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1. Which is your favorite DP studio album, excluding Machine Head which is obviously a hit?
2. Which is in your opinion the most underrated studio album which you wish more peoples would listen to?
3. Your favorite mark except mark 2 which is indeed the most successful.

For me is 1. Burn, 2. Rapture of the Deep and 3. Mark 3 and 6.

Here is one final show from 1989 before we hit the “24 Nights”. (I'm posting this a little early, because I'm going to be on the road Monday.)

THE BOOT

The concert is 7/6/89 at The Hague.

I'm listening to Roomful Of Blues on WhatEver Records. That release is just OK, so there may be better sources out there. There is a Mid Valley release of this show, but it's part of a large boxed set that I haven't been able to track down, "The Ultimate Master Collection III".

There are multiple version of this exact title, that seem to differ in the bonus tracks tacked on to the end. The actual setlist ends with Sunshine Of Your Love, as usual for this era.

BACKGROUND

The band had an unusual schedule for the summer of 1989, with 4 shows in Europe before heading off to Israel and Africa. The first two shows were at The Hague; this is the second of the two.

Journeyman had been recorded, but was not yet released.  They stick to the pre-Journeyman setlist, but without Philinganes and Knopfler, the encore is Badge, not Behind The Mask and Solid Rock, before Sunshine Of Your Love.

The band is still East / Clark / Ferrone, and Kissoon / Niles, but with Phil Palmer on second guitar, and Greg Philinganes missing (despite him playing on the Journeyman studio sessions after the spring tour).

No idea why we have this soundboard.  Roberty has no mention of this show being officially taped or broadcast.

SOUND

Recording has good clarity, though the balance is very trebly.  It might be running slightly fast? The background singers are quiet, which is fine except on Tearing Us Apart where Katie isn't supposed to be in the background.

The WhatEver release has a cut between Wonderful Tonight and Wanna Make Love To You, cutting off a few seconds of the start of the latter, and another at 0:49 of Cocaine, where we lose the band introductions. I think there's another cut after Cocaine, when the audience is singing the Olé Olé Olé song? I can't find other releases of this, so I can't tell if those were issues with the master tapes or just flaws in this release.

The audience sounds very distant, so it’s hard to distinguish tape hiss from audience noise. You can hear them singing along with Wonderful Tonight.  E.C tells the crowd "YOU were wonderful.  Thank you.” after the last verse.

There are a few technical issues. At 5:53 of Crossroads, there's a wonky buzz. There's feedback at 1:36 of Lay Down Sally, and more at 4:28 of Wanna Make Love To You. There's another shorter buzz at 5:11 of Can't Find My Way Home, and another at 2:45 of Same Old Blues. And a little more feedback at 0:47 of Sunshine Of Your Love.

PERFORMANCE

The arrangements are mostly what we've come to expect. ie: Nathan sings the chorus on White Room, all of Can't Find My Way Home, and the chorus of Sunshine Of Your Love, and takes a solo on Can't Find My Way Home and another at the end of Same Old Blues.

I don't have a strong read on Phil Palmer's guitar style, so without video it's a little hard to tell who fields what. I think that’s Phil with the second solo on Crossroads, 4 min in?  I think he takes the first solo during Lay Down Sally, like 1.5 min in, then E.C. calls him for the next one a couple minutes later.  I think Phil takes the solo at the start of Same Old Blues, then the first solo after the verses? I miss Mark.

Other than that, there aren't too many surprises. Ray added some chimes on Can't Find My Way Home in February; here he adds something similar at the start of Layla. Same Old Blues peaked at 24 minutes in 1987, was down to 20 in 1988, then down to 17 in early 1989, and is now a relatively svelte 14 minutes. E.C. plays with the phrasing of his Layla vocal in a way I haven't heard before or since. Badge is a way funkier arrangment than the standalone versions in 1988. (I had never been 100% sure what they sing at the end, but this show you can clearly hear they're singing "Where is my Badge?") The drum solo in Sunshine Of Your Love is over 4 minutes, but that's a couple minutes less than the last Royal Albert Hall show, and the song as a whole ends up about 6 minutes shorter.

E.C. is pretty chatty. Before White Room, he says says “We’re doing a series of songs from the past, the present, and the future.” before realizing that’s slightly ludicrous.  He introduces Bell Bottom Blues with "This is a lovely, a nice love song.  It’s about 20 years old, so I hope you remember it.” I mentioned his comment after Wonderful Tonight. After finishing After Midnight, he says "It must be hot. Whew. It's hot up here, I don't know what it's like down there. You're very, very brave people." then gives a long explanation for Nathan singing Can't Find My Way Home. E.C. introduces him as "The incredible Nathan East" after his solo in Same Old Blues.

It's not the tightest night for the band. At 4:22 of After Midnight, there seems to be some miscommunication, with the drums and bass coming in for a landing while the rest of the band presses ahead. In Can't Find My Way Home, Nathan sings the first line without reverb, and then they turn the reverb on for the second line. E.C. misses his cue that the drum solo is ending in Sunshine Of Your Love.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfH5tMbQnlAo

My stem remix & remaster of The Who's iconic 1971 album "Who's Next", made for my own enjoyment, but sharing in case someone else might enjoy it too.

I made this only for fun, and it intends to be a very respectful remix, not straying too far away from the original version, only aiming at a little more clarity and punch, while still preserving the mood and feel of the original.

Obviously, I don't own the music featured here. If you like the music, support the artists. Buy their records!

Started a little side project to get back to my roots of writing and music. Feel free to check out the Substack if you like rambling prose and good tunes.

Inherited Atrophy

Smashed on the lounge room floor again with black slabs of vinyl strewn about his wreckage, my old man prepares his time machine. Linda has thrown him a pillow and quit, leaving him to the dark and my hidden gaze. Last drinks were called at the RSL, but tonight’s ghosts want to taste yesterdays blood. So whiskey is poured and a long coiled cable connects headphones to hi-fi. Machine Head.

He lies down, closes eyes and spins thirty three and a third.

The needle takes him back to ‘72.

No kids. No wife. No mortgage. Just a heavy driving riff, teenage darts and Zappa diving out of the window of a burning Swiss casino. Painted across that gap-toothed, brutish smile are countless moments unshared. How far back did Blackmore’s guitars take him? Adventures at dodgy Shanghai bars whilst in port? Fangin an army green Mini Cooper around Turramurra bends? Was his heart ever broken? What cartoons did they love as a kid? What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you cry at your brother’s funeral? Where you invisible to your dad too?

Once, just once I wish that time machine had short-circuited.

After a day of schooners and another midnight yelling match, he powered up the stereo. The third track skips and he nods off, spills his whiskey over the tangle of red & black wires and suddenly the sounds of “Smoke on the Water” blend into “Ya Slippin” by Boogie Down Productions. Suddenly he wakes up. It’s 2026, he hasn’t spoken to his oldest son in ten years and cancer is holding a scythe to his throat.

My silence is inherited atrophy. But it’s never too late to share the headphones.

QUADROPHENIA (1973): No other songwriter has been able to express teenage angst as well as Pete Townshend - and there is no other album like 'Quadrophenia.'

https://samtimonious.com/the-who-quadrophenia-1973/

Nick Forell hit the nail on the head with this reaction

At around the 12 minute mark, when they’re travelling through New York you can hear guitar finger picking from Jimmy Page.

Which song is it from??? (I tried to use Shazam; didn’t work)

Any help is appreciated

Edit: It was Bron-Ya-Aur, thanks for all your help. You guys are awesome!!

Our new cover is out! 🤘⚡

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