Blondie: 1978-11-12 New York, NY (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

This is an excellent sounding Blondie show from almost 36 years ago and the performance is awesome too.  Blondie was one of the very first artist I really started listening to and looking for more music of.  As a kid, I had everything from Glen Campbell records to The Jackson 5 and other varieties of artists on records.  But as I was getting just a little older I heard Blondie and found a few 8-track tapes and then LP's because I really liked her voice.  This was even before I knew who Journey was, and even though I'd heard of Led Zeppelin, I didn't really know their music yet and hadn't heard it a lot.  We're talking way back when :-)

LINEAGE:
No lineage given > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align tracks on sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 6 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Blondie
Date: November 12, 1978
Location: New York, New York
Venue: The Palladium
Title: The Palladium and/or Blondie Live
Label: Blackjack
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 525 MB
Length: 83:52:50

SETLIST:
CD 1: 
101. In The Sun
102. X Offender
103. Hanging On The Telephone
104. Detroit 442
105. Fan Mail
106. Picture This
107. 11:59
108. Pretty Baby
109. (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear
110. Sunday Girl
111. Denis
112. I'm On E
113. I'm Gonna Love You Too
114. Will Anything Happen
115. Fade Away And Radiate

CD 2:
201. I Know But I Don't Know
202. One Way Or Another
203. Youth Nabbed As Sniper
204. Kung Fu Girl
205. Robert Fripp intro
206. Sister Midnight
207. Heroes
208. Bang A Gong (Get It On)

LINK:
(1) 1978-11-12 New York, NY SB

I lost interest in Blondie's music that came after the late 1980's.  She disappeared and so did a lot of her talent in my opinion.  She seemed to still have a great voice but she didn't seem to be able to use it.  Her enthusiasm and shows seemed to be lackluster and not like these late 1970's shows or the 1980 ones either.  So it is nice to find these old soundboard and audience recordings of Blondie shows from her early days.  I've been able to acquire a nice collection of them due to others who've shared them over the years.  And every so often, like today, I'll pull one up and give it a listen.  And I figured today, I'd go ahead and upload another one too just in case anyone else might like to hear an old Blondie show.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

      

Blondie: 1979-12-31 Glasgow, Scotland (Pro Shot/TV DVD)

PREFACE:  I'd originally shared this DVD back in 2009.  When asked to re-upload it the other day, I said "sure, no problem".  This was something I had no problem doing since it was never officially released.

Well, I should have done some checking prior to uploading it again!  After looking this morning online, I saw that as of November 2010, over a year after my first upload of the show, this was being put on an official release slated to be sold.  Dang!!!  Due to this, I have removed the links here so as to not be breaking the copyright laws and causing myself any problems.  One good thing for those interested in the show is that it can be officially bought and it is the complete show too.

I'm sorry for any problems this may have caused anyone but I cannot afford to be sued or have any legal problems over something this simple (or stupid on my part)!

Here's a Blondie show from New Year's Eve 1979 a few have requested lately.  I'd shared it 5 years ago but a lot has changed (mainly the links and services) since then.

I first really "heard" Blondie in 1980.  I'd likely heard her on the radio prior to that, but I found an 8-track tape of her in 1980 and fell in love with her voice.  I wasn't allowed to listen to rock 'n' roll as a kid so I missed out (back then) on a lot of great artists and had to sneak around to finally start listening to the music I loved.  My dad actually found my first Blondie cassette tape and smashed it against a brick wall.  When he came across the Blondie 8-track tape, he used a Roberts R7 (I think that's the model...been to long ago) reel-to-reel recorder with and 8-track port to record over it.  Today, I own that Roberts reel-to-reel recorder and things area lot different.  I think this is half the reason I love music, and especially the late 1960's - early 1980's music, so much.  The other half is that it was just excellent music!

Enough about me.  Here's the details!

LINEAGE:
2005 VH1 Classics standard definition TV BX > HD VIP622 DVR > HDMI cable > Philips DVDR3475 standalone DVD burner (transferred in HQ/High Quality 1 hour mode) > Sony DVD+RW > removed commercials and created song chapters > PC > TLH (for creating and verifying md5 file) > you

SHOW DETAILS:
Artist: Blondie
Date: December 31st, 1979
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Venue: Apollo Theatre
Program: BBC Old Grey Whistle Test
DVD's: 1
Label: Bootradr Project
Title: Old Grey Whistle Test
Total Running Time: 40:03

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: No
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: No
DVD Size: 2.63 GB

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Format: NTSC
Color/B&W: Color
Type: Pro Shot/Television Broadcast
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Data Rate: 9558 kbps
Total Bitrate: 9814 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 256 kbps
Codec: AC3
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

CHAPTERS:
01. Old Grey Whistle Test intro
02. unknown ending of Blondie song/program announcer introducing Blondie
03. Dreaming
04. Slow Motion
05. Shayla
06. Atomic
07. Eat To The Beat intro > Picture This
08. Pretty Baby
09. Heart Of Glass
10. Hanging On The Telephone
11. Sunday Girl (with Scottish bagpipes intro)

LINKS:
Part 01 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 02 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 03 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 04 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 05 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD
Part 06 - 1979-12-31 Glasgow DVD

The last song. "Sunday Girl", is only 3 minutes, 6 seconds long and the credits start rolling right before the song fades out and the program ends.  I could've used the standard DVD burner's menu, but instead I decided to just make this a put in and play DVD with no menu.  If I ever build another DVD project out of this I'll add a menu.

There was some confusion the first time I uploaded this DVD as to whether or no it was from the officially released 1979 Apollo Theatre DVD.  It isn't.  That show was from March of 1979, and while I don't have it, the TV program noted that this show was on December 31st, 1979 before it began airing.

I think Blondie and her whole band were at their prime in this time period.  Her voice is flawless and the music, while still having some disco types of sound (I never liked disco and never will) in some songs, was much more rock 'n' roll sounding with guitar, keyboards, drums, and the likes.

I hope you enjoy the superb Blondie performance from almost 35 years ago ...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

 
KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

 1979-12-31 Screen Capture

Blondie: 1977-09-21 San Francisco, CA (FLAC_SB/Pre-FM_Both Shows_2 CD)

Here's an excellent KSAN FM pre-FM source recording of two Blondie shows from 1977 and on the same day.  This was to be a KSAN FM broadcast over the FM airwaves at some point.  This is both shows from the venue this day in 1977.  It also contains the soundcheck from before the first show.

LINEAGE:
CD-R > dAmp Music Converter > FLAC Frontend > me > TLH (to check for SBE's...none found)

DETAILS:
Artist: Blondie
Date: September 21st, 1977
Location: San Francisco, California
Venue: Old Waldorf
Source: SB/Pre-FM
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: No (date on sample image below is wrong)
Title: none
Size: 740 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
Soundcheck Tracks 101 - 108
101. Warm-up
102. In The Sun
103. Cautious Lip (abort)
104. Cautious Lip
105. Kidnapper
106. Kidnapper (take 2)
107. Playing With Fire (abort)
108. Playing With Fire

First Show Starts
109. Warm-up
110. My Obsession
111. Kung Fu Girl
112. In The Sun
113. Little Girl Lies
114. You Look Good In Blue
115. Man Overboard
116. In The Flesh
117. Shark In Jet's Clothing
118. Rifle Range
119. Detroit 442
120. X-Offender
121. Rip Her To Shreds
122. band intros
123. Funtime
124. Kidnapper
125. Exit

Second Show Starts
201. X-Offender
202. Youth Nabbed As Sniper
203. Fan Mail
204. Cautious Lip
205. I'm On E
206. Detroit 442
207. I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No
208. Bermuda Triangle Blues
209. (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear
210. Contact In Red Square
211. Shark In Jet's Clothing
212. In The Sun
213. Heart Full Of Soul
214. Playing With Fire
215. Moonlight Drive

FileFactory Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/6bl3y7yysoop/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/48a39cer8bxr/

I left the original uploader's fileset intact and changed nothing.  This is just how I got it.  There is reportedly a "remastered version" out there, but why this recording needed to be remastered is beyond me.  It is excellent/superb sounding and complete.  I think the remastered version was done on an earlier copy, not as pristine as this one I'm uploading, and that was probably why it was done a while back.  Even though I do not have the remastered copy, I do believe this one will be much better that it was at the time it was shared.

I hope you enjoy the recording...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL & MERCHANDISE TOO.KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Blondie: 1980-01-12 London, England (FLAC_SB_2 CD)

This is a superb sounding show!  The mix is perfect and it sounds like it should be something you'd buy that was an official release.  But it isn't.  It's another great, unreleased show in the sea of material most people will never hear.  And Blondie (and band) put on an excellent show in this soundboard recording from a January night in London 1980 too.

DETAILS:
Artist: Blondie
Date: January 12th, 1980
Location: London, England
Venue: Hammersmith Odeon
Source: SB
Format: FLAC
CDs: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: none
Title: A Sexual Response
Size: 533 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Dreaming
102. Slow Motion
103. Shayla
104. Union City Blues
105. The Hardest Part
106. Atomic
107. Living In The Real World
108. Denis
109. Picture This
110. Die Young, Stay Pretty
111. Accidents Never Happen
112. Victor

CD 2:
201. Heart Of Glass
202. Eat To The Beat
203. Hanging On The Telephone
204. Louie Louie
205. I Feel Love
206. Heroes
207. I Feel Good
208. Sunday Girl
209. Pretty Baby
210. One Way Or Another

Hotfile Links:
Part 1 - https://hotfile.com/dl/201860690/db45af8/
Part 2 - https://hotfile.com/dl/201860779/af8dedb/
Part 3 - https://hotfile.com/dl/201859708/52514ef/

FileFactory Mirror Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/4g1t1uza561d/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/2df6qefu8ynz/
Part 3 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/7799tc1aft71/

I enjoyed listening to this show just before deciding to upload it here.  I've had it for some time now, but as with many recordings, it just hadn't found its way to my blanks CD-R spindle yet.  But it did today, and I'm glad I finally burned it to CD and listened to it.  The quality is so good on this show that it is easy to get it playing, adjust any sound settings you want on your system, and then not have to mess with it.  I just turned it up, started working around the house, and jammed out.

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr