BABYL OPTIONS: -*- rmail -*- Version: 5 Labels: Note: This is the header of an rmail file. Note: If you are seeing it in rmail, Note: it means the file has no messages in it.  0, unseen,, *** EOOH *** x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from love-hounds to rec.music.gaffa; Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:57:48 EDT Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:49:42 -0400 Subject: ########### KATE BUSH LIVE BOOTLEGS PART I ############## From: rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) Errors-To: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Comments: Cloudbuster Message-ID: Path: news.dell.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!never-reply-to-path-lines Sender: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Approved: wisner@uunet.UU.NET Organization: NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Lines: 238 KATE BUSH LIVE BOOTLEGS LAST UPDATED: June 6, 1993 by Andrew Marvick (IED), Ronald Hill, Doug Allen, Woj, and Barth Richards. This is a compilation of various messages from Love-Hounds, done by Ron Hill who takes responsibilty for any errors that may have occured during editing. There are five main sources for the material on the live bootlegs. 1) The official _Hammersmith_Odeon_ videotape. The best sounding boots simply are recorded off of the laser-disk. The official video tape contains only one hour out of the two and a half hour show. The un-edited film has only been seen at the 1985 convention. So far, no audio recordings off of the un-edited film have surfaced. 2) Fan-recorded tapes from the Bristol, Paris, Manchester, London Palladium, and Amsterdam concerts. There is also the unidentified (and undentifiable) "Temple Of Truth" tape (see bootleg entry). Note that there is only one known tape from each of these concerts, although they have been released in different formats. The sound _is_ abysmal, there are no bootlegs of the 1979 concerts that have good sound. The best-sounding one that includes all the songs and incidental bits and pieces is probably the Manchester concert (a two-LP set, though only a little less complete than the _Dreamtime_ 3-LP set). But they're all miserable. They feature not only songs, but a chant, readings by John Carder Bush, and incidental bits of music, all of which were heard while Kate changed costumes in between songs during the concert. Specifically, there are: a heartbeat passage preceding "Room For the Life"; an ethnic chant performed by the band in unison; two synthesizer introductions to songs; three brief readings by John--one known as "Two in One Coffin" (preceding "The Kick Inside"), the others passages of unidentified prose (perhaps by John); an arrangement of Satie's 1st "Gymnopedie", which is used to frame "Symphony in Blue", and a short jam session by the KT Bush Band. Also of note is the live version of "Egypt", which sounds very different from the LP version. 3) Kate. This was a forty-five minute TV special which aired in England on December 28, 1979; sometimes called the "Christmas Special". In addition to a couple of lip-synchs of LP tracks and one or two new vocal performances of old songs, several new and unique bits of music appeared on this show. They include a brief introduction, an arrangement of part of Satie's "First Gymnopedie" (as an introduction to "Symphony in Blue"); an early version of "December Will Be Magic Again"; a choral introduction for Peter Gabriel (Kate's guest on the show--he sings "Here Comes the Flood"), sometimes referrred to as "Peter, the Angel Gabriel"; a brief bit of blues piano; and a duet with Peter of Roy Harper's song, "Another Day". 4) There are a few clips from other live Tour of Life shows on three different TV programmes: the Tour episode of _Nationwide_ (UK TV); a German programme called _Kate_Bush_in_Concert_ (which has some songs from the Hamburg and Mannheim concerts); and a Swedish show called _Rockdrotting_ (with a few songs from the Stockholm concerts). All are in mono TV sound, however. 5) Bill Duffield concert. A modified Tour of Life show, staged at London's Hammersmith Odeon on May 12, 1979 for the benefit of the surviving relatives of Bill Duffield, Kate's lighting director for the Tour, who had died in an accident at the very beginning of the tour. The concert featured Steve Harley, Peter Gabriel. In addition to songs from The Tour of Life, this concert featured Let It Be, sung by Steve Harley, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush ;"Them Heavy People" with verses sung by Harley and Gabriel; "The Woman With the Child in Her Eyes" sung by Harley and Gabriel; Gabriel's "I Don't Remember" sung as a duet by Gabriel and Kate; and Harley's "Come Up and See Me", sung by Harley, with Kate and Gabriel on backing vocals. See _Japanese_Fan_Club_EP_, _If_You_Could_See_Me_Fly_ and _Passing_Through_Air_. ALBUMS _Japanese_Fan_Club_EP_ The more common yellow-vinyl edition is not the original version of this disk. The _actual_ record, as put out by the Japanese fan-club (now apparently defunct and succeeded by a different group in Japan), was a simpler affair: a red flex-disk with a white sleeve. On the disk where a label ordinarily would go was a KT symbol in silver. The disk had John's spoken message first, followed by Kate's brief message, followed finally by the excerpt from the live performance of "Let It Be" from a fan's in-audience (i.e., pirated) Walkman recording of the benefit concert for Bill Duffield. (The other singers on that track are Steve Harley and Peter Gabriel.) _Wow_ : a two-record set containing a poor stereo dub of the Hammersmith odeon video's audio track and a mono dub of the BBC tv special _kate_ (one on each record). This is probably the first KaTe booTleg, appearing in 1982 or early 1983 and was put out by New York based bootleggers. _Moving_ : beautiful re-packaging of _Wow_. Equally poor audio though. Made in the UK. _Live in Paris_ (1984): single LP containing excerpts of the Paris concert. "Kate Bush Live in Europe 79 & 80" is a double album credits as being from the non-existant Fan Club of Taiwan. This also appeared as a cassette tape. One record is the soundtrack to the"Kate Bush Live at the Hammersmith Odeon" video tape, and the other album is the soundtrack to the hour long Christmas special called "Kate" that she did in 79. "Kate Bush Live in Europe 79 - 80" a re-packaged three-record set that consists of: 1.) a true stereo transfer to vinyl of the whole of "Live at Hammersmith Odeon"; 2.) a transfer of the television sound track from Kate's 1979 Christmas special (the same TV-hum-filled audio track heard on the various video copies), which originally appeared along with 1.) as the above-mentioned two-record set called "Wow"; and 3.) a copy of part of a 1979 Paris concert, which previously appeared as the above mentioned Paris LP. All of these records were pressed by the same bunch of people, under several label pseudonyms, most often "Rock Solid Records" and"International Records" of New York. _A Bird in the Hand_ (1986) is _the_ worst ripoff of all the KT boots. Don't buy it unless you have never heard anything from the Hammersmith concert video at all before. All it is is an _edited_ transfer of the Hi-fi audio track from the video-cassette of the Live at Hammersmith Odeon film. Furthermore, the stereo channel separation is virtually completely lost in the boot version, although the pressing (surface noise) is o.k. But this particular bootleg doesn't even include the whole 53-minute soundtrack! Only about nine songs (perhaps eight are listed, but as IED recalls nine are included on the record) are transferred, even though other boots have a better stereo transfer of the entire soundtrack on single disks. So steer clear! The cover boasted two fine early photos in blue ink with pink borders. Interestingly, this bootleg is marked: "cover produced in U.S.A., 1986"; and according to the labels, the record's alias is "Please Don't Let Me Go". The track listing is as follows: A: Violin Strange Phenomena Hammer Horror Wow Feel It B: Kite [not listed on the cover] Oh England My Lion Heart [the blank is not from me] Wuthering Heights Moving _Under the Ivy Bush_. (1988) This one features quite slick packaging, although the photos used are obviously from positives. The cover is of the Japanese-_TKI_ pink leotard shot (uncropped, of course). The album is a hodge-podge, but is quite interesting. It bears the misleading label "previously unreleased live German tracks." This refers to tracks one and two which are simply mono tapes of the LP tracks of "Running Up That Hill" and "The Big Sky" as used by Kate for lip-synch performances. The only differences between these and the LP tracks are that these are in terrible low-fi TV sound, and they include a studio audience cheering at the beginning and end of the lip-synch tracks. By the way, these two tracks are taken from Kate's appearance on the German TV show "Peter's Pop Show", which was also re-broadcast on a French program, both of which aired in the fall of 1985. Track 3 is another matter altogether. It is a live version of "James and the Cold Gun" that has never appeared in any boot or video that IED has seen before. It's not from the Hammersmith film, nor is it like the "On Stage" version of the Hammersmith version, nor is it from the Bristol or the Paris shows. The sound is better than average for bootleg live material, and it's a really confident, loose performance. This version is incredible, only recommended for Truefans, because it is quite disturbed/ing! Nobody seems able to hold a note. That stands not only for Kate's vocals, but for all instruments too. If this is not some pitch problem with the recording, it has to be purpose! Alltogether, this piece is a heavy experience... Tracks 4 and 5 are just the Satie "Gymnopedie" and "Symphony in Blue" from "Kate", the 1979 Christmas special. However, the audio on these tracks is _far_ superior to that on the earlier bootleg transfers of the "Kate" program. Side Two starts off with "The Man With the Child in His Eyes" from the "Kate" program. Track 2, Side Two is just an excerpt from the German documentary on Kate called "Kate Bush in Concert". You can hear the last words of one of Kate's answers to an interviewer's question, which segues into the live version of "Violin" from the TV program's filmed excerpts of the Mannheim and Hamburg concerts. Track 3 is just the "Hammer Horror" from the Tour of Life. (The specific concert is untraceable, really, because this recording of the song was made by Kate in the studio with the KT Bush Band specifically for the Tour, so that she wouldn't have to worry about singing for at least one song in the show, which left her a bit freer to dance during that song. Consequently this track is identical in all the concerts). Track 4, Side Two begins with some bootlegger's idea of a joke: it's a phrase from an interview Kate gave for the German TV film "Kate Bush In Concert" (IED believes), which the bootleggers have _backwards-masked_! The words that Kate utters, when played backwards, are: "...will be totally believed by an awful lot of people." Ha ha. Track 5 is a pre-tour live version of "Wuthering Heights", taken (probably) from one of the two German TV shows on which Kate appeared to perform the song in 1978. The sound, again, is quite good for a transfer from TV. Track 6, the last track on the album, is again a reasonably clear transfer from a thin, mono TV original. This one, however, is something special: the live version of "Under the Ivy" which Kate performed solo, accompanying herself on piano, in Abbey Road Studios for the satellite broadcast of a special edition of the U.K. TV program _The Tube_. That's it. Altogether a pretty queer collection of tracks, but not without value or interest. As in other boots, the bootlegger's disguise the contents of a disc by selecting strange track titles that only resemble the actual one: Side 1: Climb every mountain - Running up that Hill Blue Sky - The Big Sky Jimmy get your gun - James and the cold gun Gymnopedies - Satie's first Gymnopedie & Moving Side 2: Only have eyes for you - The Man with the Child in his Eyes Fiddler on the roof - Violin Horror at home - Hammer horror High as a bird - Kite High Society - Wuthering Heights Under the Ivy - Under the Ivy The last one is an exception to the rule, but since it is more unknown than the other ones (it is not an album track) and since the whole album has that title, it's not adding too much to the risk of producing the bootleg. Note also that the album is by the KTB Band, something we all know, but something that not everybody connects with Kate Bush. --- rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA  0, unseen,, *** EOOH *** x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from love-hounds to rec.music.gaffa; Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:54:05 EDT Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:49:43 -0400 Subject: ############ KATE BUSH LIVE BOOTLEGS PART II ############ From: rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) Errors-To: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Comments: Cloudbuster Message-ID: Path: news.dell.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!never-reply-to-path-lines Sender: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Approved: wisner@uunet.UU.NET Organization: NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Lines: 238 _Live_in_Bristol_ (1988): two record set containing the entire Bristol concert as well as some bits of John Carter Bush's poetry. Nice package, poor audio. Front left picture: Kate dancing in a white long dress, Front right: Babooshka-photo used on the Canadian EP. Front bottom after folding out the left and right parts: Photo of the Hammersmith video tape, printed twice, once mirrored. Back: head of Kate with a light-violet T-shirt. _Live_in_Amsterdam_ : a single lp containing most of the aborted Amsterdam concert which was cut short due to KaTe's flu attack. _Kate Bush Live in Manchester, April 10th, 1979_. (1988) This album, a two-record set from our old familiar NYC-based bootleg outfit, is exactly what it claims to be. The record is not as complete a record of the Tour programme as the bootleg 2-LP set of the Bristol concert (which is a virtually unedited copy of the entire concert), since it only contains twenty tracks, and some though not all of the incidental music and prose-readings are missing. But it _is_ a different performance, and Kate and the band are in unusually fine form. The sound is boomy on the bottom and weak on the treble, but it still manages to create a strong atmosphere and presence, and the album, overall, is considerably more listenable than, say, the Paris concert bootlegs, which have extremely muffled and distant sound. "Moving" is extremely beautiful and ethereal in this performance. Front picture: part of the Japanese 'Them Heavy People' single cover. Back: The 'Experiment IV' cover. "What Katie Did at Amnesty International". (1988) This is a seven-inch bootleg. It has a b&w cover design on high-quality cardpaper, with red and black lettering in a type-face that is meant to imitate the style used by Peter Gabriel for several recent singles. The photo, too, is a nearly-abstract b&w shot of a figure moving down a street (not Kate), sort of like the blurred shots on some of Gabriel's _So_ singles covers. The record itself features the live performance of "Running Up That Hill" from the _other_ night (as opposed to the one which is included on the official _Secret Policeman's Third Ball: The Music_ LP), but of course the sound is very poor in comparison with the Amnesty LP track. The real selling-point of this bootleg is its b-side, a crude but quite listenable recording of the live version of "Let It Be" which Kate gave at the Amnesty concerts. It's not earth-shaking, but it's a _huge_ artistic advance on the performance of the same song which Kate gave with Steve Harley and Peter Gabriel in 1979. This is a very thoughtful and well-thought-out interpretation, and Kate sings all but the second verse this time around (IED can't say for sure who the male singer in this version is, but supposes it could be a very hoarse Gilmour?). _Kate_Bush_Live_at_the_London_Palladium_1979_ (1988) is a 3-record set from what looks like the same old New Yorkers. On this album they go by a name they deserve, "Pharting Pharoah Records". The album design is particularly noxious: on the front cover it features the famous (and copyrighted) photograph of Kate with ivy in her hair; and on the back, a collage mixing official photographs taken from music magazines (including the KBC Newsletter) with shots from the nude photo session of "'lookalike' Kate Simmons" which originally appeared in a Autumn 1982 U.K. edition of _Penthouse_ Magazine. As IED understands it, the photos and story appeared in the UK edition of _Penthouse_ only; and the article was filled with teasing insinuations that left the reader in little doubt they were supposed to think it was Kate ("young doctor's daughter from Kent"; "been composing since she was a child"; etc.) As for the use of one of those photos on a bootleg LP cover, it doesn't surprise IED at all. There's zero evidence that the people who make KT boots are fans. That's highly unlikely, in fact. In the first place, any real fan would do a much better job of organizing the tracks, listing the titles correctly (there are no fewer than eight mistakes on the cover of the three-record set), etc. And in the second place, a real fan wouldn't even sell a bootleg in the first place! However, there is no reason that IED can see for doubting the authenticity of this album's contents. All 24 songs from the Tour of Life concerts are included (spread over three records), as well as virtually all of the "incidental" music and poetry/prose readings, readings, chants, etc. (The Bristol bootleg, in its recent vinyl incarnation, manages to fit roughly the same amount of material into two records, but who's counting?) The sound of the Palladium set is no better than you'd expect, but the source does sound different from those of any of the other albums. As a result, it seems relatively safe to accept that this set originated from the London Palladium. Kate Bush - Dreamtime This 3-record-set is apparently a re-release of called 'Kate Bush - Live at the London Palladium 1979' It has the same 'Ivy-in-the-hair' picture on front, the same Penthouse photos on back. But I suppose this is a re-release, because: 1. The record is called 'Dreamtime'. 2. The track listing is accurate (if you don't count abbreviating on the record labels). _Temple_of_Truth_ is to be _avoided_ unless you are so devoted a fan that you must have any Kate item no matter what its quality. _Temple_of_Truth_ is simply an excerpt from an unidentified (and unidentifiable) Tour of Life concert (a different show then the other bootlegs). The sound of the recording is the _worst_ of any of the several live concert bootlegs of Kate's Tour of Life, and it doesn't even contain half the programme. The sound is easily recognizable, because the sound on this record has a peculiar way of coming in and out of "focus" in a cyclical pattern, rather like a shortwave radio station, except that the sound changes in tone rather than in level of distortion. Do not buy this album. The LP is a single record, with a purple cover that features a strange photograph of what might be a small, ancient lighthouse or something, sitting on a precipice overlooking the sea. No explanation is given for the choice in cover art, and there are no liner notes or track listings. In fact, not even the source of the material is identified. Here is the track listing (not even on the cover, you have to listen through it) A: Moving, The saxophone song, Room for the life, Them heavy people, The man with the child in his eyes, Egypt B: L'amour looks something like you, Violin, The kick inside, Fullhouse, Strange phenomena If_You_Could_See_Me_Fly_ (1988) (NOT to be confused with the CD of the same name) is a single lp containing excerpts from the Bill Duffield concert from 1979, features Steve Harley and Peter Gabriel (organized to benefit Duffy's family following his death early in the tour). Also included two early demos of "Babooshka" and _Let_It_Be_ from the Amnesty show. The quality of the Hammersmith material is marginal. The Amnesty show track is better, but not great. The two studio takes of "Babooshka" are pretty good, though they crackle as if they had been lifted off another vinyl disc. This is a European pressing and has a black, white, and gold cover with a composite photo of a Fred & Ginger like pair dancing on a typewriter keyboard. The tracks and credits are listed as shown below. Recorded live 12 May, 1979 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, except where noted. side one: -------- Let It Be (Lennon-McCartney) Kate Bush-vocals David Gilmour-vocals, guitar Pino Palladino-bass and others Recorded live, March 28, 1987 at the Palladium, Amnesty Festival The Girl/Man With Child In Her/His Eyes (Bush) Kate Bush-3rd lead vocals, piano Peter Gabriel-1st lead vocals Steve Harley-2nd lead vocals Here Comes The Flood (Gabriel) Peter Gabriel-vocals, piano I Don't Remember (Gabriel) Peter Gabriel-lead vocals,piano Kate Bush-synthesizer (solo), back-up vocals Paddie Bush-guitar Stuart Elliot-drums Del Palmer-bass side two: -------- D.I.Y. (Gabriel) Peter Gabriel-lead vocals, piano The Best Years of Our Life (Harley) Steve Harley-vocals, acoustic guitar Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Harley) Steve Harley-lead vocals, lead guitar Kate Bush-back-up vocals, piano Peter Gabriel-back-up vocals, acoustic guitar Paddie Bush-rhythm & lead guitar Del Palmer-bass, back-up vocals Stuart Elliot-drums Let It Be (Lennon-McCartney) Kate Bush-lead vocals Peter Gabriel-lead vocals, guitar Paddie Bush-vocals, guitar Del Palmer-vocals, bass Stuart Elliot-vocals, drums Babooshka (Bush) Take 1 & 2 Kate Bush-vocals, piano David Gilmour-engineering, drum programming on Take 2 both takes recorded at David Gilmour's own studio in 1974 _Live_in_Japan_ (1989) is a seven-inch single featuring (on the a-side) Kate's live performance of _Moving_ from the Seventh Tokyo Song Festival, which was held at the Budokan on June 18, 1978. On the b-side are Kate's performances of abridged versions of two Beatles songs, _The_Long_and_Winding_Road_ and _She's_Leaving_Home_. The latter two songs were taped at Tokyo's TBS G Studio on June 23, 1978, for airing on the programme _Sound_in_S_. All three songs are accompanied by a large orchestral group (including full string and wind sections), and for _She's_Leaving_Home_ Kate pre-recorded her own background choruses. The sound is surprisingly good, and is in stereo (although it may be simply a stereo recording of the original mono tracks). There is a good deal of "toppiness" to the sound (distortion of the higher frequencies), but for the most part the recordings are quite listenable. The cover is of hard, glossy card-stock, with a close-up copy of a 1978 publicity shot of Kate on the front, and a copy of the close-up of the "radiating eye" from the front cover of the official UK single release of _The_Man_With_the_Child_in_His_Eyes_ on the back. Kate's performances are extremely professional, with no hint of uncertainty about intonation or anything--although at the very end of _She's_Leaving_Home_ Kate finishes a beat later than the arrangement evidently indicated, a mistake no doubt prompted by what must have been minimal rehearsal time and poor orchestral direction. (Anyway, the error does not damage the performance, since the arrangement ends at that point.) Kate's voice is at its most spectacularly _high-pitched_ in all three performances, and she does manage to add two or three interesting little melodic flourishes to the Beatles songs, despite their abbreviated length. All in all, IED agrees completely with Peter FitzGerald-Morris, who called this bootleg "a treasure". --- rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA  0, unseen,, *** EOOH *** x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from love-hounds to rec.music.gaffa; Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:54:07 EDT Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:49:48 -0400 Subject: #### KATE BUSH LIVE BOOTLEGS PART III ####### From: rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) Errors-To: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Comments: Cloudbuster Message-ID: Path: news.dell.com!natinst.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!never-reply-to-path-lines Sender: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Approved: wisner@uunet.UU.NET Organization: NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Lines: 239 _Live_in_Bristol_ (1988): two record set containing the entire Bristol concert as well as some bits of John Carter Bush's poetry. Nice package, poor audio. Front left picture: Kate dancing in a white long dress, Front right: Babooshka-photo used on the Canadian EP. Front bottom after folding out the left and right parts: Photo of the Hammersmith video tape, printed twice, once mirrored. Back: head of Kate with a light-violet T-shirt. _Live_in_Amsterdam_ : a single lp containing most of the aborted Amsterdam concert which was cut short due to KaTe's flu attack. _Kate Bush Live in Manchester, April 10th, 1979_. (1988) This album, a two-record set from our old familiar NYC-based bootleg outfit, is exactly what it claims to be. The record is not as complete a record of the Tour programme as the bootleg 2-LP set of the Bristol concert (which is a virtually unedited copy of the entire concert), since it only contains twenty tracks, and some though not all of the incidental music and prose-readings are missing. But it _is_ a different performance, and Kate and the band are in unusually fine form. The sound is boomy on the bottom and weak on the treble, but it still manages to create a strong atmosphere and presence, and the album, overall, is considerably more listenable than, say, the Paris concert bootlegs, which have extremely muffled and distant sound. "Moving" is extremely beautiful and ethereal in this performance. Front picture: part of the Japanese 'Them Heavy People' single cover. Back: The 'Experiment IV' cover. "What Katie Did at Amnesty International". (1988) This is a seven-inch bootleg. It has a b&w cover design on high-quality cardpaper, with red and black lettering in a type-face that is meant to imitate the style used by Peter Gabriel for several recent singles. The photo, too, is a nearly-abstract b&w shot of a figure moving down a street (not Kate), sort of like the blurred shots on some of Gabriel's _So_ singles covers. The record itself features the live performance of "Running Up That Hill" from the _other_ night (as opposed to the one which is included on the official _Secret Policeman's Third Ball: The Music_ LP), but of course the sound is very poor in comparison with the Amnesty LP track. The real selling-point of this bootleg is its b-side, a crude but quite listenable recording of the live version of "Let It Be" which Kate gave at the Amnesty concerts. It's not earth-shaking, but it's a _huge_ artistic advance on the performance of the same song which Kate gave with Steve Harley and Peter Gabriel in 1979. This is a very thoughtful and well-thought-out interpretation, and Kate sings all but the second verse this time around (IED can't say for sure who the male singer in this version is, but supposes it could be a very hoarse Gilmour?). _Kate_Bush_Live_at_the_London_Palladium_1979_ (1988) is a 3-record set from what looks like the same old New Yorkers. On this album they go by a name they deserve, "Pharting Pharoah Records". The album design is particularly noxious: on the front cover it features the famous (and copyrighted) photograph of Kate with ivy in her hair; and on the back, a collage mixing official photographs taken from music magazines (including the KBC Newsletter) with shots from the nude photo session of "'lookalike' Kate Simmons" which originally appeared in a Autumn 1982 U.K. edition of _Penthouse_ Magazine. As IED understands it, the photos and story appeared in the UK edition of _Penthouse_ only; and the article was filled with teasing insinuations that left the reader in little doubt they were supposed to think it was Kate ("young doctor's daughter from Kent"; "been composing since she was a child"; etc.) As for the use of one of those photos on a bootleg LP cover, it doesn't surprise IED at all. There's zero evidence that the people who make KT boots are fans. That's highly unlikely, in fact. In the first place, any real fan would do a much better job of organizing the tracks, listing the titles correctly (there are no fewer than eight mistakes on the cover of the three-record set), etc. And in the second place, a real fan wouldn't even sell a bootleg in the first place! However, there is no reason that IED can see for doubting the authenticity of this album's contents. All 24 songs from the Tour of Life concerts are included (spread over three records), as well as virtually all of the "incidental" music and poetry/prose readings, readings, chants, etc. (The Bristol bootleg, in its recent vinyl incarnation, manages to fit roughly the same amount of material into two records, but who's counting?) The sound of the Palladium set is no better than you'd expect, but the source does sound different from those of any of the other albums. As a result, it seems relatively safe to accept that this set originated from the London Palladium. Kate Bush - Dreamtime This 3-record-set is apparently a re-release of called 'Kate Bush - Live at the London Palladium 1979' It has the same 'Ivy-in-the-hair' picture on front, the same Penthouse photos on back. But I suppose this is a re-release, because: 1. The record is called 'Dreamtime'. 2. The track listing is accurate (if you don't count abbreviating on the record labels). _Temple_of_Truth_ is to be _avoided_ unless you are so devoted a fan that you must have any Kate item no matter what its quality. _Temple_of_Truth_ is simply an excerpt from an unidentified (and unidentifiable) Tour of Life concert (a different show then the other bootlegs). The sound of the recording is the _worst_ of any of the several live concert bootlegs of Kate's Tour of Life, and it doesn't even contain half the programme. The sound is easily recognizable, because the sound on this record has a peculiar way of coming in and out of "focus" in a cyclical pattern, rather like a shortwave radio station, except that the sound changes in tone rather than in level of distortion. Do not buy this album. The LP is a single record, with a purple cover that features a strange photograph of what might be a small, ancient lighthouse or something, sitting on a precipice overlooking the sea. No explanation is given for the choice in cover art, and there are no liner notes or track listings. In fact, not even the source of the material is identified. Here is the track listing (not even on the cover, you have to listen through it) A: Moving, The saxophone song, Room for the life, Them heavy people, The man with the child in his eyes, Egypt B: L'amour looks something like you, Violin, The kick inside, Fullhouse, Strange phenomena If_You_Could_See_Me_Fly_ (1988) (NOT to be confused with the CD of the same name) is a single lp containing excerpts from the Bill Duffield concert from 1979, features Steve Harley and Peter Gabriel (organized to benefit Duffy's family following his death early in the tour). Also included two early demos of "Babooshka" and _Let_It_Be_ from the Amnesty show. The quality of the Hammersmith material is marginal. The Amnesty show track is better, but not great. The two studio takes of "Babooshka" are pretty good, though they crackle as if they had been lifted off another vinyl disc. This is a European pressing and has a black, white, and gold cover with a composite photo of a Fred & Ginger like pair dancing on a typewriter keyboard. The tracks and credits are listed as shown below. Recorded live 12 May, 1979 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, except where noted. side one: -------- Let It Be (Lennon-McCartney) Kate Bush-vocals David Gilmour-vocals, guitar Pino Palladino-bass and others Recorded live, March 28, 1987 at the Palladium, Amnesty Festival The Girl/Man With Child In Her/His Eyes (Bush) Kate Bush-3rd lead vocals, piano Peter Gabriel-1st lead vocals Steve Harley-2nd lead vocals Here Comes The Flood (Gabriel) Peter Gabriel-vocals, piano I Don't Remember (Gabriel) Peter Gabriel-lead vocals,piano Kate Bush-synthesizer (solo), back-up vocals Paddie Bush-guitar Stuart Elliot-drums Del Palmer-bass side two: -------- D.I.Y. (Gabriel) Peter Gabriel-lead vocals, piano The Best Years of Our Life (Harley) Steve Harley-vocals, acoustic guitar Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Harley) Steve Harley-lead vocals, lead guitar Kate Bush-back-up vocals, piano Peter Gabriel-back-up vocals, acoustic guitar Paddie Bush-rhythm & lead guitar Del Palmer-bass, back-up vocals Stuart Elliot-drums Let It Be (Lennon-McCartney) Kate Bush-lead vocals Peter Gabriel-lead vocals, guitar Paddie Bush-vocals, guitar Del Palmer-vocals, bass Stuart Elliot-vocals, drums Babooshka (Bush) Take 1 & 2 Kate Bush-vocals, piano David Gilmour-engineering, drum programming on Take 2 both takes recorded at David Gilmour's own studio in 1974 _Live_in_Japan_ (1989) is a seven-inch single featuring (on the a-side) Kate's live performance of _Moving_ from the Seventh Tokyo Song Festival, which was held at the Budokan on June 18, 1978. On the b-side are Kate's performances of abridged versions of two Beatles songs, _The_Long_and_Winding_Road_ and _She's_Leaving_Home_. The latter two songs were taped at Tokyo's TBS G Studio on June 23, 1978, for airing on the programme _Sound_in_S_. All three songs are accompanied by a large orchestral group (including full string and wind sections), and for _She's_Leaving_Home_ Kate pre-recorded her own background choruses. The sound is surprisingly good, and is in stereo (although it may be simply a stereo recording of the original mono tracks). There is a good deal of "toppiness" to the sound (distortion of the higher frequencies), but for the most part the recordings are quite listenable. The cover is of hard, glossy card-stock, with a close-up copy of a 1978 publicity shot of Kate on the front, and a copy of the close-up of the "radiating eye" from the front cover of the official UK single release of _The_Man_With_the_Child_in_His_Eyes_ on the back. Kate's performances are extremely professional, with no hint of uncertainty about intonation or anything--although at the very end of _She's_Leaving_Home_ Kate finishes a beat later than the arrangement evidently indicated, a mistake no doubt prompted by what must have been minimal rehearsal time and poor orchestral direction. (Anyway, the error does not damage the performance, since the arrangement ends at that point.) Kate's voice is at its most spectacularly _high-pitched_ in all three performances, and she does manage to add two or three interesting little melodic flourishes to the Beatles songs, despite their abbreviated length. All in all, IED agrees completely with Peter FitzGerald-Morris, who called this bootleg "a treasure". --- rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA  0, unseen,, *** EOOH *** x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from love-hounds to rec.music.gaffa; Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:54:06 EDT Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 05:49:51 -0400 Subject: ****** KATE BUSH LIVE BOOTLEGS PART IV ******* From: rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) Errors-To: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Comments: Cloudbuster Message-ID: Path: news.dell.com!natinst.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!never-reply-to-path-lines Sender: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Approved: wisner@uunet.UU.NET Organization: NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Lines: 254 Burning Desire - This is another bootleg CD from the Hammersmith soundtrack. The sound quality is bad, it sounds like being copied from an vinyl disc with all it's scratches... It is the worst sound quality of Hammersmith bootleg CDs. It's cover shows a color photo of Kate in a red dress, posing as in the Babooshka video, holding a double bass. On the left side of the photo, written black on yellow, there is the title of the album: 'Kate Bush - "Burning Desire" - Limited collector's edition'. The inside of the one-sheet-'booklet' shows a newspaper-quality b/w photo of Kate's head. The CD itself doesn't mention it's contents, remember the discussion about 'Back Sides': On it there is the following: 'Alive And Well - Vintage Radio Network - Produced by: David Heinz, Recorded & Mixed by: Sheila Banrnes - Basic I, For Promotion Only, Not For Sale'. The backside of the CD shows three newspaper-quality b/w photos from the American Kick Inside photo session with Kate in a box, then 'Recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 5/13/79', then a track list with two additional spaces ('Heart Brake' and 'Lion Heart'), then '(R) 1989 Swingin' Pigs Records, A Trademark Of Swingin' Pigs S.A.R.L, Luxembourg /S.R.L. Italy'. Below that the following: 'There are few artists out there who can manage to deliver starkly original,non-derivative material and still approach mainstream accessibility. Kate Bush Is One Of These Rare Artists.' LIVE CDS _Kate_Bush_Live_ (or _Live_At_Hammersmith_1979_). (1989) By its physical make-up IED strongly suspects that it is a product from the same group who have been putting out the now-famous Beatles _Back-Track_ and _Off-White_ CDs. The package of this KT CD is a normal jewel-box, with a hard-card cover (folded over once), and four colour photographs of Kate on the front. The track listings are almost completely accurate and are clearly set out. The photo/track- listing card is very sharply printed and glossy. Also on the cover is a red official KBC "KT" symbol--though of course this is _not_ an official producet. The CD contains fifteen tracks. The first twelve are simply the same old _Live_at_Hammersmith_Odeon_ audio-track, though this time it has been very well lifted from the new Japanese edition of the laser-disk, which features a digital re-mastering of the original analog tapes. Track thirteen is the live performance of _Running_Up_ That_Hill_ from the _Amnesty_International_Secret_Policeman's_Third_ Ball_:_The_Music_ CD. Track fourteen is the live performance of _Breathing_ from the _Comic_Relief:_Utterly_Utterly_Live_ CD. And track fifteen is the track _This_Woman's_Work_ from the _She's_Having_ a_Baby_ soundtrack CD. The three extra tracks are re-mixed so that the applause from the end of the _Hammersmith_ tape fades into the applause from _Running_Up_That_Hill_, and ditto for _Breathing_. The only error in the track-listing is in the identification of the two live tracks as both coming from 1988. Actually both are from at least a year earlier. No big deal. The sound of all these tracks is exceptionally good even for a legitimate release, and unheard of in the history of Kate Bush bootlegs. Nevertheless, its price may be considered very high by many fans, especially those who already have these recordings in their original, legitimate configuration. Front cover: four color pix, including a second take from the pose used for the US cover of "The Kick Inside" and three others most likely from those sessions. Inside face: the famous EMI publicity photo for that album. Cropped, some (ref. Vermorel p. 62). Cover Title: Kate Bush Live. Title on disk: Kathy Live from Wuthering Heights (Neutral Zone [Korea] NZCD89010), AAD. Back photo, the still used for the "Hammersmith" video and the KTBand logo. Correspondence address: Neutral Zone Digital Recordings 140 Rue de Rennes 75006 Paris France _Performed_Live_In_London_1979. (1991) The hammersmith film soundtrack, good but not as good as _Kate_Bush_Live_. On it's cover it is simply 'Live In London', but you could identify it easier by saying that it is the 'Super Golden Radio Shows No. 013 - Kate Bush - Live in London'. It's 'order number' is 'SRGS 013'. The front cover of this CD shows, similar to every other SRGS CD I have seen, a picture of the artist, a dark grey border with pink 'SUPER GOLDEN RADIO SHOWS No 013', orange 'KATE BUSH' above and 'LIVE IN LONDON 1979' below the picture. The picture is a quite greenish photo that shows Kate in a costume that reminds of the Wuthering Heights performance on the Hammersmith video, but it isn't! This bootleg is, as many others, made in Italy. They even state the following: 'We bring to the attention of the performing artists, components of the musical group, as indicated on the back side of the album cover, that upon publication of the present phonographic recording, the deposit of a sum for each copy made as fair consideration has been made on their behalf and/or on behalf of their assignees as provided for under article 80 and following L. 22/4/1941 no 633. Important notice: This record is not authorized by the performing artist.' This text is on the inside of the booklet that gives a list of all other SRGS boots available. I wonder if the 'deposit of a sum' exceeds one penny... _Feel_It_Live_ (1991). The Hammersmith film. Title: Feel It Live Author: Kate Bush Media: CD [ADD] Order No: LLRCD 092 Company: (R) Living Legend Records (C) 1991 Multi Coloured Music, Italy Track List: - Moving (3.38) - Them Heavy People (3.58) - Violin (3.22) - Strange Phenomena (3.14) - Hammer Horror (4.35) - Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbreak (3.38) - Wow Wow Wow (4.06) - Feel It (2.59) - Kite (6.16) - James and the Cold Gun (8.32) - Oh England My Lionheart (3.15) - Wuthering Heights (4.42) Notes: Recorded live in concert 1979 On the cover is the note - 'We apologize for the non excellent quality of the recording, which has been realized with sixties amateur equipment'. Comments: Although the above note implies that this is a bootleg the CD is listed in German import catalogues under the number (036-092). The quality is very good except that in a couple of places a 'surface noise' can be heard, as though this is a digital copy of a record. This noise is minimal and does not distract from the well edited performance. It sounds like if it has gone through an equalizer to lift the higher frequencies (or through a dynamic extender). Or as if it originally has been recorded with some kind of dolby without removing that. The picture on front of the cover shows a motive that I immediately recognized as a Kate-motive, even if it is not Kate at all. It is a girl with a 'steep' haircut, looking at a flying bird, wearing a chain around the neck and some kind of 'Kite'-wings. 'Kate Bush - Wow' - GDR CD 9213 (Great Dane Records, Italy, 9/92) The contents is the usual Hammersmith video soundtrack, medium to good quality. It has not gone through a dynamic expander like 'Feel It Live'. The booklet shows a white-on-violet 'Kate Bush' in the top inch, the rest is a picture of Kate in her green costume, dancing in the red-cushioned 'wheel', there's a blue 'Wow' in the lower right corner. The back of the CD and the booklet shows a picture of the 'Hammer Horror' performance, the inner side of the booklet shows two more pictures, page '2' shows Kate, sitting on a chair with the back of the chair in front, the background shows red (or white illuminated with red light) spots on a darker background. Then there's a four side list of other live boots, then another picture of Kate, flying in the arms of Gary Hurst and Stewart Avon Arnold, performing 'Kite'. All four pictures are not the best quality, quite dark and reddish- violettish... The track list is a little bit irritating, track four is just 'Strange', track eleven is 'On England My Linearity'. Furthermore, they say that it is recorded 'live in Amsterdam, Holland, Avril 29, 1979'. This is not right, it is the well-known Hammersmith soundtrack. At least Kate was in Amsterdam on April 29, 1979... The durations of the tracks is not listed correctly too, so it is propably best to ignore any text that is written on the CD or in the booklet. Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Angels On Earth - This is a bootleg CD with the Xmas special soundtrack. Unfortunately, it's sound quality doesn't go above the quality of my video of the show. It's cover shows a scene that looks like from the German 'In Concert', showing the live performance of 'Room For The Life', Kate sitting in the big round red cushioned 'wheel', with Stewart Avon Arnold and Gary Hurst turning that big wheel, but the photo is not in good quality. Above the photo is 'Kate Bush' and 'Peter Gabriel', below 'Angels On Earth'. The backside of this one-sheet-booklet is a list of other 'The Grand Pick'-records and the same text piece about depositing a sum as on the 'Performed Live...' CD above. In addition they state that 'The quality of this record is not equivalent to recent standards.' The disc itself has green-on-white printing on it. There is a track listing where Peter became the author of 'Just Another Day'. Wasn't 'Another Day' a Roy Harper song? Additionally there is 'Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - "Angels On Earth" - Live in Europe 1979' on the CD, it's "order number" is TGP 139, and it is '(P) 1991 by THE GRAND PICK Records, ITALY'. On the back there is 'Live In Europe 1979', the same track listing as on the CD. Butterfly Kisses (1993) - Contents: 1. wuthering heights (this is apparently from some tv program - i can think of two possibilities, though i do not know which this is from - i had never heard this recording of the song before, however. 2. the wedding list (prince's trust gala concert, 21 july 1982) This particular cut is apparently dubbed from vinyl (which is a disappointment to me, since the track is readily availiable on video in hi-fi sound), probably from the PASSING THROUGH AIR vinyl bootleg. Sound quality is still pretty good. 3. the man with the child in his eyes (unidentified tv performance, possibly from saturday night live, but i'm not sure.) 4. them heavy people (unidentified tv performance - features backing vocals by a woman who does not sound like Kate at all.) These cuts appear to be from a tape source, possibly a bootleg video. Sound quality is about what you would expect if someone dubbed Kate's SNL performance with a typical VCR of that time period. 5. under the ivy (the tube) This version appeared on the vinyl bootleg "Under the Ivy Bush". The cut on the CD appears to be from a tape source, however. The sound quality of this cut is very good. 6. breathing (comic relief concert, 4/6 april 1986) 7. do bears ... in the woods (comic relief conerts, 4/6 april 1986 duet with rowan atkinson.) Taken from a vinyl copy of the "Utterly Utterly Live-Comic Relief" album. 8. running up that hill (the secret policeman's third ball, 2nd night - with david gilmour on guitar) Taken from a vinyl copy of "The Secret Policeman's Third Ball" 9. the long and winding road (sound in s, japanese tv, 23 june 1978) 10. she's leaving home (sound in s, japanese tv, 23 june 1978) 11. moving (unidentified tv performance, possible 7th tokyo song festival, 18 june 1978) These last three cuts are taken from the 7" bootleg single "Live In Japan". Some surface noise is audible, but the recording is still very listenable. Note that the CD lists 'moving' before 'the long and winding road' and 'she's leaving home', but actually appears in the order listed above. The bootleggers apparently played side 2 of the aforementioned single first and copied down the side 1 to side 2 order in the track listings. The rest of the cd is all tracks taken from the German TV documentary of the tour (entry 47 in The Garden video listing): room for the life/strange phenomena/violin/in the warm room/kite/wuthering heights. Some of these tracks on the CD have incomplete intros and/or conclusions, probably stemming from the omission of the interviews. Sound quality is pretty good and seems to be from a tape source. the packaging is decent: the cover is KaTe done up in the violin getup that she wore in the bbc special. inside the jewel booklet (which is more a pamph- let, i should say) are three black'n'white shots of KaTe in a dancing leo- tard and tights - maybe i'll digitize them sometime. as i mentioned before, sound quality is fair to good as bootlegs go. strong recording levels were used, so that is a good sign. don't expect to hear crystalline sounds if you buy this, but it is not muddled beyond reconition either.