Climax Blues Band
BBC Rock Hour #208
Broadcast week of Feb. 22, 1981
Paris Theatre
London, England
June 14, 1980
01 BBC Rock Hour Intro – Richard Skinner
02 Blackjack and Me
03 So Good After Midnight
04 Couldn’t Get It Right
05 Commercial – Dannon Yogurt
06 Commercial – Heath Candy Bar
07 Dance The Night Away
08 Fool For The Bright Lights
09 Last Chance Saloon
10 Horizontalized
11 Commercial – Scotch Recording Tape
12 Gotta Have More Love
13 All The Time In The World / Get Back
14 Commercial – Dannon Yogurt
15 Whatcha Feel
16 BBC Rock Hour #208 Outro – Richard Skinner
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Low resolution cue sheet from Discogs, both disc labels in 300 dpi, flac files of wavs. Newspaper listings of the original broadcast that confirm the recording date.
The Climax Blues Band runs through a variety of musical styles on this live show, which was most likely recorded late in 1980 or very early in 1981.
They open with the hard rock "Blackjack and Me" and then ease into disco pop rock, including their hit "Couldn't Get It Right" which hit #3 on the U.S. charts (and #10 in the U.K.). Electric blues and Foghat-styled boogie make an appearance, and they wind the whole thing up with an extended funk jam on "Whatcha Feel" that includes the guitar player quoting Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."
There's a longer version of this issued as BBC Transcription In Concert 243 on Jan. 26, 1981. Note: the Climax Blues Band did a 1979 broadcast from the Paris Theatre, but the set is not the same.
From WIKI:
The Paris Theatre (also known as the Paris Studios) was originally a cinema located at 12 Lower Regent Street in central London which was converted into a studio by the BBC for radio broadcasts requiring an audience. It was used for several decades by the BBC as the main venue for comedy programmes broadcast on BBC Radios 2 and 4.
The venue had a capacity of under 400 and a stage roughly twelve inches from the floor, giving it an intimate feeling helpful for radio comedy with an audience. Shows recorded there included panel game shows such as I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, comedy such as Hi Gang!, Dad's Army, The Goon Show, Don't Stop Now - It's Fundation and non-audience shows such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
In addition to comedy, the BBC recorded many of the dramatical broadcasts by Raymond Raikes as well as by musical artists including acts such as AC/DC, Badfinger, the Beatles, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen 1968, Shakin' Stevens, Family, Streetwalkers, Jeff Beck, Deep Purple, Slade, Hawkwind, Status Quo, Sad Café, Dr. Feelgood, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Weather Report, Queen, Pink Floyd, Nazareth, Barclay James Harvest, Rod Stewart, Simple Minds, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, T. Rex, Ultravox, the Pretenders and the Wailers. Some of these performances were recorded in front of live studio audiences as part of the In Concert and Sounds of the Seventies series, and several of these acts have subsequently released tapes of sessions recorded at the studio, such as Led Zeppelin's BBC Sessions album. It was also the London home of the BBC's Radio 1 Club in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Paris Theatre closed in 1995, being replaced by the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House. The closure was marked with a commemorative concert and broadcast of the last show ever to be recorded at the theatre, namely the final show in series two of The Skivers.
