Friday 22 August 2014

CAN - EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 1973






















Bootleg 1973

01. Soup
02. Bel Air

Good soundboard recording of 'Future Days' era Can. this was to be Damo Suzuki's last live performance with the band.

SPACEMEN 3 - THREEBIE 3





















Fire Records 1989

01. Starship
02. Revolution
03. Suicide
04. Repeater
05. Live Intro Theme (Xtacy)

Originally available as a mail order only 12", using a voucher with vinyl copies of "Playing With Fire". Recorded live at the Melkweg, Amsterdam 2nd of June 1988, these tracks are from the same show as the "Performance" L.P.

Spacemen 3 in full feedback drenched assault.

JOHN FAHEY - BLIND JOE DEATH (1959)





















Takoma 1959

01. West Coast Blues
02. St. Louis Blues
03. I'm a Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home
04. Uncloudy Day
05. John Henry
06. In Christ There Is No East Or West
07. The Trancendental Waterfall
08. Desperate Man Blues
09. Sun Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday Blues
10. Sligo River Blues
11. On Doing An Evil Deed Blues

The story of Blind Joe Death is a great one. 100 copies were pressed and Fahey himself would slot them into the racks of record stores. Blind Joe Death was supposed to be an old undiscovered blues talent, his guitar was made out of a baby's coffin. It was just a pseudenom for Fahey, trying to sell more records.

Two more attempts were made of this album in 1964 and 1967. Fahey re-recorded, re-ordered and replaced over those versions.

Takoma released a nice compilation of the various versions of these tracks, but omitted some.

Here's the 1959 version in full.