Rockefeller concert venue looked different this chilly night in october, the lights were dimmed and the stage was put in the middle of the room, there were draperies and burning candles. It was like coming into someone’s home. I could sense the anticipation from the audience, they were expecting something special. Dixie Chics softly on the speakers.
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The Rolling Stones have finally begun to assemble and release their vast archives. Setting up The Official Rolling Stones Archive online, their first release was The Brussels Affair ’73.
Long hailed by die-hard Stones fans as one of the band’s greatest live performances, The Brussels Affair has been a mainstay in the underground music world for years. The album is pulled from the two gigs that took place at the Forest National arena in Brussels, and was originally recorded by Andy Johns on the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. Bob Clearmountain applied the final mix in 2011.
Keith talking about the two shows:
As i said it is compiled from two shows recorded in Brussels on 17 October 1973 in the Forest National Arena, during their European Tour. The album was released exclusively as a digital download through Google Music on 18 October 2011 in the US and through The Rolling Stones Archive website for the rest of the world in both lossy mp3 and lossless FLAC format. The 2011 digital edition has been bootlegged on physical CD.
Continue reading October 17: The Rolling Stones recorded the Brussels Affair in 1973
Universal Amphitheater
Los Angeles, California
3 June 1978
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But I remember us riding in my brother’s car
Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
At night on them banks I’d lie awake
And pull her close just to feel each breath she’d take
Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true
Or is it something worse?
~Bruce Springsteen “The River”Put on your best dress baby
And darlin’, fix your hair up right
Cause there’s a party, honey
Way down beneath the neon lights
~Bruce Springsteen “Out In The Street”
| Released | October 17, 1980 |
|---|---|
| Recorded | The Power Station, New York March 1979 – August 1980 |
| Genre | Rock, heartland rock |
| Length | 83:47 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Producer | Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt |
The River is the fifth studio album (a double album) by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1980.
Continue reading October 17: Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” was released in 1980
Music is the weapon of the future
~Fela Anikulapo KutiImagine Che Guevara and Bob Marley rolled into one person and you get a sense of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti.
— Herald Sun, February 2011
Teacher Don’t teach Me No Nonsense (live):
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