please consign this info-sheet with the shared music - thanks !
JOE COCKER
featuring the CHRIS STAINTON BAND and the SANCTIFIED SISTERS
- July 08, 1972 -
Dallenberg Fussballstadion, Wuerzburg, West Germany
** AUD 2nd gen. analog, MWM 0213 **
>> 'Würzburger Pop-Festival 1972' OPEN AIR - A RARE ONE ? << w/ samples
Was in dad's vaults searching a requested concert, and found in the very same
"shoebox" this seemingly pretty rare BEAUTY - here is what Leo remembers:
The (by some newspapers) so called "Franconian Woodstock" in Wuerzburg - half way
between Nuremberg and Frankfurt am Main - is sadly quite unknown outside our region,
BUT STILL absolute legendary, as it caused finally the legal prohibition of all
"Pop Festivals" by the Bavarian Minister of the Interior on July 21, 1972.
-> AND THAT'S ABSOLUTELY NO JOKE !
Read what "Die Zeit" wrote in their issue #33, 1972:
Nicht um kriminelle Auswüchse und Spekulationen (...) ging es dem Bayerischen
Innenministerium, als es durch eine "innerdienstliche" Verfügung, einen Schnellbrief
vom 21. Juli dieses Jahres, den zuständigen Stellen mitteilte, daß die Erlaubnis zur
Veranstaltung von Pop-Festivals auf dem Gebiet des Freistaates Bayern "grundsätzlich
versagt werden" solle. Irgendwer im Bayerischen Staatsministerium des Innern muß auf
die Idee gekommen sein, Popfestivals könnten unter Umständen den olympischen Frieden
stören und die "heiteren" Spiele in ein Rocker- und Rauschgift-Inferno verwandeln,
bei dem die Sicherheit der ausländischen Gäste nicht mehr gewährleistet wäre....
Auch beschränkte man das Verbot plötzlich nicht mehr auf die
Olympischen Spiele,"es gilt jetzt auf unbeschränkte Dauer..."
Für seine defensive Politik nannte das Ministerium unter anderem folgende Gründe:
"schwere Störungen der öffentlichen Sicherheit und Ordnung" während des Würzburger
Popfestivals, "obwohl umfangreiche polizeiliche Vorkehrungen und Maßnahmen getroffen
worden waren", "umfangreichen illegalen Handel und (...) Genuss von Rauschgiften an
dem Veranstaltungsort", sowie bedenkliche hygienische Verhältnisse. Mit der ihm
eigenen Logik folgert der Schreiber des Schnellbriefes: "Es muß daher angenommen
werden, dass Veranstaltungen dieser Art mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit zu verbreitetem
Rauschgifthandel und -genuss benützt, daß dabei insbesondere Jugendliche zum
Rauschgiftgenuss verleitet werden und daß sonstige Gesundheitsgefahren und schwere
Belästigungen der Allgemeinheit auftreten."
The complete INCOMMENSURABLE article (and lots more) is included in the folder...
This Joe Cocker gig here is the only recording from this HISTORIC Open Air
festival in Wuerzburg we've ever seen. There had been rumours in the 70ies
about other artists taped, but to our knowledge neither one surfaced so far,
nor we had been able to get more informations...contacts...trades...tapes.
IF YOU HAVE FURTHER KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS EVENT ETC., PLEASE PM OR COMMENT !
We got a copy of this concert in the later 1970ies, on a cheap cassette and
with unknown generation...via a friend's friend, knowing another friend...
Although with enough tape hiss and slightly muddy sounding, for us it was
simply incredible for an early 1970ies AUDIENCE recording from an Open Air
concert in front of 12.000 visitors, more than 80 % of them American GI's...
AND A FEW YEARS LATER WE GOT A BETTER COPY:
On one of Joe's 1982 club-concerts promoting the 'Sheffield Steel'-album we met
a taper by pure chance, and after the usual smalltalk (including recording gear
comparison...hahaha...i hear you girls say: always the same with them boys - always
comparing something !) he told us pridefully about some of the concerts he had
taped together with his friend(s?) in the early 1970ies, including THIS ONE HERE,
BUT sadly he was not interested in trading - or at least he pretented so...
Over the following two years we met each other again - accidentally - most often at Joe
Cocker concerts, and after the spring 1984 Fürth concert (the 'Civilized Man'-tour)
he was definitely "tenderized", promising us some tape trades including THIS ONE HERE.
The next encounter was in September 1984, we exchanged some cassettes at the parking
lot of an Open Air concert - believe it or not - including THIS ONE HERE, exactly 12
years and 2 months later, and about one Kilometer north on the opposite side of river
Main in the beautiful Franconian city of Würzburg @ Talavera Messegelände...and one
of the artists playing that day was -> Joe Cocker (this time a REAL "comeback-tour") !
Sadly we lost contact (i have to confirm that i lost a lot of my interest in this Sheffield
singer), the last meeting with "the taper" was either late May 1985 in Stuttgart, or early
June in Munich-Riem, both - hmmm, what ? - Open Air concerts with a certain Joe Cocker...
"His" tape copy sounded way better than our "old one", and still quite unreal for a 1972
Central Europe recording in front of a rowdy audience - at the beginning someone might
think about a possible soundboard recording, BUT it's definitely an audience, according
to the taper it was recorded "on stage" (at those times there was no crowd barrier in
front of the stage, "front rowers" had almost been able to touch their stars - or to
store recorders/microphones/whatever there...nobody took a notice, that were the times).
If you check the samples, you'll recognize some slight tape hiss.
As we did NOT use any noise reduction or hiss abater, you are able to judge on your
own if it's more sounding like a first or second generation tape. To avoid unnecessary
troubles we decided to call this a "2nd generation" tape in the torrent name...knowing
that a lot of "late 60ies/early 70ies"-tapers dubbed their efforts on "safety tapes"
or with reel-to-reel machines. To sum it up, it's pretty close to the master... ;-)
Our dear buddy in DIME, real-O-mind (G2), usually writes:
It is what it is - "It ain't perfect, but it ain't bad"
About the Festival:
Festival auf dem (Würzburger) Blosenberg
Ein epochenmachendes Musikevent auf dem Blosenberg - 08. und 09. Juli 1972
Stars wie Joe Cocker geben sich ein Stelldichein, bei sonnigen 30 Grad verläuft
das Festival ruhig und friedlich. Die Bands geben Vollgas, nach Beschwerden aus
dem Stadtgebiet wird um 3 Uhr nachts der Strom abgestellt.
http://lehmgrube.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html
The 'Würzburger Pop-Festival' 1972 was a two day Open Air festival on July 8 and 9,
famous artists and bands like Atomic Rooster, Joe Cocker & Band, Jeff Beck Group,
Hardin & York, Alexis Korner, King Crimson, Nazareth, Juicy Lucy, Golden Earring,
Status Quo, and German band 'Odin' played there - some of them twice...
http://www.quoticker.de/SQTICKERRUECKBLICK1972.htm
http://members.ziggo.nl/casper.roos/1970stour.html
http://www.krautrock-musikzirkus.de/de,Odin_470,N.html
Festival ground, back then, was "Altes Dallenberg Fussballstadion", the former Dallenberg
soccerstadium the "Würzburg Kickers" had used until the end of the 1960ies, beween the
"Mergentheimer Strasse" and "Unterer Dallenbergweg", near the "Dallenbergbad", on the foot
of the Blosenberg in Würzburg-Heidingsfeld, near the river Main and close to Autobahn "A3".
A photo of this place (and lots more) is included in the folder...
"Ein epochemachendes Musikevent in der Stadt ist das große Open-Air-Festival.
Am 8. und 9. Juli 1972 geben sich Stars wie Joe Cocker ein Stelldichein. Zu
diesem 'Würzburger Pop-Festival' kommen rund 12.000 Besucher und verleihen
der Veranstaltung ein bisher in der Stadt nie da gewesenes Flair von
Peace, Love and Music. Sogar die so genannte 'Freie Liebe' hält laut
Zeitzeugen damals ein bisschen Einzug, denn ganz im Sinne von Woodstock
wird während des Festivals ein nacktes Paar auf dem Gelände gesichtet.
Bei sonnigen 30 Grad verläuft das Festival ruhig und friedlich. Der Auftritt
von Joe Cocker gilt bis heute als legendär, da dieser – bereits auf dem Weg
in seine Drogenkarriere – eher orientierungslos auf der Bühne agiert.
Doch auch die anderen Bands geben Vollgas, so dass nachts um drei Uhr der
Strom abgestellt wird, nachdem Beschwerden nicht nur aus dem benachbarten
Heidingsfeld, sondern aus dem gesamten Stadtgebiet bei der Polizei einlaufen.
Derweil macht sich der Veranstalter mit der Kasse aus dem Staub. Skandal!"
Gunther Schunk/Peter Nossol:
Was war los in Würzburg 1950-2000. Sutton-Verlag 2001. ISBN: 3-89702-283-4
About the artist and the band:
On the road (1972–1982)
In early 1972, after nearly two years away from music, Cocker went on tour with a group
that Chris Stainton had formed. He opened with a performance in Madison Square Garden
which was attended by about 20,000 people. After touring the US, he embarked on a European
tour where he played to large audiences in Milan and Germany. He then returned to the US
for another tour in autumn 1972. During these tours the group cut the songs that would
be part of his newest album, Joe Cocker. A mixture of live songs and studio recordings,
the album peaked at number 30 on the US charts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cocker#On_the_road_.281972.E2.80.931982.29
More articles you'll find at the end of this description...
FOR THE FIRST TIME OUT OF OUR ARCHIVE,
IN THIS QUALITY AND SHEER VAST SIZE
COMPLETELY UNTRADED - PLEASE ENJOY!
And don't forget:
CRANK UP YOUR STEREO & START SMILING !
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JOE COCKER (the artist)
featuring the CHRIS STAINTON BAND and the SANCTIFIED SISTERS (the band, the singers)
"Würzburger Pop-Festival 1972" - Open Air auf dem Blosenberg (the motto)
Altes "Dallenberg" Fussballstadion (the venue)
Wuerzburg - Heidingsfeld (the city, the part of town)
West Germany (the country)
July 08, 1972 (the date)
Wuerzburg (in German: Würzburg) is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the
northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the
Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian.
Würzburg is approximately 120 kilometres (75 miles) from either Frankfurt am Main or
Nuremberg by road. The city of Würzburg is not included in the district of Würzburg,
but is its administrative seat (Landkreis). Its population is 133,501 as of 12/2008.
After World War II (during the last months of the war the city was destroyed more totally
than Dresden...), Würzburg was host to the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Infantry
Division, U.S. Army Hospital and various other U.S. military units that maintained a
presence in Germany. The U.S. units were withdrawn from Würzburg in 2008, bringing an
end to over 60 years of U.S. military presence in Würzburg that was greatly beneficial
to the local economy.
as far as we know NONE of this torrent was used commercially...
the complete tape we got, back then:
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After checking about 300 song lyrics, as i'm definitely NO specialist in ALL the songs Mr. Cocker
sang in his whole 40+ year long career, and NOT able to understand Joe's babbled song introduction,
i'd like to get some REAL expert's help for the unknown track in the setlist, #05. ?the vamp?
01. Woman To Woman § 7:07.31
02. Feelin' Alright 5:14.36
03. Early In The Morning 3:48.03
04. What Kind Of Man Are You? 8:56.03
05. ?the vamp? 4:53.26
06. Black Eyed Blues 4:04.72
07. St. James Infirmary * 10:06.26
08. High Time We Went % 4:56.15
09. She Don't Mind % 3:57.12
encore 1: +
10. The Letter § 3:04.24
encore 2: +
11. Cry Me A River % 4:36.33
total running time: 60:44.56 minutes
the notes:
§ -> song fades in at almost the very first note
% -> after about 40 minutes onstage - Joe was now seriously drunk - the soundguys tried
to turn up the overall volume, and especially his voice in the mix, resulting in some
distortions and overdriven muddy vocals. This funny "habit" was corrected during the
first encore pause, but sadly it seemed to be necessary again during the final song...
+ -> tape cutted, no music lost, just crowd noise & encore break shortened
$ -> song fades out at the very last note
* -> just another useless information - the song "St. James Infirmary" was always credited
to on Joe Cocker's albums: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cocker_(album)
That's not correct. "St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American folksong, Louis Armstrong made
it famous at the end of the 1920ies. A stereo version of this song was recorded about 30 years
later by Mr. Armstrong and "The Dukes of Dixieland" (Frank Assunto - trumpet, Fred Assunto -
trombone & Jacinto "Jac" Assunto - banjo), the man with the money was Sid Frey of Audio
Fidelity records, whose early recordings focused on the possibilities of stereo...
http://www.thedukesofdixieland.com/history.htm
the musicians:
John Robert "Joe" Cocker - lead vocals, air guitar, windmill arms & lots of booze
the Chris Stainton Band:
Christopher "Chris" Stainton - piano, keyboards, band leader
Neil Hubbard - guitar
Alan Henry Spenner - bass [+ August 11, 1991]
Jim "Jimmy" Karstein - drums & percussion
Felix "Flaco" Falcon - percussion
Jim Price - trumpet
James Ronald "Jim" Horn - saxophone, flute
Bobby Keys - tenor saxophone
the Sanctified Sisters:
Viola Wills AKA Viola Mae Wilkerson - vocals [+ May 06, 2009]
Virginia Ayers (today: Virginia Ayers-Dawson) - vocals
Beverly Gardner - vocals
NEED HELP - cannot confirm the following
musicians on this European tour here:
James Lee "Jim" Keltner - drums & percussion
Glenn Ross Campbell - steel guitar
Gloria Jones - vocals
All of them played additionally with the band
during the Australian tour in October 1972:
http://www.milesago.com/tours/cocker.htm
lineage:
audience to analog tape
the recording:
unknown microphone > unknown portable Cassette-Recorder (without any NoiseReduction) > unknown cassette type
the Würzburg parking lot trade (September 08, 1984...):
Cassette Masters > Leo's guesswork: a possible safety copy (?) >
Unknown Cassette Deck Transfer (NO HIGH SPEED DUBBING, NO DOLBY) > 2nd gen. Cassette [at worst...hahaha!]
(TDK SA 90, 1-7/8ips Super Avilyn, High Bias (CrO2) Type II, 135 meter tape)
the transfer:
My traded Cassette > Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1 (manual playback head azimuth aligned ! NoiseReduction 'DOLBY C' ON) >
> Analog Cable (coax) > Behringer SRC-2496 Ultramatch Pro
(Ultra-high-resolution 24-Bit/96 kHz A/D & D/A and Sample Rate Converter & Dropouts-/Jitter Remover) >
> converted to 16 bit, SP 44,1 kHz > > Oehlbach Hyper Profi Opto Set (optical fibre, TOS-Link) >
> Terratec Aureon 7.1 PCI - Dolby Digital Live Soundcard with C-Media CMI8768 Soundprocessor Chip, digital S/P-DIF in >
> Motherboard with AMD Multicore Processor, Serial ATA Interface > CD Wave (recording) >
> Harddisc Western Digital with Thermaltake HD Cooler (EVER had a HardDisc burnout ??) >
> lonetaper's secret box of miracles # > CD Wave (tracking) > Traders Little Helper (SB aligned/level 6) > FLAC > DIME
# RAW FILES - so NO additional NoiseReduction or heavy EQ'ing was used here, and none of those
compressors, Sonic Maximizers or other psychoacoustic processors - just (a touch) balanced the
stereo channels, the volume discrepancy (strong increase after song 07.) and finally normalized.
THERE IS SOME TAPE HISS AUDIBLE (but it's not too distracting...PLEASE CHECK THE SAMPLES) !
this upload here comes directly from the "Men With Microphones" archives.
if you want to know more about, check the old uploads...lotta stuff to read !
And if there's some interest, maybe there is MORE TO COME...
it just depends on YOUR demeanor, and lotta useful comments ;-)
British white-soul singer Joe Cocker parlayed Ray Charles-ish vocals and an eccentric stage presence
into a string of late-'60s hits only to suffer from his excesses in drugs and alcohol by the mid-1970s.
In the 1980s and 1990s, however, he went from tragic figure to well-respected interpreter, and his
gritty, powerful voice remains one of the most distinctive in rock & roll.
Cocker attended Sheffield Central Technical School and worked as a gas fitter for the East Midlands
Gas Board. In 1959 he joined his first group, the Cavaliers, playing drums and harmonica. He moved to
lead vocals in 1961, and the band changed its name to Vance Arnold (Cocker) and the Avengers. They
released regional singles and toured locally with the Hollies and the Rolling Stones. Decca offered
Cocker a contract in 1964, and he took a six-month leave of absence from the gas company. Cocker's
version of the Beatles' "I'll Cry Instead" (which he hated so much that he refused to sing it onstage)
and an English tour opening for Manfred Mann were ignored, and he went back to his day job.
The following year Cocker and keyboardist Chris Stainton assembled the Grease Band with guitarists
Henry McCullough and Alan Spenner and two other musicians. They played Motown covers in northern
England pubs until 1967, when producer Denny Cordell became Cocker's manager and persuaded him and
the band to move to London. A Cocker-Stainton song, "Marjorine," became a minor British hit, and after
some exposure in London, Cocker and the Grease Band recorded With a Little Help From My Friends in
1968 with guests Jimmy Page, Steve Winwood, and others. The title track, one of many cover versions
Cocker would record over his career, went to Number One in En?gland and Number 68 in the U.S. His
explosive performance of the song at Woodstock was a festival highlight, and his habit of wildly
flailing his arms as he sang became as much a rock archetype as Pete Townshend's windmill.
When Cocker sang Traffic's "Feelin' Alright" on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969, the program's
producer hid him behind a group of dancers' shades of Elvis Presley and his wiggling hips.
During the U.S. tour, Cocker met Leon Russell, who wrote "Delta Lady" and coproduced Joe Cocker!,
the Grease Band's swan song. Russell also pulled together the assemblage of musicians, hangers-on,
and animals for the boisterous Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour Cocker made in 1970, resulting in a
Number Two live double album that yielded a pair of hits — "The Letter" (Number Seven, 1970) and
"Cry Me a River" (Number 11, 1970) — and a film. But the tour left Cocker broke and ill. On a 1972
tour, with Stainton again leading the band, Cocker was often too drunk to remember lyrics and to
hold down food, although material from that tour was released in 1976 as Live in L.A. Cocker
toured Britain and then Australia, where he was arrested for possession of marijuana.
At the height of his troubles, Cocker had one of the biggest hits of his career, the achingly tender
modern standard "You Are So Beautiful" (Number Five, 1975), written by Billy Preston. He recorded
regularly throughout the '70s, but without much success. In 1976 he sang on TV's Saturday Night Live,
with comedian John Belushi doing a deadly accurate parody behind him. Given Cocker's state at the
time, it seemed more cruel than funny.
Cocker's career turned around in 1982. A duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong," from the
movie An Officer and a Gentleman, hit Number One. Since then, several other Cocker songs have graced
films, including his version of Randy Newman's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (9 1?2 Weeks, 1986) and
"When the Night Comes" (An Innocent Man, 1990). The latter, a dramatic hard-rock ballad cowritten
by Bryan Adams, hit Number 11 in 1990.
Cocker, who moved to Colorado in 1991, continues to record and tour — sometimes accompanied by old
friend Chris Stainton — and remains a popular live attraction in Europe. His 1994 album, Have a Little
Faith, hit the U.K. Top 10, and at the request of his German label he revisited several songs from his
own catalogue, including "You Are So Beautiful" and "Delta Lady," on 1996's Don Was-produced Organic.
This biography originally appeared in
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001).
...In 1966, after a year-long hiatus from music, Cocker teamed up with Chris Stainton, who he had met
several years before, to form the Grease Band. After minor success in the US with the single "Marjorine",
he entered the big time with a groundbreaking rearrangement of "With a Little Help from My Friends",
another Beatles cover, which was later used as the opening theme for The Wonder Years. The recording
features lead guitar from Jimmy Page, drumming by BJ Wilson, backing vocals from Sue and Sunny and
Tommy Eyre on organ. The single made the Top Ten on the British charts, remained there for thirteen
weeks and eventually reached number one on 9 November 1968. It also reached number 68 on the US charts.
The new touring lineup of Cocker's Grease Band featured Henry McCullough on lead guitar; he would go
on to briefly play with McCartney's Wings. After touring the UK with the Who in autumn 1968 and Gene
Pitney and Marmalade in early Winter 1969, the Grease Band embarked on their first tour of the US in
spring 1969. His album With A Little Help from my Friends was released soon after his arrival and
made number 35 on the American charts, eventually going Gold.
Joe Cocker at Woodstock (1969)
During his US tour, Cocker played at several large festivals, including the Newport Rock Festival and
the Denver Pop Festival. In August, Denny Cordell heard about the planned concert in Woodstock, New
York and convinced organiser Artie Kornfeld to book Cocker and the Grease Band for the Woodstock Festival.
The group had to be flown into the festival by helicopter due to the large crowds. They performed several
songs, including "Delta Lady", "Something's Comin' On", "Let's Go Get Stoned", "I Shall Be Released", and
"With a Little Help from My Friends". Cocker would later say that the experience was "like an eclipse...
it was a very special day." Directly after Woodstock, Cocker released his second album, Joe Cocker!.
Impressed by his cover of "With A Little Help From my Friends", Paul McCartney and George Harrison allowed
Cocker to use their songs "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" and "Something" for the album. Recorded
during a break in touring in the spring and summer, the album reached number 11 on the US charts and garnered
a second UK hit with the Leon Russell song, "Delta Lady". Throughout 1969 he was featured on variety TV
shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and This Is Tom Jones. Onstage, he exhibited an idiosyncratic physical
intensity, flailing his arms and playing air guitar, occasionally giving superfluous cues to his band.
At the end of the year Cocker was unwilling to embark on another US tour, so he dissolved the Grease Band.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1969–1971)
Despite Cocker's reluctance to venture out on the road again, an American tour had already been booked so
he had to quickly form a new group in order to fulfill his contractual obligations. It proved to be a
large group of more than 30 players (including three drummers, backing vocalists Rita Coolidge and Claudia
Lennear, and pianist/bandleader Leon Russell). The new group was christened "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" by
Denny Cordell after the Noël Coward song of the same name. His music at this time evolved into a more
bluesy type of rock, often compared to that of The Rolling Stones. During the ensuing Mad Dogs and Englishmen
tour, (later described by drummer Jim Keltner as "a big, wild party") Cocker toured 48 cities, recorded a
live album, and received very positive reviews from Time and Life for his performances. However, the pace
of the tour was exhausting. Russell and Cocker had personal problems and Cocker became depressed and began
drinking excessively as the tour wound down in May 1970. Meanwhile, he enjoyed several chart entries in the
US with "Cry Me a River" and "Feelin' Alright" by Dave Mason. His cover of the Box Tops' hit "The Letter",
which appeared on the live album and film, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, became his first US Top Ten hit.
After spending several months in Los Angeles, Cocker returned home to Sheffield where his family became
increasingly concerned with his deteriorating physical and mental health. In the summer of 1971 the A&M
Records single release appeared in the US of "High Time We Went". This became a hit, reaching number 22
on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, but was not issued on an album until November 1972 on the Joe Cocker
album.
On the road (1972–1982)
In early 1972, after nearly two years away from music, Cocker went on tour with a group that Chris Stainton
had formed. He opened with a performance in Madison Square Garden which was attended by about 20,000 people.
After touring the US, he embarked on a European tour where he played to large audiences in Milan and Germany.
He then returned to the US for another tour in autumn 1972. During these tours the group cut the songs that
would be part of his newest album, Joe Cocker. A mixture of live songs and studio recordings, the album
peaked at number 30 on the US charts. In October 1972, when Cocker toured Australia, he and six members of
his entourage were arrested in Adelaide by police for possession of marijuana. The next day in Melbourne,
assault charges were laid after a brawl at the Commodore Chateau Hotel, and Cocker was given 48 hours to
leave the country by the Australian Federal Police. This caused huge public outcry in Australia, as Cocker
was a high-profile overseas artist and had a strong support base, especially amongst the baby boomers who
were coming of age and able to vote for the first time. It sparked hefty debate about the use and legalisation
of marijuana in Australia and gained Cocker the nickname of "the Mad Dog". Shortly after the Australian tour,
Stainton retired from his music career to establish his own recording studio. After his friend's departure
and estrangement from longtime producer Denny Cordell, Cocker sank into depression and began using heroin.
In June 1973 he kicked the habit, but continued to drink heavily. At the end of 1973, Cocker returned to
the studio to record a new album, I Can Stand A Little Rain. The album, released in August 1974, was
number 11 on the US charts and one single, a cover of Billy Preston's You Are So Beautiful, reached the
number 5 slot. Despite positive reviews for the album, Cocker struggled with live performances, largely
due to his problems with alcohol...
http://www.woodstock.com/joe-cocker-concerts/
1972 jedoch holten seine Manager den Sänger mit psychischem Druck und kommerziellen Verlockungen wieder
vor die Mikrophone. "Joe", verlautbarte seine Plattenfirma, "kommt langsam wieder auf die Beine." Und
tatsächlich zeigte er auf der LP Something To Say sein altes Format. Tourneen durch die USA, Europa und
Australien bewiesen jedoch, dass Cocker immer noch am Boden war. Zumeist betrunken, zappelte er mit ein-
geknickten Knien und gespreizten Fingern über die Bühne, zerrte sich nervös an den Haaren, gestikulierte
unrhythmisch und hechelte jeden Song, als wäre es sein letzter.
Die Australienreise musste schließlich im Oktober 1972 abgebrochen werden, nachdem sich der Sänger gegen
eine Verhaftung wegen Rauschgiftbesitzes mit körperlicher Gewalt zur Wehr gesetzt hatte. Erneut tauchte
er unter und wiederholte das Comeback-Spiel mit einem überraschend konsistenten Album. Für die in
Los Angeles produzierte LP I Can Stand A Little Rain umgab ihn Producer Jim Price mit vorzüglichen
Session-Spielern, unter anderen Nicky Hopkins, legte dem Sänger Material hochkarätiger Autoren wie
Harry Nilsson, Billy Preston, Jim Webb, Randy Newman vor und veranlasste Webb und Newman sogar zu je
einem Stimme-Piano-Duett.
Mit dem Box Tops-Song "The Letter" (GB #7, US #7) und "Cry Me A River" (GB #30, US #7) glückten dem
Rauhbein 1970 zwei weitere Hits. Da wieder finanziell nichts hängen blieb, kehrte er desillusioniert
und gesundheitlich angegriffen in das Haus seiner Eltern zurück. Fast 18 Monate erholte er sich und trat
allenfalls mit lokalen Bands in Fernfahrer-Kneipen auf. 1972 tat er sich erneut mit Chris Stainton
zusammen. Gemeinsam bauten sie eine zwölfköpfige Band auf und gingen auf Tournee. Doch Cockers Kondition
war noch angeschlagen. In Australien wurde er wegen Besitzes von Marihuana verhaftet und ohne Verhandlung
ausgewiesen, und bei einigen Interviews offenbarten sich erschreckende Gedächtnisschwächen.
"Something To Say" enttäuschte im Oktober 1972 die Erwartungen. Cockers Stimme klang ausgebrannt, leer
und das Songmaterial repräsentierte allenfalls durchschnittliche Qualität. Etwas besser lief es mit
erstklassiger Unterstützung (Randy Newman, Nicky Hopkins, Henry McCullough) bei "I Can Stand A Little Rain"
(US #11) mit dem Hit "You Are So Beautiful" (US #5). Cocker ertrank in masochistischem Schwermut, Trübsinn
und Selbstquälerei, aber er blieb stets der überragende Stilist.
"Ab Ende 1971 ging es langsam wieder aufwärts mit Joe, denn er sang für die "CHRIS STAINTON`s ALLSTARS",
mit denen er 1971 durch Amerika tourte und 1971/72 eine Europatournee unternahm. Bei der Australientour
1972 kam es zu einem Drogenskandal, bei dem Joe und drei Musiker des Landes verwiesen wurden.
Wieder begann sein Abstieg mit großem Drogenkonsum...."
PLEASE support the artists & and buy all their available stuff...
Check out their websites on the net - THERE'S A LOT TO FIND !
http://www.myspace.com/joecocker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cocker
http://www.lindawolfphotography.com/Joe/
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More brilliant recordings - REAL GOOD MUSIC - out of our collection:
Torrent #289937 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD wsg. Slaid Cleaves & Carrie Newcomer
Torrent #301765 5 CHINESE BROTHERS - the best kept American secret...
Torrent #302681 NEAL CASAL & Band - SEVERELY UNDERRATED ARTIST w/ a FANTASTIC BAND
Torrent #303462 SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET - the greatest and most influential Tex-Mex group ever
Torrent #304658 RICHARD DOBSON & The State Of The Heart Band - goes BLUEGRASS with Susie Monick
Torrent #305240 TISH HINOJOSA & BAND - a Tejano treasure, definitely THE bilingual "QUEEN OF TEXAS"
Torrent #305465 JACKIE LEVEN & MICHAEL COSGRAVE - whacked-out stories & songs by Scottish CULT ARTIST
Torrent #306116 JO-EL SONNIER & The Shut Outs - the "King of the Bayou" w/ incredible All-Star band
Torrent #306440 RICHARD DOBSON & MARK 'SERGIO' WEBB - March 16, 2010 - elder statesman of Texas Alt.Country
Torrent #307284 TOWNES VAN ZANDT - November 12, 1996 - 16 Bit/44.1 KHz FULLY EDITED & PATCHED FILES !
Torrent #308830 RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON - June 21, 1981 - Folkmusic-Festival, Vienna, Austria
Torrent #309339 SNAKEFINGER a.k.a. Philip Charles Lithman & The Vestal Virgins - November 18, 1983
Torrent #311146 NEW ORDER - April 02, 1984 - Volkshaus, Zuerich, Switzerland ** analog DRS3-FM MASTER
Torrent #313782 Leslie WEST, Jack BRUCE & Corky LAING - April 04, 1973 - Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
Torrent #314290 the RESIDENTS feat. Penn Jillette - May 25, 1983 - Secession, Vienna, Austria
And please check also all the other uploads...BUT as Leo said: BEWARE - LOTS OF TEXT TO READ !
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MY DAD USUALLY SAYS: A GOOD BREEDING SEEMS HARD TO FIND IN CYBERWORLD, NOWADAYS !
please be friendly & polite to me, and i'll be the same to you...twice-pledged !
BUT IF YOU'LL TAKE ME FOR A RIDE, I'LL COME TO YOUR HOME AND THE FUN IS OVER...DEFINITELY !
AND I'M ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY MY FRIENDS & BROTHERS - FRANCONIA'S TOUGHEST BIKERGANG
"DARK BECKSTEIN SKULLS" - A SUBDIVISION OF THE AWESOMELY "CROSSED BONES" FROM SOLINGEN.
R.I.P. DENNIS LEE HOPPER - ride on, dear brother, you've always been our hero...
Dime allows alternative versions, I don't own the music, so I can't stop you, but
the correct thing to do amongst tapers/editors is TO ASK FIRST...(C. by scdegraaf)
I SIMPLY CAN'T TAKE A JOKE - CONCERNING BAD MANNERS AND UNGRATEFULNESS ! pythonmonty.
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Open traded, carefully stored for >38 years, and mastered by my dad Leo (all thanks go to him...),
transferred, & finally first time uploaded by pythonmonty on DIME, August 28, 2010. This is "MWM 00213"
please consign this info-sheet with the shared music - thanks !