audience recording and it's just poor really.
It's worth a listen if you're a fan but, even then, it's hard to say anything other than it sounds like shit!
This one, on the other hand is crystal clear!
Ok, I'll leave it at that for now.



If you have been living in a box (as I apparently had been, being so late to discover this guy when the rest of the world knew of him ages ago/!) then have a read at

wikipedia

and familiarise yourself with the guys story.

Then have a listen to some brilliant music.
The movie of this show will be posted tomorrow and, as it was in .mkv format, I have made and up,loaded two versions. A divx avi file and the original mkv file for those that prefer it.
Both are great.

Track list
1. New Shoes (3:46)
2. Pencil Full Of Lead (2:50)
3. Candy (4:49)
4. High Hopes (3:22)
5. Alloway Grove (4:34)
6. These Streets (3:53)
7. Down in Mexico (cover) (3:13)
8. Coming up Easy (4:27)
9. Jenny Don't be Hasty (4:52)


Duration : 35:51

Total Size : 65.7 MB



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Thanks & Enjoy. More soon... :)

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