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All the below mentioned people were unhappy for most of their thinking lives. Most people didn't understand these guys and what they said. They could not make sense of the world either ( or perhaps they made too much sense?)All these guys had a different view of the world. They could see what others couldn't. Perhaps they could hear what others couldn't; and that's why they made music which millions heard and will continue to hear as long as humanity exists.Why they were unhappy?They saw the world in a particular way, but they could not understand why the others around them couldn't see.While others saw the trees, they saw the forest.While others saw the watch, they saw the time.While others saw the faces, they saw the emotions.While others saw the disorder, they saw the disease.While others saw the wings, they saw the flight. James 'Jim' Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker.

He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history. He reportedly had an I.Q. Of 149.He was most well known for his theatrical stage persona, his self-destructiveness, and his work as a poet.

He died under 'mysterious' circumstances at an early age of 27.' I don't know how many of you people believe in astrology. I think its a bunch of bullshit myself, ya listen baby, listen.

I'm a Sagittarius, the most philosophical of all the signs; I don't know what's gonna happen man, but I tell you this man, I tell you this- I wanna have my kicks before the old shithouse goes up in flames.' Nicholas Rodney 'Nick' Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his haunting, acoustic, autumnal songs. During his final years, the producer was taken aback at Drake's anger and bitterness: 'He said that I had told him he was a genius, and others had concurred. Why wasn't he famous and rich. This rage must have festered beneath that inexpressive exterior for years.' He was hired for his fourth and last album album; his mother later recalled, 'We were so absolutely thrilled to think that Nick was happy because there hadn't been any happiness in Nick's life for years.' Nick Drake died at home from an overdose of amitriptyline at the age of 26 years.'

Would you love me for my moneyWould you love me for my headWould you love me through the winterWould you love me 'til I'm dead?'

As I mentioned previously, 2014 was a 'bumper crop' year for Bruce Springsteen doing cover songs in concert that he'd never done before. In fact, he played so many songs that it's the only year where I've mad two albums just from that year (plus more songs on the adjacent albums).Also, 2014 was a 'bumper crop' year for the release of his officially released live albums (though download only). Thus, only three of the songs here are unreleased, and at least two of those are from excellent sounding soundboard sources. That makes this one of the best sounding albums in the series.In terms of song selections, most of them are the usual classic rock and soul hits, generally from the 1960s. But there are some exceptions. He did a few folk songs associated with his 2006 Pete Seeger-themed album. I chose these versions instead of versions around 2006 because these have slightly better sound quality.

He also did some unexpected songs, especially 'Clampdown' by the Clash and 'Don't Change' by INXS.But perhaps the most intriguing songs are the last two, the U2 hits 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' and 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' These aren't the usual duets where one person sings a verse and the other sings the next verse, and so on, and they join in on the chorus. Instead, U2's lead singer Bono was hurt in an accident and couldn't make it for a benefit concert, so he asked Springsteen to fill in for him instead. Thus, Springsteen sang all the lead vocals, the other three members of U2 backed him up, and Bono wasn't even there.01.

Pretty Flamingo (Bruce Springsteen)02. Clampdown (Bruce Springsteen)03. Gloria (Bruce Springsteen)04. O Mary Don't You Weep (Bruce Springsteen)05.

Joe Hill (Bruce Springsteen)06. Right Place, Wrong Time (Dr. John & Bruce Springsteen)07. Green River (John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen)08.

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Bruce Springsteen)09. Jesse James (Bruce Springsteen)10. Treat Her Right (Bruce Springsteen)11. Don't Change (Bruce Springsteen)12. Jump (Bruce Springsteen)13.

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Bruce Springsteen & U2)14. Where the Streets Have No Name (Bruce Springsteen & U2)part of my effort to make some of these album covers a little unusual, I chose one of Springsteen standing with two members of U2, The Edge and Larry Mullen, Jr. This was taken in the concert performance documented by the last two songs. Robbie Robertson was the main songwriter for the Band, but almost never the lead vocalist. He put an end to that group in the late 1970s and started a solo career in the 1980s in which he's been the singer. Some people don't like his limited voice, but I think he sings with lots of character, much like Leonard Cohen.To be honest, it seems to me that Robertson has never gone all out with his solo career. His solo albums have been really good, but there are long gaps between releases.

Also, he's almost never played live, after playing live quite a lot with the Band. Occasionally, he's played one or two songs here and there for TV appearances, but he's never gone on tour and he's never even played a single full concert.He's never done a full concert, that is, except for this one.

In 1994, he released his third solo album 'Music for 'The Native Americans.' ' His mother was a Native American who lived much of her life on a Canadian reserve. That album was all about him getting in touch with his Native American heritage, with songs on that theme and many Native American guest musicians too.This concert is basically a live version of that album, which works for me, because it's my favorite of his solo albums. Robertson sings a majority of the songs and plays lead guitar on most of the rest.

But he brought out most of the same Native American guest musicians who had been on the album, and gave them more of a chance to shine, playing a few songs not on Robertson's album. Most notably, this includes Buffy Saint Marie, a Native American who has had a long successful music career, and she sings one of her best known songs.I'm not sure what the deal with this concert is. It took place in a small town in Sicily, in the south of Italy, which seems an odd location given the Native American theme. It was filmed for TV, and I got the music by converting the video feed to mp3s. The footage credits reveal there was an all-Italian film crew who recorded the concert for an Italian TV station. It's strange to me that the only full concert Robertson has done in his solo career so far took place in those conditions, but perhaps TV stations in other countries weren't interested in recording similar shows.By the way, 'Coolidge' is a musical group composed of Rita Coolidge (who had some country hits in the 1970s and 1980s), her sister Priscilla Coolidge, and her daughter Laura Satterfield.

A couple of years after this, they changed their name to Walela and released a few albums of Native American-inspired music.01. Ghost Dance (Robbie Robertson)02. Talk (Robbie Robertson)03.

Mahk Jchi Heartbeat Drum Song (Ulali with Robbie Robertson)04. Golden Feather (Robbie Robertson)05. Eagle Dance (Robbie Robertson & the American Indian Dance Theater)06.

Cherokee Morning Song (Coolidge with Robbie Robertson)07. It Is a Good Day to Die (Robbie Robertson)08. Crazy Horse (John Trudell & Bad Dog with Robbie Robertson)09. Skinwalker (Robbie Robertson)10. Talk (Robbie Robertson)11. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Buffy Saint Marie with Robbie Robertson)12. Coyote Dance - Hoop Dance (Robbie Robertson & the American Indian Dance Theater)13.

Ancestor Song (Robbie Robertson)concert is available on YouTube. I took a screenshot of it for the cover art. I took another screenshot for the 'In Unity Concert' title. All of these Bruce Springsteen cover songs albums are great in terms of musical content. But this one at least is tied for the very best sound quality out of all the albums in the series, so if you're looking for one album to get a sense of what this series is about, this is an ideal one to start with.The reason the sound quality is so good is because all of the songs have been officially released.

As I've mentioned previously, Springsteen has released dozens of concerts in recent years, but they're download-only and fairly obscure. For some reason, he's probably released more from 2014 than any other year, so it's a breeze for me to pick songs with high sound quality.Now, as for the content, Springsteen does some really unexpected songs here! Typically, he's played loads of classic soul and rock hits, especially from the 1960s. For instance, he's done just about every 'frat rock' hit there is, and that's exemplified by his cover of 'Louie, Louie' on this album. But for this album, he did a version of 'Stayin' Alive' by the Bee Gees, of all things! And just as strange, but in a different way, is his cover of Lorde's huge 2013 hit 'Royals.'

What makes that unique is that he's almost always covered songs from decades past, but that song was only about a year old when he covered it. (I'm glad he did, because I think it's a great song.)The first half of the songs here are from a tour of Australia and New Zealand, and many of these unexpected song choices are him tipping his hat to those countries. For instance, the Bee Gees grew up in Australia, so he played 'Stayin' Alive' there. Similarly, he did 'Friday on My Mind' as a tribute to the Australian band the Easybeats, who wrote it.

And Lorde is from New Zealand, so he played 'Royals' there.01. Spill the Wine (Bruce Springsteen)02. Love Is like A Heat Wave (Bruce Springsteen)03. Friday on My Mind (Bruce Springsteen)04. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Bruce Springsteen)05.

Stayin' Alive (Bruce Springsteen)06. Royals (Bruce Springsteen)07. May I (Bruce Springsteen)08. Burning Love (Bruce Springsteen)09.

I Can't Get No Satisfaction (Bruce Springsteen)10. Mustang Sally (Bruce Springsteen)11. Louie, Louie (Bruce Springsteen)12. Brown Eyed Girl (Bruce Springsteen)reason Springsteen has a legendary reputation as a concert performer is his interaction with the audience. For this album cover, I chose a photo that would exemplify that.

The photo is of a random girl who was invited to the stage to dance with him in 2014. I've mentioned how I filled the big gap between the Grateful Dead's studio albums in 1970 and 1973 by making no less than four albums out of the original songs in that period. This is the fourth and last of the albums I've made.The reason they didn't release any studio albums at that time was because the songs appeared on solo albums by Jerry Garcia ('Garcia') and Bob Weir ('Ace'), plus they put lots of new songs on their live albums, especially 'Europe '72.'

Most of the songs here either come from 'Europe '72' or associated archival releases from that same European tour. But, as I often do, I removed the crowd noise to make it all sound like a studio album.There are two cases where I had to resort to the studio tracks from those solo albums I mentioned above. 'The Wheel' is a great song, and the Dead played it a lot in concert. But, strangely, they didn't start playing it until about 1976, even though it was released on a 1972 album. I didn't want to stray chronologically from around 1972, so I was forced to use the version from the 'Garcia' solo album.It's a similar case with 'Walk in the Sunshine,' from 'Ace.' I believe that song was never played by the Dead at all, the only song from 'Ace' they ignored.

So I had to use the version from that album.As for the album as a whole, I was careful to keep the usual mix of songs sung by Garcia, Weir, and Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan. Garcia has the most, and McKernan the least.Also, as I did for all the four albums i made from this time period, I included one cover song.

Each time, I picked a cover that has become so closely identified with the Dead that many assume they wrote it. This time, I went with 'I Know You Rider.' The Dead played this a billion times in concert, almost always as a medley with 'China Cat Sunflower.' The Dead truly were at a peak in the early 1970s, so this is a great album. While putting these four albums together, I came across a lot more cover versions that I didn't have room to include.

But I'm planning on organizing that material and posting it here eventually.01. The Wheel (Jerry Garcia)02. Brown-Eyed Woman (Grateful Dead)03.

Mexicali Blues (Grateful Dead)04. Tennessee Jed (Grateful Dead)05. Chinatown Shuffle (Grateful Dead)06. Walk in the Sunshine (Bob Weir)07.

Comes a Time (Grateful Dead)08. Next Time You See Me (Grateful Dead)09. I Know You Rider (Grateful Dead)10. One More Saturday Night (Grateful Dead)very pleased at how this album cover came out. When I decided to name the album 'The Wheel,' I went looking for wheel-related artwork. I found a blue wheel with some red roses on it, which seemed fitting since roses are one of many Dead visual symbols. But just having that seemed too bland, so I went looking for mandala artwork, since that's another circular thing that fits with the Dead ethos.

I found a nice one, overlaid the blue wheel on top of it, and the two seemed to fit perfectly.:). Sorry about the delay in posting this.

I thought I'd be able to post each day right through Christmas, but holiday stuff took up too much of my time. As it is, this series is coming to an end soon, since this is volume 19 out of 22.About half of the songs here date to 2013 and the other date to 2014. That's important, because the 2013 ones are mostly officially unreleased, and have varying (but at least still good) sound quality. Whereas with the 2014 songs, I don't know why, but for some reason Springsteen has officially released way more 2014 concerts than maybe any other year. Plus, the covers he did that year he usually did more than once.

As a result, only two out of the six 2013 songs are officially released versions, but all seven of the 2014 ones are.By the way, 2014 is a bumper crop year for Springsteen's cover songs in general. The next two albums in this series come entirely from 2014, and virtually all of them are officially released, which means excellent sound.One unusual aspect of this album is that two of those songs are actually sung in Spanish. As if Springsteen isn't talented enough already, apparently he's a fluent Spanish speaker too.

(In putting this series together, I had to edit out some lengthy spoken introductions where he spoke Spanish.)Oh, and by the way, who would ever have thought Springsteen would cover AC-DC's 'Highway to Hell?!' But he does that here, and there are lots more interesting surprises to come on the other 2014 albums in this series.01.

Shout (Bruce Springsteen)02. Manifiesto (Bruce Springsteen)03. Jailhouse Rock (Bruce Springsteen)04. Ain't Too Proud to Beg (Bruce Springsteen)05.

Bad Moon Rising (Bruce Springsteen)06. Sociedade Alternativa (Bruce Springsteen)07.

Free Nelson Mandela (Bruce Springsteen)08. We Shall Overcome (Bruce Springsteen)09. This Little Light of Mine (Bruce Springsteen)10. Sun City (Steven Van Zandt & Bruce Springsteen)11. Highway to Hell (Bruce Springsteen)12. High Hopes (Bruce Springsteen)13. Just like Fire Would (Bruce Springsteen)mentioned in a previous volume in this series how, in recent years, Springsteen has a tradition of collecting cards from the audience with requested song titles on them.

I found a 2013 photo of this tradition in action. Merry Christmas and happy holidays in general. Here's something that I think is extra interesting.

I had no idea it even existed until I stumbled across it a few days ago on YouTube while looking for something else. I'll bet you have no idea this existed either, but you should give it a listen.In 1996, there was a high-profile black-tie gala in Los Angeles for the City of Hope, a foundation raising money to fight several deadly diseases. All sorts of rich and famous people attended, and it raised over $3 million. For the evening's concert, a very unusual mix of famous musicians got together to create what they called the 'All-Star Garage Band': Steve Winwood, Don Henley, Bryan Adams, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, John Mellencamp, Eddie Van Halen, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Bobby Keys, Tony Rich, Richie Sambora, Jim Price, Narada Michael Walden, Paul Shaffer, and Max Weinberg.It was different than your usual concert for this sort of event, where famous musicians take turns go on stage, sing a song or two, then leave the stage. Instead, in keeping with the 'garage band' concept, most of them stayed on stage for the whole show, and played various instruments and/or sang backing vocals when they weren't in the spotlight. For instance, in addition to singing a couple of songs, Don Henley of the Eagles either played cowbell or a full drum set on some of the other songs.I find this a fascinating mixture of musicians that I never imagined would play together.

What's even more interesting is that in nearly all cases, they did classic songs that they normally didn't play. Nobody was promoting their latest record, and nobody even sang any song they actually wrote (with the exception of Steve Winwood, who co-wrote 'Gimme Some Lovin'). It seems they had a ball playing the songs they all loved and grew up with.Winwood sang the most songs (though not by much), and played organ on all the songs, so I've filed this album in the Winwood part of my music collection. I've helped beef up the Winwood emphasis by adding some songs featuring him at the start and end of this album that come from different concerts around the same time. The first two songs, 'Higher Ground' and 'Gimme Some Lovin',' are duets between Stevie Wonder and Winwood at a 1997 awards show.

This means that 'Gimme Some Lovin' is performed twice on this album, but I figure that's acceptable because one version is a duet (plus, it's a fantastic song!). The last two songs come from a 1996 Chic concert in Tokyo, Japan. Both Winwood and Slash joined in on Winwood's hit 'Higher Love' and the Jimi Hendrix classic 'Stone Free.' Winwood sang lead and played organ on those songs, while Slash did all the guitar soloing.Speaking of guitar soloing, one interesting thing about the main 'All-Star Garage Band' show is Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing. Personally, I'm not a really big fan of the band Van Halen, although I do enjoy their well known songs.

But I gather it's been very rare for Eddie Van Halen to play lead guitar outside of that band (unlike, say, Eric Clapton, who has played on zillions of other musician's projects). Yet Van Halen is all over this. He plays his easily identifiable style of soloing on a bunch of songs (unfortunately not giving guitarist Richie Sambora much of a chance to shine).The recording sound quality is good, not great.

I searched the Internet fairly thoroughly, but all I could find of the show was some YouTube videos, from a variety of sources. All of them come from a VH-1 broadcast of the concert, but some were recorded better than others. In particular, 'Stay with Me' sounds rougher than the rest, but I've included it here since I deemed it just good enough. For two of the songs played at that concert, I couldn't find any versions at all: 'Get Ready' by Tony Rich and 'Tequila' by Bobby Keys. If anyone has those, please let me know, and I'll add them in. And if you have better versions of other songs, or even have one consistent recording of the whole thing, also please let me know so I can upgrade the sound.From what I understand, the show wasn't broadcast on VH-1 until 1997.

By that time, the footage was edited so that the band leader (and longtime Tonight Show with David Letterman sidekick) Paul Shaffer gave introductions to each song that were recorded later in a different place. I've cut out what bits of these intros the YouTube videos had, which often wasn't much.

That means there's no actual between song dialogue by the people on stage, since all that had been edited out of the broadcast. Also, there generally are only a few seconds of applause at the end of each song before Shaffer resumed talking or the broadcast cut to a commercial. So I've added more applause to the ends of most songs, patching in the applause from the few songs that did have a decent applause length.The core 'All-Star Garage Band' recording is 42 minutes long. With the added Winwood bonus tracks, the full album is 58 minutes long. And by the way, since I got these from YouTube videos, you can go to that website and watch the footage of all of these songs. It's interesting to see so many big stars often playing more humble backing musician roles.01.

Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder & Steve Winwood)02. Gimme Some Lovin' (Stevie Wonder & Steve Winwood)03.

I Fought the Law (John Mellencamp & Bryan Adams with Eddie Van Halen & the All-Star Garage Band)04. Stay with Me (Melissa Etheridge with the All-Star Garage Band)05.

Bitch (Sheryl Crow with Eddie Van Halen & the All-Star Garage Band)06. Paul grimshaw the volvo performance handbook. In the Midnight Hour (Don Henley with the All-Star Garage Band)07.

C'mon Everybody (Bryan Adams with Eddie Van Halen & the All-Star Garage Band)08. Shotgun (Steve Winwood with the All-Star Garage Band)09.

When Something Is Wrong with My Baby (Steve Winwood & Sheryl Crow with the All-Star Garage Band)10. Hold On, I'm Comin' (Steve Winwood & Don Henley with the All-Star Garage Band)11. Gloria (John Mellencamp with Richie Sambora, Eddie Van Halen & the All-Star Garage Band)12. Gimme Some Lovin' (Steve Winwood with the All-Star Garage Band)13. Get Back (Richie Sambora & Melissa Etheridge with Eddie Van Halen & the All-Star Garage Band)14. Higher Love (Steve Winwood with Slash & Chic)15. Stone Free (Steve Winwood with Slash & Chic)the cover, I found two nice photos for the actual event, and I couldn't decide which one to use.

So I simply used both of them. The top photo shows, from right to left: Bryan Adams, Max Weinberg, Richie Sambora, Eddie Van Halen, and Steve Winwood. The bottom photo was taken that same evening, back stage. It shows, from right to left: Don Henley, Van Halen, Winwood, Sheryl Crow, Narada Michael Walden, and John Mellancamp. Unfortunately, not everyone on stage that evening could be captured in these two photos, but at least it shows most of them.

Even though it's Christmas Eve, the daily posting of Bruce Springsteen cover songs albums continues without pause. This album deals with just the year 2012.This album is much like the others in the series, with the usual emphasis on covers of classic rock and soul hits from the 1960s. This time, only two out of the 12 songs have been officially released. Still, the sound quality is generally excellent.Probably the worst song in terms of sound quality is 'When I Leave Berlin.'

But I included it because it's such an unusual song for Springsteen to cover. Plus, even the sound quality on that one is acceptable. The song was written by the rare obscure British folk musician Wizz Jones, and first appeared on a 1973 album by him.01. The Way You Do the Things You Do - 634-5789 Soulsville, U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen)02.

We Gotta Get Out of This Place Acoustic Version (Bruce Springsteen)03. California Sun (Bruce Springsteen)04.

The Weight (Bruce Springsteen)05. When I Leave Berlin (Bruce Springsteen)06.

Elliott Smith Archive

I Saw Her Standing There (Paul McCartney & Bruce Springsteen)07. Dirty Water (Bruce Springsteen)08. Knock On Wood (Bruce Springsteen)09. Pay Me My Money Down (Bruce Springsteen)10. Monster Mash (Bruce Springsteen)11. Who Says You Can't Go Home (Bon Jovi & Bruce Springsteen)12.

Elliott Smith

Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones & Bruce Springsteen)2012, Springsteen had one of several appearances on The Jimmy Fallon Show in which he parodied his 'Born in the U.S.A.' As a lark, I've used a photo from that appearance as the album cover. Fallon can be partially seen to the side, dressed up like Neil Young.