UPDATE FEB 2011

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DEAR FRIENDS, AFTER RECEIVING FIVE NOTIFICATIONS FROM DMCA, I HAVE DECIDED TO CLOSE MY BLOGS, SO ALL THIS SHARING-LINK ACTIVITY IS FINISHED. YOU CAN READ THE COMPLETE TEXT I POSTED ON MY PILOT BLOG - - > HERE

FOR THE MANY MANY PEOPLE WHO KEEP ASKING FOR RECORDS: I'M SORRY, I CAN'T FULFIL THEIR REQUESTS, IT ALL CAME TO A POINT THAT'S 'S TOO DANGEROUS FOR ME. I HAD TO REMOVE THE 97% OF THE ALBUMS I HAD POSTED ON THE SERVERS. The few exceptions are: the bootlegs and the few studio albums authorized directly by the copyright owners.

FOR ALL THE OTHERS, Cyrus (who wants to buy some of my vynil records), Maxoom, Caroalt, Jiro, Trolley Dolly, Phil (who wants my copies of the COB albums), Marnie (who wants my copy of the original "Ptooff"), XJ64, Antiamnbient, Arman, Nicolas, Rick, etc etc , please WRITE ME AGAIN WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, OKAY?

Last: I RE-UPPED THE FOREST'S LIVE ALBUM FOR THREE PEOPLE WHO ASKED FOR IT, SO IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE.


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KISSES - YOUR COUNTESS VANESSA

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No pretention of completeness in mind, this blog sees the light with the idea of filling a good number of gaps here and there, where I notice that certain music that I particularly like is missing in other blogs. Therefore my intent is avoiding posting albums that are present elsewhere. Exceptions are: where I'm reported of dirty record scans, incomplete reissues often remixed and unfaithful to the originals, or when I can offer higher bitrate scans, or also when posting a title is necessary for the completeness of a thread or a discography.


Here you won't find links leading to downloads, whenever the "Link" is featured, the album is available, otherwise, it means "work in progress".... If you want an album, please write me a request in the comment section including your email address and where in the world you visit this blog from.

...and if you don't get an answer from me after a certain time, please write again - I'm sorry, but it's not rare that some emails get lost in outer space, unfortunately...

After seeing that certain people keep using some of my pictures (which are not first class, I admit it, but nevertheless were made originally by me) for their blogs, without mentioning me as the owner, I decided to apply a "watermark" on some of them.

Thanks for existing

Thanks for existing

03 May 2010

PENTANGLE - Live at the BBC, 12 June 1970 (Video, 29 minn.)

Shreds and SVCD rips of this concert have already surfaced here and there on some blogs and on utube, but this is the complete concert, and in perfect video quality.  And a high quality audio as well, recorded on June 12th 1970, the period between "Basket of light" and "Cruel sister", with great versions of "Light flight", of "Hunting song" (a "13th Century rock'n'roll song", as Bert Jansch describes it) and a splendid combination sitar-banjo on "House carpenter", among the other gems. Maybe not everybody knows that "I've got a feeling" is a song completely based on a piece by Miles Davis, "All blues", which you can find on some of his early CBS LPs, starting from "Kind of blue" (1959). In my opinion, all these songs sound better than the respective originals studio recordings. Shame that this film doesn't even reach a half-n-hour time...
Now, if you take some time to search a bit through the blogs, you'll see some bootlegs around (AUDIO ONLY!) reporting this same BBC concert as recorded in 1971, but the right year is 1970.  Also, you will see that their title list shows SIX songs, while actually we should also consider an incomplete "I got a woman" at the end of the film, which BBC used as a background for the coda titles, therefore we should reckon seven titles all together.
So, always be picking when looking for bootlegs. ;)
I also imagine that the real concert was lasting longer, especially when a band is about to release a new album, and "Jack Orion" was already present in Bert Jansch's own repertoire, but oddly enough there are no songs from "Cruel sister" on this video.

For technical reasons the video file is split in two parts.




Your COUNTESS

10 comments:

  1. Manila said...
    Oh, now this is something I would love to have. Countess, will you please put my name down for this one - assuming you eventually decide to post it. ;-)

    Hugs,
    Manila.

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  2. ...A golden seat for magic Manila, always in the first row, attending the performances...!!! :-)
    Yes, I have just sent you the links, my friend! :-)
    KISSSS

    Countess V.

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  3. I think i have seen some low quality parts of this one and PENTANGLE is maybe 1 out of 10 all time favorites ( i think). So the complete one must be amazing

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  4. Oh yes, it is really amazing, I have this video since more than ten years, and still now and then I must go and watch it, it's simnply splendid! :-)
    Write me if you need more things, dear Janisfarm.
    And thanks for your good emails (referred to "originally posted"), as always!
    Hugs, Vanessa

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  5. I need a lot of beautiful things dear Vanessa but because i don't want to make it complex i will gather my 'needs' and send you via decent email together with my opinion on things

    Kiss kiss from this post also!!

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  6. arrrrgh! Countess, please remind me again which programme you used to split this? You sent me it once but I lost it in The Crash Of 2010. :(

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  7. Dear Countess,

    Please grant me access to your castle and this Pentanle file. I saw them play as a young teen in Melbourne Aust I think in 1971 and have been a big fan ever since

    Your humble servant

    Oldmonbulk

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  8. Dear Martin,
    what? my servant?? Ohhh, that would really be a hard life for you, if you were one! :-))
    Ok, ok, I will save you from such a bad sort, you will get the links, but you must first write me again telling me your email address, ok?

    kiss,
    The Countess

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  9. Is it still possible to see the Pentangle video. Thank you! John

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  10. Hello John.
    Yes, it is, or at least it should be, I had to reload everything up once more because the original files were deleted by Sendspace company...
    This is also why I waited long before answering...
    So the video seems to be available again.
    What you need to do, is to write me again and to send me your email address, so that I can give you the links you want :-))
    Till soon, byby

    Countess V.

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