Lester Bangs / Birdland (Robert Quine on guitar) - July 2, 1978 (AUD - theGrape Master from theGrape 2004 share - 41 Minutes Long) CBGB's, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Well, I was looking for some Lester Bangs to listen to today, & I came across this!!
This recording comes from an STG 2004 download (thanks to theGrape, THX!!!), but these are not those original files.
I'm always looking for upgrades, alternate sources, & uncirculated Lester Bangs shows.
If you have any of those, please share or get them to someone that can do so.
Enjoy!!
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Lester Bangs / Birdland (Robert Quine on guitar) .... July 2, 1978 (11:30PM - 12:10AM)
CBGB's, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Randy California - guitar, vocals
Jay Ferguson - lead vocals
Ed Cassidy - drums
John Locke - keyboards
Mark Andes - bass
Taper, & Transfer: theGrape
Taping Gear (Source): SONY Pressman Mono recorder w/ built-in mic -> Maxell UD-90
Lineage: "AUD" Master 2004 Download; master cassette -> Philips 785 CDRW -> HD -> CoolEdit pro -> shn files> MKW (convert to Wave files)> Burned to audio disc (Nero) Trade CDR> Dec. 2011 DAE (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Quality: vg/vg+
Length: 12 tracks = 40:39 minutes
Artwork: none.
Samples: none.
ORIGINAL Set List:
1. In Love With My ?
2. God Sends Grace
3. Time Has Come Today
4. Live
5. Give Up The Ghost
6. Let It Blurt
7. Nancy
8. Loneliness
9. Quick Joey Small
10. You're A Killer
11. All Comes Down
12. ?
ORIGINAL Notes:
One of the first shows for Lester Bangs/Birdland.
Small crowd as you can hear from the sparse applause.
Thanks, Grape :wtf
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Wikipedia Lester info:
Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 13, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author, and musician. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was known for his leading influence in rock music criticism.
Early life: Bangs was born in Escondido, California. His mother was a devout Jehovah's Witness; his father died in a fire when Bangs was young. In 1969, Bangs began writing freelance after reading an ad in Rolling Stone soliciting readers' reviews. His first piece was a negative review of the MC5 album, Kick Out The Jams, which he sent to Rolling Stone with a note requesting that if the magazine were to pass on publishing the review, that he receive a reason for their decision; however, no reply was forthcoming as the magazine did indeed publish the review.
Career: Bangs wrote about Janis Joplin's death by drug overdose, "It's not just that this kind of early death has become a fact of life that has become disturbing, but that it's been accepted as a given so quickly".[3] In 1973, Jann Wenner fired Bangs from Rolling Stone, a negative review of Canned Heat being the final event.[4] He moved to Detroit to edit and write for Creem. After leaving Creem, he wrote for The Village Voice, Penthouse, Playboy, New Musical Express, and many other publications.
Bangs idolized the noise music of Lou Reed.[5] Bangs wrote the essay/interview "Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves" about Reed in 1975.
At one point he climbed onto the stage whilst the J. Geils Band were playing in concert, and typed a supposed review of the event whilst in full view of the audience.
Style: Bangs adopted a radical and critical style of working, apparent in this quote: “Well basically I just started out to lead [an interview] with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the whole thing of interviewing as far as rock stars and that was just such a suck-up. It was groveling obeisance to people who weren't that special, really. It's just a guy, just another person, so what?"
Music: Bangs was also a musician in his own right. He teamed up with Joey Ramone's brother, Mickey Leigh, to put together a New York City group named Birdland. In 1980, he traveled to Austin, Texas, and met a punk rock group named the Delinquents. During his stay in Austin, he recorded an album as Lester Bangs and the Delinquents entitled Jook Savages on the Brazos.
In media: Excerpts from an interview with Lester Bangs appeared in the last two episodes of Tony Palmer's seventeen-episode television documentary entitled All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music.
He was portrayed in the 2000 movie, Almost Famous, by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Death: Bangs died in New York City on April 30, 1982, of an accidental overdose of Darvon, Valium, and Nyquil.[9] He is reported to have been listening to The Human League's album, Dare, at the time of his death.
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