Nick Cave & Mick Harvey
'Night Music' soundstage
NYC
January 23, 1990
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***CM Archive Vol 28***
1) >tune-ups<
2) Hey Joe (take 1)
3) >tune-ups<
4) >playing<
5) >more playing<
6) Hey Joe (take 2)
7) >rustling & tuning<
8) The Mercy Seat
9) The Mercy Seat (vamps)
10) The Mercy Seat (take 2)
11) >tuning<
12) >piano jam<
13) The Mercy Seat (take 3- with audience)
14) >audience<
15) The Mercy Seat (take 4)
16) >outro<
In what I would call a 'for serious collectors only' post, here is a capture from the audience of Nick’s appearance on ‘Nite Music’.
'Night Music' was a short lived music program that used to come on after SNL on NBC…it was hosted by David Sanborn and Jools Holland, whose eclectic musical tastes made the shows sometimes pretty interesting. For the finale of every show, all the guests would play together on a song, usually a cover. Nick’s version of “Hey Joe” was performed with Nick and Mick Harvey along with Sanborn, Toots Thielemans, Charlie Haden and the Night Music Band…you can even see it here on YooToob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7eiOsxzjKc
So what we have here are the rehearsals for the broadcast…along with a lot of mic rustling, staging, instrument tunings, vamps and warm ups for the performance. You also get to hear the a few un-broadcast versions of “The Mercy Seat” as well as an extra “Hey Joe” that went unused…
The quality here is a bit stealthy; muffled, lots of mic rustling and ‘dead air’ which would generally fall out of the realm of something a casual fan may dig, but if yer a Nick collector, this is an interesting document of his appearance that would normally go unheard by most anybody but the lucky few in the studio audience…
Enjoy, but please
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Background:
I was lucky enough to develop a pretty solid virtual friendship with CM, and seemingly was able to succeed where many others have not: getting him to open up his vast collection of recorded material to digitally transfer. The many requests he received over the years were impossible to fulfill, and he honestly felt badly about ‘hoarding’, but there was little way to oblige all of them over the decades of taping, trading, and collecting

Perhaps he saw in me the chance to get his tapes transferred for himself, and also out to the many folks who had requested them since his last trading days many moons ago...

What we have in his’ collection is a brilliant snapshot of the Portland \ Eugene \ Corvallis, Oregon scene in the early to mid-1980’s. Then, after a prolific spell taping his favorite bands in and around Portland, he scored a job working for Touch’n’Go sister label Blast First Records out of the UK. He became label support for Band of Susans, and worked closely with many of the stalwarts during the heyday of that label.

He has also worked closely with many other bands, in various capacities; including Wire and Nick Cave (at Mute Records); the Buzzcocks, after their reformation in 1989; as well as many, many others…far too many to mention. This series does not even begin to scratch the surface of his collection; much of which is privately recorded and cannot be released to the public without the bands’ permissions. Still, what has been offered up is a pretty amazing collection of recordings, and certainly will bring to light a wealth of new material as well as many upgrades which have remained elusive for a long time.

Allow me to give a big thanks to CM for his trust in me, and for opening up his vaults to we fans!


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