Blue Oyster Cult - Met Center, Minneapolis 1979 (Black & Blue Month)

A recording from the last day of the first part of B.O.C.'s USA tour supporting Mirrors, an album I would classify as neither very good nor very bad.
It's a clean soundboard with generally good sound except for some unbalanced tracks and Astronomy that has some noise.
To my knowledge the only missing song from the set played appears to be (Don't Fear) The Reaper.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

Disc 1
01 - Dominance & Submission
02 - Dr. Music
03 - Mirrors
04 - Cities On Flame With Rock 'N Roll
05 - The Great Sun Jester
06 - Buck's Boogie
07 - The Vigil

Disc 2
01 - Astronomy
02 - ME 262
03 - Godzilla
04 - Hot Rails To Hell
05 - Bass Solo
06 - Guitar Jam
07 - Born To Be Wild

Files:

SHN part 1
SHN part 2

MP3 part 1
MP3 part 2

Black Sabbath - Come to the Sabbath 1970 (Black & Blue Month)

And now one of the most famous Sabbath early shows, live at the Olympia in Paris, with songs from the first two albums (both essential), around 52 minutes of music.
Also known as Copper, From The Darkness, War Pigs , Live 1970 and plenty of other names.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: TV Broadcast

Track List:
1 - Paranoid
2 - Hand Of Doom
3 - Iron Man
4 - Black Sabbath
5 - N.I.B -
6 - Behind The Wall Of Sleep
7 - War Pigs
8 - Fairies Wear Boots

MP3
SHN

Blue Oyster Cult - Live In The West 1975 (Black & Blue Month)

"Live In The West" is possibly the most famous unreleased B.O.C. recording, supposedly created by the band itself to share with their friends.
It has songs caught from various shows during July 1975.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

Disc One:
01 - Stairway To The Stars
02 - OD'd On Life Itself
03 - Harvester Of Eyes
04 - Flamin' Telepaths
05 - Dominance And Submission
06 - Subhuman
07 - Seven Screaming Diz-Busters

Disc Two:
01 - Astronomy
02 - Cities On Flame
03 - Buck's Boogie
04 - Hot Rails To Hell
05 - Maserati GT (I Ain't Got You)


MP3 pt1
MP3 pt2

Black Sabbath - Shock Wave Over Texas 1978 (Black & Blue Month)

This is from the Never Say Die tour and was recorded on Abilene, Texas on 7th December 1978.
It's not the complete concert and has been circulating under the name Shock Wave Over Texas.
Shared by Jordan, thanks for taking part man.


Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
Symptom Of The Universe (cut)
Snowblind
War Pigs
Never Say Die
Black Sabbath
Shock Wave
Dirty Woman (cut)

FLAC

Blue Oyster Cult - Rochester, New York 1972 (Black & Blue Month)

First, a HUGE thanks to all Soundaboard readers that left so many nice messages in the birthday post.

Keep on Rocking and Rolling!

And let's start February with an early broadcast of Blue Oyster Cult, from WCMF-FM Radio, recorded live at Nugget's Pizza Parlor in Rochester, New York.

This version has two tracks missing (The Red and the Black and Buck’s Boogie), if any of you has it and is willing to share with us it would be fantastic :)

Sound Quality: 8.5

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01 Stairway To The Stars
02 Transmaniacon MC
03 Then Came The Last Days Of May
04 Before The Kiss A Redcap
05 Workshop Of The Telescopes
06 Cities On Flame With Rock & Roll
07 Born To Be Wild

Files:

MP3

FLAC

Missing tracks here (shared by strad):

Blue Öyster Cult - Bootleg EP (New York 1972-04-03)
42mb - @320
Nuggets Pizza Parlor
1- Workshop Of The Telescopes
2- Cities On Flame With Rock 'N' Roll
3- The Red And The Black
4- Buck's Boogie
Link

Three Years of Soundaboard!

This month Soundaboard celebrates its third year of existence!
As most of you realise a music blog dedicated only to unofficial recordings with this age isn't exactly common.
Thank you for being part of this, either by visiting, leaving comments, sharing, etc...
To make it a little different this month will be entirely filled with only two bands: Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult.
I hope you all enjoy this Black and Blue February and stay aboard.

Meanwhile, just to remind that these shares are still active:

Old posts with Black Sabbath:

Black Sabbath: Purple Sabbath - 1983

Black Sabbath - Vienna 1989

Black Sabbath: As Darkness Hits (Boston 1992)

Black Sabbath feat. Rob Halford - Ozzfest 2004 (Titus share)

Black Sabbath - Angel And Demon (1980)

Old posts with Blue Oyster Cult:

Blue Oyster Cult: BBC Rock Hour 1977

Blue Oyster Cult: New York 1981

Blue Oyster Cult - 08th Sept 1980

Blue Öyster Cult - Harvest Festival 2002 (Titus share)

Blue Öyster Cult - The Thing! 1981 (Titus share)

Blue Öyster Cult - The Edge 1999 (Titus share)

Blue Oyster Cult - Moscow, Idaho 1992

Blue Oyster Cult - San Juan Capistrano 95/96 (Titus share)

Blue Oyster Cult - Hollywood 1981 DVD

Blue Oyster Cult - Arlington Heights 2003 ("The Cheeb" share)

Grand Funk Railroad - University of Hawaii 1971

To end January here's a classic unofficial Grand Funk release, a great American band that always puts up great live shows.

Track 10 is taken from the Texas International Pop Festival, 1970.

The next month will be a little different in Soundaboard, stay tuned.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
01 - Are You Ready
02 - Paranoid
03 - In Need
04 - Mean Mistreater
05 - I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home
06 - Hooked On Love
07 - Got To Get It Together
08 - Into the Sun
09 - Inside Looking Out
10 - Are You Ready

MP3
FLAC

Mountain - Closing The Fillmore East

Our mate Jordan brought us an offer no one should refuse, Mountain live at the Fillmore East, it's called Closing The Fillmore East and the date is 6-28-71.

Track List:

01 - Intro
02 - Never In My Life
03 - Theme For An Imaginary Western
04 - Jam/Roll Over Beethoven
05 - Dreams of Milk and Honey
06 - Silver Paper
07 - Mississippi Queen
08 - Outside of the Fillmore
09 - Nantucket Sleighride

Link

FLAC Link (version without the two last tracks)

Humble Pie - The Country Club, Reseda

This is also known as Route 66 and was captured in two shows in different times: tracks one to eight are from The Country Club, Reseda in the year 1981, and tracks nine to twelve come from The Spectrum, Philadelphia, in 1973.

Humble Pie is one of those bands that always deliver high energy on stage, this is truely recommended for all rock'n'roll fans.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:
01 - I Don't Need No Doctor
02 - Infatuation
03 - 30 Days In The Hole
04 - Tin Soldier
05 - Fool For A Pretty Face
06 - Route 66
07 - Be-Bop-A-Lula
08 - Tulsa Time
09 - Four Day Creep
10 - Stone Cold Fever
11 - C'mon Everybody
12 - I Don't Need No Doctor

MP3
FLAC pt1
FLAC pt2

Santana - Bottom Line 1978

Carlos Santana and band live at the Bottom Line in New York, with introduction by Bill Graham.
A great presentation with special focus on Moonflower from 1977, and Inner Secrets from 1978.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

Disc 1

01 - Intro-Well Alright
02 - Black Magic Woman
03 - Gypsy Queen-Dance Sister Dance
04 - Europa
05 - Dealer-Spanish Rose
06 - Incident At Neshbar
07 - Victory is Won-Move On
08 - Batuka-No One To Depend On

Disc 2

01 - One Chain
02 - Toussaint L' Overture
03 - She's Not There
04 - Open Invitation
05 - Jungle Strut
06 - Transcendence
07 - Evil Ways

Spirit - The Golden Bear 1978

Here's a nice Spirit show at The Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, California.

By this time they were a trio composed by Randy California, Ed Cassidy and Larry "Fuzzy" Knight, considered one of the best Spirit line-ups, apart from the original group that recorded the first four classic albums.

Sound Quality: 8.5

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

01 - Fresh Garbage
02 - Phoenix (Land of the Rising Sun)
03 - Stone Free
04 - Nature's Way
05 - 1984
06 - Darlin' If
07 - Downer
08 - Mr. Skin
09 - Cold Rainy Night
10 - Zandu
11 - Looking Down (including Fuzzy's solo)
12 - It's All The Same (including Cass's solo)
13 - I Got A Line On You
14 - I've Got To Use My Imagination
15 - Wild Thing

MP3

Jay Ferguson - Roslyn NY

Jay Furguson was the lead singer of Spirit between 1967 and the early seventies, then he left and formed Jo Jo Gunne with other ex-Spirit, Mark Andes.

After the split of Jo Jo Gunne around 1975, Jay started a solo career which had as a selling highlight the song Thunder Island that is played in this gig at Roslyn, supposedly in the year 1977.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:

01 - Snakes On The Run

02 - Babylon

03 - The Island

04 - Happy Birthday Baby

05 - Mr Skin-I Got A Line On You

06 - All Alone In The End Zone

07 - Thunder Island

08 - Losin' Control

09 - Medicated Goo

Alice Cooper - Long Island 1972

The infamous Alice Cooper is back aboard with a killer show from his early career.
A good but incomplete recording from the North-American Killer tour, live at the Commack Arena in New York.

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

01 Intro
02 Be My Lover
03 You Drive Me Nervous
04 Yeah Yeah Yeah
05 Eighteen
06 Halo of Flies
07 Dead Babies
08 Street Fight/Intro to Killer
09 Killer
10 School's Out
11 Is It My Body

Rush - The Fifth Order of Angels

Time for some early Rush now, more precisely from August 26, 1974 on their first U.S. tour, live at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland.
This one hour concert is not necessary the rarest, I've seen it in some known sharing sites, but sure is one great Rush performance, in their hardest phase and with fine sound.

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: PreFM

Track List:

01 - Stage Announcements
02 - Finding My Way
03 - Best I Can
04 - Need Some Love
05 - In the End
06 - Fancy Dancer
07 - In the Mood
08 - Bad Boy
09 - Here Again
10 - Working Man
11 - Drum Solo
12 - What You're Doing
13 - Garden Road


Files:
MP3 This was released officially.

Journey - Winterland 1973

After receiving a request for early Journey shows I found exactly their first live performance.

Recorded on the last night of 1973 they played at the Winterland Ballroom and the headliner was Santana and his band.

I confess I didn't knew Journey pre-1979 and to hear this was a very nice surprise, completely different from the Steve Perry era (that I also like).

Sound Quality: 9

Source: Soundboard (?)

Track List:

01 - Topaz

02 - It's All Too Much

03 - In My Lonely Feeling

04 - Mystery Mountain

05 - Sing A Song For You

06 - Kahoutek

07 - State Of Confusion

08 - In The Morning Day

Files:

FLAC