http://www.iggypop.org/newreleases.html
for posting the review I wrote for ROVI on his Live In San Francisco album. Next review is ROADKILL RISING disc
http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257387#axzz1KCkTEBmF
This 1981 disc is the exception to that rule, except for the Ocasek produced studio material, which is a shame because Ocasek is a truly gifted producer when he puts the elbow grease into it. Perhaps Ric and Iggy were having too much fun to settle down and let it rip, as the techno drums on both tracks get in the way of the hard-rocking live set. But all of it -- live and studio -- is nice to have for Iggy completists, and there are some key moments on this fine little platter. [A DVD of the show was released in 1986; this CD-only version was released in 2007.] ~ Joe Viglione, All Music Guide
Read more here: http://www.slacker.com/album/iggy-pop/live-in-san-fran-1981
ROCK JOURNALIST JOE VIG'S DAILY DIARY
April 21, 2011
It's 6:35 PM on a Thursday night in Boston...have my new workout routine at the gym scheduled for later tonight...after sitting behind a keyboard for most of the day we need to get our exercise...
7:37 PM on the phone with Dinky Dawson talking about the book and DVD we're working on regarding Lou Reed's 1973 Rock & Roll Animal Tour
Oliver Landemaine has an interesting site up about the Doug Yule Velvet Underground and the tape I made of that show:
http://olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/live/1971-73/perf7173.html
Lou put me on the guest list in 2000 to see him at the Boston Harbor Lights Pavilion. I brought Nancy and Dinky Dawson with me...Lou met us backstage after the gig and Dinky gave him one of the soundboard tapes from 1973...the first show. The book has my perspective on all the RR Animal gigs that Dinky has up on Wolfsgang's Vault as well as the Mitch Ryder DETROIT album, my correspondence with the late Ron Davies who wrote "It Ain't Easy" (recorded by Ryder, David Bowie and Three Dog Night)...and all the aspects that made up the time that was the Rock & Roll Animal Tour...Bob Ezrin recording DETROIT with Mitch Ryder (and Steve Hunter) and the evolution from the Reed gig to the Alice Cooper Group. Dick Wagner did two hours of interviews with me last year ...this is what's going on today. Join the Lou-Reed@yahoogroups.com yahoo group...I'm one of the moderators.
7:41 PM...Dinky & I had two conversations on the phone today about all this...I have a 90 minute interview with him when the LIFE ON THE ROAD book came out. Also in the archives is an unreleased George Nardo interview...Nardo is on the "I'm Sticking With You" 45 RPM and might have been in one of the final Velvet Underground bands. Lots of photographs and concert tickets and reviews we're pulling out for all this.
You can hear the Moe Tucker single that I put out in 1980 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th1G8AqFYRc&feature=channel_video_title
The Jay Leno TONIGHT SHOW played that Alice Cooper video with Dweezil Zappa promoting the new Cooper boxed set. It was a tremendous version of "School's Out". Alice is still one of the great entertainers out there...he puts a ton of time into each show...all these years later. Good stuff.
Some reviews you might like from my pen to your world:
Shirley Bassey live at Carnegie Hall!
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7002206
Tammy Wynette
http://www.allmovie.com/dvd/legendary-performances-tammy-wynette-perf-199681
The Pop by The Pop
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,147892,00.html
The Wonder Stuff (Click on EDITORIAL REVIEW on Best Buy page)
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/site/The+Wonder+Stuff%3A+Construction+for+the+Modern+Vidiot+-+DVD/14620341.p?skuId=14620341&id=1478593
BLUE CHEER LIVE IN BROOKLINE MASSACHUSETTS APRIL 8, 2007!
BLUE CHEER ON EASTER SUNDAY, GREAT SCOTT
Vincebus Eruptum is the title of the album that spawned Blue Cheer's Top 40 hit, a cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" in the Spring of 1968. Four decades later the sound from that album shook the rafters at Great Scott's in Allston to an audience of appreciative psychedelic blues
rockers. There were many parallels to the Iggy and the Stooges show the night before - bassist/vocalist Dickie Peterson's skull and crossbones on his amp (which Iggy and The Stooges had as their backdrop onstage), a cross generational audience of twenty-somethings and grey hairs, and the same low tone emanating from the stage. As they plowed into their third
selection, a cover of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" that sounded less like King and more like...a heavy metal thunder, the Hendrixian guitar sounds of guitarist Andrew "Duck" MacDonald kept the music on an esoteric level the audience could relate to a bit more than the pedestrian hardcore
opening acts. Two of the openers sounded like they were trying to be hardcore rather than taking it in a new direction. Their redundant copying of an overplayed genre was a stark contrast to Blue Cheer's glorious paean to yesteryear.
For a band with such an eclectic catalog, they stuck to the basics, material from the first hit album. Pianist Mose Allison's "Parchment Farm" became psychedelic sludge with Peterson noting that "we picked a lot of our music from a lot of different places" and that Allison might not
appreciate how they put their stamp on the song. Albert King's "The Hunter" from their second album, Outsideinside, had that low thud exploding into Space Age Blues. As Vincent Jeffries on AllMusic.com noted in his review of Outsideinside it "ranks among the most underappreciated hard rock collections ever" and "was released a full year before either the Stooges' debut or MC5's Kick Out the Jams." Though this critic would've appreciated the group dipping into their Bob
Dylan/The Band-styled musings which would happen by 1970's "The Original Human Being", or putting their pristine Pink Floyd-ish chestnut, "I'm The Light", from the album Oh! Pleasant Hope, in the middle of the set to bring some balance, these tried and true veterans were happy to blast away with the trademark original sound that launched a thousand ear plugs.
With The Linwood closing on this weekend and The Kirkland in Somerville about to close on May 31 Great Scott might be the little room to fill the void.
Heaven & Earth expanded disc
http://www.answers.com/topic/heaven-and-earth-expanded
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