Jack Bruce - 5/31/84, The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (sbd)
First Time I Met the Blues
White Room
Post War
Born Under a Bad Sign
Out in the Fields
Life on Earth
Sittin' on Top of the World
Rollin' and Tumblin'
One Word
Working Class Boys
Bird Alone
Spoonful
Morning Story

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Mudhoney - 5/15/89, Knight's, Chester, UK (sbd)
Magnolia Caboose Babyshit >
No One Has
Sweet Young Thing
Chain That Door
If I Think >
Mudride >
Here Comes Sickness
Need
Touch Me I'm Sick
This Gift
By Her Own Hand
Burn It clean
In 'n' Out of Grace
Revolution
Hate the Police

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Papa Mali - 9/25/08, Owsley's Golden Road, Denver, CO (sbd)
Keep Happy
Little Sadie
Girls in Bosier City
Do Your Thing
I'm a Ram

this is a good one

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Poco - 7/26/74, Wollman Rink, Central Park, NYC, NY (aud)
Blue Water
Fools Gold
Rocky Mountain Breakdown
Bad Weather
Hoe Down
Railroad Days
Ride the Country
Faith in the Families
Angel
Drivin' Wheel
I Guess You Made It
Restrain
A Right Along
C'mon

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The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet - 7/16/55, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
Clifford Brown - trumpet
Harold Land - tenor saxophone
Richie Powell - piano
George Morrow - bass
Max Roach - drums
Daahoud
Ghost of a Chance
Jacqui
I Get a Kick Out of You

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-Bai Yalin

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Neil Young - 3/11/99, Opera House, Spokane, WA (aud)
Tell Me Why
Looking Forward
War of Man
Out of Control
Albuquerque
World on a String
Pocahontas
Philadelphia
Love Is a Rose > 
Homegrown > 
Love Is a Rose
Daddy Went Walkin'
Distant Camera
Ambulance Blues
Unknown Legend
Old King
Harvest Moon
Slowpoke
After the Gold Rush
Good to See You
Heart of Gold
Cortez the Killer



.

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You Fit Into Me
-Margaret Atwood

You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

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Keith Jarrett - 10/24/88, Madrid, Spain (FM)
Keith Jarrett - piano
Improv 1
Improv 2
Over the Rainbow

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Larry Coryell - 9/13/73, Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA (FM)
Larry Coryell - Guitar
John Miller - Bass
Mike Mandel - Keyboards 
Steve Marcus - Sax 
Harry Wilkinson - Drums
Offering
Ruminations
Hen-Hopper
Scotland, pt. 1>
Offering

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Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman - 5/8/93, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA (sbd)
Bombs Away
Take Me
Should Have Been Me
Fever (W/Susan James)
Spoonful
Masterpiece (W/Susan James)
KC Moan
LL Rain
The Winners
Easy to Slip
Bass
Victim or the Crime
Eternity
Josephine
Wang Dang Doodle (W/Susan James & Chris Whitley)
Easy Answers (W/Susan James & Chris Whitley)

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Gary Burton - 3/4/76, Greenwood Inn, Olympia, WA (FM)
Gary Burton - vibes 
Mick Goodrick - guitar
Pat Metheny - guitar
Steve Swallow - bass
Eberhard Weber - bass
Bob Moses - drums
Sea Journey >
Olhos de Gato (Eyes of the Cat)
Ictus >
Syndrome
B & G (Midwestern Nights Dream)
I'm Your Pal >
Hullo Bolinas
Colours of Chloe >
Doin' the Pig

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-Hans von Aachen

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Jerry Garcia and John Kahn - 10/16/85, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA (sbd)
Deep Elem Blues
Friend of the Devil
Little Sadie
She Belongs to Me
Jack-a-Roe
Babe It Ain't No Lie
Reuben & Cherise
When I Paint My Masterpiece
I've Been All Around This World
Run for the Roses
Bird Song
Gomorrah
Ripple

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Hinged to Forgetfulness Like a Door
-Richard Brautigan

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams. 

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Jerry Garcia Band - 2/14/76, Keystone, Berkeley, CA (sbd)
I Second That Emotion
They Love Each Other
I Want To Tell You
Russian Lullaby
Tore Up Over You
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
After Midnight
Sitting Here In Limbo
A Strange Man
Catfish John
Mystery Train
Moonlight Mile
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

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Grateful Dead - 10/20/89, The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (sbd)
Touch of Grey
Greatest Story Ever Told
Candyman
Picasso Moon
Just a Little Light
Tennessee Jed
Stuck Inside of Mobile
Stagger Lee
 Promised Land
California Earthquake
Hey Pocky Way
Scarlet Begonias>
Fire on the Mountain>
Truckin'>
The Other One Jam>
Drums>
Space>
I Will Take You Home>
The Other One>
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia

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Robert Hunter - 10/24/82, Clark Gym, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (sbd)
Run for the Roses
Touch of Grey
Slackstring Quartet
Deal
Tiger Rose
Franklin's Tower
Box of Rain
Reuben & Cherise
Tales of the Great Rum Runners
Easy Wind
Scarlet Begonias
Ripple
Boys in the Barroom

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 3/26/76, Jaap Edenhal, Amsterdam, Holland (aud)
Tell Me Why
Mellow My Mind
After the Goldrush
Sad Movies
The Needle and the Damage Done
A Man Needs a Maid
No-One Seems to Know
Heart of Gold
Country Home
Don't Cry No Tears
Down by the River
The Losing End
Like a Hurricane
Let It Shine
Drive Back
Southern Man
Cortez the Killer
Cinnamon Girl

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Dave Holland - 5/20/91, New Jazz Festival, Moers, Germany (FM)
Dave Holland - bass
Steve Coleman - alto sax
Kevin Eubanks - guitar
Marvin 'Smitty' Smith - drums
Nemesis
Dream Of The Elders
Black Hole
Segment

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Warm Summer Sun

-Mark Twain



Warm summer sun,

    Shine kindly here,

Warm southern wind,

    Blow softly here.

Green sod above,

    Lie light, lie light.

Good night, dear heart,

    Good night, good night.

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-Vladimir Ryklin

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The Mahavishnu Orchestra - 7/29/74, Antibes, France (FM)
John McLaughlin - guitar 
Jean Luc Ponty - violin
Ralphe Armstrong - bass
Narada Michael Walden - drums
Gayle Moran - keyboards, vocals
Steve Frankovitch - horns
Bob Knapp - trumpet 
Steve Kindler - violin
Carol Shive - violin
Philip Hirschi - cello 
Marsha Westbrook - viola
Wings of Karma
Sanctuary
Drumz
Smile of the Beyond
Dawn

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Air - 6/27/79, Pisa Jazz Festival, Pisa, Italy (sbd)
Henry Threadgill - saxes, flute
Fred Hopkins - bass
Steve McCall - percussion
Portrait of Leo Smith
Dedicated to Rafael Garrett
Sir Simpleton
Untitled Tango
Open Air Suit

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Santana - 5/13/68, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA (FM)
Waiting  
Treat
Evil Ways
Shades Of Time
Savor>
Jingo
Persuasion  
Soul Sacrifice

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Horslips - 5/?/78, Four Acres Club, Utica, NY  (FM)
New York Wakes
The Power & The Glory >
Second Avenue
Book of Invasions, 1st Movement  >
Ride to Hell >
Sideways to The Sun >
Sword of Light >
Dark >
Sword of Light
Speed the Plow >
Sure the Boy Was Green

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Joni Mitchell - 10/28/98, The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI (aud)
Big Yellow Taxi
Just Like This Train
Night Ride Home
The Crazy Cries of Love
A Free Man in Paris
Harry's House>
Black Crow
Amelia
Hejira
Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Face Lift
Sex Kills
Magdelene Laundries
Moon at the Window
Trouble Man

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Soft Money

-Rae Armantrout



They’re sexy

because they’re needy,

which degrades them.


They’re sexy because

they don’t need you.


They’re sexy because they pretend

not to need you,


but they’re lying,

which degrades them.


They’re beneath you

and it’s hot.


They’re across the border,

rhymes with dancer—


they don’t need

to understand.


They’re content to be

(not mean),


which

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-Vahram Davtian

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The Godfathers - 4/4/87, Auditorium RAI, Napoli, Italy (FM)
John Barry
I Want Everything
Obsession
I Want You
Lonely Man
When I'm Coming Dow
Cold Turkey
If I Only Had Time
I'm Unsatisfied
Love Is Dead
This Damn Nation

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - 11/3/68, Konzerhaus, Vienna, Austria (FM)
Art Blakey - Drums
Bill Hardman - Trumpet
Julian Priester - Trombone
Billy Harper - Tenor Sax
Ronnie Mathews - Piano
Lawrence Evans - Bass
Moment's Notice
You Don't Know What Love Is
Moanin'
A New World

* Files mislabeled due to a typo on my part, actual date is 1968

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Dave Holland - 9/2/02, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago, IL (FM)
Dave Holland - Bass
Chris Potter - Saxophones
Robin Eubanks - Trombone
Steve Nelson - Vibes
Billy Kilson - Drums
The Balance
Juggler's Parade
High Wire
Make Believe
Prime Directive

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Shakti - 5/12/77, Hippodrome, London, UK
John McLaughlin - acoustic guitar 
Lakshminarayana Shankar - violin 
T. H. Vinayakaram - ghatam, mridangam 
Zakir Hussain - tabla
La Danse du Bonheur
India
What Need Have I for This...

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John Martyn - 5/18/77, Teatro Antoniano, Bologna, Italy (sbd)
One Day Without You
Certain Surprise
I Couldn't Love You More
Big Muff
Jellyroll Baker
Over the Hill
Spencer the Rover
Outside In
One World
May You Never
Singin' the Rain
I'd Rather Be the Devil

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Sky
by Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel 

He broke up the sky on the square and gave it like bread crumbs to birds.
Then he cut it in pieces and threw it to the beggars,
the crazies, the blind, and their companions.
But I got an end, smashed like a cup thrown to the ground,

lying on its back like a wounded soldier,
uncomplaining, as a harem wife
hiding her gaze behind a black

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-Mirko Hanak

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Boo, Forever
-Richard Brautigan

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.

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Los Lobos - 6/30/87, Schauburg, Bremen, Germany (FM)
My Baby's Gone
Come on Let's Go
A Matter of Time
The Hardest Time
All I Wanted to Do Was Dance
Let's Say Goodnight
Serenata Norteña
Prenda Del Alma
I Got Loaded
Shakin' Shakin' Shakes
Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)
La Bamba
Don't Worry Baby

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Horace Tapscott and Arthur Blythe - 8/16/91, Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Oakland, CA (aud)
 Horace Tapscott - piano 
 Arthur Blythe - alto sax 
At The Crossroads
Sketches Of Drunken Mary
Hip Dripper
?
The Dark Tree
?
Jitterbug Waltz
In A Sentimental Mood

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Led Zeppelin - 6/20/80, Voorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium (sbd w/aud patches)
Train Kept a Rollin'
Nobodys Fault But Mine
Black Dog
In the Evening
Rain Song
Hot Dog
All of My Love
Trampled Underfoot
Since I've Been Loving You
Achilles Last Stand
White Summer>
Black Mountainside
Kashmir
Stairway To Heaven
Rock and Roll
Whole Lotta Love

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Univers Zero - 2/21/82, Stockholm, Sweden
Combat
Bonjour Chez Vous
Dense
Funeral

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'

-Victor Hagea

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Question of the day

How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown?

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-Pol Ledent

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-Richard Estes

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Grateful Dead - 9/4/80, Civic Center, Providence, RI (sbd)
Feel Like a Stranger
Peggy-O
Cassidy
Dire Wolf
New Minglewood Blues
Althea
Looks Like Rain
Far from Me
China Cat Sunflower>
I Know You Rider
Samson and Delilah
Ramble on Rose
Supplication Jam>
Estimated Prophet>
Eyes of the World >
Drumz>
Space>
The Other One>
Wharf Rat>
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad>
Good Lovin'
U.S. Blues

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - 7/1/59 Freebody Park, RI (sbd)
Art Blakey- Drums
Lee Morgan- Trumpet
Hank Mobley- Tenor Sax
Bobby Timmons- Piano
Jymie Merrit- Bass
M&M
Close Your Eyes
Moanin'
A Night in Tunisia

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John Martyn - 4/12/83, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (FM)

Dealer >

Outside In

One Day Without You

May You Never

Root Love

Hiss on the Tape

One World

Solid Air

Johnny Too Bad

Smiling Stranger

Big Muff

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Los Lobos - 4/30/11, Rick's Teater , Bergen, Norway (FM)
Yo Canto
Evangeline
Shakin' Shakin' Shakes
Burn It Down
The Neighborhood
Tin Can Trust
Maricela
Angel Dance
I Got Loaded
La Bamba

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Led Zeppelin - 5/18/73, Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, TX (sbd)
Rock and Roll
Celebration Day
Black Dog
Over the Hills and Far Away
Misty Mountain Hop
Since I've Been Loving You
No Quarter
The Song Remains the Same
The Rain Song
Dazed and Confused
Stairway to Heaven

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Joni Mitchell - 9/?/67, The White Swan, Leicester, England (sbd?)
Little David
Come to the Sunshine
Chelsea Morning
The Wizard of Is
Both Sides Now
Night in the City
Song to a Seagull
Morning Morgantown
Dr Junk the Dentist Man
Eastern Rain
Circle Game
Michael from Mountains
Go Tell the Drummer Man>
I Don't Know Where I Stand

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Gliding O'er All

-Walt Whitman



Gliding o'er all, through all,

Through Nature, Time, and Space,

As a ship on the waters advancing,

The voyage of the soul—not life alone,

Death, many deaths I'll sing.

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-Vsevolod Shvayba

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Making Love to Concrete
- Audre Lord

An upright abutment in the mouthof the Willis Avenue bridgea beige Honda leaps the dividerlike a steel gazelle inescapablesleek leather boots on the pavementrat-a-tat-tat best intentionsgoing down for the third timestuck in the particularYou cannot make love to concreteif you care about beingnon-essential wrong or worn thinif you fear ever becomingdiamonds or

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Dave Holland - 11/6/99, Bim Huis, Amsterdam, Netherlands (FM)
Dave Holland - Bass
Chris Potter- Saxophones
Robin Eubanks - Trombone
Steve Nelson - Vibes
Billy Kilson - Drums
Jugglers Parade
High Wire
Bedouin Trail
Prime Directive

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Waylon Jennings - 8/2/75, Sugarloaf, ME (sbd)
Honky Tonk Heroes
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
You Ask Me To
Ladies Love Outlaws
Long Time Gone
Louisiana Women
I've Been a Long Time Leaving
Amanda
Pick Up the Tempo
Me and Paul
Let's Turn Back the Years
This Time
Me and Bobbie McGee
Rainy Day Woman
Bob Wills Is Still the King
I'm a Ramblin' Man

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-Emmet Kaye

The Godfathers - 10/5/86, The Town and Country Club, London, UK (FM)
I Want Everything
Love Is Dead
I'm Unsatisfied
John Barry
Lonely Man
I Want You
If I Only Had Time
Can't Leave Her Alone
This Damn Nation

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-Gustav Klimt

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Cobwebs
-Christina Rossetti

It is a land with neither night nor day, Nor heat nor cold, nor any wind, nor rain, Nor hills nor valleys; but one even plain Stretches thro' long unbroken miles away: While thro' the sluggish air a twilight grey Broodeth; no moons or seasons wax and wane, No ebb and flow are there among the main, No bud-time no leaf-falling there for aye, No ripple on the sea, no

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Horace Silver - 6/28/77, Marktpltz, Bremen, Germany (FM)
Horace Silver - piano
Tom Harrell - trumpet, flugelhorn
Larry Schneider - tenor saxophone
Chip Jackson - bass
Eddie Gladden - drums
The Sophisticated Hippie
In Pursuit of the 27th Man
Song for My Father
Barbara

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On the Field of Kulicovo
by Aleksandr Blok, translated by Yevgeny Bonver


The river stretched. It flows, idly grieves,
And washes both banks.
In steppe, above light clay of cliffs
Rinks mourn in ranks.

O Russia! Dear wife! With clearness and pain
We see the lengthy way!
It sent an arrow of ancient Tartar reign -
In breast it lay.

The way through steppes and an incessant plight,
Through your

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Marianne Faithfull - 7/26/11, Arena del Mare, Porto Antico di Genova, Italy (FM)
Horses and High Heels
Why Did We Have to Part
Stations
There Is a Ghost
The Crane Wife
Prussian Blue
Back in Babe's Arms Again
Going Back
Love Song
Sister Morphine
Sing Me Back Home (Before I Die)
Broken English
As Tears Go By
Working Class Hero
Incarceration of a Flower Child
Strange Weather

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-James Jebusa Shannon

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Clown in the Moon
-Dylan Thomas

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

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Neil Young - 5/30/99, Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA (aud)
Tell Me Why
Looking Forward
War of Man
Out of Control
Albuquerque
Buffalo Springfield Again
Don't Let It Bring You Down
Philadelphia
Homegrown
Daddy Went Walkin'
Distant Camera
Ambulance Blues
Southern Pacific
Old Man
Long May You Run
Harvest Moon
The Needle and the Damage Done
Slowpoke
After the Gold Rush
Good to See You
Heart of

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Arthur Blythe - 7/?/81, L'Expo d'Art, Montreal, Quebec (FM)
Arthur Blythe - alto sax
Kelvyn Bell - guitar
Bob Stewart - tuba
Bobby Battle - drums
Harlem Nocturne
Strike Up the Band
Hip Dripper
Misty
Illusions
Faceless Woman

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Santana - 9/23/74, University Arena, Albuquerque, NM (sbd)
Going Home>
A-1 Funk>
Every Step of the Way
Black Magic Woman>
Gypsy Queen
Oye Como Va
Mirage
Just in Time to See The Sun
Bambele
Give and Take  
Incident at Neshabur
Soul Sacrifice
Samba Pa Ti
Savor>
Toussaint L'Overture

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-Vahram Davtian

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-Unknown Artist

Steve Hillage - 9/18/76, Hyde Park, London, UK (sbd)
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Hurdy Gurdy Glissando
Solar Musick Suite
All Too Much

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Blue Oyster Cult  - 1/3/89, Toad's Place, New Haven, CT  (FM)
R.U. Ready 2 Rock
Dominance and Submission
E.T.I.
I Am the One You Warned Me Of
Buck's Boogie
Astronomy
Take Me Away
In the Presence of Another World >
Flaming Telepaths
Cities on Flame
Joan Crawford
Burnin' for You
Godzilla
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
This Ain't the Summer Of Love
Golden Age oOf Leather
The Red & The Black

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If It Should Ever Come

-Edward Dorn





And we are all there together

time will wave as willows do

and adios will be truly, yes,

 

      laughing at what is forgotten

and talking of what's new

admiring the roses you brought.

How sad.

 

You didn't know you were at the end

thought it was your bright pear

the earth, yes

 

another affair to have been kept

and gazed back on

when you

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Question of the day

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

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-Winslow Homer

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-Ramchandra Kharatmal

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Mudhoney - 4/25/89, Juze, Backnaq, Germany
Magnolia Caboose Babyshit
No One Has
Need
Touch Me I'm Sick
If I Think
Mudride
Here Comes Sickness
You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face)
This Gift
Chain That Door
Sweet Young Thing (Ain't Sweet No More)
By Her Own Hand
In 'N' Out of Grace
Burn It Clean
Twenty Four
Revolution
Hate the Police
Touch Me I'm Sick
Louie Louie
Wild Thing
I Wanna Be Your Dog
By

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - 12/4/58, Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland (FM)
Art  Blakey - drums
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Benny  Golson - tenor sax 
Bobby Timmons - piano 
Jymie Merritt - bass
Now's the Time
The Theme
Moanin'
Whisper Not
Evidence
I Remember Clifford
Just By Myself
Along Came Betty
My Funny Valentine
Come Rain or Come Shine
A Night in Tunisia
                 

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Steve Hillage - 4/4/79, Schwabingerbrau, Munich, Germany (sbd)
Electrick Gypsies
988 Aktivator
Crystal City
Activation Meditation >
The Glorious Om Riff
U.F.O. Over Paris
Radio
New Age Synthesis
Hurdy Gurdy Glissando
Light In The Sky

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A Lemon
-Pablo Neruda

Out of lemon flowersloosedon the moonlight, love'slashed and insatiableessences,sodden with fragrance,the lemon tree's yellowemerges,the lemonsmove downfrom the tree's planetariumDelicate merchandise!The harbors are big with it-bazaarsfor the light and thebarbarous gold.We openthe halvesof a miracle,and a clotting of acidsbrimsinto the starrydivisions:creation'soriginal

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Bonnie Raitt - 12/2/72, Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT (sbd)
Love Me Like A Man
That Song About The Midway
Rollin' and Tumblin'
You Got To Know How
Nothing Seems To Matter
Big Road
Write Me A Few Of Your Lines - Kokomo Blues
Special Delivery Blues
Bluebird
Stayed Too Long At The Fair
Women Be Wise
Love Has No Pride
Walk On By
Blender Blues
Love Me Like A Man
Can't Find My Way Home

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Shakti - 3/16/75, Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA (sbd)
John McLaughlin - guitar
L. Shankar - violin
R. Raghavan - mridangam
Mahalakshmi - tamboura
Tanima - sruti box
I Will Follow Him Who Follows Me Into Eternity (this track is about an hour long)

*ignore the mislabeled zip file, date is 1975

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Santana - 11/22/77, Akita, Japan (sbd)
Arise Awake>
Light Versus Darkness>
Jim Jeannie
Transformation Day>
Victory
Dawn
Zulu
Let the Children Play>
Jugando
Black Magic Woman>
Gypsy Queen
Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)
Europa
Gitano
The River
Batuka
No One to Depend On
Evil Ways
Oye Como Va
I'll Be Waiting
She's Not There
Savor
Toussaint L'Overture
Oneness
Soul Sacrifice
Flor D'Luna (

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The Plimsouls - 11/21/84, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (sbd)
Shaky City 
Nickels and Dimes 
I'll Get Lucky 
I Shook His Hand 
Great Big World 
Glory
Now 
Hush Hush 
Lost Time 
Oldest Story in the World 
Magic Touch 
Lie, Beg, Borrow and Steal
The Mood I'm in Tonight 
Women
Zero Hour 
Just Like That 
A Million Miles Away 
My Lonely Sad Eyes 
You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
Jumping from

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My Brother at 3 A.M.

-Natalie Diaz



He sat cross-legged, weeping on the steps

when Mom unlocked and opened the front door.

        O God, he said. O God.

                He wants to kill me, Mom.

When Mom unlocked and opened the front door

at 3 a.m., she was in her nightgown, Dad was asleep.

        He wants to kill me, he told her,

                looking over his shoulder.

3 a.m.

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-Max Beckmann

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Invictus
-William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years

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Los Lobos - 10/10/1999, Avila Bay Resort, Avila Beach, CA (sbd)
Revolution
Dear Mr. Fantasy
You've Got to Lose
Angel Dance
My Baby's Gone
Dream in Blue
Maricela
This Time
Oh Yeah
Cumbia Raza
Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio
Soy Mexico Americano
I Got to Let You Know
Volver, Volver
Don't Worry Baby
She's About a Mover
Not Fade Away
Bertha

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Neil Young - 6/1/99, Aerial Theatre, Houston, TX (aud)
Tell Me Why
Looking Forward
War of Man
Out of Control
Albuquerque
World on a String
Cortez
Buffalo Springfield Again
Philadelphia
Homegrown
Daddy Went Walking
Distant Camera
Razor Love
Southern Pacific
Old Man
Mother Earth
Harvest Moon
Pocahontas
The Needle and the Damage Done
Slowpoke
After the Gold Rush
Good To See You
Sugar Mountain

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Joni Mitchell - 1/26/95, Wells Fargo Theater, Los Angeles, CA (sbd)
Refuge of the Roads
Being Roy
Sex Kills
Moon at the Window
Night Ride Home
Love’s Cries
Yvette in English
Cherokee Louise
Sunny Sunday
Hejira
Just Like this Train
Happiness Is the Best Face-Lift
Song for Sharon

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Dave Holland - 9/3/03, Piazza del Nuraghe, Sant'Anna Arresi, Italy (FM)
Dave Holland - bass
Chris Potter - saxophone
Robin Eubanks - trombone
Steve Nelson - vibes, marimba
Billy Kilson - drums
Prime Directive
Jugglers Parade
Lost and Found
Shifting Sands
A Searching Spirit

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-Ma Jing Hu

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-Inna Tsukakhina

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Poco - 6/1/74, Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA (aud)
Blue Water ->
Fools Gold
Bad Weather
Drivin' Wheel ->
I Can See Everything
Ride The Country
Here We Go Again
Faith In Families
Angel
I Guess You Made It ->
Restrain
A Right Along
Hoe Down ->
Railroad Days
Good Feelin' To Know
C'mon

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Zakir Hussain - 3/5/04, Botanic Park, Adelaide, Australia (FM)
Zakir Hussain - tabla 
Sultan Khan - vocals, sarangi 
T. H. Vinayakram "Vikku" - ghatam 
Bhavani Shankar - pakhawaj 
Vijay Chauhan - dbolki 
Improvisation
Rhajistani folk song

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The Highwaymen - 4/3/92, Globen, Stockholm, Sweden (FM)
Highwayman
Folsom Prison Blues
Help Me Make It Through the Night
Sunday Morning Coming Down
The Best of all Possible Worlds
Desperadoes Waiting For a Train
Ring of Fire
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Me and Bobby McGee
Trouble Man  
Crazy
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Don't Take Your Guns to Town
I've Always Been Crazy
Night Life
On the Road

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Blue Oyster Cult - 9/24/82, Centrum, Worcester, MA (FM)
This Ain't the Summer of Love
Hot Rails to Hell
Joan Crawford
Cities On Flame
Veteran of the Psychic Wars
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Godzilla 
Born To Be Wild
Burnin' For You

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Petit, The Poet

-Edgar Lee Masters



Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, 

Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel— 

Faint iambics that the full breeze wakens— 

But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof. 

Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, 

Ballades by the score with the same old thought: 

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; 

And what is love but a rose that

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-Hamish Blakely

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Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith
-Mary Oliver

Every summerI listen and look under the sun's brass and eveninto the moonlight, but I can't hearanything, I can't see anything -- not the pale roots digging down, nor the green stalks muscling up,nor the leavesdeepening their damp pleats,nor the tassels making,nor the shucks, nor the cobs.And still,every day,the leafy fieldsgrow

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-Unknown Artist

Horace Silver  - 3/27/73, The Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA (sbd)
Horace Silver - Piano
Randy Brecker - Trumpet
Michael Brecker - Tenor saxophone, Flute
Will Lee - Bass
Al Queen - Drums
Liberated Brother
In Pursuit of the 27th Man
Big Business

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James Taylor - 7/5/72, Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA (sbd)
Sweet Baby James 
Something in the Way She Moves 
Greensleeves 
Tube Rose Snuff Commercial
Sunny Skies 
Chili Dog 
Rainy Day Man 
Riding on a Railroad 
Places in My Past 
Carolina on My Mind 
Long Ago & Far Away (w/ Carole King)
Blossom 
Country Road 
Highway Song 
On Broadway 
Fire and Rain 
Love Has Brought Me Around 
Whoa, Don't You

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The Godfathers - ?/?/88, Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL (FM)
John Barry
I Want Everything
Birth, School, Work, Death
'Cause I Said So
Obsession
I Want You
Miss That Girl
When I'm Down
Cold Turkey
Tell Me Why
Love Is Dead
The Strangest Boy
I'm Unsatisfied
STB
Can't Leave Her Alone
This Damn Nation
Public Enemy No. 1
Anarchy in the UK

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Arthur Blythe & Bob Stewart - 5/19/05, NDR Rolf Liebermann Studio, Hamburg, Germany (FM)
Arthur Blythe - alto sax
Bob Stewart - tuba
Odessa
Lennox Avenue Breakdown
Elaboration
Night Song
Bush Baby
Just Closer Walk With Thee
Break Tune
Jitterbug Waltz

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-Franz Radziwill

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Anthony Braxton - 7/25/08, San Sebastian, Spain (sbd)
Anthony Braxton - sopranino, F-alto saxophone, Bb-clarinet
Taylor Ho Bynum - trumpets, flugelhorn, cornet
Jessica Pavone - viola, violin 
Mary Halvorson - guitar 
Jay Rozen - tuba 
Chris Dahlgren - bass, viola, melodica
Aaron Siegel - drums, vibes
Composition #348

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Jan Garbarek - 1/31/10, The Barbican, London, UK
Jan Garbarek - saxophone
Rainer Bruninghaus - keyboards
Yuri Daniel - bass
Trilok Gurtu - drums, percussion
Tall Trees >
Liquid  >
Yr
Quwwali  >
Once I Dreamt A Tree Upside Down
Snail
Agnes
Fuji  >
Maracuja >
Joik
Mission

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Led Zeppelin - 7/6/73, Chicago, IL (sbd)
Rock and Roll
Celebration Day
Black Dog
Over The Hills and Far Away
Misty Mountain Hop
Since I've Been Loving You
No Quarter
The Song Remains the Same
The Rain Song
Dazed and Confused
Stairway to Heaven
Moby Dick
Heartbreaker
Whole Lotta Love
Communication Breakdown

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All Watched Over BY Machines of Loving Grace
-Richard Brautigan

I like to think (andthe sooner the better!)of a cybernetic meadowwhere mammals and computerslive together in mutuallyprogramming harmonylike pure watertouching clear sky. 

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Question of the day

Who the fuck are you?

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To Silvia To Wedby Robert HerrickLET us, though late, at last, my Silvia, wedAnd loving lie in one devoted bed.Thy watch may stand, my minutes fly post-haste ;No sound calls back the year that once is past.Then, sweetest Silvia, let's no longer stay ;True love, we know, precipitates delay.Away with doubts, all scruples hence remove ;No man at one time can be wise and love.

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Styx - 4/2/76, Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA (sbd)

Born for Adventure

22 Years

Lorelei

You Need Love

Suite Madame Blue

Lady

Midnight Ride

Light Up



Styx - 1/28/78, Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA (sbd)

The Grand Illusion

Lorelei

Mademoiselle

Fooling Yourself

Suite Madame Blue

Crystal Ball

Light Up

Lady

Man in the Wilderness

Come Sail Away

Midnight Ride

Miss

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Grateful Dead - 7/21/84, County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA (sbd)
Shakedown Street
Little Red Rooster
Althea
Me And My Uncle ->
Mexicali Blues
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider ->
Looks Like Rain ->
Might As Well
Cold Rain And Snow
Far From Me
Truckin' ->
Eyes Of The World ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Other One ->
Stella Blue ->
Around And Around ->
One More Saturday Night
Touch Of Grey

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-Enrico Ghinato

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Anthony Braxton - 2/9/95, Tri-Centric Festival, The Kitchen, New York, NY (FM)
unknown personnel
Composition #169
Composition #96

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Sam Rivers - 3/30/78, Public Theatre, New York, NY (FM)
Sam Rivers - tenor sax, soprano sax, flute ,piano
Joe Daley - tuba
Dave Holland - bass, cello
Barry Altshul - drums
one, hour-long improvised piece

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-Dave Voorvelt

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Poco - 8/23/09, Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY (aud)
Under the Gun
Rose of Cimarron
Indian Summer
A Good Feeling to Know
Call It Love
Kind Woman
Just for Me and You
Crazy Love
In The Heart of the Night
Picking Up the Pieces
You Better Think Twice

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Blue Oyster Cult - 2/4/77, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (FM)
ME 262 >
Dominance and Submission
Astronomy
Then Came the Last Days of May
E.T.I.
Buck's Boogie >
This Ain't the Summer of Love
Bass solo > 5 Guitars
Born to Be Wild
(Don't Fear) The Reaper

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-Alex Roulette

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Led Zeppelin - 5/26/73, Salt Palace Arena, Salt Lake City, UT (sbd)
Celebration Day
Black Dog 
Over The Hills And Far Away
Misty Mountain Hop
Since I've Been Loving You
No Quarter
The Song Remains The Same
The Rain Song
Dazed And Confused
Stairway To Heaven
Heartbreaker
Whole Lotta Love

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Arthur Blythe - 4/29/03, Lugano, Switzerland (FM)
Arthur Blythe - alto sax
Bobby Battle - drums
Simon Nabatov - piano
Dwayne (?) - bass
no set list (any help would be appreciated)

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-Aaron Westerberg

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Los Lobos - 5/4/13, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA (FM)
Will the Wolf Survive?
Dream in Blue
Chuco's Cumbia
The Neighborhood
I Got Loaded
Papa Was a Rolling Stone ->
I Can't Understand ->
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Let's Say Goodnight
I Got to Let You Know
Volver, Volver
Georgia Slop
Yo Canto
Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)
Mas y Mas #
Not Fade Awa
Bertha

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Your Catfish Friend
-Richard Brautigan

If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
     one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
     of my affection
and think, "It's beautiful
here by this pond. I wish
     somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -  11/28/59, Deutsches Museum, Munich,  Germany (FM)
Art Blakey - drums
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
Walter Davis - piano 
Jymie Merritt - bass
Round Midnight
CLose Your Eyes
Like Someone In Love
Lester Left Town

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-Edgar Degas

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Dave Holland - 7/22/03, Tollhaus, Karlsruhe, Germany (FM)
Dave Holland - bass
Chris Potter - sax
Robin Eubanks - trombone
Steve Nelson - vibes, marimba
Billy Kilson - drums
Lost And Found
A Seeking Spirit
Free For All

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Waylon Jennings - Nebraska, 1979 (FM)
Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?
Are You Ready For The Country?
Waymore Blues
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
I've Always Been Crazy
Amanda
Slow Rollin' Low
Come With Me
A Long Time Ago
I've Been A Long Time Leaving
Looking For A Feeling
Good Hearted Woman
Luckenbach, Texas
Honky Tonk Heroes

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Archibald Higby

-Edgar Lee Masters



I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,

I was ashamed of you. I despised you

As the place of my nativity.

And there in Rome, among the artists,

Speaking Italian, speaking French,

I seemed to myself at times to be free

Of every trace of my origin.

I seemed to be reaching the heights of art

And to breathe the air that the masters

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Lots of blogs have been taken down recently.  Those of us who focus on live music seem to be ok... for the time being.

Rest assured, if this blog goes away, there will be another.  Starting fresh sounds kinda nice.

You know what to google.

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The Lockless Door
-Robert Frost

It went many years,
 But at last came a knock,
 And I thought of the door
 With no lock to lock.

 I blew out the light,
 I tip-toed the floor,
 And raised both hands
 In prayer to the door.

 But the knock came again
 My window was wide;
 I climbed on the sill
 And descended outside.

 Back over the sill
 I bade a "Come in"
 To whoever the knock
 At the door may

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Joni Mitchell - 3/7/83, Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo , Japan (FM)
Free Man in Paris
Edith and the Kingpin  
You Dream Flat Tires  
Refugee of the Road
You're So Square
For Free
Big Yellow Taxi  
A Case of You
God Must Be a Boogie Man
Wild Things Run Fast
Don't Interrupt the Sorrow  
Solid Love
Chinese Cafe>
Unchained Melody  
Help Me
You Turn Me on I'm a Radio  
Love
Both Sides Now  

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-Gary Brewer

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Question of the day

Who will be my role-model now that my role-model is gone?

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-Carol Broman

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-Alejandro Rivera

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Heirloom
-A.M. Klein
My father bequeathed me no wide estates;No keys and ledgers were my heritage;Only some holy books with yahrzeit datesWrit mournfully upon a blank front page —Books of the Baal Shem Tov, and of his wonders;Pamphlets upon the devil and his crew;Prayers against road demons, witches, thunders;And sundry other tomes for a good Jew.Beautiful: though no pictures on them, saveThe

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