Hot Damn!

[Buster]

it's going to be high 90's here all weekend and i am going to stay in all weekend and fucking jam to shit like this! check out all the concerts on this site and share your thoughts of the best ones!

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/Concerts.aspx?stype=all








Towson State College
Towson, MD
10/16/1979

Tracks: 11
Total Time: 1:15:56


Phil Rudd - drums
Bon Scott - vocals
Cliff Williams - bass, vocals
Malcolm Young - guitar
Angus Young - guitar

AC/DC had been in existence for six years and had released as many albums when they recorded this rollicking show at Towson State College, near Baltimore, Maryland. The band was in its prime, with vocalist Bon Scott leading the group through what would later be viewed as some of their strongest material, with the Young Brothers (Angus and Malcolm) driving the guitar-boogie riffs at full throttle.

The band had just released Highway To Hell, the album that would break the entertaining Aussie band worldwide, and was burning up the rock radio charts with a platter of classics that included "Girl’s Got Rhythm," "Touch Too Much," and the title track.

Sadly, four months later, Bon Scott would drink himself to death and the band would be thrown into complete turmoil. The Young Brothers and the remaining members, however, would regroup and re-emerge with new singer Brian Johnson in 1980, as well as a new album, Back In Black. AC/DC, as we all know, went on to superstar status, but there are those that say the Bon Scott version will never surpassed.

This concert, originally captured for the King Biscuit Flower Hour, is classic Scott era AC/DC, and one of the few professional live recordings that includes material from Highway To Hell.

Opening with "Live Wire," the group barrels through many of their earlier classics, including: "Shot Down In Flames," "Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be," "Problem Child," "She’s Got The Jack," "High Voltage," and a blistering 12-minute version of "Let There Be Rock." But, the real gems in this set are the songs from what was the current album, "Highway To Hell," and "If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)."

 

[JudgeWapner]

They played Towson State??????? Can't believe I missed it.

 

[Buster]

just finished listening to the entire thing.awesome sound.what the hell would have happened to brian johnson had bon lived? things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

 

[Buster]

HOLY FREAKING CRAP!

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/player.aspx?ConcertID=20050744|6168


Maple Leaf Gardens
Toronto, Ontario
09/21/1984


Tracks: 13
Total Time: 59:13


Geddy Lee - vocals, bass, synthesizers
Alex Lifeson - guitar
Neil Peart - drums, percussion

Holy CRAP!! That is a lot of noise for three guys! If ever there were a band that fully embodied the implications of the title “power trio,” it is Toronto’s finest - RU.S.H: a single syllable succinctly expressing the illicit response garnered by the most dexterous and ambitious rock ‘n’ roll ever performed.

Though often categorized as progressive rock or art rock, Rush has always maintained a sense of pop songcraft that distinguished them from contemporaries like King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. By the 1980s, Rush had ditched the silk kimonos and sci-fi Tolkeinisms that had made them a household name in the ‘70s and reinvented themselves with a sort of Ayn Rand-meets-Tom Clancy sociopolitical perspective and the sartorial suavity of Miami Vice. Always eager to take advantage of the latest musical technology, the band had been developing an increasingly synth-driven sound on albums like Signals and Grace Under Pressure; less formidable groups might consider hiring a few spare musicians to flesh out their futuristic experiments on the road, but why bother with more mouths to feed when Geddy Lee can cue sequenced parts with his feet while playing bass at light speed and singing?

This homecoming show captures Rush on their Grace Under Pressure tour, one of their last great rock tours before a trio of more “mature” (read: boring) records carried them into the ‘90s. There’s still some serious aggression packed into this set, though, and they perform note-perfect renditions of even their most complex songs, like a version of the crowd-pleasing instrumental “YYZ” dovetailing with 2112’s “The Temples of Syrinx.” It’s a three-ring circus with continuous action - don’t blink or you might miss something. But even amidst the fury of technical proficiency and occasionally ham-fisted lyrical rhetoric, these consummate performers know how to lighten the mood - whether it’s a medley of Grand Funk-style rockers from their first album or a guest appearance from a semi-famous friend like SCTV’s Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd introducing “The Weapon.”

Rush returned to a heavier, guitar-oriented foundation as they began their third decade, seemingly reinvigorated by rock music’s Pacific Northwest facelift. The change served them well, as they continue to sell out worldwide tours and release new albums to a vast and zealous core of fans. Even in the face of personal tragedy and mild public embarrassment, they have persevered and thrived. Love ‘em or hate ‘em - there’s only one Rush.

 

[Buster]

oh boy!

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ConcertDetail.aspx?id=20050818|4320


Allen Collins - lead guitar
Billy Powell - piano, keyboards
Artimus Pyle - drums
Gary Rossington - lead guitar
Ronnie Van Zant - lead vocals
Leon Wilkeson - bass, vocals

Lynyrd Skynyrd was performing in the United Kingdom on a tour promoting their third studio album, Nuthin’ Fancy. The band was coming off two hugely successful albums, their debut, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd and 1974’s Second Helping, and they had recently changed both their drummer (from Bob Berns to Artimus Pyle) and lost their original guitarists, Ed King. The changes had appeared to revitalize the band, which, although down to six pieces, played with more energy and passion than they had before.

This show features Lynyrd Skynyrd in an environment where the band felt comfortable and was at the top of their game. With the exception of the Allman Brothers, most Southern Rock bands had stayed away from the U.K. during this period because the country’s music scene was so wrapped up in the emerging punk movement. But that didn’t scare Skynyrd, who confidently played their brand of riff-driving Southern fried rock boogie to near capacity crowds on this tour.

Kicking off with the raucous "Double Trouble," they quickly move into "I Ain’t The One," from their debut album. Poignant songs like "Needle And Spoon" are balanced against established Skynyrd rockers such as, "Saturday Night Special" and "Gimmie Three Steps." Songs like "Whiskey Rock A Roller," "Call Me The Breeze," and "Sweet Home Alabama" are played here in their original form, and it is somehow strangely ironic that many of these classics would re-emerge as part of the must-do repertoire of so many country artists.

The band ends the show with a predictable, but crowd-pleasing version of their radio hit, "Free Bird," which clocks in at 12:20. Sadly, the band would change drastically when some of their members, including lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash less than two years after this show was recorded.

 

[Buster]

HERE YOU GO JOURNEYMAN! ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ConcertDetail.aspx?id=20050947|3649


Steven Perry - vocals
Neil Schon - guitar, vocals
Ross Vallory - bass
Steve Smith - drums
Jonathon Cain - keyboards

This show was performed as part of a worldwide cable TV broadcast on MTV, and was simulcast on FM radio by way of the King Biscuit Flower Hour. Journey was at the top of their game at the time, touring to promote their seventh studio release, Escape, the album that broke the band through to a large pop audience with such hits as “Open Arms,” “Who’s Crying Now” and “Don’t Stop Believing.”

Journey formed in 1973 after Neil Schon left Santana to pursue more straight-ahead rock music. The band’s original drummer was Prarie Prince, who left to join the Tubes before recording had begun. He was replaced first by Aynsley Dunbar, and later, Steve Smith, who performed at this show. Bassist Ross Vallory and keyboardist Greg Rollie (who played and sang for Santana prior to Journey), rounded out the rest of the lineup. The group signed with Columbia records and had a number of radio hits by the time vocalist Steven Perry joined after the third album. A later member in the band was American Idol judge, Randy Jackson, who played bass. By the time of this show, Jonathon Cain had replaced Greg Rollin on keyboards.

Playing in front of a massive arena audience, the band was certainly fired up as they ran through such classics as “Lights,” “Any Way You Want It” and “Wheel In The Sky.” After Perry had a double platinum solo album, they came back to record one more studio album, Raised on Radio, in 1986. The following year, Journey disbanded. It would be 1996 before they would reunite for one album and one tour. When Perry opted out after the reunion tour, the remaining members of Journey found another lead vocalist and carried on.

 

[teazeman]

great fcuking site buster, thanks for the hook on this one.

 

[Buster]

great fcuking site buster, thanks for the hook on this one.

YOU ARE MY N.C. BUDDY! AND YOU ARE RIGHT SITE IS FREAKIN' INCREDIBLE

 

[Buster]

one of ozzy's first times out on his own

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ConcertDetail.aspx?id=20050571|5255



Ozzy Osbourne - vocals
Randy Rhodes - guitar
Rudy Sarzo - bass
Tommy Aldridge - drums
Don Airey - keyboards

Ozzy Osbourne had only been out of Black Sabbath a couple of years when he formed this now legendary solo band and embarked on his controversial Blizzard of Oz tour (rumored to be a reference to his ongoing cocaine use). Now supporting a wife, Sharon (the daughter of Sabbath manager Don Arden), Ozzy was essentially broke, and had to start from the ground up when launching his newfound solo career.

Unlike most lead singers who go solo in order to distance themselves artistically from the band they had just left, Ozzy stuck with the type of music he knew: deep, heavy, slow moving rock with lyrical themes centered around Satan, the Occult, the presence of evil in the world and drug use ( just listen to the first track here, “Flying High Again"). Needless to say, Osbourne and the Blizzard of Oz simply picked up where the Osbourne-led Sabbath left off.

The rhythm section of bassist Rudy Sarzo and drummer Tommy Aldridge is rock solid, but it is the innovative and fluid guitar wok of Randy Rhodes that makes this period in Osbourne’s career so important. Consisting mostly of material from the first LP, Blizzard of Oz, and what was to be his second album, Diary of a Madman, this show clearly demonstrates the excitement Osbourne was experiencing with his newfound solo project.

Thanks to great material including “Mr. Crowley,” “Crazy Train” and “I Don’t Know,” this album, in addition to Osbourne's first solo outing, was a huge success, both in the U.S. and in his native U.K. The record went to the Top 20 and these songs remain staples of FM rock playlists to this day. But what makes this Cleveland appearance so special is that it is one of the few professional live recordings made of Randy Rhodes, who would die in a senseless small plane crash the next year, while taking a joy ride on a rare day off from Osbourne’s hectic touring schedule. While he was alive, critics and fans were saying Rhodes was as good as Eddie Van Halen; who knows what great music he could have made had he not died so early in life.

Ozzy and Sabbath fans alike will love this recording, even though he only does one song from his Sabbath days, the set-closing “Paranoid.”

 

[billhill999]

You 'da man Buster.
Vintage 1977 Talking Heads.

 

[WCBias]

oh boy!

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ConcertDetail.aspx?id=20050818|4320


Allen Collins - lead guitar
Billy Powell - piano, keyboards
Artimus Pyle - drums
Gary Rossington - lead guitar
Ronnie Van Zant - lead vocals
Leon Wilkeson - bass, vocals

Lynyrd Skynyrd was performing in the United Kingdom on a tour promoting their third studio album, Nuthin’ Fancy. The band was coming off two hugely successful albums, their debut, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd and 1974’s Second Helping, and they had recently changed both their drummer (from Bob Berns to Artimus Pyle) and lost their original guitarists, Ed King. The changes had appeared to revitalize the band, which, although down to six pieces, played with more energy and passion than they had before.

This show features Lynyrd Skynyrd in an environment where the band felt comfortable and was at the top of their game. With the exception of the Allman Brothers, most Southern Rock bands had stayed away from the U.K. during this period because the country’s music scene was so wrapped up in the emerging punk movement. But that didn’t scare Skynyrd, who confidently played their brand of riff-driving Southern fried rock boogie to near capacity crowds on this tour.

Kicking off with the raucous "Double Trouble," they quickly move into "I Ain’t The One," from their debut album. Poignant songs like "Needle And Spoon" are balanced against established Skynyrd rockers such as, "Saturday Night Special" and "Gimmie Three Steps." Songs like "Whiskey Rock A Roller," "Call Me The Breeze," and "Sweet Home Alabama" are played here in their original form, and it is somehow strangely ironic that many of these classics would re-emerge as part of the must-do repertoire of so many country artists.

The band ends the show with a predictable, but crowd-pleasing version of their radio hit, "Free Bird," which clocks in at 12:20. Sadly, the band would change drastically when some of their members, including lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash less than two years after this show was recorded.

LS first three albums were sick. So many songs that were not "hits" but great tunes....Am I losin, needle and spoon, Curtis Loew, I need you, don't ask me...no more questions, I ain't the one, simple man. I have two Second Helpings lps, I wore the shit out of that one on the old RCA console...

Yes they call me the breeze....

 

[Buster]

Several classic BLACK SABBATH Ozzy Osbourne- and Ronnie James Dio-era concerts are available for streaming at the Wolfgang's Vault web site:

* April 6, 1974 - Ontario Motor Speedway - Ontario, CA (65 minutes)
* August 5, 1975 - Convention Hall - Asbury Park, NJ (85 minutes)
* September 2, 1978 - Pittsburgh Civic Arena - Pittsburgh, PA (64 minutes)
* August 10, 1980 - Hartford Civic Center - Hartford, CT (86 minutes)

HEAVEN AND HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler, singer Ronnie James Dio, and drummer Vinny Appice (BLACK SABBATH, DIO) — will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guests on Friday, July 6 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "The Bruce Dickinson Friday Rock Show". Listen to the program live via the Internet between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. U.K. time at BBC.co.uk.

Good-quality fan-filmed video footage of HEAVEN AND HELL's May 17, 2007 performance at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts has surfaced on YouTube:

"Computer God": Video
"I": Video

A video clip of HEAVEN AND HELL perfoming the song "Die Young" at the Sauna Open Air festival in Tampere, Finland on Saturday, June 9, 2007 has been posted online at this location.

Rhino has set August 28 as the release date for the HEAVEN AND HELL "Live from Radio City Music Hall" DVD and two-CD set. As the title implies, both the DVD and CD packages will include HEAVEN AND HELL's performance on March 30, 2007 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

 

[FairWarning]

I had posted the Wolfman's Vault link some time ago. It is a great site.

Does anyone know how to make copies of some of these concerts?

 

[whalewager]

is this video too?

 

[FairWarning]

is this video too?

No. The concerts are from the Billy Graham archives.

 

[Buster]

I had posted the Wolfman's Vault link some time ago. It is a great site.

Does anyone know how to make copies of some of these concerts?

no but they do allow you to download some of them for 9.99.all are not available though.and i would think after you download you just burn to cd?

 

[dinger]

Pink Floyd

concert from 77, thanks for the hookup buster. great site.

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/concertdetail.aspx?id=2923|5541

 

[wilheim]

Moved to RR by Request. wil.