Elvis Costello performed this song, “The Last Year of My Youth,” on “Late Show with David Letterman” last night.
He wrote it the day before.
Just Elvis and his electric guitar.
It’s pretty great.
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Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration took place on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
An amazing group of artists assembled to offer tribute to Bob Dylan.
The first video below, is the first half of the concert.
The second video is an eclectic mix of songs from the entire concert but it does include George Harrison, Neil Young, Tom Petty and others that are not in the first video.
Part One:
Misc. songs:
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New Pixies video, “Silver Snail.”
Worth your time.
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Bruce Springsteen joined the Rolling Stones for a rocking version of “Tumbling Dice” in at the Rock in Rio festival in Lisbon on May 29, 2014
Check it out!
And another view:
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I love this review by Tony.
Tony deals with the boxed set as well as the single disk.
Listen to the album:
Thanks Thrasher’s Wheat!!
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This film was shot by Andy Warhol in 1967 at the Boston Tea Party, a concert venue in Boston.
It’s quite experimental as a film. The sound quality is mostly terrible. I’ve also included audio of another concert by the VU at the Boston Tea Party with good sound.
But as a document the Warhol footage is fascinating.
Here’s what was posted along with the video on YouTube:
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN BOSTON (1967, sound, color, 33 mins. Dir: Andy Warhol):
This newly unearthed film, which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques. Sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off mirror the kinesthetic experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights, whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound. It is a significant find indeed for fans of the Velvets, being one of only two known films with synchronous sound of the band performing live, and this the only one in color. It’s fitting that it was shot at the Boston Tea Party, as the Beantown club became one of the band’s favorite, most-played venues, and was where a 16-year-old Jonathan Richman faithfully attended every show and befriended the group. Richman, who would later have his debut recordings produced by John Cale, and later yet record a song about the group, is just possibly seen in the background of this film.
Here’s geat audio of a live show at the same venue but in 1969:
Thanks Doom and Gloom From the Tomb!
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Check out Conor Oberst’s “Zigzagging Toward the Light,” from his 2014 album, Upside Down Mountain.
The first 2 1/2 minutes is an interview with Oberst, then the song kicks in.
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Check out this new video for a five minute alternative version of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.”
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Conor Oberst appeared on CBS This Morning the other day and performed three songs off his new album, Upside Down Mountain.
Check them out.
“Time Forgot”:
“Hundreds of Ways”:
“You Are Your Mother’s Child”:
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I love this version of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe.”
The great Johnny Cash and the equally great June Carter.
And another version from June 7, 1969:
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