Doom & Gloom From The Tomb: A Blog

Yes, I started a blog: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/

It is going to mainly focus on fuzzy live recordings from the past 50 or so years. So far, I've posted an incredible Television show from 1978, and a similarly incredible Neil Young show from 1974. So, yeah, that kind of thing. Future posts will include: Pavement, Richard Thompson, Don Cherry, Hank Williams, Sr., the Velvet Underground ... and more Neil Young and Television. Expect good times and tape hiss. And long-winded reminiscences in the comments section from my older brother.

Looks great! Thanx!

New post up now -- Yo La Tengo KCRW radio session from 1995. A good one!

bookmarked!

Another post -- an early Luna show + Peel Session.

Good blog, this.

Thanks! Hope it is not terribly annoying to keep a rolling thread going here on ILM ... I'm basically doing it for my real life brothers, friends and y'allz.

Great stuff tyler, keeping my fingers crossed for Feelies material ;)

Feelies are up next! Just having trouble deciding, early, middle or late period ...

ok, posted a 1986 Feelies show! Grab it, it's amazing.

great blog! I listened to the Television show and it's great; I already knew the "Marquee Moon" (totally epic version, maybe definitive?) from this set but the rest is great too.

Yeah, I think in terms of live "Marquee Moon"s it's between that one and the one from "The Blow Up" ... Just awe-inspiring music.

I think I downloaded the Neil Young one a coupla times but the extraction fucked up both times :(

Will try again later

ooh, yeah, thanks for reminding me -- i need to re-up that one ... I think it's in m4a format, so maybe it doesn't work on PCs? The other ones are straight up mp3s.

fully agree with you about the feelies. great blog! thanks

OK, there's a new link for the Neil Young show up -- let me know if you have trouble with that one ...

THANKS A LOT!

no prob! hope it works for you, that recording is pretty much my favorite thing ever.

Thank you! Great blog!

...and more Feelies!!!

Yes, more Feelies shall be forthcoming ... probably an early show.

Keeping things rolling ... some George Harrison All Things Must Pass-era demos ...

More Neil Young up now, this time the original Chrome Dreams ...

Bob Dylan Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid outtakes up now! :D

holy crap, this feelies show is awesome

i mean i knew they were good live, but this just slays. only life era is my favorite though. the television is great too.

glad you like it! those feelies bootlegs occasionally take the coveted "my favorite thing ever" title. i reeeeealllly want to be in a band that sounds like that. but i can't find other people who want to be in a band like that. anyone? lots more television coming up -- i think i'm going to do a series of posts through the years, starting with the richard hell days.

aight, Television week has begun! Some rehearsals from 1974. Rough stuff, but worth it!

More Television -- the legendary Eno demos!

tyler:

this neil boot is obv awesome.

but what the hell is up with the audience..they are like cutting up during "long may you run" like it's some kinda fuckin' joke...wanna travel back in time and strangle these smug hippies.

yeah, and they all laugh at the ambulance blues "you're all just pissin in the wind" line. Funny, "Long May You Run" sort of *seems* like a joke song, but I actually think it's one of Neil's most touching songs. The Beach Boys line (which yeah, the audience on that boot totally guffaws at) always gets me, as a former SoCal guy.

yeah i think long may you run is totally touching.

but i guess the beach boys line would hit ppl different then, pre all the "OMG smile is a lost classic brian is a genius" stuff...i guess they were just nerd band then probably.

yeah, i'm sure a beach boys reference in 1974 would have people thinking lol corny beach boys ... though I'm sure Neil was always pretty into them -- "Let's Go Away For Awhile" is on that Journey Through the Past sdtk from around the same time.

he was also bros with dennis wilson back in the manson days i think. some sweet times, i'm sure.

I don't see how "Long May You Run" could be heard as a joke song, but the Bottom Line version is so...downbeat and intense, I don't see how they bust out. At first I thought it was because of something else that was happening, like someone falling over in the audience, but no, they laugh at particular lines of the song. The reaction to "the last time I saw you alive" is especially weird.

well, there's something funny about the concept of singing a downbeat, intense love song to your car, but Neil ends up selling it more convincingly than some of his actual love songs.

hah! I've never listened closely enough to the words to pick up that it's sung to his car (despite listening to the song for 20 years now). Even in the original version he emotes so well that yeah, it comes across as serious rather than jokey.

yeah, it's def. about his car! kinda wry, but overall, I think it's in earnest! Dude loves his cars.

yeah I get it now, the "chrome heart" business, long may you run rather than malfunction. I could see laughing now except for the way Neil pulls it off on the boot, so slow.

plenty more Neil on the way, once I get through with this epic television overview I've got planned. might go deep into the 80s with neil next time. was just listening to a great int'l harvesters set.

hey tyler since u seem to be a neil bootleg ninja...

is there a different version of "ordinary people" floating around, without the bad 80s production that's on the "chrome dreams II" version?

there's a live version with the Bluenotes, but it sounds essentially the same -- almost like they recorded it on the same day! i made a neil young in the 80s bootleg mix a while back with that, the 20-minute crime in the city, interstate and a bunch of other interesting stuff. maybe i'll post that as the next neil installment.

wow, that would be great! I've never heard the 20 min "Crime In The City".

What about the Eldorado EP? I guess that's not technically a bootleg but I've never heard it...the ones floating around the net seem to just be the versions off Freedom plus "Cocaine Eyes" and "Heavy Love", but I gather there's a different version of "Don't Cry" that's like a minute longer (all feedback). I'd love to hear it sometime.

i might be wrong but i think the songs from the el dorado EP that also show up on Freedom are the same versions? Maybe they're different mixes. the long "Crime in the City" is definitely worth hearing! A lot of verses!

ok, even more Television has been posted. We're not even past 1975! This show is a great one though. Maybe the best pre-Marquee Moon show ...

wow that television show! thank u so much

wow dude I'm still catching up. This Feelies show!! Slipping Into Mayhem! I've only heard the mislabeled 86 show at the Rat w/r/t live Feelies, which is terrific but this... scorching stuff.

"Dude loves his cars"

And his dogs.
A friend of mine had a 1976 bootleg from Osaka, I think - I remember it being totally killer, do you maybe have something like that too? :)

yeah the osaka 1976 show was one of the first neil bootlegs i ever heard, i think -- a friend bought it on tape at some random pasadena record store. it's incredible -- that whole 1976 Japanese tour is one of the best Neil Young/Crazy Horse period. There'll definitely be some of that on the blog soon.

there's a live version with the Bluenotes, but it sounds essentially the same -- almost like they recorded it on the same day! i made a neil young in the 80s bootleg mix a while back with that, the 20-minute crime in the city, interstate and a bunch of other interesting stuff. maybe i'll post that as the next neil installment.

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man i keep wishing that some awesome version done by him and crazy horse around ragged glory or something like that will surface

would love to hear that 80s stuff though.

listening to the george harrison now, really nice!

Awesome! Congratulations! If it makes you feel younger, Grand Banks is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Sheesh.

Here's to many more though, you are doing good work!

happy anniversary to one of the great all-time music blogs!

congrats and agreed hell of a blog my mans

thanks guys
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happy bday!

Congrats! Woo-hoo!

:D

happy bday to this blog!

thx!!!!
every now and then i think about moving D&G off of tumblr ... tumblr is pretty irritating for a variety of reasons ... has anyone ever done that kinda thing, move a tumblr blog over to, say, wordpress?

My considered advice is that it'd doable, but put a pain in the arse. Congrats on the birthday - it's a fantastic blog!

yeah, that's what i figured ... maybe i need a fresh-faced intern who wants to be paid in bob dylan bootleg CDRs....

go tyler!

cheers to seven yeers

2018 roundup! this blog is still a blog!

https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/181220258037/the-year-in-doom-gloom-the-sun-is-setting-on

i still try to keep up with it on the regular

This live Richard Thompson set is fantastic - thanks, Tyler.

Re: The Velvets Hilltop Pop Fest set just posted

You had me at "longest version of What Goes On," but the wrong show is posted. The download I just got is the Boston Tea Party 7/11/69.

oh shit! thanks for the heads up, the real link is up there now ...

oh shit you have me at "longest version of What Goes On" too

2019 bootleg roundup ahoy! https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/189775584462/doom-gloom-2019-the-year-in-bootlegs-another

Great line up!

I wondered if you maybe caught the Peter Tork boot from CBGBs in '77 that came up on D1me early this year (just after he passed)?

Really interesting and curious, I meant to bring it up at the time.

i haven't heard that one! would be interesting for sure ...

Listening to the Salsburg/Shelley boot now and it's gorgeous. Thanks Tyler.

All of this does beg the question: how do I get Joan Shelley to come and play in my house? Do I just ask nicely?

ha, it does help to be friends with a friend of salsburg's but they do seem like they enjoy the house concert scene a bit more than the club scene ...

Doom & Gloom 2020 Bootleg Blowout Catch-Up Post!

https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/639040270084833280/doom-gloom-2020-were-almost-done-with-2020-so

nice

Welp ... RIP Doom & Gloom? pic.twitter.com/5UpWfL6ZBm

— Tyler Wilcox (@tywilc) August 14, 2021

A damn shame.

I saw that earlier - the situation really sucks. Any hope of retrieval from the internet archive or anything?

hopefully tyler kept all these files, bummer

I was just marveling at the excellent unreleased John Cale stuff I got from Doom & Gloom. I hope you work something out!

Tumblr say it ain't so. Ugh

Anyone heard about this new site, Toom & Dloom?

Lol, all a big misunderstanding apparently. We are back in business. Was a stressful day yesterday though!

Happy for you and for us

oh good!

undoomed and degloomed

Gloom Exhumed From the Tomb

like jesus, rising from the tomb on a sunday morning.

i do have to get off of tumblr though.

I pay about $100 a year to host Burning Ambulance on Wordpress and the site's never gone down or given me the slightest problem in 11 years.

Big round up of live tapes posted in the year 2021. https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/671827546213646336/doom-gloom-the-year-in-bootlegs-pharoah-sanders

!!! yay

Too good. Lose yourself....

awesome thanks Tyler!

guys, I'm over on substack now if that's what you're into.

https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.substack.com/

yay!

Interesting

2023 bootleg roundup! https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/737147848129495040/the-year-in-bootlegs

some crucial re-ups in there ...

Cool.

nice!