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Westwood One In Concert #86-26
For broadcast the week of December 15, 1986
Most of the tracks recorded at:
Paris Theatre
London, England
Recorded April 30, 1970
Sides One and Two:
01. Westwood One In Concert 86-26 Intro - Steve Downes
02. Commercial - Budweiser (Four Tops)
03. Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
04 No Time To Live
05. Commercial - Schick Disposable Razors
06. Commercial - Levi's Jeans
07. Westwood One In Concert 86-26 Break - Steve Downes
08. Westwood One Genesis Update - Steve Downes, Mike Rutherford
09. Every Mother's Son
10. Commercial - Jovan Musk
11. Commercial - Levi's 501 Jeans
12. Commercial - Schick Disposable Razors
13. Westwood One In Concert 86-26 Break - Steve Downes
14. Medicated Goo
15. John Barleycorn
16. Commercial - Budweiser - Blasters
17. Commercial - Levi's 501 Jeans
18. Commercial - Jovan Musk
19. Westwood One Promo - Alice Cooper
20. Westwood One In Concert 86-26 Break - Steve Downes
Sides 3 and 4:
21. Shootout At The Fantasy Factory
22. Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
23. Commercial - Budweiser - Los Lobos
24. Commercial - Sugar Free Hubba Bubba Gum
25. Commercial - Schick Disposable Razors
26. Westwood One In Concert 86-26 Break - Steve Downes
27. Pearly Queen
28. Empty Pages
29. Commercial - Prestone Anti-Freeze - Gary Fencik
30. Commercial - Levi's 501 Jeans
31. Commercial - Shick Disposable Razors
32. Westwood One Promo - Jack Hues of Wang Chung
33. Glad
34. Freedom Rider
35. Westwood One In Concert Outro - Steve Downes
36. Westwood One In Concert Promo - Steve Downes
Run out grooves:
IC 86•26•1 JS KM
IC 86•26•2 JS KM
IC 86•26•3 JS KM
IC 86•26•4 JS KM
Updated July 2025 with better file tagging, all the disc label scans added, and updated text file.
This version of the show has the following songs:
Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
No Time To Live
Every Mother's Son
Medicated Goo
John Barleycorn
Shootout At The Fantasy Factory (not on original broadcast)
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (not on original broadcast)
Pearly Queen
Empty Pages
Glad
Freedom Rider
We originally had a mystery on this one. Two of the songs couldn't be from a 1970 show as they were written in 1971 and 1973. I listened to a lot of bootlegs, trying to track down a source. Eventually, I asked the Internet, and received the following from Hairbald: "I am pretty sure those traffic tracks are the same ones that are on the live album from 73 and are from somewhere in Germany, I recorded that broadcast off the radio back in the day and noticed Low Spark was the same version but I haven't listened to it in years."
And sure enough: I cross referenced the Westwood One tracks with the officially released "On The Road," and they were the same versions...in lower sound quality, and with some additional audience sounds overdubbed at the start and end. This is another reminder to BUY THE OFFICIAL RELEASES.
We are left with one more mystery:
Wolfgang's Vault has this show up in streaming audio, and says, "The third song of the set, "No Time To Live," aired only during the initial live broadcast, is unfortunately not included. It is speculated that the BBC's recording equipment malfunctioned during this song as it was not included on subsequent transmissions of this performance and appears to only exist from inferior air checks of the initial broadcast."
In spite of that, this version does include "No Time To Live."
The original broadcast was introduced by the legendary British disk jockey, John Peel (edited out on this version).
Now.....this Westwood One show is a CORNUCOPIA of vintage commercials. Yeah, I know most of you DO NOT CARE, but this one has an exceptional number of interesting spots:
We get the Blasters and Los Lobos, "singing for Spuds" (as Neil Young put it at the time)...but we also get air checks from Mike Rutherford, a sniggering Alice Cooper, Wang Chung, and Chicago Bears player Gary Fencik.
We've got a Jovan Musk commercial referencing 1980's mega-babe Jayne Kennedy! Jovan Musk was a major sponsor of the Rolling Stones 1981 tour. The Rolling Stones were paid $1,000,000.00 to promote the brand on their tickets during the "Tattoo You" tour.
And the host of the show, Steve Downes is now better known as the voice for "Master Chief" from the HALO video games. Downes worked as a disc jockey at Los Angeles, California, Album-oriented Rock radio stations KWST (1978-1981), KEZY-AM (1981-1982) and KLSX (1994), but is remembered for working evening drive at KLOS from 1982 to 1991.
Some of the rebroadcasts of this show are:
1973: BBC Pop Spectacular #50, air date ??/??/73
1978: BBC Rock Hour #4, air date 01/23/78
1981: BBC Rock Hour #216, week of 04/19/81 (8 tracks, missing "No Time To Live" and "Stranger To Himself."
1986: Westwood One In Concert #86-26, 9 tracks has "No Time To Live" but not "Stranger To Himself."
1992: Westwood One In Concert 92-28
1997: Westwood One Superstars In Concert #97-33
1999: Westwood One Superstars In Concert 99-29 (8 tracks, missing "No Time To Live and "Stranger To Himself," four additional tracks are by Johnny Winter from another concert)
2004: Westwood One Superstars In Concert # 04-04, air dates 3/13-3/14/2004, four songs (Who Knows What Tomorrow Will Bring, John Barleycorn, Empty Pages, Freedom Rider (cue sheet says Freedom Fighter.)
That's a short list...there are certainly dozens of other repackagings of this concert.
