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Sunday October 19th, 2014 with Dāv Fot
Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming!!
It was planned that I would do a couple of sets from the rest of the LPs that I got from the Record-Con.... but I happened across Ville Emard Blues Band's 1st LP (the real 1st LP - independent pressing, sold only at shows...), and that provided the 'centrepiece' of the show.
| Yesterday, I finally dropped my long-suffering Thorens turntable off to The Record Centre to get tuned up, leaving me table-less until it's done. While there, one of the owners comes up and says: "You were looking for stuff from these guys right?" and hands me Ville Émard Blues Band's 'Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient' - their first LP, independent pressing. Alas, with no turntable, I won't know what it really sounds like... until tonight on the Nightwatch! Also alas, no track listing comes with the LP, hence the 'Track 1', Track 2', etc., but I will play the record in it's entirety because of the rarity and it's esteemed legendary status in Quebec rock millieu... |
| Track 1 Ville Émard Blues Band - Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming 
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| Track 2 Ville Émard Blues Band - Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming
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| Track 3 Ville Émard Blues Band - Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming
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| Track 4 Ville Émard Blues Band - Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming
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| Track 5 Ville Émard Blues Band - Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming
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| Track 6 Ville Émard Blues Band - Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming
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| Track 7 Ville Émard Blues Band - Minute! Ville Émard Blues Band s'en vient / Is Coming
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| Now into a couple of tracks from the Record-Con Records! |
| You Lied Dillinger - Don't Lie to the Band
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| For Richard Caravan - & The New Symphony |
| Also a Record-Con Record, but one that takes me back to my childhood - I owned it many, many years ago, then sold it... and more than 25 years later, I buy it back! |
| Birth Focus - Hamburger Concerto |
| Flight Part 1; As Your Mind Flies By Rare Bird - As Your Mind Flies By |
| The Rare Bird track was included because it was a recent acquisition... but just a regular purchase, not from the record-con. The next track was, tho', and one of the nicest finds - Franck Dervieux's 'Dimension 'M'', an early (and great) example of Quebecois jazz/prog. |
| Concerto Pour Des Mondes Disparus Franck Dervieux - Dimension 'M'
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| Free-Form Funkified Filth Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles - Live! |
| From the live guitar histrionics of Santana to some live precussion-heavy rhythm-jamming by Stomu Yamash'ta's 'Go', the record-con had it all! |
| Windspin Stomu Yamash'ta's Go - Live |
| Bullfrog Dance Maneige - Composite
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| Elementary Guitar Solo #5 Larry Coryell - Coryell |
| And that wraps it up for the Record-Con LPs... with the exception of Van Der Graaf Generator's 'Still Life', and I'll leave that for another day. Time to Finish up with some vintage Magma - it's a live recording, a little bootleg-sounding perhaps, but shows you how intense the band could be. |
| De Futura Magma - Best on Tour 1976 |
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Hey Dave, I have the VEBB. Scored it a bunch of years ago, my copy has a dedication to CBC Sounds Unlikely :). My copy has a pink insert, English on one side and French on the other. There should be 8 tracks, 4 per side: 1. Soumis - Octobre au mois de mai, 2. You And Your Mother, 3. Rawn's Blues, 4. Blow - Poiros Nevroses, 5. Konkey Donkey, 6. Ste-Melanie Blues, 7. Drums Solo, 8. Yama Nekh. As you may know some of these are Contraction / Toubabou songs and most made it onto the eventual VEBB double-album with some name changes. 18 musicians are credited and I think it's the same 18 as the double.
7:59 PM, October 22nd, 2014