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VA - Fillmore: The Last Days (Remastered) (1972/1991) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 1, 2025

VA - Fillmore: The Last Days (Remastered) (1972/1991)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 760 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 337 MB
2:26:44 | Blues Rock, Country Rock, Psychedelic Rock | Label: Epic Associated

Originally released as 3-LP + 7" in 1972. Fillmore: The Last Days is a live album, recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California from June 29 to July 4, 1971. It contains performances by 14 different bands, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area, including Santana, the Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was released by Columbia Records in June 1972 as a three-disc LP. It was re-released by Epic Records in 1991 as a two-disc CD.

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Copperhead - Copperhead (CBS 84483) (NL 19__, 1973) (Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1) Vinyl & HR

Posted by luckburz at April 28, 2011

Copperhead was a band organized by guitarist John Cipollina after he left Quicksilver Messenger Service in 1970. After signing to Columbia they recorded their debut album, Copperhead, released in the spring of 1973. Unfortunately, Davis was fired from Columbia shortly after the album's release, an action that doomed any developing band that had been signed under his aegis. The album went nowhere, and when Columbia refused to release their second album, Copperhead folded.

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The Complete Monterey Pop Festival [The Criterion Collection ##167-168-169] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 2, 2015

The first and perhaps the best of the Rock Music performance documentaries, Monterey Pop is another one of those miraculous D.A. Pennebaker movies where he magically happens to be in the right place just as history is made. The Monterey International Pop Festival was three nights that marked a real change in pop, away from solo performers and folk oriented music, to album based rock groups. The film is put together in Pennebaker's original cinema verité style - no narration, no tricks, just what his cameras are able to capture. It's perhaps the first and last time that rock groups were recorded on film for what they were, instead of being hyped by image-building manipulators.

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The Dream Syndicate - The History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned: The Days of Wine and Roses (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at June 25, 2023

The Dream Syndicate - The History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned: The Days of Wine and Roses (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 592 MB
4:18:08 | Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock | Label: Fire Archive

54 songs from the original line-up, including 10 hard-to-find rarities and 31 never released recordings. An exceptional early ‘80s guitar-powered gem, remastered in full and includes a wealth of unreleased material. This newly expanded 4 CD collection includes tracks from main protagonist Steve Wynn’s earlier combo 15 Minutes, the debut EP, astounding cover renditions (Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, The Who), recordings of the band’s first ever rehearsal, along with several visceral live concerts from the pre-album era.

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Sopwith Camel - The Sopwith Camel (1967/2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Aug. 18, 2018

Sopwith Camel - The Sopwith Camel (1967/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 26:05 minutes | 513 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1967 album including one bonus track. Sopwith Camel released their first and only album on the Kama Sutra Records label. The band's only hit single, "Hello, Hello", became the first hit title to emerge from the San Francisco rock scene. The band was unable to follow up the success of their album and hit single and disbanded later in 1967. Talking Elephant.

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Crystal Syphon - Family Evil / Elephant Ball (Remastered) (2021) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 16, 2024

Plying their trade in the fertile San Francisco scene of the late '60s, Crystal Syphon's name was only known to aficionados through viewing copies of old SF gig posters and through the index of bands at the back of Ralph Gleason's book on the rise of Jefferson Airplane. Then both their studio and live 1967-1969 archival recordings were discovered that replaced the imagination with true grooves in 2012 and 2015 with the release of 2 LPs on Roaratorio Records. Trying to find comparison with other Bay area bands from that era has proven a bit fruitless as they don't specifically evoke any of the heavy hitters of the era. They have a bit of a dreamy, stoned vibe with some great harmonies and some have compared their style to Quicksilver Messenger Service (John Cipollina was their idol!!) as well as H.P. Lovecraft. As with so many bands of the era, the draft, time and declining fortunes signaled the end of the band. There is some great guitar work alongside the Farfisa organ in the extended jams, and fans of the west-coast sound should delight in these recordings.

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John Cipollina & Nick Gravenites Band - Rockpalast Music

Posted by EnKteam at June 7, 2010

JOHN CIPOLLINA (1943 - 1989) made American rock history as a co-founder of QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE and COPPERHEAD. NICK GRAVENITES brought the Chicago blues west. He also produced the first album by QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE. Together with Mike Bloomfield, he founded ELECTRIC FLAG. This is the complete Rockpalast concert from the Kleine Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany on November 28th, 1980.

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Comets On Fire - Avatar (2006) Music

Posted by uff at Sept. 17, 2013

Comets On Fire - Avatar (2006)
Rock | 1cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Sub Pop SPCD 704 | rel: 2006 | 340Mb

Two full years after the dazzling acid-dredged, sonic song mash-up that was Blue Cathedral, Comets on Fire return, all members intact – despite many solo projects in the intervening years – with Avatar. There are distinct nods to the distant West Coast past on Avatar and yeah, it is a good thing For starters, the double- and even triple-tracking of Ethan Miller's voice on many of these cuts sounds like the triumvirate of Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, and Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane! The rhapsodic clamoring for ecstatic release sound in this method is beguiling, and offset by the sheer acid rock heaviness of the band's instrumental attack.

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Copperhead - Copperhead (1973) Music

Posted by uff at Aug. 11, 2013

Copperhead - Copperhead (1973)
Rock | 1cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Acadia ACA 8005 | rel: 2001 | 295Mb

Two and a half years after exiting Quicksilver Messenger Service, of which he had been the primary instrumentalist, lead guitar player John Cipollina resurfaced at the front of a new rock quartet, Copperhead. The group had come together slowly, but by the time of their debut album, they were ready for action. Second guitarist Gary Philippet contributed the more straight-ahead rockers, like leadoff track and first single "Roller Derby Star," while bass player Jim McPherson tended to write more discursive numbers, though he was capable of strong rock & roll shuffles such as the Rolling Stones-like "Wing-Dang-Doo." But both players took a back seat to Cipollina, whose distinctively high-pitched, slightly dissonant lead guitar work defined the band's sound, just as it had in Quicksilver.

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Man - Live In Concert: At The Marquee Club 1983 (2012) Music

Posted by robi62 at July 12, 2012

In the summer of 1983, the world famous Marquee Club in London celebrated its silver jubilee with a two-day festival of live music. As a happy coincidence it was the same year in which Man reformed after a seven-year hiatus, and the organisers were only too happy to snap them up.
Man were one of the most promising rock bands to come out of Wales in the early '70s. Along with Brinsley Schwarz, they helped establish the core of the pub rock sound, but they played louder and also had a progressive component to their work that separated them from many of their rivals.

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