Martin Hagfors - I Like You - Oct 2011

Weeklyleaks, sound by Martin.

Weeklyleaks is non commercial and based on mutual trust. All of the artists that I have recorded back in my day as a sound man have recorded material for sale, and I urge you to buy their music by following the links I provide. By signing up for the weeklyleaks/MartinHagfors newsletter and obtaining access to the live streaming concerts you agree not to copy, reproduce, “rip”, record, or distribute any part of these live streams.
Thanks & enjoy
Martin Hagfors

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Tom Russell Band-Cruise Cafe May 19th 1990



The first time I ran into the Tom Russell Band was at Nightstage in Cambridge where they opened for Steve Earl or was it Joe Ely... damn my memory is fading! it's a good thing weeklyleaks is around to catch what's left of my grey cassette...Anyhow, I wound up working with the band on numerous occasions at Cruise Cafe and they always drew a full house. They probably played for more people at Cruise than any other band, but then again I might be wrong..anyone?
Tom Russell has had an amazing career and has continued releasing brilliant albums, his songs have been recorded by the likes of Johnny Cash, Nancy Griffith, Dave Alvin and The Contenders. ...speaking of, he mentions The Contenders on this tape as being one of his favorite country rock bands alongside The Kinks. The bass player from The Contenders Odd Eirik Fleischer is a good friend of mine and played on all 10 of the Home Groan albums we released. The Contenders' lead singer Bjørn Kulseth. is also mentioned by name on the tape and is now running the small record label, Norskamerikaner and released our HGH album All The Men In Dresses. And speaking of bass players, Tom Russells' great bass player Bill Troiani wound up staying in Oslo and recently won a Norwegian grammy for best blues album!
Tom Russell has also become a favorite of David Letterman and has played on the show a bunch of times. I could go on and on,... but do check out Fats Kaplin and Andrew Hardin as well, and be sure to catch Tom Russell live, he's got a Norwegian tour coming up in May!



Tom Russell: guitar, vocals
Fats Kaplin: fiddle,pedal steel, accordian, harmonica, vocals
Andrew Hardin: guitar vocals
Billy Troiani: bass guitar, vocals
Mike Warner: drums

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Levon Helm @Nightstage 17th June 1988 w/Max Weinberg

 


Levon Helm played Nightstage in Cambridge,MA with a great band including E-Street band drummer Max Weinberg. I don't remember too much from this gig, crazy I'm sure and this tape sounds like it must be from the last show, I do seem to remember one of the drummers slipped off his stool that evening...
I need help from the enlightened as to who was in the band, maybe my friends over at The Band site can help out?
Levon passed away this week, a unique musician and a huge inspiration.Peace.





Asleep At The Wheel Cruise Cafe, Oslo-N, March. ?. 1992

 

Asleep at the Wheel came to Cruise for a two night stint in March 1992, I don't remember the dates (anyone?) and put on two great shows. Texas swing at its best and the small stage got a beating it probably never recovered from, not that I know what that means.. Anyhow they drew a mixed crowd of music lovers, jazz buffs, country shit kickers etc. and from the sound of this old cassette the Cruise was rockin!
I'm not sure who was in the band at the time but I'll make an unedumacated guess, the band leader Ray Benson does mention David Sanger and I know for a fact the now very famous Cindy Cashdollar on pedal steel was still part of the band. I had previously done sound for Cashdollar in Boston when she played a duo gig with Leon Redbone. Cindy is also a friend of my songwriting buddy Jeff Wasserman and the bass player in my new band Jørun Bøgberg , and she plays on albums by the both of them. Cindy is now a regular fixture on stage with the likes of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Ryan Adams, who ever those guys are. Anyhow I'm short on info, who played bass, fiddle, saxophone etc??




Ray Benson Guitar lead vocals
Floyd Domino piano ?
David Sanger drums
Cindy Cashdollar steel guitar
Ricky Turpin Fiddle/vocals ?
Michael Francis saxophone ?
David Earl Miller bass?

help me out folks!

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or here

Read about them here

Riders In The Sky Nightstage May 10th 1988

 

Riders In The Sky are about the funniest guys I've ever heard on stage and they have been an inspiration for some of my own work in HGH (Hagfors Gebhardt Hello!). They are great musicians and combined with quick wit are an act you definitely need to check out! Look here for their tour schedule.
I probably got the chance to work with them at least a couple of nights in Cambridge and as you can hear from this tape they had a great following. The late great John Hartford was on the bill with them and he joined them for a song or two at the end of the evening. I'll get back to John's performance later... The Riders were a trio back in 1988 but have since expanded to a quartet adding the accordian or "stomach Steinway". They have also penned a bunch of songs that have been used in animated movies like Toy Story etc read up on them here while enjoying this tape.


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Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys Nightstage 6.30.1988

 

Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys! I got a chance to meet and work with this legend back in 1988. To quote wikipidea ...William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. He is often referred to as The Father of Bluegrass.
I really enjoyed the two shows I did with him and his band, I'm a big fan of old timey music and they dug deep into the well and picked out some classics. The band had a great sense of humor and the crowd ate them up, yelling out requests and having some being played. Enjoy!



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Bill Monroe Mandolin 
Billy Joe Foster Fiddle
Tater Tate Bass
Tom Ewing Guitar

I think they all sang...



WeeklyLeaks

My hand at work at Nightstage, in an article about a Mick Taylor concert

My hand at work at Nightstage, in an article about a Mick Taylor concert

road worn

road worn

suitcase 1

suitcase 1

suitcase 2

suitcase 2

my work bench

my work bench

analog to digital

analog to digital

About Weeklyleaks

For the last twenty years I've been sitting on two old suitcases full of original live cassette recordings from my tenure as a sound man from the mid 80's to the 90's.
The tapes are mainly from two music clubs where I ran sound and lights, Nightstage in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Cruise Cafe in Oslo, Norway. I used to make these recordings for reference, I'd usually listen to them the next morning to relive psycho acoustic phenomena's from the night before, besides that, I'm a music buff.
I have never copied nor distributed the tapes before and will only make them available for streaming via this page and stored on my weeklyleaks.net web hotel. They are not for sale and I will not make copies nor make them downloadable. At times bands and road managers linked up to my recorder and made their own copies but most of these are believed to be unique recordings.
Technically speaking these tape are not of broadcast quality as the musical mixes are balanced for the PA and do not take into account stage volume levels, house eq or system balance..  Also none of them are complete performances, recording was not a priority, getting the house sound right and the performers comfortable was. Some tapes start up in the middle of a song , run out in the middle of the song etc. Bear with me.
Most tapes are right off the board but some are recorded with a mono mix to one channel and a microphone (most likely a Shure SM57) picking up the room in the other.
I will publish links to official recordings where you can purchase the music of the recorded artists, please help me out here so I can link to releases where the performer actually sees some money. Hopefully these live recordings will inspire you to do so.
I had a great time working with these artist and I look forward to listening to them again. I'll try and write a few words, not reviews just ramblings about each concert and I hope to publish one every other week depending on my tour/work schedule. Hopefully this project  won't be too overwhelming as its all of my doing and a labor of love.
Look forward to concerts with,Mose Allison, Mick Taylor, Tracy Chapman, Townes Van Zandt, Dizzy Gillespie, Tom Russell, Eek A Mouse, Dr. John, Giant Sand, Loudon Wainwright, Astor Piazzolla, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Carl Perkins, Bill Monroe, Etta James, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, American Music Club, Albert King, Michelle Shocked, Duke RobillardDelbert McClinton and a bunch more, it should keep me busy... 


Please contact me if you as an artist or their legal estate do not want these recordings made public.
A high bit rate wave file copy will be made available to the artists upon request. The audio available for preview on this site is only at 96kbps.

Thanks
Martin Hagfors

The concerts will be transfered from my old Sony TC-D5, the same deck that I recorded them with. 

Legally speaking on a personal level

Weeklyleaks is my fan page to some of the great musicians I happened to work with back in my day as a soundman. 
The tapes are getting old and the time is right to digitalize them in a library before they are gone forever. They are not of broadcast quality and are uploaded to my weeklyleaks web host at a meager 96kbps. They are kind of like red wine on the rocks, the smell is right but for the full flavor you have to go for the real thing. So buy the official full fidelity recordings. 
I have never encountered a web page quite like this before and once I got the idea to pursue weeklyleaks I gave the pros and cons a lot of thought. Weeklyleaks is non commercial and as a a musician/songwriter with 17 albums and hundreds of songs under the belt I take these matters very seriously. In our new media environment including free streaming of official recordings, free downloads at youtube etc. I thought I would try to approach this differently providing links to official releases and hopefully turning new fans on to the great artists I intend to present. FYI, these music files do not reside on this web hotel.

Please contact me if you as an artist or their legal estate do not want to be promoted on these pages.

List of artists who do not allow public streaming here