Archive for category: Live Tracks

Enjoy these ultra-rare exclusive live performances from Redbeard’s Dallas/Ft.Worth and Memphis afternoon radio shows between 1978-1998 ; live In The Studio performances from 1988-present ; and actual concert broadcasts produced by Redbeard .

INXS- Original Sin- London Royal Albert Hall 6-24-86

Down through history, slavery by the founding fathers has sometimes been referred to as America's "Original Sin", hence the dedication to Dr. Martin Luther King jr at the introduction of that INXS song at London's Royal Albert Hall back on…

Allman Brothers Band- Midnight Rider- LA 6-92

One last midnight ride for Gregg Allman, another sad farewell with the passing of ABB drummer Butch Trucks. Here is a rare 1992 unplugged version of "Midnight Rider".

Paul McCartney- Drive My Car- Amoeba Records 2007

In early December 1965 The Beatles released the album Rubber Soul, highly significant because of a new approach to the LP ("long player") as not just a collection of Top Forty singles. Rubber Soul contained "Norwegian Wood", "In My Life", George…

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts- Bad Reputation- New Years Eve ’81-’82 NYC

Joan Jett New Years Eve 1981-82 and headlining at The Ritz with her new band, The Blackhearts, a new album "I Love Rock'n'Rol"l, and a live broadcast.

U2- Bad/40/Where the Streets Have No Name- Boston 6-6-01

The indomitable Dublin quartet U2 has been a force on the live music stage for so long that I have witnessed it go from playing on cafeteria tables in a little club in Memphis to the world's largest stadiums. But at some point during every show in more than four decades of witnessing them, U2 and their audience transcend the rock concert sturm und drang and it more closely resembles a big tent revival, as it did that night in Boston June 2001 during this medley of "Bad" into "Where the Streets Have No Name".

Metallica- King Nothing- San Francisco 2-6-16

When the Super Bowl was played in San Francisco in February 2016, hometown Bay Area hard rock heroes Metallica were the obvious choice for the event's high-profile midpoint entertainment slot...except the Load  they were bringing was deemed…

Van Halen- US Festival 5-29-83

Before Lollapalooza, before Coachella or Burning Man, and contemporaneous with the legendary California Jams was the 1983 US Festival...Van Halen headlined.

Bonnie Raitt- Love Me Like a Man- Austin- Memorial Day 1987

When she played a memorable acoustic set on Memorial Day weekend at Austin's Auditorium Shores back in 1987, Bonnie Raitt called out hometown harp honker Kim Wilson, then of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, to join her on Chris Smithers' "Love Me Like a Man".

Jimi Hendrix- Hear My Train a Comin’- Memorial Day 1970- Berkeley CA

Jimi Hendrix performed two 1970 Memorial Day concerts in Berkeley CA at which he unveiled unreleased songs, including the portentous "Hear My Train a Comin' ". Presented to honor American Black History Month.

Paul McCartney- We Can Work It Out

Confidence & poise to know that the audience is totally with Paul McCartney live so that "We Can Work It Out".