When it comes to live stuff from Tom Petty, there’s certainly a good amount of officially available material to choose from. The Live Anthology in particular should be at the top of your list if you don’t own it, both for value and because of what’s on it. Going further back, the Pack Up The […]
Category: Good Listening
Good Listening: R.E.M – Live in Cleveland – 6/11/95
You always remember your first concert. Mine was R.E.M. and Luscious Jackson at the Gund Arena in Cleveland, on June 11, 1995. The Athens, Georgia, quartet was my favorite band at the time, and had been for several years. I first became aware of them when a local radio station flipped to the modern-rock format […]
Good Listening: Steve Poltz at Daytrotter
Kudos to Jeff Giles for hipping me to the just-posted Daytrotter Session with Steve Poltz. Anybody who knows Poltz will know that he doesn’t mess around, so while some artists might play an unreleased song or two for Daytrotter, Steve played nine. As I said on Twitter, if you’re not hip to Poltz – get […]
Tom Petty – The Live Anthology
Greetings internet citizens! I’ve put my review online at Popdose for The Live Anthology, the fantabulous new box set from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Click here to read it. Quick review: Bribe your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/family member in any fashion necessary to get this as your holiday gift. It’s a must have!
The 12 Boots of Christmas – How About Sandals?
Installment number two of the 12 Boots of Christmas series is a thirty year-old chestnut that is ready to be roasted again this holiday season. The Grateful Dead is truckin’ across the nation in support of the Shakedown Street album and lands in Cleveland on November 29, 1979 at Public Hall for a night of […]
Greetings from Buffalo, NY…..
“Dream ticket.” Those are two great words that would accurately describe my Sunday night spent in Buffalo, NY this past weekend. I found myself unexpectedly crossing another item off of my rock and roll bucket list – by attending the final show of the tour for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. These tour-ending […]
Good Listening: Chicago – Live in New York – 6/20/77
As I was digging around in my collection today, I pulled out two CDs worth of Chicago, recorded live in New York City in 1977. While this isn’t the best sounding show that I’ve got from Chicago, it was interesting to me at the time that I first got it a few years ago for […]
Good Listening: Hall and Oates – Live in Chicago (1983)
This is what we call an encore performance. Longtime readers of the site will recall that we’ve featured some Hall and Oates shows here in the past that were pretty awesome. Because Hall and Oates were/still are pretty awesome. But in 1983, they were kings of the pop music world.
The Monday Morning Mix – The Completely Random Pete From Blogness CD Sampler – 6/22/09
Graphic by Rachael Novak Click here for details on how you can be a part of The Monday Morning Mix and win some cool stuff! About Today’s Mix: I don’t think this one requires a lot of setup. Not too long after I started the blog, a new mecca for Springsteen lovers like myself came […]
Let’s all go to Bootleg City…
The fine folks over at Popdose have a very cool download available now over at Bootleg City. I can vouch for its coolness, because I sent it to them. Back in the day (oooh, haaaaazy memories coming up,) head Popdoser Jeff Giles had a post on his old site Jefitoblog featuring a couple of discs […]