ROIO: audio and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority.
Soundboards, Quality Audience Recordings, FM Broadcasts, Concert Videos and Out of Print Recordings.
Originally posted by Mitch Lopate Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tramp - Put A Record On Studio recordings @320 {Out of Print}
Notes:
Tramp was a British blues band active during the late 1960s and early 1970s on an intermittent basis. This on/off activity and the loose, transient nature of the band's line-up were reflected in the group's name.
The line-up centered around the brother-sister pairing of Dave Kelly and Jo Ann Kelly, and included various members of Fleetwood Mac, plus various session musicians. The band released two albums: Tramp in 1969, and Put A Record On in 1974. All members participated in many other projects before, after, and even during their time with Tramp.
The gentleman being groomed obviously has a case of hypertrichosis, or excessive hairiness.
Dave Kelly - vocals, guitar Jo Ann Kelly - vocals Bob Brunning - bass guitar Mick Fleetwood - drums Danny Kirwan - guitar Bob Hall - piano Dave Brooks - saxophone Ian Morton - percussion
Track List: 1. Own Up 2. Same Old Thing 3. What You Gonna Do 4. Somebody Watching Me 5. Too Late Now 6. Baby, What You Want Me to Do 7. Street Walking Blues 8. On the Scene 9. Month of Sundays 10. Hard Work 11. Another Day
**NOTE** The above track list was the track list originally posted by the author way back on 2011. Please see the CORRECTED track list Below!
Track List: 01. Too Late For That Now 4:54 02. Now I Ain't A Junkie Anymore 3:11 03. What You Gonna Do 3:06 04. Like You Used To Do 4:10 05. You've Gotta Move 2:44 06. Put A Record On 3:14 07. Funky Monkey 5:47 08. Beggar By Your Side 3:45 09. Paternity Orders 2:31 10. It's Over 2:35
In 1976, 14-year-old Dyan Diamond auditioned for Kim Fowley and won a spot in Venus & the Razorblades. The band only released the single “Punk-A-Rama” on Greg Shaw’s BOMP Records in 1977 and a posthumous album the following year...but had a fairly high profile due to Fowley's ability to generate press coverage. After Fowley severed his ties with the Runaways in 1977, he pushed Diamond forward as a possible break-out solo star, putting her under contract to Fowley with a record released by MCA Records.
While Diamond’s 1978 release “In The Dark” includes three covers of Jimmy Reed, Elvis Costello, and Chris Spedding, it primarily features Diamond’s song writing. The album was lumped into the “punk” category at the time due to the Fowley connection and her prior band’s name-dropping and scene exploitation in "Punk-O-Rama," but in retrospect "In The Dark" is a solid pop-rock record. The album features plenty of hard rocking numbers, but it's far more stylistically diverse than (to pick a name not entirely at random) a Runaways record.
“Someone Like Me” and “Your Neighborhood” are mainstream mid-tempo pop songs with solid lyrics. Several of the songs have a bit of a rockabilly sound while others are third-generation variations on the Chuck Berry shuffle. And while she’s not the first person to do a cover of an Elvis Costello song, she was one of the earliest. (Recent research revealed this was the likely the second Costello cover after Barry Christian's version of "Alison.")
MCA Records issued the record worldwide, in France, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the UK. In the U.S.A. it was also issued on cassette and 8-track cartridge.
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, June 9, 1979 Hopefully "Scunthorpe" won't trigger a robo-censor.
My favorite song on the album was “Teenage Radio Stars,” which marries a mandolin solo to a reggae beat which was odd at the time. Bluegrass reggae is still a weird idea today. The mandolin player is Chris Darrow who played with Kaleidoscope and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. On the other hand, my wife says it's "plodding," but she doesn't like it when I go on a Burning Spear binge, so don't let her dissuade you.
Diamond also co-wrote songs with Leon Russell on his 1978 album Americana, one of which ("Elvis and Marilyn") was later covered by Marty Balin on his 1981 "BALIN" album.
This is the only record that Diamond put out under her own name. Traces of her are rare on the Internet - she doesn't even have a WIKI. I found a reference to a KSAN broadcast from the Old Waldorf in 1978, and a KALX broadcast on the UC Berkeley student radio station, but I've never been able to track down a copies.
I pulled all the press clippings I could find on Newspapers.com, and a few pages from trade publications that mentioned her. She played live shows from August 1978 until June 1980. Billed with Joan Jett, Nick Gilder, Yesterday and Today in the clubs, she played a New Year's Eve show at the Cow Palace, opening for Sammy Hagar, and Rick Derringer. After June 1980, there's nothing in the newspaper archives. That's it...a solo career for just two years, ages 16 to 18, and then nothing. Did she give up on music? Go to college?
This one deserves better than to be completely forgotten. It's not a lost classic but it was a good debut album. She was the first female artist to cover Costello, predating Ronstadt by a few weeks. She had a strong, mature voice, and a few albums down the line might have come up with a breakthrough record.
I digitized this from a clean copy of the vinyl and removed the clicks n' pops in Audacity. This has never been released on CD...not even in Japan, who usually puts out CDs by obscure American bands. Flac files of wavs, and 300 dpi scans of the front and back covers, and the disc labels.
This is the band that Ricky Warwick from Black Star Riders was in. If you liked the Loudmouth post you're gonna love this. I think I got this from Hear Rock City. Songs are
1.Destroyed
2.Full Force Loving Machine
3.Love Religion
4.What More Do You Want
5.Loaded
6.Praying To The Red Light
7.Power
8.Little Lost Sometimes
9.Bandaged Knees
10.Sin Against The Light
11.Devil's Toy
12.Crucify
13.Free 'n' Easy
14.Lay Down The Law
15.Hell To Pay
16.Wild And Wonderful
My French friend said he trusted me when it came to bands he had not heard (The Droogs) Well my friend here's another from Chicago. So you know what to expect. Amps turned to 11. No ballads. And one of the best songs I've ever heard about radio (Turn It Off). Shoulda been huge. I guess Metallica liked these guys too. You decide. See scans
Roxy Music
Captured Live! syndicated broadcast 2-LP set
for broadcast the weekend of April 2, 1984
Recorded at:
Les Arènes, Cap d'Agde, France on August 26, 1982
01. Captured Live! CL 1084 Intro
02. India > The Main Thing
03. Out Of The Blue
04. Can't Let Go
05. Avalon
06. My Only Love
07. Dance Away
08. Love Is The Drug
09. Do The Strand
10. Jealous Guy
11. Captured Live! CL 1084 Credits
The disc label is marked as "unhosted" and the show came with a script. The cue sheet is missing. I've included the script in case you'd like to do the announcing yourself. While the script makes it sound like the show was taking place currently in 1984, the recording is from 1982. This is an edited, shorter version of a longer show. Some set lists say the instrumental intro to "The Main Thing" is "South Downs" but it is actually "India," from the Avalon album (and thanks to Anonymous for contributing that information!).
Flac files of wavs, 300 dpi scan of the disc label and the two pages of the script.
I'm sweeping out some of the old posts from FBSVIP and found this one gathering dust in a corner....on the chance that you don't have it, I'm reposting it here:
It's an "in studio" show from KFOG.
Boz Scaggs
The Plant, Sausalito, CA
June 26, 1994
KFOG-FM
Master Maxell XLII-S
01. Introduction
02. Sierra
03. Some Change
04. Interview
05. Fly Like A Bird
06. Interview
07. Lowdown
08. Interview
09. Loan Me A Dime
10. We're All Alone
11. Outro
Set List: 01. Albatross
02. Preachin' Blues
03. Blues With A Feelin'
04. Tallahassee Lassie
05. Man Of The World
06. Jumping At Shadows
07. Linda
08. Oh Well
09. The Sun Is Shining
10. Only You
11. I Need Your Love
12. You're A Mean Mistreater Mama
13. Whole Lotta Love
14. Talk With You
15. Mean Old World
**Original Notes:
I received this CD a couple of years ago in a trade with the above lineage and setlist. It was dated as 6/23/68 but since it has been verified that the band performed at San Francisco's Carousel Ballroom on that date in 1968, another Fleetwood Mac collector advised me that 1969 should be the correct date.
Please note that it is a live-in-the-studio performance by the band -- later broadcast on Scottish radio. Much like the BBC live performances of the period, there is no audience. I couldn't find any reference indicating that any part of this has ever been commercially-released.
I did the encoding to FLAC on May 2, 2005 -- I didn't do any editing other than having FLAC Frontend check for SBE's, and tagging the files (using TagScanner).
I hope you enjoy it!
"Grendel"
seeding to DIME/EzTorrent
May 2, 2005
Beat Farmers / Insiders Westwood One In Concert 87-23 For broadcast the week of November 16, 1987
NOTE: The cue sheet gives the Beat Farmers first billing, even though the show opens with Insiders.
"Key To The World" is not listed on the cue sheet.
I couldn't find "Backin'" listed as an Insiders song on their four albums; it may be an unreleased track, or have a different title.
Digitized April 2015 from the syndicated radio discs. Flac files of wavs.
Includes scans of cue sheet, disc label, Insiders gig flyer, Beat Farmers Chicago Tribune article.
Commercials are tracked so you can delete them if you don't like them. The Sticklets commercial is particularly grating to my ears, featuring an over-the-top imitation of Cyndi Lauper.
Insiders
Park West, Chicago, IL
(Possibly August 31, 1987 - based on gig flyer)
Sides One and Two
01. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Intro - Steve Downes
02. Commercial - Budweiser
03. Commercial - Dentyne
04. Moondog Howl
05. Love Like Candy
06. Memory Row
07. Commercial - U.S. Army
08. Commercial - Sticklets Gum
09. Commercial - Benylin
10. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
11. Fleetwood Mac Tour Update - Billy Burnette (Guitarist)
12. Little Miss Information
13. Backin'
14. Peace In Time
15. Commercial - Dentyne
16. Commercial - Milky Way
17. Commercial - Budweiser
18. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
19. Stand In Chains
20. The Price Of Love
21. Ghost On The Beach
22. Commercial - Ghost On The Beach
23. Commercial - Sticklets Gum
24. Commercial - Milky Way
25. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
Sides Three and Four:
Beat Farmers
Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL
(Possibly September 18, 1987 - based on Chicago Tribune article)
01. Coors Four Play Tour Update
02. Ridin'
03. Bigger Stones
04. Dark Light
05. Commercial - Listerine
06. Commercial - Dentyne
07. Commercial - U.S. Army
08. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
09. Make It Last
10. Texas
11. Hollywood Hills
12. Commercial - Benylin
13. Commercial - U.S. Army
14. Commercial - Sticklets Gum
15. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
16. Heart Tour Update - Denny Carmassi (Drummer)
17. Deceiver - Key To The World
18. God Is Here Tonight
19. Riverside
20. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Outro - Steve Downes
21. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Promo
Insiders were a pop/rock band from Chicago formed in 1985. Singer John Seigle had been in the Screams, who released a power-pop album on MCA's Infinity Records in 1979.
Insiders sound is reminiscent of the Smithereens and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - singer-songwriter pop-rock. Courted by Warner, Capitol, and Epic Records, Insiders signed a 10 album deal with Epic in 1987. "Ghost On The Beach," the single from their radio-friendly debut album hit number 8 on Billboard, and the album broke into the Top 20 on the Album Rock chart, going on to sell 100,000 copies.
Three months after the release of their debut album and poised on the edge of a national break-out from the Midwestern market, their friends at Epic left for other labels, leaving Insiders to face a new Epic A&R department more interested in rap and hair metal.
Two years of struggle on a second album followed, with Epic rejecting song after song. The band worked with Joe Hardy (Replacements, Steve Earle, ZZ Top) at Memphis' famed Ardent Studios and wrote an album Epic finally agreed to release...but not promote. The band asked to shop the album to other labels...and Epic put a price tag of $150,000.00 on the master tape. In short, the label didn't want the band finding success elsewhere and priced them out of two years of work. Epic retained ownership of all submitted material, so they couldn't re-record the songs, either. The album remains unreleased to this day.
Always favorites on Chicago's WXRT-FM, Insiders put out three more albums on independent Monsterdisc in the 1990s before members of the band moved on to other musical projects.
This was a good band with a fine debut album, sunk by their own record company.
Ed Beckenfeld - Drums
Gary Yerkins - Guitar
John Seigle - Vocals
Jay O'Rourke - Guitar
Jim Demonte - Bass
And the Beat Farmers set is great, too...but I figure you know them already.
Otis Redding Sings Soul is the third album by soul singer Otis Redding and is considered by many critics to be Redding's first great album. Recorded in April and July of 1965, it was released September 15th of that same year. Otis Blue includes covers of three songs by Sam Cooke, Redding's idol, who died the previous December in 1964. Their styles couldn't have been more different; Cooke smooth and sure, Redding raw and pleading. But Redding's versions of "Shake" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" show how Cooke's sound and message helped shape Redding's Southern soul sound. Redding's singing reaches a new level of expressiveness with this as well as with covers of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" and the Motown hit "My Girl".
Track List:
1. Ole Man Trouble
2. Respect
3. A Change Is Gonna Come
4. Down in the Valley
5. I've Been Loving You Too Long
6. Shake
7. My Girl
8. Wonderful World
9. Rock Me Baby
10. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
11. You Don't Miss Your Water
Track Listing: 01 Surf Rockets - Us and Them
02 Chad Cote & His Corsairs - Gonzales
03 Achtung Rakete - Oklahoma liegt am Meer
04 The TakeOffs - gOofY FoOt
05 Hula Hoop - Storm
06 Cutback - Shark Pit
07 Surfside IV - Malagueña
08 Tim Oestmann - Deep Sea Creature
09 Jeff Leites - Shootin' The Pier
10 Mom_Surfing - Squad Car
11 3rd Wave - Johnny Cash Medley
12 Danny Snyder - Smooth Move
13 Norcalhodad - The Munsters Theme
14 Aquatudes - Corvair 500
15 The Official Surf Guitar 101 Theme Song
16 Baine - Meet Me At The Alamo
17 sammi - Psyctronic Countdown ZH2
18 katz-karnaby - night of the tiki moon
19 The Bookhouse Boys - Ed (Lynch Mob, Part I)
20 The Sea Hunters - Moomat Ahiko
21 Ron Kleim - Emo 505
22 North of Malibu - Malibu Stomp
23 The Coffin Daggers - Wake Up Screaming
24 Rob_J - Beach Runner
25 punkbuttons - Misirlou
26 RecRoomSurfer - Papa Oom Mow Mow
27 The Popouts - Seaweed 'Live'
28 The AmpFibians - Spies In Love
29 Tumbleweed - Terra Australis
30 The Squids - Dune Patrol
31 Inkfink - Inkfink's 2008 Experiment
32 The Deadbeats - Hagbelly
33 The Woofers - Surfin' The Yuletide
34 The Fabulous Blue Diamonds - Fogs
35 Thee Jaguar Sharks - Sharkchase
36 Forever Surf Trio - Penetration
37 dp - qandahar
Del McCoury Band - Strawberry Music Festival
Camp Mather, CA. (Border of Yosemite National Park) May 24, 2002
KPIG FM Source @ 320
Taped by Easy Ed
DISC ONE:
Set 1: 01 intro
02 Travelin' Teardrop Blues
03 Count Me Out
04 Goldbreaken
05 Body and Soul
06 Just Because
07 Learnin' the Blues
08 Flint Hill Special
09 Nashville Cats
10 I Feel the Blues Movin' In
11 Lee Highway Blues
12 Bluegrass Country
13 What A Waste of Good Corn Likker
14 All Aboard
15 - start disc two (overlap)
DISC TWO: 01 - end disc one (overlap)
02 High On the Mountain
03 Recovering Pharisee
04 Get Down On Your Knees and Pray
05 Working On A Building
06 Blackjack County Chains
07 True Life Blues
08 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
09 Gone But Not Forgotten ENCORE:
10 City of Stone
11 Rain and Snow
12 On the Lonesome Wind
13 Take Me To The Mountains
14 Rawhide
I have managed to get my hands on a very rare interview from a Miss Consuela Garcia she being the famous housekeeping maid from the Hyatt House in Seattle where many of our favorite heroes of rock and roll practiced various forms of debauchery over the years. Miss Garcia's English is not the best so I have tried to decipher as best as I can the following interview. "Miss Garcia can you tell us about some of the famous rock and roll stars that came through your hotel?' "O, OK" "Dee furse guy I tall you about ease Misser Brian Wheelson, he wass vary peeg he leaf pizza all over da room. Eat wass on da roof of dee room, how you can do dat? Den he leaf dee ice creem on dee T.V. Eat take mee tree days to cleen up, he also poot sand all over dee carpet, den he unly teep mee a one dullar and dos 25 things." "Let me ask you about another rock star. A mister Keith Richards" "Oh hees a bury nice man." "I ask heem u want dee pallows fluff up?" "He say..no day are jus fine." "He deed want more meats doe, so I leaf dem on hees pallow." "He teep mee dos one hundreed dullars." "He bury bury nice." Unfortunately the tape player ate the rest of this tape and that's all I could transcribe. This post is a belated birthday present for Da Boss
In case you were wondering (and even if not I don't care) how I found out about The Droogs this is where it came from. Rhino's third release as a record company, there first being a Wildman Fischer album and I don't know what the second one was. Fidelity on this one leaves something to be desired but not to worry the performances more than make up for it. And many of these songs are downright hilarious. At 208kbps. See Scans For better scans go here http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2020670
Here's one you may not know, but you should. Here's the text from Wiki
The Droogs was an Americanrockgroup from Los Angeles, active between 1972 and 1992, with the majority of releases from the mid-1980s onwards.
The band was formed by Ric Albin (vocals), Roger Clay (guitar), Paul Motter (bass), and Kyle Raven (drums).[1] Inspired by 1960s garage rock, during the 1970s, they released six singles (later collected on the Anthology album), with several changes of personnel in the rhythm section.[1][2] The line-up stabilized in the early 1980s with David Provost (formerly of Dream Syndicate) on bass/keyboards and Jon Gerlach on drums. In the mid-1980s, the band was considered part of the Paisley Underground scene, but found greatest success in Europe, and in 1987 signed to the German label Music Maniac.[3]
The band split up in 2010, after a final album, 1997's Atomic Garage
Flac files of wavs, plus 300 dpi scans of cue sheet...and as of July 2025, we have scans of all four disc labels, PLUS some general press coverage of the band.
But wait! There's more! I NOW KNOW THE BAND/SINGER FOR EVERY ONE OF THE BUDWEISER COMMERCIALS!
Yes... behind the scenes...the Voodoo Wagon Investigation Team is working for you, Our Beloved Audience!
Here in the Future, where we take relaxing vacations on the Rings of Saturn and mom has a vacuum cleaner powered by an atomic pile the size of a Fig Newton, Mick Fleetwood's Zoo is barely remembered. Given the long history of Fleetwood Max...and the long SOAP OPERA of Fleetwood Mac, the band seems like a busman's holiday for the Fleetwood Mac drummer. At the time, though, the band was a big enough deal to garner a spot on Saturday Night Live (host that week: the fabulously charming Terri Garr), alongside Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo.
Lewisville, Texas September 1, 1969 Soundboard (?) @ flac
DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS 1. We Got To Get Ourself Together 2. The Ghetto 3. When The Battle Is Over 4. Things Get Better TONY JOE WHITE 5. Pork Salad Annie 6. Aspen Colorado 7. Can You See The Lightning 8. Roosevelt & Ira Lee 9. Hard To Handle SWEETWATER 10. What's Wrong / Jam / What's Wrong 11. Why Oh Why
The first Terry And The Pirates show was in June 1973 with Terry Dolan, Greg Douglass, John Cipollina, Hutch Hutchinson and David Weber. However some tracks on their first album are from a recording session in 1970 which included Dolan, Douglass, Cipollina, Nicky Hopkins, Lonnie Turner and others. The group had a floating line-up through the 1970s and 1980's with Terry Dolan, Greg Douglass and John Cipollina being, more or less, the regular core of the band. The band played intermittently during these years dependant on the other commitments of these musicians. Other musicians that played with the group during these years include David Hayes, Nicky Hopkins, Lonnie Turner, Jeff Myer, Bones Jones, Greg Elmore, Dave Carter, Bill Baron and Pete Sears. The group disbanded following the death of John Cipollina in 1989. Terry Dolan released Silverado Trail from unreleased material after Cipollina's death in 1990.
Track List:
Wish I Was Your River
Sweet Emotions
I Can’t Dance
Heartbeatin’ Away
Silverado Trail
Follow Her Around
Risin’ Of The Moon
Mustang Ride
Gun Metal Blues
Inlaws And Outlaws
Nighthawkin’ The Dawn
Lewisville, Texas August 30-September 1, 1969 Soundboard (?) @ flac
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 1. Intro 2. Are You Ready INCREDIBLE STRING BAND 3. Introduction 4. Waiting For You 5. Black Jack Davy SAM & DAVE 6. I've Been Loving You Too Long 7. May I Baby? HERBIE MANN 8. Tangier 9. Improvisation CANNED HEAT 10. Intro 11. Bullfrog Blues 12. Rollin' And Tumblin' / Jam 13. talk 14. Blind Owl Blues
Ok I'll see your "First Water" and raise it with "Jab It In Yore Eye" I liked this one better than the first. The singer "Snips" always reminded me of Jackie Lynton from Savoy Brown Jack The Toad era. Songs
1. Just Like A Fever
2. Baby Shine A Light
3. Sun Beat Down
4. Rain Or Shine
5. Kung Fu
6. Sophistication
7. Surrender
8. Cocaine Blues
9. Revolution Of The Heart
Here's another in the ongoing series of audience tapes recorded by a friend....unfortunately I was not able to identify all of the songs. If anyone knows the "unknown titles" please leave me a message. This is an average sounding audience tape, directly off of Bob's master cassette.
Paladins Slim's, San Francisco, CA December 27, 1988
Audience tape by "Bob The Mainman"
01. Roll, Roll, Roll
02. Your New Love
03. Follow Your Heart
04. Don't Stay Out All Night
05. Happy Home
06. She's Fine
07. ? unknown title
08. Good Lovin'
09. (fade in) Bad Case Of Love
10. You and I
11. Years Since Yesterday
12. Let's Go
13. ? unknown title
14. Lover's Rock
15. Hold On
16. Daddy Yar
17. ? Unknown title
Rainmakers Kennel Club, San Francisco, CA January 31, 1988 KRQR-FM TDK SA90 > wav > flac
Disc One:
01. Tornado Of Love *
02. Downstream *
03. The Wages Of Sin *
04. Information
05. The Other Side Of The World
06. Doomsville *
07. No Romance *
08. Snake Dance *
09. Government Cheese
10. One More Summer *
Disc Two:
01. Sixteen Tons *
02. Rainmaker *
03. The Lakeview Man
04. Small Circles *
05. Nobody Knows *
06. Drinking On The Job
07. Rockin' At The T-Dance
08. I Talk With My Hands
09. Amazing Grace/Let My People Go-Go *
10. Big Fat Blonde *
* ....also on the promo CD.
My recollection is that this show was recorded on a Sunday night and later broadcast on KRQR's weekly "Weekend Wednesday" live show. The Internet says it was taped live to 24-track. The original broadcast had two prerecorded commercials spliced into it, which would not have happened had the broadcast been live at the monment. The 20 song live broadcast was edited down to a 13 song promo CD (Polygram/Mercury #836-059-2) that was given to radio stations for broadcast; it was never sold to the public.
The promo CD did not include "Information," "The Other Side Of The World," "Government Cheese," "The Lakeview Man," "Drinking On The Job," "Rockin' At The T-Dance," and "I Talk With My Hands." The promo CD is ridiculously rare and sells for silly-money over on Ebay....
The Rainmakers are still in business, and I highly recommend you go to their website (www.rainmakers.com) and check out their current video of "The Thirteenth Spirit." It's more "bluesy" than the songs on this set; it's got an ominous vibe to it. Seriously...check it out!
No. Really. I don't ask much of you guys....go check it out now! :)
Part of what we're doing here is trying to turn you on to new bands....let me know what you think in the comments section!! They've also got some great video of a concert they did in Norway, and that's worth watching, too. Great stuff..... they're a great live band and deserve a wider audience.
Their records from the '80's and 90's are still in print, too....
Roy Buchanan Yomiuri Hall, Tokyo, Japan September 25, 1986 FM broadcast
Low generation tape copy, probably a 1st gen.
01. Intro
02. Short Fuse
03. Green Onions
04. When A Guitar Plays The Blues
05. Beer Drinkin' Woman
06. I'm Goin' Down
07. Honky Tonk
08. Country Boy
09. Sunshine Of Your Love
If you've got a moment, listen to this cover of Social Distortion's "Ball and Chain" by Silke Berlinn and the Addictions. You'll have to get by a commercial, but at the end of it, Ms. Berlinn does a credible cover, and the band rocks out.
I'm working on digitizing the obscure album "Devil's Daughter" by Fast Floyd & the Fabulous Firebirds, and Ms. Berlinn is part of the story. So....consider this a "prequel" to the post I'll do later this weekend.
They Might Be Giants
Kennel Club, San Francisco, CA
March 26, 1988
Digitized March 2015 from a master copy of an audience tape by "Bob the Mailman."
Flac files of wavs.
01. Intro
02. Kiss Me, Son Of God
03. (Put Your Hand Inside The) Puppet Head
04. Purple Toupee
05. Cowtown
06. Hide Away, Folk Family
07. They'll Need A Crane
08. Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
09. Rabid Child
10. Santa's Beard
11. Lie Still, Little Bottle
12. I've Got A Match
13. Shoehorn With Teeth
14. (She Was A) Hotel Detective
15. Don't Let's Start
16. Number Three
17. Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)
18. She's An Angel
19. Toddler Hiway
20. The Famous Polka
21. Alienation's For The Rich
From information on the www.tmbw.net, this was TMBG's first appearance in San Francisco, and their second show west of the Mississippi.
Sound quality is listenable, if you're a fan. Some audience noise, there is some conversation nearby during the quiet parts between songs, but not enough to obscure the stage patter.
This broadcast was a part of a short-lived simulcast experiment where KFOG was working with local television station UPN-44 (a.k.a KBHK-TV 44). The set is similar to the usual KFOG “in studio” shows, but it includes an atypical “artist close up” biography segment. If you go to YouTube and search for Chris Isaak KFOG you'll find a clip of "Flying" from this broadcast (and that's where I got the picture below...)
I filled the show out with four tracks from two Bay Area Music Awards shows (“the Bammies”), and two songs from Silvertone’s demo tape that I recorded off the radio (college station KUSF) back in the early 80s.
NOTE: I posted this a few years back with the WRONG YEAR. 1999 is the correct year (not 1998).
Flac files of wavs. Sound is excellent on everything but the two demos, which are good but not great.
Chris Isaak
Fantasy Studios
Berkeley, CA
October 28, 1999
KFOG-FM
Master copy on Maxell XL-IIS 100 > Audacity> wav
01. KFOG Intro
02. Wanderin'
03. Please
04. Wicked Game
05. Interview
06. Somebody's Cryin'
07. Forever Blue
08. Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
09. Speak Of The Devil
10. "Artist Close Up"
11. Heart Full Of Soul
12. Flying
13. Winter Waves
14. Think of Tomorrow
15. Dancin' - The Bammies - March 12, 1988
16. Blue Hotel - The Bammies - March 12, 1988
17. I'm Leaving It All Up To You - The Bammies, March 7, 1992
18. Vaya Con Dios - The Bammies - March 7, 1992
19. Cold Dreams - Silvertone demo tape 1982 or '83
20. Blue Hotel - Silvertone demo tape 1982 or '83
The son of Bad Company is what this debut by the band Sharks resembles. Lead vocalist Snips sounding like he gargled with Kim Carnes and Paul Rodgers' mouthwash, that gravel voice Rod Stewart made the most of accompanied here by guitar great Chris Spedding, drummer Marty Simon, and bassist Andy Fraser from the group Free. This self-titled debut doesn't have the groove of their 1974 release, Jab It in Yore Eye, despite four of the nine songs written by Fraser (replaced by Busta Cherry Jones on the follow-up), including "Doctor Love," a song Leslie West covered for his The Great Fatsby album, generating some early validation for this work. One of the problems here is the packaging -- the bane of any act's existence who found themselves on MCA at the time without having superstar credentials. The light-blue logo of Sharks on a deeper-blue underwater cover could be misconstrued for a children's record. Though none of the players had the profile of a Mick Ralphs or Paul Rodgers, this was still a minor supergroup and one who fit well into the early '70s. Album design problems aside, a song like "Broke a Feeling" comes off sounding like a jam, as does much of the record. With the redoubtable Chris Spedding on guitar -- an immensely powerful individual who holds this combination together -- it is still going to be worthwhile, though only for musical people and fans of this blues-based rock. When Andy Fraser punched out a number of classics with Paul Rodgers in Free, it was the songwriting that brought it over the top and onto radio. These compositions just don't have the bite found on Free records, or Bad Company or Mott the Hoople for that matter. More at AMG
The super group that never was...
Set List: 1 -World Park Junkies
2 -Follow Me
3 -Ol' Jelly Roll
4 -Brown-eyed Boy
5 -Snakes And Swallowtails
6 -Driving Sideways
7 -Steal Away
8 -Doctor Love
9 -Broke A Feeling
Bass – Andy Fraser
Drums – Marty Simon
Guitar – Chris Spedding
Piano – Andy Fraser
Vocals – Snips
Originally posted by Mitch Lopate
