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TAV FALCO and PANTHER BURNS VPRO Studio, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 27. 1988 FM

Broadcasted by VPRO radio for the program Frontline

Tav Falco is an American-born musical performer, performance artist, actor, filmmaker, and photographer. He has led the psychedelic rock-and-roll group Tav Falco's Panther Burns (named after a plantation in Mississippi) since 1979. He moved to Europe in the late 1990s and sometimes tours with European musicians in recent incarnations of his Panther Burns group.

Born Gustavo Antonio Falco in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he later briefly adopted the last name of his stepfather and was known for a time as "Gus Nelson" before eventually choosing the stage name "Tav Falco." Falco was raised in Gurdon, Arkansas, and moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1973. He started the nonprofit Televista "art-action" video group in Memphis to document local musicians and artists in the late 1970s with fellow Arkansas videographer/performance artist Randall Lyon. Falco and Lyon were both heavily influenced by the work of their mentor and friend, noted Memphis color photographer William Eggleston. After Alex Chilton was impressed by a 1978 performance of Falco's at The Orpheum in Memphis that culminated in the chainsawing of a guitar, the two teamed up for a few duo gigs as the Yard Dogs. This evolved into the self-styled "art damage" band, Tav Falco's Panther Burns. The group recorded a first album for Rough Trade at Ardent Studios in Memphis, after a previous 1980 session for the label at Phillips Recording was temporarily shelved (later rereleased on Marilyn Records as The Unreleased Sessions in 1992).

Just as he began his early career documenting other artists using video photography, Falco devoted some of his musical career trying to bring attention to great traditional artists obscured from the media's view. He introduced their work to his audiences and to writers following his work by performing Panther Burns shows on billings with these artists, recording interpretations of their songs, and occasionally collaborating with some of them on projects for small record labels he's been associated with, like Au Go Go and New Rose. Among these artists were blueswoman Jessie Mae Hemphill and Charlie Feathers. Falco and Lux Interior of The Cramps worked on the photography and liner notes, respectively, for the 1982 Honky Tonk Man album by Feathers, whose energetic, hiccup-styled vocals from the 1950s influenced both vocalists. Others of his area music heroes who have performed at Panther Burns events include Cordell Jackson, R. L. Burnside, Mose Vinson, and Van Zula Hunt. While releasing numerous Panther Burns albums on small international indie labels, Falco also has co-released some recordings by his band and other Memphis-area artists on his own Frenzi label.

Line up : (Probable)

René Coman - bass guitar
George Reinecke - Lead Guitar
Tav Falco - Vocals, guitar
Misty White or Brad Newman- drums


Setlist :

01 Intro
02 Tobacco Road
03 Some Same Thing
04 River Of Love
05 Goldfinger
06 The Robot
07 Can't Hardly stand It
08 Drop Your Mess
09 Ditch Digging
10 Cuban Rebel Girl
11 Make Believe
12 Poor Man

I had a slight problem with track 09 "Ditch Digging".

From 4:51,5 minutes I had a drop out on the right channel until the end of the song.

I made a patch from the left channel, so the song's end and a piece of monologue is in mono.

Lineage: FM > Cassette > Audacity > CD Wave editor > FLAC *

Another one from the box of old tapes !

ENJOY

FREDHEADSET

Broadcasted by VPRO radio for the program Frontline

FM > Cassette


Line up (Probable) :
René Coman - bass guitar
George Reinecke - Lead Guitar
Tav Falco - Vocals, guitar
Misty White or Brad Newman- drums