Tag: SBD

Unearthed live AUDIO of The Meters & The Metrics from 1980 and 1983

Zigaboo Modeliste by Henry Heikkinen

Happy 50th Jazz Fest everyone! Here are some very rare audio recordings of The Meters that I have cleaned up and corrected the speed on. Years ago I traded for 2 CDRs marked as “The Meters 11/28/80”, and it turned out to be 2 different recordings that seem to be incomplete. Also, both recordings were running fast, probably from a bad cassette transfer. I’ve slowed them down and cleaned them up as best I can. Enjoy this rare funk as you get your mind right for the 50th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this year!

Download the recordings here and here.

The Metrics
1983 or 1984
New Orleans, LA @ ???

SBD > ??? > cassette > ??? > CDR > EAC > FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (pitch slowed down 0.9 semitones) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC

01. People Say 7:27
02. Cissy Strut > 3:57
03. Love The One You’re With > 2:57
04. Hey Pocky A-Way 7:18
05. They All Ask’d For You 7:00
06. Big Chief 5:48
07. Standing In Your Stuff // 6:00

George Porter, Jr. – bass, vocals
Zigaboo Modeliste – drums, vocals
David Torkanowsky – keyboards, ?vocals?
Scott Goudeau – guitar, ?vocals?
Tony Dagradi and/or Fred Kemp – saxophone

We know that this group played at Jazz Fest in 1983 and 1984. There is an audience recording that exists of their 1984 Jazz Fest performance. I have not heard it, but I have seen the info file and it’s a totally different setlist with no Meters tunes really except Gossip. So this recording could be from Jazz Fest 1983 or at some other time from 1982 to 1984. I presume and assume this was recorded in New Orleans.

I found this as filler on the 11/28/80 Meters CDRs I traded for years ago. Upon closer inspection of my CDR’s, it was actually about 45 minutes of 11/28/80 and then this Metrics recording on the other side of the cassette.
The tape was also running too fast. This is my first attempt at shifting/fixing the pitch, so it may not be correct, but it sounds closer to reality than it did. It’s also an incomplete recording. I don’t know how much is missing from the end. 2019-01-19 – Funk It Blog

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The Meters (with Sam Henry subbing for Art Neville)
November 28th, 1980
New Orleans, LA @ Tipitinas

FM/SBD (WTUL) > 3rd Gen (presumably a cassette) > DAT > ??? > FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (amplified) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > WAV > FLAC

01. WTUL radio intro
02. Rigor Mortis
03. Fire on the Bayou >
04. Jungle Man
05. talk & tuning
06. Africa
07. Cissy Strut
08. Just Kissed My Baby
09. People Say >
10. “Try To Get Over” >
11. They All Ask’d For You

Sam Henry – organ & vocals (subbing for Art Neville)
George Porter, Jr. – bass & vocals
Leo Nocentelli – guitar
Zigaboo Modeliste – drums & vocals

They are announced as “The Funky Disgusting Meters”! It sounds like George Porter’s group, Joyride, was the opening act because Zig calls them out during the jam into Jungle Man.

Here’s a little more info on the history between Sam Henry and The Meters (courtesy of the Home Of The Groove blog):
https://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/2006/08/gospel-bird-vs-soul-machine-updated.html

Uncirculated AUDIO from 2003: earliest Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings live recording

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 4/13/03 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
Honky Tonk Popcorn, Got To Be The Way It Is > “I’m Feelin’ It”

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
April 13, 2003
Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
DSBD > master CDRs > EAC > FLAC

DOWNLOAD HERE

Disc One:
01. unknown instrumental
02. “Slap You Some Soul On It”
03. Sharon Jones Intro
04. Got A Thing On My Mind
05. What Have You Done For Me Lately (Janet Jackson cover) >
06. Things Got To Get Better (Marva Whitney cover) > There Was A Time (James Brown cover) >
07. “Talking ‘Bout Peace ”
08. “He Makes Me Feel Good”

Disc Two:
01. Cut That Line
02. Give Me A Chance (inc. jam and solos)
03. Make It Good To Me
04. Honky Tonk Popcorn (Bill Doggett / James Brown cover) (instrumental)
05. Honky Tonk Popcorn (reprise)
06. Got To Be The Way It Is >
07. “I’m Feelin’ It”
08. “Makes Me Feel Soo Glad”
09. Genuine >
10. Outro
Encore:
11. Pick It Up, Lay It in the Cut
12. “I’m A Mother For You”

Tom Tom Club – “1980-1981 demos” aka “Rough Instrumentals For First Album”

Tom Tom Club – L’Eléphant (Rough Instrumentals For First Album)

Tom Tom Club
“1980-1981 demos” aka “Rough Instrumentals For First Album”

DOWNLOAD HERE.

01. Genius of Love
02. Wordy Rappinghood
03. On, On, On, On… (version 1)
04. On, On, On, On… (version 2)
05. Tom Tom Theme
06. L’Eléphant
07. As Above, So Below
08. Lorelei

Mark Kadzielawa: “Not too many people know that Adrian Belew played guitar on several cuts from the first album. What was it like to work him in the studio?”
Chris Frantz: “Well, we actually had hoped that Adrian would stick with Tom Tom Club. What we did, we recorded all the basic tracks, and then we had Adrian come down. We brought his whole family down. Him and his family, we flew them down to the Bahamas. He came over with his wife, and his two kids, and we had a wonderful time. He overdubbed the guitar part onto the stuff that we’ve had already recorded. We did at least one instrumental track with him that we began with him there. It was called “Tom Tom Theme,” where Adrian actually hit the piano strings with drumsticks, and it was kind of neat. Adrian is a great guitarist, and we actually spoke to Chris Blackwell about offering Adrian a solo deal, which may not have happened if we hadn’t asked him to. We thought very highly about Adrian, but as soon as he finished, he was off working with Robert Fripp. We barely saw him again, and after that I think I only seen him one time since then at the MTV studios.”
– excerpted from 69 Faces of Rock

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As a little bonus, check out this recently unearthed Talking Heads live recording, and download the full show here.

Talking Heads – Born Under Punches 8/27/80 NYC @ Central Park

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