The Born This Way Ball -- Live In Los Angeles, California 1-20-2013

I am so happy to post one of my very first bootlegs of Lady Gaga. I saw the Born This Way Ball with fellow GagaDaily moderator Saira on January 20th, 2013, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

At the time I had a very small Sony pocket audio recorder, and the result was a slightly muffled and tiny mono sound recording, but I am still SO glad that I captured this, despite the odds, despite the risks, and in a time before livestreaming on TikTok or Instagram Live or Periscope or Twitch.

This is a beautiful record of one of the Born This Way Balls in full. Please enjoy!

Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/chicaskas/born-this-way-ball-tour-los

Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/chicaskas2/lady-gaga-born-this-way-ball-1

Part 3: https://soundcloud.com/chicaskas2/los-angeles-born-this-way-ball

A full write up by me has been preserved on the Wayback Machine:

Posted 02 February 2013 - 06:43 am (edited by ChicaSkas 04 May 2014 - 06:00 am)#1

First Complete American Born This Way Ball Bootleg Surfaces

Shown here for the first time in it's entirety, a bootleg recording has been made of the complete January 20th Born This Way Ball in Los Angeles, California. The full show, from the start of popular French DJ Madeon's set to the last strains of piped-in "Cake Like Lady Gaga" over the intercom, have been saved as a record of Gaga history for your listening pleasure.

Captured in 192kpbs, this recording was up-converted to digital .wav format in Audacity and painstakingly edited to produce the final result of 47 separate tracks, spanning a total of 3 hours and 15 minutes of pure exuberant sound.

Gaga was especially vocally on-point at this show, she was singing not only for the sold-out 20,000 seats of Staples Center, but also her entire management team at Interscope, including Vincent Herbert, Troy Carter, Jimmy Iovine, and many celebrities of Hollywood. Celebs in attendance included Elton John, David Furnish, Will Smith, Willow Smith, Kate Beckinsale, Neil Patrick Harris, Azealia Banks, cast members from RuPaul's Drag Race, and members of the Haus of Gaga. The event was covered by major local news outlet MyFoxLa (Channel 11 Fox News) and was featured in the popular Los Angeles magazine, LA WEEKLY, in depth, here. The media was especially interested in documenting the various incredible outfits the fans wore at the show, (you can see 85+ fans individually photographed here) and with the charitable efforts Gaga is making against bullying and intolerance with the Born Brave Bus. (see the full myFoxLA newscast on the show and anti-bullying efforts here.)

Highlights of this show include Gaga personally dedicating an acoustic performance of "The Queen" to Elton John and David Furnish. She played the song very much in the style of Sir Elton, and it's a treat to hear her ad-lib portions to fit the occasion.

French DJ Madeon played his own hits The City, Icarus, The Night Out, and Finale, along with a slightly remixed version of Zedd's Stache, (to the delight of the hardcore Gaga fans in the crowd!). His tight 39 minute set also featured musical selections from The Killers, Blur, Kathy Brown feat. Praxis, and tiny pieces of Skrillex thrown in for good measure.

Shangela and me, 1-20-2013

The entire show ran approximately from 7:00 pm to 10:55pm, the lineup went as follows:

Lady Starlight (30-40 minutes)

DJ Madeon (40-45 minutes)

and finally, Gaga (2 hours 30 minutes).

(Due to difficulties, unfortunately Lady Starlight's performance was not captured, if any of you happen to have any of Starlight's set captured in any format, I encourage you to please contact me, I would be very grateful -- as that helps complete the historical record, thanks!)

You can listen to the songs below in the order that they played, and download them if you wish in .wav format. The entire show is over 2 gigs when compiled in .wav, very soon an Mp3 version that takes up far less space will be put up, as very kindly put together by GagaDaily's own member Little Kermit!

All in all, this rare treat is a vital preservation of Gaga history for the world. Enjoy!

-- ChicaSkas for www.gagadaily.com

You can see the incredible fashion here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171204120543/http://www.laweekly.com/music/lady-gaga-staples-center-1-20-13-4169108

The slideshow still works!

https://web.archive.org/web/20180105051302/http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/lady-gagas-little-monsters-staples-center-2725213

My Boots: David Crosby (Live At The Saban Theater, Los Angeles) 9-10-2019

 

                                                          

 

I was lucky to attend this show in 2019 with my Mom and record it in full. 

DAVID CROSBY --- THE SABAN THEATER -- SEPTEMBER 10th, 2019 - BEVERLY HILLS

                                                                       SET LIST:

1. In My Dreams 

2. Morrison

3. 8 Miles High

4. At The Edge 

5. I Think I (Found My Way)

6. Guinnevere

7. Long Time Gone

8. DeJa Vu

Intermission 20 minutes (cut)

9. The Lee Shore

10. Breathless

11. Thousand Roads

12. Delta

13. What Are Their Names

14. Janice 

15. Wooden Ships (On The Water)

16. Ohio

LINK to Listen and Download:

https://mega.nz/file/oQQhkQJB#0EP9GuGLPZKS4MxMKMaasTWp2PyAq-3S1f-BOH1nQQY

Restoring a damaged Lady Gaga street poster

                                                     WHEATPASTE MUSIC POSTERS

            (or, my pursuits of some of the rarest ephemeral memorabilia in the collecting world)

One of my most beloved hobbies is collecting wheatpaste posters. I love the joyous feeling of preserving them from destruction, so they can live on my wall instead. These posters are destined to be destroyed, from the moment they are printed, and it is very difficult to secure them as a collector, extremely difficult to find them unpasted, and a definite challenge to get them once they are pasted. I currently own 2 unpasted, and 4 pasted. 

As a poster collector and general extreme Lady Gaga enthusiast, what better way to show off a true conversation piece than a 6 foot Gaga poster in your living room? I consider them to be the rarest musical memorabilia created, with the exception of signed walls, giant city billboards, and autographed pieces. Good luck getting one of those walls Gaga signed home, affording an authenticated autograph, and that billboard? Bigger than most homes.  But that poster down the block, stuck on a thin wall with all the others? That is some middle ground, that is possible. That could be attained.

But God forbid, the right way. So many of my calls to the LA companies that put these posters up have been ignored, deflected, or downright laughed at. Take my money, I say. I want a unpasted poster. You should sell them to fans who want to decorate their home. You are missing a great financial opportunity, Mr. Bigwig, sir. (And on and on.) "Contact the record label or the artist's management," they deflect. 

"Contact the flypasting company," the label writes.

A circular passing-the-buck argument leaving me with no giant poster on my walls. A conundrum best solved by taking action into my own boxcutting hands. Not willing to sell me one legally? Ok then. I will stalk your posters and wait until they are trash, and secure it anyway. Thank you very much! (As you can see, I was frustrated.)

Bottom line: You own one of these, it sets you apart from many. The risk is high, the reward is gigantic artistic beauty. 6 feet by 4 feet of the most epic poster you could ever want.

Recently I've made it a point to watch out for areas of Los Angeles where street advertisements like these are ready to be rescued, i.e., falling off the wall, peeling from the weight of older posters, ripped off already to the ground by street crews, etc. My usual criteria is that the release date has to be long past, or they have to be already peeling off the wall so liberation is easy. This way I feel less guilty about removing them. In many cases, it's illegal to put them up in LA anyway, so I am doing the city a favor, and cleaning up for them.

In this case, I'd been stalking a particular set of Hold My Hand posters along Santa Monica Blvd, since May 2022. Every time I drove by it, I'd keep mental tabs on their condition, and gradually, by September, they had been pasted over and the particleboard they were attached to had started to fall off the building. This was my signal to finally act. One day, on the way to Cedars, I saw that the posters had been exposed by a previous layer being ripped off from above them. The fallen particle board had been reaffixed to the building wall improperly, the result being really ugly. 

Emboldened by the Gaga posters exposed to the elements, and literally falling apart, I chose to act the day after the Chromatica Ball at Dodger Stadium. Armed with a rental car, 2 friends, a foldable stepladder, an axe, some gloves, and a nice strong FatMax boxcutter, I travelled to Santa Monica Blvd with one thought in mind... liberation. 

Unfortunately, it was nightfall by the time I arrived, and the posters were hard to make out in the darkness. The light of my cellphone worked pretty well in conjunction with the streetlamps. I got out of the car and walked around the area, scoping out the posters and checking if there were anymore. There seemed to be a lot trashbags with leaves in them around the alcove of the area. Above, someone had attached the Gaga posters and many others to a roof with a few nails. Amazingly, I didn't need any tools, I just gave the poster a small tug and it all toppled and folded down. 

https://youtu.be/dFvaR2SFwcc

I did not realize until I got it safely home, how lucky I got. 

There were two posters attached here, and whatever was missing from one seemed to be present on the other side, which means a composite of both could eventually be mounted and framed or at least mounted. 

Wheatpaste posters seem to have an unofficial natural lifespan of around 2 weeks:

https://i.ibb.co/V3cykCq/Wheatpaste-flight-length-info.png

to be continued as time permits

Presenting GAGAVERSE

 Very happy to announce that I will be taking up the torch that Sara has ignited for Gagaverse.com.

Gagaverse has been the repository for over a decade now, housing an archive of the most significant Lady Gaga fan forums to ever exist. Due to unexpected circumstances, Sara will no longer be able to host GGV and thus I will continue her journey to forge into the future! 

In addition, I was approached by Dani Bekim over on GGD to possibly make a vlog about my and his Lady Gaga collections. So we plan to honor Sara's original name of GAGAVERSE in a brand new Youtube channel, where we can discuss cool stuff every 2 weeks with all of you.

You can watch episodes here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxx_bB6m6LCelrDydmL3Ceg

Daily Work Threads Chronological Day 1

GOAL: 10 Threads or more a Day.

BIGGEST GOAL: 15 Threads a day. 

IDEALLY:  25 threads a day. 

Day 1:

6-23-2020


- DJ Buffoon Collection
- Love Me Right (Extended & Revamped) by GGD's Nuclear Mindset 6-21-2020
- Alice (Reloaded) by GGD's Jay P. 6-19-2020

The Remixes of Jad Desenchanntee -- A Exploration Through Time

Juan, aka Jad Desenchanntee, has been steadily remixing pop bangers for over a decade now.

Recently, he lost all of his earlier works. I had a look back in my files and found each of these songs that comprise this particular lost album. It is reposted here for you today. 

DOWNLOAD HERE:

The Jad Desenchanntee  Born This Way Album:

1. Marry The Night (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Danny Better Remix)

2. Born This Way (Jad Desenchanntee Vs PULSE Remix)

3. Government Hooker (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Wideboys Remix)

4. Judas (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Hardwell & Dannic Remix)

5. Americano (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Tim Mason Remix)

6. Hair (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Hi Def Remix)

7.  Sheiße (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Richard Passarella Remix)

8. Bloody Mary (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Starkillers Remix)

9. Black Jesus † Amen Fashion (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Afrojack & Steve Aoki Remix)

10. Fashion Of His Love (Jad Desenchanntee Vs David Tort Remix)

11. Highway Unicorn (Road To Hollywood) (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Chuckie Remix)

12. Heavy Metal Lover (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Dave Aude Remix)

13. Electric Chapel (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Bud Norris Remix)

14. The Queen (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Sebastian Krieg & Strobe Remix)

15. Lady Gaga - You And I (Jad Desenchanntee Vs Cedric Gervais & Cid Remix)

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show ~ 2016.12.06

 Featuring Million Reasons, A-Yo, and John Wayne performed live with the various Angels.

Interestingly, these videos were deleted from Gaga's official Youtube VEVO channel in mid July 2018.

They live on here, as the internet says, for science....!

Million Reasons

A-Yo, John Wayne