I went to my first record fair, and after spending around thrice my original budget there, found a flea market around the corner with so many irresistible goodies. I decided to venture further down the bootleg rabbit hole and while stocking up on some nice rarities to sell to my lovely customers on Discogs, I naturally selected a couple for my own collection!
Pearl Jam - Eddie Sings The Blues, side-A sees Eddie perform 3 tracks with the Doors, the grit and gravel in his voice giving the songs a whole new aura. Side-B has a particularly cool rendition of The Who's My Generation performed right here in the UK.
Numero Dos, The White Stripes - BBC sessions. It would appear that the tracks are taken from two John Peel Sessions in 2001 and this makes the record very special to me, as I know that John Peel was very fond of The White Stripes, and that The White Stripes were very fond of John Peel. And well I'm very fond of them all. I notice there's not a great deal of information about which tracks come from which session out there on the world wide web so I've tried to unpick it for you below.
Full track listing Eddie Sings The Blues:
| A1 | Roadhouse Blues (Eddie Vedder and the Doors, Century Plaza Hotel, LA, 1993) | |||||||||
| A2 | Break On Through (Eddie Vedder and the Doors, Century Plaza Hotel, LA, 1993) | |||||||||
| A3 | Light My Fire (Eddie Vedder and the Doors, Century Plaza Hotel, LA, 1993) | |||||||||
| A4 | Catholic Boy (Basketball Diaries OST) | |||||||||
| B1 | Hunger Strike (Riverside Club: UK Tour 1992) | |||||||||
| B2 | My Generation (Riverside Club: UK Tour 1992) | |||||||||
| B3 | I've Got A Feeling (Riverside Club: UK Tour 1992) | |||||||||
| B4 | Keep On Rocking' In The Free World (MTV Music Awards, with Neil Young, 1993) |
Full track listing BBC Sessions:
| A1 | Lord Send Me An Angel (Peel Acres, November 2001) | |
| A2 | Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (Peel Acres, November 2001) | |
| A3 | Little Room And The Union For Ever (Peel Acres, November 2001) | |
| A4 | The Same Boy You've Always Known (Peel Acres, November 2001) | |
| A5 | I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman (Maida Vale, July 2001) | |
| B1 | Screwdriver (Maida Vale, July 2001) | |
| B2 | St James Infirmary Blues (Peel Acres, November 2001) | |
| B3 | Boll Weevil (Maida Vale, July 2001) | |
| B4 | Rated X (Peel Acres, November 2001) | |
| B5 | Build A Home Memphis (Peel Acres, November 2001) |
