Doom & Gloom From The Tomb: A Blog

Just finished up Jazz Week with a Herbie Hancock/Headhunters show from 1973 ...

tom waits 1975 show up now ... and scroll down for that neil young ditch trilogy post, if you didn't see it on the other thread ...

Started up a little "lost albums" series over the weekend. Up now, SMILE! (And a repost of the Great Lost VU Album).

Oh dang I need to get you that Verlaine ish.

yeah, that'd be awesome if you can swing it, Jon

*writes note on hand*

*furiously*

that Manchester show is seriously some godheadlike NY. cheers!!

yeah it's definitely in the top 10 Neil bootlegs of all time! OF ALL TIME! interesting that he never got that whole band back together ever again, I don't think? Obviously he played with them all again quite a bit over the years ... Maybe it's time! Amazingly, they're all still alive!

I sent you a message, tylerw. :D

yesss! Thanks, Jon! u da man.

aight, the original Blood on the Tracks is up now ... one of the best things ever.

more lost albums! The Go-Betweens' Freakchild -- or my approximation, thereof ...

neil's chrome dreams (a different version than posted a few months back) up now. Worth a look just for the artwork which has to be one of the great bootleg covers of all time.

OK, the Tom Verlaine lost album Jon hooked me up with is up now - totally good! Maybe better than Flashlight? Maybe?

Hey, Tyler, you have a handy tracklisting for that Waits show?

here ya go --
Introduction / Diamonds On My Windshield / On A Foggy Night / Eggs And Sausage / Ice Cream Man / San Diego Serenade / Big Joe And Phantom 309 / New Coat Of Paint / Spare-Parts / Ol' 55 / The Ghost of Saturday Night / The Heart of Saturday Night / Nobody

Thanks, mister!

rolling stones kinda lost album Necrophilia up now ... actually a really good listen!

yeah, it's great. showcases their psuedo-brill building/pop side in a way that they were probably trying to downplay in the early 70s.

yeah, it is not very low-down, badass stuff. But still good! Love "Sleepy City" and "Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind" which Vashti Bunyan recorded when she was a Marianne Faithfull wannabe.

Richard & Linda Thompson's original Shoot Out The Lights up now ...

Dylan's original Infidels up now

Oh, remember the days when it used to be so much work to track down stuff this awesome? Sniff. Makes me wistful.

ah yes, the days when a two-disc bootleg would cost somewhere around $60 ...
one last lost album up now -- Brian Wilson's Adult Child! Scary!

finishing out 2009 with the year's four greatest psych jamz! http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/

pre-VU recordings by Lou Reed/John Cale up now. Do the Ostrich!

man tyler you are spoiling us!

more spoils! pavement live in 1997 ...

a guest contribution -- the audio from a whole bunch of Elvis Costello TV performances through the years ... http://ow.ly/X0ky

Eno - Fripp LIVE in Paris up now!

Talking Heads 1979 Fear of Music tour up now!

shit, i see i have some catching up to do

hey willem, you're partly responsible for this eno kick I'm on currently ....

just chiming in w/a big T H A N K Y O U ! great blog.

yr welcome!

which eno kick? did you upload anything enoesque. i am reading geeta dayal's book on another green world right now, i didn't know about the anecdote about the origin of the title. it is kind of intriguing especially in view of the current state of planet earth.

i didn't read the thread properly, sorry. i don't think i have ever consciously listened to that paris concert.

it's good!

something a little different: some friends and I have started putting together a handful of "best of the 2000s" single artist mixes. Up so far: Dylan, Robyn Hitchcock, Elvis Costello, Yo La Tengo, David Byrne, Go-Betweens. Several more in the works! http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/

hey tyler

your dylan post of the alt infidels inspired me to go out and pick that album up on used vinyl...

it's pretty good but DAAAAAMN...this version is clearly better in every respect...obv he left off what might be the two best songs on the album (though jokerman and i and i are amazing).... but yeah this one feels so much better sequenced.

glad you dig it, matt -- yeah, i really prefer it to the released version. but it is a great "only Dylan would do that" moment -- leaving off "Blind Willie McTell"! but i love infidels. such a weird sound, dire straits meets sly & robbie ... he should make another record with those guys.

yeah it's got a cool sound...and it's weird because it sounds EXACTLY like what you'd expect a reggae rhythm section would sound like with a real button-downed FM rock band around them...the bass line on jokerman is awesome

yeah, if you hear the 1984 tour recordings, the songs really suffer for not having that sly/robbie lope ... he just hired a pretty boring rhythm section for that tour ... if only he'd played with that band from the Letterman appearance!

Friend of mine put together an audio mix of Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers tv appearances! Very very good! http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/

been trying to keep up with everything i want from your blog, but just now listening to the alt. Infidels trax. "Sweetheart Like you" is such a frickin' beautiful song, i'm about to weep openly...

yeah, i love that song ... i kinda think of it as Dylan doing Knopfler and blowing him away.
more jonathan richman up now -- very early modern lovers demo/live recordings ...

i actually don't like blind willie mctell (the song) very much. strikes me as bombastic. doesn't have the virtues i most treasure in dylan. sort of his version of "elephant art"--a big, self-consciously important statement without irony or playfulness. i prefer his modest stuff like nashville skyline, new morning....

that j. richman comp is great, thanks tyler. you have a fantastic blog.

though blind willie is probably better than anything on infidels. but even if the alternative album is better than the released one, this strikes me as one of dylan's lowest periods.

hey when it comes to Dylan, I've learned to each his/her own ...