Various Artists - rmd_does_dylan : B+ (B/A-)
This was a Dylan fan project wherein people who read rmd (rec.music.dylan - the Dylan newsgroup) got together and recorded a bunch of Dylan covers. There was no money made on any of this and so it was all for fun and for the music. The rmd_does_dylan website is here (it'll explain it better than I can). Anyway, it's quite the project and has turned out quite well. The sound is pretty good considering, because everyone recorded on whatever they had available then sent the results in, so the quality varies from track to track; some tracks have some static or a few other technical noises, but none are that bad.

Disc 1:
1. Ar-Em-Di (sung by Adam Selzer) - written by Adam Selzer - pop at 0:23
2. Visions of Johanna (sung by Audry Rose)
3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (sung by Pete Law Band)
4. Tryin’ To Get To Heaven (sung by Alessandro)
5. Girl Of The North Country (sung by Kevin Briggs)
6. Quit Your Low Down Ways take 2 (sung by Howard & Eric Mirowitz)
7. Down In The Flood (sung by Mike Skliar and Ken Ficara)
8. Cat’s In The Well (sung by Adam Selzer and his Maritime Band)
9. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (sung by Matt Reading)
10. All Along The Watchtower (sung by Kyle Wade)
11. Dear Landlord (sung by Kevbo Fabutab)
12. If Not For You (sung by Paul Whitelam)
13. If You See Her, Say Hello (sung by Paul Seaton)
14. The French Girl (sung by Ed Nash) - written by Ian Tyson & Sylvia Fricker
15. It Ain’t Me, Babe (sung by yojimbug & associates)
16. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine (sung by Christopher Leipold)
17. Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (sung by Todd W. Berner {Grimace1})
18. Wanted Man (sung by President_dudley)
19. Buckets Of Rain (Dylan’s Boogie) (instrumental by Patti Keegan)

Disc 2:
1. Down In The Flood (sung by Patti Keegan)
2. This Wheel's On Fire (sung by Paul Seaton)
3. Searching For A Soldier’s Grave (sung by K. Briggs & the Heavywater Band) - written by Johnnie Wright, Jim Anglin and Jack Anglin
4. Hurricane (sung by Todd W. Berner {Grimace1})
5. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (sung by Pete Law Band)
6. Seven Days (sung by Christopher Leipold)
7. Bob Dylan’s Blues (sung by Christopher Leipold)
8. Maggie’s Farm (sung by Kyle Wade)
9. One Too Many Mornings (sung by Adam Selzer and his Maritime Band)
10. I’ll Keep It With Mine (sung by Paul Whitelam)
11. Canadee-i-o (sung by Ed Nash) - written by unknown (traditional - arranged by Bob Dylan)
12. Copper Kettle (sung by yojimbug & associates) - written by A.F. Beddoe
13. Quit Your Low Down Ways take 1 (sung by Howard & Eric Mirowitz)
14. Idiot Wind (sung by Alessandro)
15. Clothes Line Saga (sung by Audry Rose)
16. Crazy Like A Fox (sung by Mike Skliar with Ken Ficara) - written by Mike Skliar
17. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (sung by President_dudley)
18. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (sung by Gaslighttapes/Doug and Rorie)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - 10/20/83 Ripley's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : A- (A/A-)
Texas Flood has awesome guitar playing (well they all do, this being a Stevie Ray Vaughan concert, but there's something about Texas Flood). Tin Pan Alley, a slow blues, features great emotional guitar and singing. Actually, this is a great show all-around.

1. Testify (instrumental)
2. So Excited (instrumental)
3. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - written by Jimi Hendrix
4. Pride And Joy
5. Texas Flood - written by Davis and Scott
6. Love Struck Baby
7. Mary Had A Little Lamb - written by Buddy Guy
8. Tin Pan Alley - written by R. Geddins
9. Little Wing / Third Stone From The Sun (second is instrumental) - first written by Jimi Hendrix, second written by unknown (?)
10. Lenny (instrumental)
11. Rude Mood (instrumental)

encore?:
12. Tell Me - written by Howlin' Wolf
13. In The Open (instrumental) - written by unknown (?)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - 01/24/85 Tokyo, Japan : B+ (A-/B+)
This soundboard recording of a Stevie Ray Vaughan Tokyo show opens with two instrumental songs, followed by a 15 minute Voodoo Chile. Of course, throughout, Stevie's guitar is smokin' though his voice isn't too upfront in the mix. This is a great show if you love lots of awesome guitar playing and rock/blues. I haven't heard much Stevie Ray Vaughan so I don't know how this compares to his other performances or work.

1. Scuttle Buttin' (instrumental)
2. Say What (instrumental)
3. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - written by Jimi Hendrix - Stevie's voice starts off far back in the mix but is soon moved up (this is on original)
4. Cold Shot - written by Clark and Kindred
5. Couldn't Stand The Weather
6. Tin Pan Alley / Dirty Pool
7. Mary Had A Little Lamb - written by Buddy Guy
8. Love Struck Baby
9. Texas Flood - written by Davis and Scott
10. Lenny

Tom Waits - 01/15/77 Osaka, Japan : B (B/B+)
The sound quality isn't great as there are short gaps between each song and there is fuzziness throughout (sometimes it's fairly distracting). The show is jazzy in many ways, sounding a lot like Small Change did (rough voice, saxophone, etc.). It's a fairly enjoyable show; though many songs sound similar, there are definitely great moments here.

Disc 1:
1. Step Right Up
2. Eggs & Sausage
3. Depot, Depot
4. Jitterbug Boy
5. Pasties And A G-String
6. San Diego Serenade
7. Fumblin' With The Blues
8. Cupid - written by unknown (?)
(Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night
9. band intros

second set:
10. Invitation To The Blues

Disc 2:
1. Emotional Weather Report
2. The Piano Has Been Drinking - some of end is cut off
3. New Coat Of Paint
4. I Can't Wait To Get Off Work
5. On A Foggy Night
6. Virginia Avenue
7. Warm Beer And Cold Women
8. The One That Got Away
9. Small Change
10. more band intros

encore 1?:
11. Tom Traubert's Blues

encore 2?:
12. Ol' 55

Tom Waits - 04/26/77 The Post Aula Bremen, Germany ("Invitation To The Blues") : B+ (A-/B+)
This show's an ok show in very good sound quality. Midnight Lullaby, Grapefruit Moon, and The One That Got Away are all pretty good. Near the end of this disc, Tom starts asking the audience for song requests in a drunken sort of manner (but he doesn't seem to be able/willing to play what they request!). This disc doesn't contain the whole show (as it fades out at the end you can hear the band going into another song).

1. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
2. Invitation To The Blues / Eggs & Sausage
3. Depot, Depot
4. The Piano Has Been Drinking
5. Pasties And A G-String
6. Step Right Up
7. Semi Suite
8. Fumblin' With The Blues
9. Midnight Lullaby
10. Emotional Weather Report
11. I Can't Wait To Get Off Work
12. New Coat Of Paint
13. Nobody
14. Diamonds On My Windshield
15. Grapefruit Moon
16. The One That Got Away

Tom Waits - 03/??/79 Sydney, Australia ("Cold Beer On A Hot Night") : A (A/A)
This is a great Tom Waits show in great sound quality. From the start the mood is set and you can picture a dark room with this small band, Tom at the mic. Pretty much the whole show's excellent, but three huge highlights are the 12 minute Burma Shave, the powerful Tom Traubert's Blues, and the dramatic Small Change.

1. Romeo Is Bleeding
2. Annie's Back In Town
3. With A Suitcase / Jitterbug Boy / Better Off Without A Wife
4. I Wish I Was In New Orleans / When The Saints Go Marching In - second written by unknown (?)
5. Since I Fell In Love With You - written by L. Welch (?)
6. Red Shoes By The Drugstore
7. Silent Night / Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - first written by unknown (?)
8. Do The Hokey Pokey / Pasties And A G-String - written by unknown (?)
9. Burma Shave - tape fluctuation at 3:54
10. Instrumental and band intros

encore 1:
11. Tom Traubert's Blues

encore 2:
12. Small Change / Big Spender - second written by Coleman and Fields

Tom Waits - 11/16/85 Paris, France ("Paris At Midnight") : B+ (A-/B)
Tom likes to tell his crazy stories but unfortunately his talking is very quiet in this recording and it's hard to hear what he's saying. I don't care too much for this show but there are parts of it that are good. I particularly like Underground.

1. Underground
2. Walking Spanish
3. 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six - dropout in right speaker at 2:21
4. Jockey Full Of Bourbon
5. Tango 'Til They're Sore (Tom on piano)
6. Ruby's Arms (Tom on piano)
7. I Wish I Was In New Orleans (Tom on piano)
Burma Shave (Tom on piano)
8. Cemetery Polka
9. Down, Down, Down
10. Shore Leave
11. Rain Dogs
12. Heartattack And Vine
13. Blind Love
14. $29.00

Tom Waits - Alice demos : B (A/B)
I'm not sure when the Alice demos were recorded. I'm also not sure about the historical significance of this bootleg because I'm fairly new to Tom Waits, however I imagine that these are somewhat historically important. Another thing that I'm unsure about is whether or not Tom Waits wrote all of these songs. There's a dropout in track 13 after 0:21 has passed. What Became Of Old Father Craft sounds very much like a work-in-progress. The instrumental pieces are quite nice.

1. There's Only Alice
2. And No One Knows I'm Gone
3. Tabletop Joe
4. Komme Nie Zu Spat
5. Hang Me In The Bottle
6. Down The Reeperbahn
7. One, Two And Through
8. Everything You Can Think Of Is True
9. ...But There's Never A Rose
10. What Became Of Old Father Craft
11. Chained Together For Life
12. Falling Down The Lane
13. Untitled - at 0:21 into the track there's a dropout
14. Instrumental Piece 1
15. Instrumental Piece 2
16. Instrumental Piece 3
17. Instrumental Piece 4
18. Instrumental Piece 5
19. Instrumental Piece 6
20. Instrumental Piece 7
21. Instrumental Piece 8
22. Instrumental Piece 9
23. Instrumental Piece 10

Tom Waits - 02/04/96 Oakland, California : A- (B/A-)
This is the only Tom Waits bootleg I have from '96, and because I'm fairly new to Tom Waits, I can't really comment on the actual quality of the show. It sounded really good, so I gave it an A-. The highlights for me were many: I Don't Want To Grow Up, Goin' Out West, That Feel, Filipino Box Spring Hog, and Gun Street Girl. The rest of the show's great as well. There are, unfortunately, very small gaps between each track (they're less than 1 sec long); they're almost unnoticeable. There are skips in disc 1 track 15 and disc 2 track 1 as described below, and a static glitch on disc 2 track 5. I've guessed at the encore divisions (I'm probably wrong...that's a lot of encores!).

Disc 1:
1. I Don't Wanna Grow Up
2. Black Wings
3. Goin' Out West
4. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six
5. Such A Scream
6. Jesus Gonna Be Here
7. Earth Died Screaming
8. Tango 'Til They're Sore (Tom on piano)
9. A Little Rain (Tom on piano)
10. Broken Bicycles (Tom on piano)
11. Back In The Good Old World (Tom on piano)
12. Invitation To The Blues (Tom on piano)
13. Tom Waits talking
14. Johnsburg, Illinois (Tom on piano)
15. On The Nickel (Tom on piano) - skipping noise at 1:09 into the track
16. Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis (Tom on piano)
17. All Stripped Down
18. The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today

Disc 2:
1. In The Colosseum - skip at 1:21 into the track
2. Innocent When You Dream
3. Cemetery Polka
4. Falling Down
5. That Feel - small static glitch at 2:07 into the track
6. Singapore

encore 1:
7. Heartattack And Vine
8. Filipino Box Spring Hog

encore 2:
9. Big Joe And Phantom 309 - song written by Tommy Faile
10. Gun Street Girl
11. Time

encore 3:
12. Lucky Day

encore 4:
13. Walk Away
14. The Fall Of Troy

encore 5:
15. Tom Traubert's Blues (Tom on piano)

Tom Waits - 07/23/99 Florence, Italy : B+ (B-/B+)
Because I'm fairly new to Tom Waits, I can't really comment on the actual quality of the show. It sounded pretty good, so I gave it a B+. The two highlights for me were Jesus Gonna Be Here and 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six, but many of the other songs are really good. There are two songs on disc 1 track 11 (Tango 'Til They're Sore and Hang Down Your Head).

Disc 1:
1. The Black Rider
2. Jockey Full Of Bourbon
3. Earth Died Screaming
4. Jesus Gonna Be Here
5. Get Behind The Mule
6. Strange Weather
7. Chocolate Jesus
8. Hold On
9. Eyeball Kid
10. What's He Building?
11. Tango 'Til They're Sore (Tom on piano)
Hang Down Your Head (Tom on piano)

Disc 2:
1. Cemetery Polka (Tom on piano)
2. A Little Rain (Tom on piano)
3. Innocent When You Dream (Tom on piano)
4. 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
5. Shore Leave
6. Who Are You
7. Filipino Box Spring Hog

encore 1:
8. House Where Nobody Lives
9. Come On Up To The House

encore 2:
10. Big In Japan
11. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night

encore 3:
12. Ol' 55 (Tom on piano)
13. Take It With Me (Tom on piano)

Tom Waits - 09/23/99 New York City, New York ("Invitation To The Blues") : B (B-/B+)
Unfortunately, there are 2 second gaps between each track (I've taken off a letter grade for this). Because I'm fairly new to Tom Waits, I can't really comment on the actual quality of the show. I gave it a B+ because it sounds good.

Disc 1:
1. Intro (Lucky Day Overture/The Black Rider)
2. Down Down Down
3. Jesus Gonna Be Here
4. In The Colosseum
5. Get Behind The Mule
6. Chocolate Jesus
7. Jockey Full Of Bourbon
8. Hold On
9. Eyeball Kid - with Step Right Up intro
10. Band intro
11. Tango 'Til They're Sore (Tom on piano)
12. Picture In A Frame (Tom on piano)

Disc 2:
1. Invitation To The Blues (Tom on piano)
2. Cemetery Polka (Tom on piano)
3. A Little Rain (Tom on piano)
4. Innocent When You Dream (Tom on piano)
5. 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought-Six
6. Cold Water
7. Who Are You
8. Straight To The Top
9. I'll Shoot The Moon
10. Filipino Box Spring Hog

encore 1:
11. What's He Building?
12. Lucky Day

encore 2:
13. I Don't Want To Grow Up - mike bumped at start
14. Pony