Old Tunes on Youtube

[Steve Machol]

The Iveys/Badfinger were one of my favorite groups, and sadly one of the most tragic in rock history. Both Pete Hamm and Tom Evans committed suicide.

Pete Hamm (who was an extremely gifted song writer and singer) wrote 'We're for the Dark' which remains one of my favorite songs of all time.

[optical24/7]

Have we had a little Robert Johnson yet? The original deal with the devil maker.

[DragonLensmanWV]

This is one my band played the first time we ever played anywhere.

[Steve Machol]

To follow up on my previous post, one of the best songs ever written by Pete Hamm of Badfinger was 'Without You' which appears on their No Dice album. However the Badfinger version of that song was overshadowed by the Harry Nilsson cover which was one of the most beautiful songs he had recorded. Here is the Nilsson version.

[DragonLensmanWV]

Here's one documentary I want to see.

[Robert Martellaro]

The dying art form of live music

Have we had a little Robert Johnson yet? The original deal with the devil maker.

Hope you like.

This is one my band played the first time we ever played anywhere.

And you probably played it just as well or better. You'd think they'd at least attach cords to the instruments, put up some mikes to mask the mime, and give the drummer a tom to hit instead of air, although us musicians would still know it was fake.

This was one of our favorite covers, mostly for the words, (or the word).

[Robert Martellaro]

Talent? Bah. Genius!

[DragonLensmanWV]

An original!!

[optical24/7]

...And I bring you....

Fire!

This video really show why Brown was such a big influence on Alice Cooper.

[optical24/7]

Feat's don't fail me now...

One of my all time favs. R.I.P. Lowell....

[Robert Martellaro]

Flaming horns? Indeed.

[optical24/7]

Another fav.

[Robert Martellaro]

I have this on LD and BD, but keep in mind that this is mostly overdubed in post-production. Robertson's mike was off through the whole show- all of his vocals and guitar work were added later in the studio.

producer John Simon also states that, except for Levon's drums and vocals, all of the soundtrack was overdubbed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz

Some post production work is fairly common, but what you hear on this concert disc is mostly all studio. It's quite a production, but it's mostly a big lie.

Here's an example of raw sound from a live performance. At :42, Ballard flubs the chord change, but keeps on going. The rest is a mighty fine performance.

[DragonLensmanWV]

Here's a couple more Amon Duul II songs. Their bass player, Lothar Meid, was one of my playing inspirations.

Title track from one of their albums:

And the last track from the same album. Note that they run a Farfisa organ through an echoplex to get a dreamy sound to the organ.

[DragonLensmanWV]

One of Hawkwind's best:

And if you like a good live version: