I was at the very first concert he played in Australia at the Regent in 1979. He came on stage and turned his back to the audience and sat on a high stool. As the audience applauded each song, he slowly adjusted his chair with each song until he was fully facing the audience. His music has been life changing and I thank Wendy Carlisle for introducing me to his music. Every song takes me back 35 years!
"And your selfishness is your cardinal sin" Sixto And so many more beautiful words of his, his ease of translation that puts the listener calmed from all this created chaos. "So thanks for your time, then you can thank me for mine" ! Sixto July 7/23
The existence of this live album proves that Sixto was not a total flop back in the day, as the Sugarman movie would have one believe. Thank you very much for uploading!
I saw him in Sydney at one of these concerts but I remember it being solo and he had the words on pieces of paper at his feet? I recall he walked down the isle and then onto the stage! -also saw him a few years later at a outdoor festival called Tanelorn in 1981- I know here in Oz we always appreciated his music-back then everyone I knew had both his albums-I still have them both on vinyl LP that I bought in the 70's! Sad that America ignored him and now they probably think they own him. Saw him again last year in Brisbane-charismatic as ever.
Searching for Sugarman conveniently left out a few facts to embellish the story. Rodriguez became very popular in Australia and New Zealand in the late 70's and toured in 1979 & 1981 playing some large 5000+ size venues and Cold Fact went 5 x platnum. This album was released in 1981 and featured quite extensive linear notes by Glenn A. Baker telling the Rodriguez story and would be some what surprising that record collectors in South Africa would not have been aware of it's release.
Good of you to mention that. The documentary played up the notion of Rodriguez as a commercial failure so much, it was like "why let the truth get in the way of a good story." Playing *any* decent-sized shows *anywhere* overseas already means you're kind of "big", and his two albums sound like a lot of work went into them. In fact, simply that a producer and record company would choose to spend a lot of time, effort and money recording his songs with a full backing band and all sorts of studio niceties implies that he was already kind of "big."
This is the comment that I have looking for since I watched the Documentary. How is possible that during all 80's and 90's nobody knew Rod was alive and kicking.
New to Rodriguez and I grew up in Detroit, 60's 70's!! MC-5, Rationals, Motown, Mitch /Ryder but If only I had known......This is a most amazing recording. Just love this, beautiful
You might find that he has a small following in Sweden as well. I met a guy in Stockholm who just happened to be living in Sydney at the time Rodriguez hit the scene. Took the albums back to Sweden and played them to anyone who came to his place. Universal music of course!
Lets all agree, Rodriguez is just brilliant first of all, For me better than Bob, Secondly USA missed one of their Greatest Brothers, Secondly, He was loved and followed in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and agreed, Austaralia looked him up first in 1979, and if you dont have this recording of him, you gotta get it, its brilliant, South Africa looked him up in 1998, and the Documentary blew it all apart, from 1970 Iv'e been listening, still do, and he sold more albums in South Africa than Elvis, Bob, Rolling Stones Etc,, but more importantly than any of the who recognized first bullshit, is that finally all have heard and loved him, which is what he truley deserves, and hopefully he's getting his just financial rewards
Can't Get Away -- 00:16 - Street Boy -- 04:32 - Like Janis -- 09:04 - I Think of You -- 12:00 - I'll Slip Away -- 15:45 - A Most Disgusting Song -- 19:35 - Forget It -- 24:00 - Inner City Blues -- 26:10 - Halfway Up The Stairs -- 29:57 - To Whom It May Concern -- 31:50
As a kid I left home in the 70s from Sydney hitchhiking to Brisbane [Brisbane ended in those days at Aspley.] While residing at Gordon Park in an old Queenslander with want for a better word four or five hippies Rodriguez Cold Fact was frequently played. Eventually returning to Sydney purchasing and still have that album. A priceless memory from my youth.
I just viewed the film, which I sat in awe watching and an interview here on you Tube...which Rodriguez mentions this tour and the film didn't...makes me wonder. I am floored and a fan. LOVE!
He was huge In Australia. after this album he toured Australia in 1981 with members Of later to be midnight oil in his backing band. The whole South Africa discovered him suited there narrative. Relative obscurity only works for the story. He played to 15,000 people in Sydney on his 1979 tour. He was huge. They couldn’t find him yet OZ promoters could ... The only truth you need to know from the movie is he is exactly how he comes across. Humble polite genuine and in no way affected by fame. The rest is just one mans story ... as he saw it. Good thing is he’s celebrated for his music.
At least, Rodriguez is not a Picasso.He knew that the world is watching his life with alive---Legend Person (How many people like you?) My feeling of those songs have full of "life with alive". Detroit was bankruptcy in today news that is your hometown. It is make me sadness. Wish you the best. Love your singing! Thanks Wilson for your upload.
Got a standing ovation before he started his set. He appears fragil at times, was low key, and slowed his songs a bit which allowed the listener to really experience his lyrics. By the end, he was very good, he is a political person and spoke to the university crowd on his fav subjects. I would go see him again, not sure how much longer he will be able to tour. He has quite a schedule coming up.
Don't let this disappoint you, the film is based from the south African perspective, where they all thought he was dead and frankly his lyrics hit a nerve in the fight against apartied. i hope it wins a Oscar.
Strange that the documentary left this out,was that on purpose? altough they somehow said Rodriguez was popular in australia and new zeland, but they didn't say he was touring in 79-81 why? I guess we'll never know, anyway this post is beatifull and I tank David Wilson for that.
Thanks for posting....great stuff. Just watched the great man again at Enmore theatre in Sydney last week. It was fantastic seeing his old Australian fans mix it up with a heap of young new fans....The packed out concert was very well received by all.
Each and every fan of Sixto should contact Light in the Attic to release "Alive" and "Live fact" - it's a shame that such gems seem to be buried in the vaults forever...
Hi; in the rodriguez documentary they expose the former essex CEO,a branch of motown and he says that he didn' t paid rodriguez any money from the records they sold abroad, so that company stole rodriguez money plain and simple, but then what's new.
Wait.... How did he perform in Australia in 1979? I got the impression from Searching for Sugarman that after his first two albums flopped in 1971 that he went into obscurity - aside from South Africa - and then didn't resurface till he was invited to play there in 1998. Non?
@whiplashfilms I know this is 11 years old, but as great a movie as it is, Searching for Sugar Man deliberately leaves out the fact that there was a few years where Sixto had some relative popularity in Oz, but it dropped off well before the South African community rediscovered him. He still wasn’t as recognised as he should have been though 👍
@@robmac6508Australia didn’t find him, they just seemingly didn’t notice that he was lost. They simply seemed to have ignored him and never asked where he was. That’s worse. I grew up listening to him in Rhodesia, he was the voice of my teenage years. Thankfully a Cape Town record store owner put in the effort to find out why this beautiful soul was lost to music fans everywhere. Respect.
Nice, sadly everyone wants to own him today. At his age he is surely allowed to indulge himself a bit, and why not. A working class man, with hopes and dreams
Hey Idiot!! we don't want to own him. And Idiot we all come from a working class background. And IDIOT, Take your working class woe's out on the people who made you too me A RUDE PERSON YOU ARE TODAY
rastarobbo That disgusting response to your comment from emma simms brought me to look at your yt page. It took me down a rabbit hole of great music which led to previously unknown music, and even discovered that Hugo Race is playing Melbourne in July, now I'm planning a trip! Thanks :) Or should I be thanking emma.. lol
emma simms No idea what got you on your high horse? Or do you troll YT looking for arguments from the comfort of a chair? If you knew his story and realise the exploitation, which he is not allowing to occur, you may understand my comment. AND FYI, his words, his daughters words and the words of everyone who crossed his path, knew and know him as a working class man! You're an idiot, but thanks for trying to pass me off as one, it made me laugh (at your stupidity). PS. I wouldn't have known neither cared for your comment, but sometimes an education is in need, fairtradenow made me aware of it, so consider yourself somewhat more enlightened. AND for FREE...
Wooooooooo, Wooooooooo. I Love and admire this guy. It seems some people sitting in the comforts of their own chairs misread a lot of what is written. I am not an Idiot. Are you a TROLL??? RASTAROBBO?????????
The documentary was fake. He was the hero of the anti-apartheid movement they said but how many black people were at his 'comeback' concert? None. How many were interviewed in the doco? None. Because it's all lies. But that's not surprising since the music industry is 99% bullshit and hype. Paul is dead! ha ha ha
+guydecervens - The documentary did not say he was the hero of the anti-apartheid movement, it was more that his music brought a new perspective, mostly to the WHITES who had been fed propaganda! So it was not fake, it just happened to be the timing where people went against the system, and his music said things that were not said in music at that time.
They didnt cover this first “comeback” to increase the dramatic effect of the documentary and present the 1998 comeback with more fanfare. Still a great and interesting artist with an unusual unconventional timespan.
@@guydecervensTypical non Africans who think you have to be black in order to oppose racism or in order to be disadvantaged by politics. There was a strong anti apartheid movement among the white population. I was a resident there for 20yrs and was only allowed to vote in one election, the 1994 one after Mandela was released. And I’m white.
Story is he was also popular in Australia... But to be fair, his popularity here was nothing compared to South Africa. The Album's name 'Rodriguez Alive' is a play on the fact that so many South Africans thought he was dead. Because of the economic sanctions against South Africa, information and his records did not pass into South Africa. That and the (cold) fact that an America that was yawning at his talent imposed a quasi blockade on this great singer\, song writer and poet...
also, the documentary poses the question 'where is the money going?' but never answers the question. surely there is much more to uncover - why was rodriguez not getting royalties and if he wasn't then who was?
Is there any way to get a digital recording of this? Is there a way to copy the audio off UA-cam? If there is, I’d really appreciate it if you’d tell me how.
Ironically, the answer is on various UA-cam clips! Various apps for your phone give this capability, as does the 'screen - recording' function on most modern day Samsung phones. From there download a video to audio conversion app, and use it to convert the video file to a digital audio file! Your welcome 😎
not a very long tour though, or very big numbers... and also he had a famiy to support at that point - and a band to pay, etc...! who knows how much was made on that tour... South Africa tour looked a lot bigger?
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I was at the very first concert he played in Australia at the Regent in 1979. He came on stage and turned his back to the audience and sat on a high stool. As the audience applauded each song, he slowly adjusted his chair with each song until he was fully facing the audience. His music has been life changing and I thank Wendy Carlisle for introducing me to his music. Every song takes me back 35 years!
Painfully shy
"And your selfishness is your cardinal sin"
Sixto
And so many more beautiful words of his, his ease of translation that puts the listener calmed from all this created chaos.
"So thanks for your time, then you can thank me for mine" !
Sixto
July 7/23
The existence of this live album proves that Sixto was not a total flop back in the day, as the Sugarman movie would have one believe. Thank you very much for uploading!
GREAT STORY!!
I saw him in Sydney at one of these concerts but I remember it being solo and he had the words on pieces of paper at his feet? I recall he walked down the isle and then onto the stage! -also saw him a few years later at a outdoor festival called Tanelorn in 1981- I know here in Oz we always appreciated his music-back then everyone I knew had both his albums-I still have them both on vinyl LP that I bought in the 70's! Sad that America ignored him and now they probably think they own him. Saw him again last year in Brisbane-charismatic as ever.
***** L.M.F.A.O....KISS who is KISS?? some weirdo banshees hiding their ugly faces behind makeup. lol
Searching for Sugarman conveniently left out a few facts to embellish the story. Rodriguez became very popular in Australia and New Zealand in the late 70's and toured in 1979 & 1981 playing some large 5000+ size venues and Cold Fact went 5 x platnum.
This album was released in 1981 and featured quite extensive linear notes by Glenn A. Baker telling the Rodriguez story and would be some what surprising that record collectors in South Africa would not have been aware of it's release.
Good of you to mention that. The documentary played up the notion of Rodriguez as a commercial failure so much, it was like "why let the truth get in the way of a good story." Playing *any* decent-sized shows *anywhere* overseas already means you're kind of "big", and his two albums sound like a lot of work went into them. In fact, simply that a producer and record company would choose to spend a lot of time, effort and money recording his songs with a full backing band and all sorts of studio niceties implies that he was already kind of "big."
This is the comment that I have looking for since I watched the Documentary. How is possible that during all 80's and 90's nobody knew Rod was alive and kicking.
A true prophet, a person like this only comes along once in a lifetime.
New to Rodriguez and I grew up in Detroit, 60's 70's!! MC-5, Rationals, Motown, Mitch /Ryder but If only I had known......This is a most amazing recording. Just love this, beautiful
Vale - Sixto Rodriguez - Rest in Peace - 1942 - 2023❤
I so remember that night in Sydney.
You might find that he has a small following in Sweden as well. I met a guy in Stockholm who just happened to be living in Sydney at the time Rodriguez hit the scene. Took the albums back to Sweden and played them to anyone who came to his place. Universal music of course!
Lets all agree, Rodriguez is just brilliant first of all, For me better than Bob, Secondly USA missed one of their Greatest Brothers, Secondly, He was loved and followed in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and agreed, Austaralia looked him up first in 1979, and if you dont have this recording of him, you gotta get it, its brilliant, South Africa looked him up in 1998, and the Documentary blew it all apart, from 1970 Iv'e been listening, still do, and he sold more albums in South Africa than Elvis, Bob, Rolling Stones Etc,, but more importantly than any of the who recognized first bullshit, is that finally all have heard and loved him, which is what he truley deserves, and hopefully he's getting his just financial rewards
Rodriguez !!!!! Great Songs !!
Can't Get Away -- 00:16 - Street Boy -- 04:32 - Like Janis -- 09:04 - I Think of You -- 12:00 - I'll Slip Away -- 15:45 - A Most Disgusting Song -- 19:35 - Forget It -- 24:00 - Inner City Blues -- 26:10 - Halfway Up The Stairs -- 29:57 - To Whom It May Concern -- 31:50
-- 9:04
Priceless!! I have waited so many years to hear this elusive and virtually unavailable album.
As a kid I left home in the 70s from Sydney hitchhiking to Brisbane [Brisbane ended in those days at Aspley.] While residing at Gordon Park in an old Queenslander with want for a better word four or five hippies Rodriguez Cold Fact was frequently played. Eventually returning to Sydney purchasing and still have that album. A priceless memory from my youth.
I just viewed the film, which I sat in awe watching and an interview here on you Tube...which Rodriguez mentions this tour and the film didn't...makes me wonder. I am floored and a fan. LOVE!
He was huge In Australia.
after this album he toured Australia in 1981 with members Of later to be midnight oil in his backing band.
The whole South Africa discovered him suited there narrative. Relative obscurity only works for the story. He played to 15,000 people in Sydney on his 1979 tour. He was huge. They couldn’t find him yet OZ promoters could ...
The only truth you need to know from the movie is he is exactly how he comes across. Humble polite genuine and in no way affected by fame. The rest is just one mans story ... as he saw it. Good thing is he’s celebrated for his music.
@@seedyjeezus Hi, would like to know if there were 15k people why there are not videos or film of the concert?
The Holy Grail of Rodriguez. At last I get to hear it.Thanks Mr Wilson.
At least, Rodriguez is not a Picasso.He knew that the world is watching his life with alive---Legend Person (How many people like you?) My feeling of those songs have full of "life with alive". Detroit was bankruptcy in today news that is your hometown. It is make me sadness. Wish you the best. Love your singing! Thanks Wilson for your upload.
direi sensazionale... i talenti devono non possono essere dimenticati!!! o ignorati... o esiliati... sugar man un capolavoro.... eskaloska
Got a standing ovation before he started his set. He appears fragil at times, was low key, and slowed his songs a bit which allowed the listener to really experience his lyrics. By the end, he was very good, he is a political person and spoke to the university crowd on his fav subjects. I would go see him again, not sure how much longer he will be able to tour. He has quite a schedule coming up.
Don't let this disappoint you, the film is based from the south African perspective, where they all thought he was dead and frankly his lyrics hit a nerve in the fight against apartied. i hope it wins a Oscar.
And it did get an OSCAR
Thanks so much for this,i would buy this if it was ever released!
Strange that the documentary left this out,was that on purpose? altough they somehow said Rodriguez was popular in australia and new zeland, but they didn't say he was touring in 79-81 why? I guess we'll never know, anyway this post is beatifull and I tank David Wilson for that.
I love it
Lui ritorna ! Il revient sur la scène rock pop apres avoir disparu 40 ans! Il a aujourd'hui 70 ans! Fiction ou réalité! !!!!
Such a shame he has a short catalog of music. It's a heck of a catalog though! :)
Thank you for uploading this. It sounds great live. :^)
LightInTheAttic should definitely do a re-pressing of this album.
Miss you from little rock ar country girl southern bell I'n love with sixto!!!
I still have my vinyl copy of this album! :-)
FANTASTIC SONG
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing this.
This is a great video! Thanks so much for the upload!! Mostly "Coming From Reality" songs on this album!
the king
Thanks for posting....great stuff. Just watched the great man again at Enmore theatre in Sydney last week. It was fantastic seeing his old Australian fans mix it up with a heap of young new fans....The packed out concert was very well received by all.
This is brilliant..thank you x
One of the best musical experiences of my life! Respect and Love! Dzięki Sixto :)
I'm from the UK and saw him at the Shepherds Bush Empire in 2006 but had Cold Fact on CD in 1995.
Each and every fan of Sixto should contact Light in the Attic to release "Alive" and "Live fact" - it's a shame that such gems seem to be buried in the vaults forever...
thankz
"I think of you" .. Ohhhh so beautiful it hurts
THANK YOU sooooo Much for this!!!! I sure wish that this would be rereleased!
this is the album i bought an loved
Great stuff! It's a pity it isn't available on CD. Thanks for the opportunity to listen.
Dave thanks, i hope they re release this album
posted on my birth day. how cool is that?
Lepiej póżno niz wcale.I pomyslec,ze moglem tego nigdy nie poznac...
Hi; in the rodriguez documentary they expose the former essex CEO,a branch of motown and he says that he didn' t paid rodriguez any money from the records they sold abroad, so that company stole rodriguez money plain and simple, but then what's new.
what a legend story of him!
great storytelling
Going to see him in 16 days!
very true but 1981 to 1998 is a long time! and with no Internet, who knows?!
the timeline of all of it is astounding, that is all I can figure!
Cheers for Posting !!! Awesome
I bought the sound track Searching for Sugar Man album (with this song in) though Amazon.com. It was original recorded in '70.
I thought it funny that sixto himself failed to mention this in the doco.....
Great
天籟之音,可惜天意弄人,年老才得世人賞識.
Wait.... How did he perform in Australia in 1979? I got the impression from Searching for Sugarman that after his first two albums flopped in 1971 that he went into obscurity - aside from South Africa - and then didn't resurface till he was invited to play there in 1998. Non?
@whiplashfilms I know this is 11 years old, but as great a movie as it is, Searching for Sugar Man deliberately leaves out the fact that there was a few years where Sixto had some relative popularity in Oz, but it dropped off well before the South African community rediscovered him. He still wasn’t as recognised as he should have been though 👍
crazy Story. Thx to South Africa for finding Rodriguez
And Australia.
@@robmac6508Australia didn’t find him, they just seemingly didn’t notice that he was lost. They simply seemed to have ignored him and never asked where he was. That’s worse. I grew up listening to him in Rhodesia, he was the voice of my teenage years. Thankfully a Cape Town record store owner put in the effort to find out why this beautiful soul was lost to music fans everywhere. Respect.
Nice, sadly everyone wants to own him today. At his age he is surely allowed to indulge himself a bit, and why not. A working class man, with hopes and dreams
Hey Idiot!! we don't want to own him. And Idiot we all come from a working class background. And IDIOT, Take your working class woe's out on the people who made you too me A RUDE PERSON YOU ARE TODAY
rastarobbo That disgusting response to your comment from emma simms brought me to look at your yt page. It took me down a rabbit hole of great music which led to previously unknown music, and even discovered that Hugo Race is playing Melbourne in July, now I'm planning a trip! Thanks :) Or should I be thanking emma.. lol
emma simms No idea what got you on your high horse? Or do you troll YT looking for arguments from the comfort of a chair? If you knew his story and realise the exploitation, which he is not allowing to occur, you may understand my comment. AND FYI, his words, his daughters words and the words of everyone who crossed his path, knew and know him as a working class man! You're an idiot, but thanks for trying to pass me off as one, it made me laugh (at your stupidity). PS. I wouldn't have known neither cared for your comment, but sometimes an education is in need, fairtradenow made me aware of it, so consider yourself somewhat more enlightened. AND for FREE...
Wooooooooo, Wooooooooo. I Love and admire this guy. It seems some people sitting in the comforts of their own chairs misread a lot of what is written. I am not an Idiot. Are you a TROLL??? RASTAROBBO?????????
CHEGOU A VEZ DO BRASIL CONHECER E DAR SUA ASSINATURA PARA RODRIGUES.
i didnt know he was still touring in 79
this album was completely left out of the sugar man doc
by the way this is amazing!!! excellent quality!
The documentary was fake. He was the hero of the anti-apartheid movement they said but how many black people were at his 'comeback' concert? None. How many were interviewed in the doco? None. Because it's all lies. But that's not surprising since the music industry is 99% bullshit and hype. Paul is dead! ha ha ha
+guydecervens - The documentary did not say he was the hero of the anti-apartheid movement, it was more that his music brought a new perspective, mostly to the WHITES who had been fed propaganda! So it was not fake, it just happened to be the timing where people went against the system, and his music said things that were not said in music at that time.
They didnt cover this first “comeback” to increase the dramatic effect of the documentary and present the 1998 comeback with more fanfare. Still a great and interesting artist with an unusual unconventional timespan.
Even so looks like he didn't make any money until after the documentary.
@@guydecervensTypical non Africans who think you have to be black in order to oppose racism or in order to be disadvantaged by politics. There was a strong anti apartheid movement among the white population. I was a resident there for 20yrs and was only allowed to vote in one election, the 1994 one after Mandela was released. And I’m white.
Greetings from Russia
40 mininutes for an artist........ good time...
Story is he was also popular in Australia... But to be fair, his popularity here was nothing compared to South Africa.
The Album's name 'Rodriguez Alive' is a play on the fact that so many South Africans thought he was dead. Because of the economic sanctions against South Africa, information and his records did not pass into South Africa. That and the (cold) fact that an America that was yawning at his talent imposed a quasi blockade on this great singer\, song writer and poet...
🙏✨
also, the documentary poses the question 'where is the money going?' but never answers the question. surely there is much more to uncover - why was rodriguez not getting royalties and if he wasn't then who was?
Agreed. It was the biggest unanswered question of the doco..
the important thing though is that he is getting some long due respect in north america.let's not lose perspective on that.
like it says above he was huge here in australia in late 70s i went to this concert at the state theatre im wondering to why all that was left out
yea thank mr dave
Great stuff. Why have I never heard of him before?
Surely this must have been recorded on video, i wonder !!
You have now!!!
Shame it's a mono recording?
Do you have a Stereo version? to upload?
But thanks! for this..
Is there any way to get a digital recording of this? Is there a way to copy the audio off UA-cam? If there is, I’d really appreciate it if you’d tell me how.
Ironically, the answer is on various UA-cam clips! Various apps for your phone give this capability, as does the 'screen - recording' function on most modern day Samsung phones. From there download a video to audio conversion app, and use it to convert the video file to a digital audio file!
Your welcome 😎
I thought that was from 1981. Was it just released then? If anybody knows, please let me know. Thanks.
Yes, the album was released in 1981. The recording was done in 1979 as stated.
not a very long tour though, or very big numbers... and also he had a famiy to support at that point - and a band to pay, etc...! who knows how much was made on that tour... South Africa tour looked a lot bigger?
H eprobably did mention it, but someone else stated, it's from a South African perspective.
where can i find this album?
12:00 I Think of You..
How was it?
yup, precisely. its from the SA point of view
Where can I buy this album????
I have the album, $1000 and its yours
For that amount I can go to Detroit and meet Rodriguez personally and be back.
@@Eddy3389not any more you can’t.
who was the drummer?
HAHAHAHAHA, it's funny because Cracked!