Pretty Poison / Studio 4, Philadelphia, PA WYSP-FM

Pretty Poison
November 8, 1983
Studio 4, 
Philadelphia, PA
WYSP-FM

01 Pretty Poison - Let Freedom Ring
02 Pretty Poison - unknown _I Still Love You
03 Pretty Poison - unknown _Save Myself
04 Pretty Poison - unknown _The Roses
05 Pretty Poison - Tempest Nightmare
06 Pretty Poison - The Realm of Existence
07 Pretty Poison - Band intros
08 Pretty Poison - Expiration
09 Pretty Poison - Never Forget Your Face
10 Pretty Poison - Seal It With A Kiss
11 Pretty Poison - No Tears
12 announcer - WYSP-FM Outro

Hello, Voodoo Gang!

Once again, I'm tackling a band I don't know, in a genre I know little about, from a city that I visited for an afternoon fifty-three years ago, broadcast on a radio station I've never heard of.

Can you guys throw me a life preserver?  I'm drownin' here...

But I'll give it a go.  First of all, this is an EXCELLENT tape sent to me from back east by our blog-buddy, Sam Eliot's Mustache.  Can I get a round of New Year's applause for him?

As I mentioned, I'm flyin' blind here (yeah, I'm mixin' metaphors, so sue me...) but for a band I've never heard of, these guys (plus a girl...) are fabulous.  An easy comparision is they're a bit like BERLIN...synth-pop, dance music, but aimed at a rock n' roll audience.  

Only they're a bit darker, a bit more "Goth."

Or at lease "were" a bit Goth at the time of this recording; it looks like they smoothed things out a bit by the end of the 80s after they got a major label deal.  But in 1983? The San Fran punk rocker in me immediately recognized "No Tears" as a cover of a song from first EP put out by Tuxedomoon in 1978. You can find "No Tears" on YouTube, and as an influence, it's a pretty grim piece of work.  

The next thing I learned about Pretty Poison was they're from Camden, New Jersey.  A glance at the map shows that burg is right across the river from Philadelphia.  I suspect there's probably some local angle I'm missing; here in Oakland we like to point out that we get to look across the bay at one of the world's most beautiful cities while those fools gotta look out their windows at us, and we're ugly.  So we win. If any of our Philadelphia fans can provide some local insight about Camden, it'll beat my stupid guesswork. 

I also don't know anything about WYSP-FN...they mention this is from "Studio 4."  Is that a studio at the radio station itself?  Or somewhere else?  Did they really have four studios at a radio station?

I'm clueless, but what I'm not clueless about is Pretty Poison impressed the hell out of me. I consider this tape a major find; there are several songs I couldn't track down that are probably unreleased, so excavating this tape is like Schliemann finding the ruins of Troy!

Okay. 

Yeah.  That's a bit of a stretch, I'll admit it.  But seriously...if you like electronic goth-rock, give this one a spin.  Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï says, "Check it out."

https://mega.nz/file/PNRAALhL#qx80PnkyIVH9XkEYCSyz-Rtp7xoZOrl-53VfJ8ianx4

Oh, yeah...I almost forgot...I was guessin' at the titles.  If I'm wrong about any of them, please let me know by leaving a comment.  If you know the titles to any of the "unknown" songs up above, well, jeez...let me know that, too.  I'm happy to know I'm wrong about something, you're not going to hurt my feelings by pointing out I have no idea what I'm talking about; I've already made that clear. :)

Dave Edmunds All-Star Rock and Roll Revue KBFH Part 1 and Part 2

Dave Edmunds All-Star Rock and Roll Revue (Part One)
King Biscuit Flower Hour week of 5/7/90 - 5/13/90

Recorded April 7, 1990 at the Warfield, San Francisco, CA
Date confirmed by newspaper ad (included)

01 Bill Minkin - KBFH Intro
02 Commercial - Greyhound
03 Commercial - Army Reserve
04 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
05 Dave Edmunds - Fallin' Through A Hole 
06 Dave Edmunds - Feel So Right
07 Dave Edmunds - Closer To The Flame
08 Dave Edmunds - Don't Talk To Me
09 Dave Edmunds - I Knew The Bride
10 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
11 Commercial - Greyhound
12 Commercial - Army Reserve
13 Commercial - LaBuick
14 Commercial - Greyhound
15 Dave Edmunds - Green Onions, Segment Intro
16 Graham Parker - Get Started. Start A Fire
17 Graham Parker - Local Girls
18 Graham Parker - My Girl
19 Graham Parker - Heat Treatment
20 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
21 Commercial - Army Reserve - Trident
22 Commercial - Greyhound
23 Commercial - Army Reserve
24 Dion - King of the New York Streets
25 Dion - Runaround Sue
26 Dion - The Wanderer
27 Bill Minkin - KBFH Outro
28 Bill Minkin - KBFH Promo

According to the AP wire story (included), Edmunds had tinnitus, and didn't want to play a full set...so he called on Graham Parker, Kim Wilson, and Dion to join the tour.  Each singer did a half-hour set, with a big jam at the end with all of them on stage, and the backing band included the Miami Horns and Steve Cropper.

King Biscuit produced a two part show, spread over two weeks, featuring excerpts from each artists set, and part of the big finale.  Sound quality is excellent as this is extracted from the discs.

Dave Edmunds All-Star Rock and Roll Revue (Part Two)

King Biscuit Flower Hour week of 5/14/90 - 5/20/90

01 Bill Minkin - KBFH Intro

02 Commercial - Army Reserve

03 Commercial - Greyhound

04 Commercial - Time Life Music

05 Kim Wilson - Wrap It Up

06 Kim Wilson - Tuff Enuff

07 Kim Wilson - Nervous Fella

08 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break

09 Commercial - Army Reserve

10 Commercial - Greyhound

11 Commercial - Army Reserve

12 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro

13 Dave Edmunds - From Small Things

14 Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking

15 Dave Edmunds - Juju Man

16 Dave Edmunds - King of Love

18 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break

19 Commercial - Greyhound

20 Commercial - LaBuick

21 Commercial - Army Reserve

22 Commercial - Greyhound

23 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro

24 Edmunds Parker Dion Wilson with Steve Cropper - Dock of the Bay

25 Edmunds Parker Dion Wilson with Steve Cropper - I'm Ready

26 Edmunds Parker Dion Wilson with Steve Cropper - Keep a-Knockin'

27 Bill Minkin - KBFH Outro

28 Commercial - Promo bed

Also...do any of Our Beloved Audience know if the Fab T-Birds ever released "Nervous Fella?"  Or if that's even the correct title?

Part One:

https://mega.nz/file/iUQHEZxK#7DV06If_kuqcrDw9AJrP0HQWcBr6mm-g85jSyHnNt-U

Part Two:

https://mega.nz/file/LEBnjJLa#C0MTZtr3o_9EV-KX9f91zfsyElxoRbUlgWJqNjHixnk

Nils Lofgren / Chestnut Cabaret, Philadelphia, PA April 26, 1984 WMMR-FM

Nils Lofgren
Chestnut Cabaret
Philadelphia, PA
April 26, 1984
WMMR-FM

01 John Stevens - WMMR-FM Intro
02 Nils Lofgren - Message
03 Nils Lofgren - Across The Tracks (drop out)
04 Nils Lofgren - Like Rain
05 Nils Lofgren - Beauty and the Beast
06 Nils Lofgren - Everybody Wants
07 Nils Lofgren - Share A Little
08 Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go
09 Nils Lofgren - Believe
10 Nils Lofgren - I Don't Want To Know
11 Nils Lofgren - (cuts in) Wonderland
12 Nils Lofgren - See What A Love Can Do
13 Nils Lofgren - All Out
14 Nils Lofgren - I Don't Want To Talk About It
15 Nils Lofgren - The Sun Hasn't Set
16 Nils Lofgren - Cry Tough
17 Nils Lofgren - I Wait For You

Another great one from the fabulous Sam Eliot's Mustache collection!  This is a nice vintage WMMR broadcast, featuring a nice long set from Nils Lofgren in a club appearance.

A few technical issues with the tape:
1) There's a 4 second drop out on Track 3. It might be in the broadcast itself.
2) From 47:04 to 49:42, the left channel drops down in volume (during See What A Love Can Do)  I raised the volume on that channel for the duration of the volume drop without it boosting the. You may notice a slight shift in the mix if you're listening on headphones, but on speakers you won't notice it.
3) It's missing the start of 11 ("Wonderland") due to a tape flip.

It's a great show, but the audience is louder than usual.  I'm not sure how they miked this, but you can hear the rumble of conversation in the background throughout many parts of the tape.  If you like the live audience ambience, you're going to love this.  Me?  I wanna turn around and say, "Will you shut the **** up? I'm tryin' to listen to the show here!"

https://mega.nz/file/CZQAibaK#Cx6jjCf7u6M-qE_GAuYvgWrCJBsZbvlDDBU0EldRfw8

Van The Man - Live Roxy 1978

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted March 10, 2013

Van Morrison - Live Roxy
November 26, 1978

Los Angeles, California

aka - Mojo At The Roxy
Soundboard @ 192

Set 1
Brown Eyed Girl
Wavelength
And It Stoned Me
Checkin' It Out
Hungry For Your Love
Sweet Thing
Crazy Love (Katie Kissoon)
Kingdom Hall
Moonshine Whiskey

Total time: (46:11)

Set 2
Purple Heather
Help Me
Tupelo Honey
Caravan
Cyprus Avenue

Total time: (41:55)

Musicians:
Van Morrison: vocals, sax, guitar, keyboards
Bob Tench: guitar
Herbie Armstrong: guitar
John Allair: keyboards
Peter Van Hooke: drums
Micky Feat: bass
Katie Kissoon, Anne Peacock: vocals 

 

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Roxy '78

Neil Finn - The Plant, Sausalito CA. 1998

Neil Finn - The Plant
Sausalito, CA.
August 11, 1998
KFOG-FM soundboard @320

 

Setlist:
1-Intro
2-Last One Standing
3-King Tide
4-I Got You
5-She Will Have Her Way
6-Sinner
7-Dream Date
8-Try Whistling This
9-Fall At Your Feet
10-Don't Dream It's Over
11-Addicted
12-We Don't Want To Go (Outro)

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!!*!!

 

Jeff Beck - BBC Top Gear 1967, In Concert 1972

Jeff Beck Group
Top Gear 1967-68 & In Concert 1972
 Soundboard/FM source @320

 

Track List:

1.I Ain't Superstitious
2.Beck's Bolero
3.You'll Never Go To Heaven
4.You Shook Me
5.Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
6.Jeff Beck In Concert 1972 (1 unchaptered file) 60 minutes

Thanks to the Original Source!!

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Bram Tchaikovsky - Strange Man, Changed Man - 1979 {Out of Print}

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted February 9, 2015

Bram Tchaikovsky - Strange Man, Changed Man

Studio recordings @320

{Out of Print}

Band:
Peter Bramall - vocal, guitars, bass
Mike Broadbent - bass, guitars, backing vocals
Keith Boyce - drums

 

Track List:
01. Robber
02. Strange Man, Changed Man
03. Lonely Dancer
04. I'm the One That's Leaving
05. Girl of my Dreams
06. Bloodline
07. Nobody Knows
08. Lady from the USA
09. I'm a Believer
10. Sarah Smiles
11. Turn on the Light

 

 

 

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Available at Shit Happens! >>>

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Sydney, Australia 1982

Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Capitol Theatre
Sydney Australia
June 2, 1982
2JJ FM Broadcast @flac

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The Black Angels - Into The Great Wide Open Festival, NL 2013

The Black Angels
Into The Great Wide Open Festival
Vlieland, NL
September 7, 2013
Soundboard @320

Into The Great Wide Open is a pop festival on Vlieland, a small island on the coast of The Netherlands.

Setlist:

1.   The Sniper
2.   Yellow Elevator #2
3.   Indigo Meadow
4.   You on the Run
5.   I Hear Colors (Chromaesthesia)
6.   Twisted Light
7.   Entrance Song
8.   Mission District
9.   Black Grease
10.  Broken Soldier
11.  Young Men Dead
12.  Bad Vibrations
13.  Evil Things

 

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Wide Open '13

 

The Pogues - Alabamahalle, Munich, Germany 1985

Back From The Dead by Request...
Originally posted by Mitch, November 25, 2010

The Pogues - Alabamahalle
Munich, Germany
April 21, 1985

Soundboard @flac
 

 

Shane MacGowan - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Cait O'Riordan - Bass, Vocals
Andrew Ranken - Drums, Vocals
Spider Stacy - Whistle, Beer Tray, Tambourine, Vocals
James Fearnley - Accordion, Vocals
Jem Finer - Banjo, Guitar, Vocals

 

Setlist:

01 Greenland Whale Fisheries
02 Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
03 Boys From The County Hell
04 Whiskey You're The Devil
05 Transmetropolitan
06 A Pair Of Brown Eyes
07 Streams Of Whiskey
08 Dark Streets Of London
09 Sally MacLennane
10 Kitty
11 Navigator
12 Dingle Regatta
13 Poor Paddy
14 Battle Of Brisbane
15 Waxie's Dargle
16 Muirshin Durkin

GIG INFO from PoguesLive.com
Without Jem Finer, Philip Chevron (RIP) on banjo. One of the best early shows! The show circulates on CDR as "Vorsprung durch Alkohol" and features the first 16 songs - this version usually has perfect sound quality, but is missing the last 4 songs and much of the chat between songs. The full show also circulates on but is usually poorer sound quality. Shane quote: "Happy danka Germany".

 

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Nils Lofgren LIVE in Boston MA 1976

Nils Lofgren 

Paul's Mall

Boston MA

1976-03-27 

WBCN-FM Broadcast @320

01. Radio Intro

02. Take You To The Movies Tonight

03. Back It Up

04. It's Not A Crime

05. Beggar's Day 

06. Can't Get Closer

07. Going Back

08. Like Rain

09. Keith Don't Go (Ode to the Glimmer Twin)

10. Cry Tough

11. Encore Break---DJ Patter

12. You're The Wait

13. Soft Fun

14. Radio Outro

Nils Lofgren - Guitar, Vocals

Tommy Lofgren - Guitar, keyboards

Bobby Enriques - Guitar 

Scott Ball - Bass

Mike Zapp - Drums

 

 Nils in Beantown

Chicago / Star Sessions SS-4, Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles 1982

Chicago
Star Sessions SS-4
broadcast date of June 5, 1982
"recorded in Los Angeles with Chicago"
"Wally Heider Studios in Los Angeles"
recorded May 14, 1982 according to Setlist.fm

00 NO ARTIST - 1kc tone for level setting and balance
01 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Intro
02 Commercial - AT&T (Commodores)
03 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro
04 Chicago - Alive Again
05 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
06 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
07 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
08 Chicago - Bad Advice
09 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
10 Commercial - U.S. Army
11 Commercial - Atari
12 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro
13 Chicago - What You're Missing
14 Chicago - If You Leave Me Now 
15 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
16 Chicago - Chains
17 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
18 Commercial - AT&T
19 Commercial - JC Penny
20 Bill Ayres - Promo
21 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro
22 Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Get Away
23 Chicago - Band Intros, interview
24 Chicago - Just You 'n' Me
25 Chicago - Saturday In The Park
26 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
27 Commercial - U.S. Army
28 Commercial - Atari
29 Commercial - Oxy
30 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro and Interview
31 Chicago - Follow Me
32 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
33 Chicago - Satisfaction
34 Chicago - 25 or 6 To 4
35 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
36 Commercial - AT&T (Tanya Tucker)
37 Commercial - JC Penny
38 Commercial - Annie
39 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro and Interview
40 Chicago - Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon
41 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
42 Commercial - U.S. Army
43 Commercial - Atari
44 Commercial - Oxy
45 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview and Star Sessions SS-4 Outro

Runout grooves:
Side A: SS-4A    MCR Bre
Side B: SS-4B    MCR Bre
Side C: SS-4C    MCR Bre
Side D: SS-4D    MCR Bre
Side E: SS-4E    MCR Bre
Side F: blank side, no run out grooves

https://mega.nz/file/aAAjTD4Z#c7NJpwKJ-pkpx0bCsrz6e5x26ZfXK3VXoPoVisSQnE0

There is a longer version of this up at Wolfgang's Concert Vault.  The headline there attributes the show to Wally Heider in San Francisco, but the body of the text below lists it correctly as Los Angeles.  Yes, there had been a Wally Heider in S.F., but this was not recorded there.

This show was an exciting preview of live versions of tracks that would be released two days after the original broadcast date of this show on Chicago 16. Chicago 16 is considered a "comeback" album for the band.  They added Bill Champlin, formerly of Bay Area band "The Sons of Champlin," and he sings "Satisfaction" his 1981 solo LP, Runaway.

Bricklin / Empire Rock Club, Philadelphia, PA WMMR-FM Sept. 19, 1986

Bricklin
Empire Rock Club
Philadelphia, PA
WMMR-FM
September 19, 1986

01 Joe Bonadonna - WMMR-FM Intro
02 Bricklin - Life Is Fine
03 Bricklin - All I Know
04 Bricklin - For Her Love
05 Bricklin - Love Without Pain
06 Bricklin - The Sleeping Dream
07 Bricklin - All You Own
08 Bricklin - Even When You're Done With Me
09 Bricklin - (cuts in) Fear of Life
10 Bricklin - I Am The Walrus
11 Joe Bonadonna & Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Outro

One more tape from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection, and once again he's mailed me a band I've never heard of.  Or to be precise, a band that I heard once on the soundtrack of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" when I watched it on television in the mid-90s.

It's a fine set from Philadelphia's Bricklin, live on WMMR-FM. If you don't know them (like me...), they're melodic pop-rock, radio-friendly, with great harmonies, and nice two-guitar interplay.  The mix on this is noteworthy, too, with good stereo separation.

Drawn mainly from their lone major label release on A&M, they open with the unreleased (as of yet...) song, "Life Is Fine," and then work their way through that first album

  
The sound is clear, no hiss; it sounds great for a tape that's 37 years old.  There was one spot where the volume dropped for a second, but I evened that out.  The start of the last song is cut where the tape was flipped, but other than that, it's nearly perfect.

As I mentioned, I don't know diddly about Philadelphia, but I'm learning.  And the first thing I found about Bricklin was there Facebook page, where they just announced they are releasing an 8-CD/DVD boxed set:

BRICKLIN - Anthology - The Complete Story (1979-1999)

This was announced yesterday on the Bricklin Facebook page.  "The set is limited to strictly 500 units worldwide."

With 8 CDs of songs by a band that released one album, you'd think you had literally all the songs they ever did, but here on this tape you'll find their unreleased cover of the Beatle's "I Am The Walrus."
And lucky for us, they're not releasing this radio broadcast (if they were, I wouldn't post this...). So if you like this, well...go buy the boxed set.  

Other trivia:  the night after this show, Bricklin opened for Emerson, Lake, & Powell at Madison Square Garden.

https://mega.nz/file/3J5T3a5a#HJpeyIxAwEAUqIh2Zz3kb1mI6zcnlBO229sXkmsgn_c

Prefab Sprout / Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan, July 2, 1986 (FM)

Here's what it looked like...

Prefab Sprout
Kosei Nenkin Hall, 
Tokyo, Japan 
July 2, 1986

01 Paddy McAloon & Wendy Smith - Intro
02 Prefab Sprout - Moving The River
03 Prefab Sprout - Faron Young
04 Prefab Sprout - Hallelujah
05 Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
06 Prefab Sprout - Goodbye Lucille No 1
07 Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
08 Prefab Sprout - Appetite
09 Prefab Sprout - Cruel
10 Prefab Sprout - Faron Young (reprise)
11 Paddy McAloon & Wendy Smith - Outro

Flac files of wavs.  

Digitized from a cassette I received from a tape trader in Tokyo.  The generation is not known, but the sound is pretty good.  The high end is a bit dull so you may want to up the treble a bit.  The original source is an FM broadcast.

The "intro" is odd.  It's got the stage intro to the concert, then it switches to Paddy McAloon and Wendy Smith in the studio, introducing the radio broadcast of the concert.  The show is about 40 minutes long, so it's clearly an edited version of a longer show.  Why have the little bit of the stage show introduction and then edit in a studio introduction?  I'd do it as studio introduction followed by the stage intro.  I could rearrange 'em to run in that order but I figure it's better to give it you guys the way it was broadcast.

I don't speak any Japanese, but a bit of research indicates that Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Kaikan translates (roughly) as Tokyo Employees Pension Assembly Hall.  As such, there are different "Kosei Nenkins" in other cities in Japan, too. 

https://mega.nz/file/OBJhVSTB#EsDbdlvmhk7c2_gWZw3ZSsCUTD1kTq3Vqz4bLSLqYmI

And here's a shout out to Swappers...I digitized this one for you... just in case you didn't already have it!

Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers / Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ Aug. 15, 1986 WMMR-FM

Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers
Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ
August 15, 1986
WMMR-FM

01 Pierre Robert & Cyndy Drue - WMMR-FM Intro
02 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Welcome To My World
03 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Workout
04 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Crazy Mixed Up World
05 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Tonight's The Night
06 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - I'm Home
07 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Do You Still Believe In Me
08 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - I'm Not Your Man
09 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Roadside
10 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Million Pretty Girls
11 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Walkin' On The Water
12 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Satisfaction Guaranteed
13 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Possibilities
14 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Yeah Yeah Daddy
15 Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers - Demolition Derby
16 Pierre Robert - WMMR-FM Outro

Another fabulous tape from the Sam Eliot's Mustache collection. 

Once again, we run into the geographic limitations of rock 'n' roll... and the limits of your humble narrator's knowledge.

Tommy Conwell escaped my attention completely in the 1980s and early 90's.  I was introduced to him through a music blog back around 2010.  So, I was late to the party.  Everything I'm about to tell you comes from Internet research... and the Internet is a cesspool of nonsense.

On Newspapers.com, I found that Conwell started out as the guitarist in Rocket 88 down in Ocean City, Maryland in 1981.  He jumped over to the Imports (who changed their name to Radio Carolyn).  Radio Carolyn put out a 45, "Punish Me With Passion," but I'm not sure if Conwell is on that record or not.

By July '84 he had moved back up to Philadelphia and was lead singer for the Young Rebels. By the end of the year, formed Tommy Conwell's Young Rumblers. 

 
They released an LP in 1984 on local (Ardmore, PA) Antenna Records, eventually selling 70,000 copies.  A deal with major label Columbia was next, with "Rumble" released in 1988 and "Guitar Trouble" in 1990.

Singles "I'm Not Your Man" hit #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "If We Never Meet Again" rose to #48. 

His brother was Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Joe Conwell.

The major label support broke him out of the Philadelphia club scene, and he did a national tour, playing the Roxy in Hollywood, and several shows in the Bay Area. (the Stone, the Kennel Club) in October - December 1988. He was on national TV on the Arsenio Hall Show in January 1989.

Two albums were all Columbia put out; they chose to leave his third album in the can and didn't release it. 

Conwell drove a cab for a while, went back to school, and by 1998, he was a third-grade teacher who performs music when his schedule allows, and hosted a Sunday night radio show on WYSP-FM.
He was good, and with better touring support, he might have been able to build a national fan base and been Philadelphia's answer to Greg Kihn...who also, by the way...ended up as a disc jockey.

In my research, I found a lot of articles about Conwell.  I've included them in a separate text file from the articles about this specific concert.  Read them all, as there may be a pop quiz later next week.

https://mega.nz/file/OJQ11TZS#KHC2CRtoviraNV_A_jCrSbog6NndRIJ-lyefYsGiFlk

Also...I want to note that I didn't find anything written about him in the Bay Area papers.  There are ads for the club dates, but no one reviewed the shows.  Compared to the huge amount of coverage in the northeast...and getting concert reviews in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston...San Francisco was not paying attention.

Prefab Sprout / Reading University 1985

Prefab Sprout
Reading University
Live At Reading University, Reading, UK 1985-November-16

Sourced from 
In Concert-381
BBC Transcription Services CN 4747/S
released Jan. 11, 1986

01 Richard Skinner - Intro
02 Prefab Sprout - Moving The River
03 Prefab Sprout - Cars and Girls
04 Prefab Sprout - Bonny
05 Prefab Sprout - Faron Young
06 Prefab Sprout - Hallelujah
07 Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
08 Prefab Sprout - Wicked Things
09 Prefab Sprout - Goodbye Lucille #1
10 Prefab Sprout - Tiffany's
11 Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
12 Prefab Sprout - When The Angels
13 Prefab Sprout - Appetite

Backing Vocals – Wendy Smith
Bass – Martin McAloon
Drums – Neil Conti
Guitar, Vocals – Paddy McAloon
Keyboards – Michael Graves
Presenter – Richard Skinner

The story behind this tape is the guy I was trading with had an actual copy of the BBC transcription disc.  It sounds like it, but unless I've done it myself I'm never 100% sure.  The songs on my tape had some vinyl surface noise, so it's a believable story.  I've gone through it and cleaned the clicks 'n' pops, so it sounds pretty darned good.

"Cars and Girls" came out over two years later in March of 1988 on "From Langley Park to Memphis."  "Wicked Things" and "Tiffany's" wouldn't show up until "Protest Songs" in June 1989... three and a half years after this was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 1.

https://mega.nz/file/6chz3TLI#lj-dJCDYIzce6gX52fqiIyZXQ4Qi-y-uN0OAj2K4AaQ

Suze Cosmo / Khyber Pass Pub, Philadelphia, PA March 7, 1986 WYSP-FM

Suze Cosmo
Khyber Pass Pub
56 S. Second Street
Philadelphia, PA
Friday, March 7, 1986

01 Mean Ed Green - WYSP Intro
02 Suze Cosmo - Woman Needs A Man
03 Suze Cosmo - Going To A Go Go
04 Suze Cosmo - Collector Of Hearts
05 Suze Cosmo - When He Says Goodbye
06 Suze Cosmo - I Miss You So Much
07 Suze Cosmo - Hands of Time
08 Suze Cosmo - Why Are You Leaving Me
09 Suze Cosmo - Don't Go Please Stay
10 Suze Cosmo - I Don't Read The News
11 Suze Cosmo - Bound By The Chains of Love
12 Suze Cosmo - Nowhere To Run
13 Suze Cosmo - Think
14 Suze Cosmo - You Keep Me Hanging On
15 Suze Cosmo - When A Man Wears Black
16 Suze Cosmo - Land of 1,000 Dances
17 Mean Ed Green & Debbi Calton - Stage Outro, WYSP Outro

Another tape from the Sam Eliot's Mustache collection.  

First of all, I was in Philadelphia once, for an afternoon, back in July of 1971.  So, I don't know diddlysquat about the city. Everything I'm about to type I found on the Internet, and that means it's not reliable. 

According to the Philadelphia Daily News (Feb. 28, 1986)
"WYSP (FM/94 now offers a local shot of talent every Friday afternoon at 5, and airs live bands from the Khyber Pass Fridays at midnight."  This concert is sourced from one of those shows. 

The show is hosted by WYSP-FM's Mean Ed Green, with deejay duties back at the station handled by by Debbi Calton.

The Khyber Pass Pub is still in open.

I've never heard of Suze Cosmo, and there's not much on the Internet about the band. Don't let that put you off... this is pop-rock, with a solid grounding in R&B.  I'd say their primary influence was Motown but the Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett covers show they had a couple of Atlantic LPs, too.  

I found lots of listings for the band in 1983 to 1986, but nothing before (or after), so it looks like they had a brief three year long career. They played at clubs like Nardi's, J.C. Dobbs, Khyber Pass, Empire Rock Club, 24 East Cabaret, and John Holmes Restaurant.

It's a lot of fun; they had the talent and enough good self-penned songs that should have gotten a record contract, but it looks like they only managed to put out a self-released 45 and an EP (see below).

But while their discography is thin... I found another listing from June 14, 1985 that mentioned they did another live WYSP midnight broadcast.  So there's more out there.

I didn't find any newspaper listing for this show, but found a few other appearances by the band at the Khyber Pass, so I've included them.  I also found a great two-page center spread from the entertainment section on the local Philadelphia scene.  All that's in the "Artwork" folder.

https://mega.nz/file/Wc5ThRRZ#9smvh723Tj6uaN6lJ1fAfM1l6WWvZeJh0-dHDYwphB8

Discogs says:

Suze Cosmo Band 1983 EP:
Bound By The Chains Of Love
I Don't Read The News
Assets
Questions
Don't Like Russia, Cause She Don't Like Rock

Suze Cosmo 1984 single:
When A Man Wears Black
When He Says Goodbye

Joe Cocker / Go - King Biscuit Flower Hour

King Biscuit Flower Hour
Joe Cocker / Go
King Biscuit Flower Hour
air date of December 11, 1988
Joe Cocker recorded at Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY August 1, 1982
Go recorded May 29, 1976 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England.

00 NO ARTIST - 1KC Tone For Setting Level & Balance
01 Bill Minkin - Intro
02 Commercial - Budweiser (Candi Staton)
03 Commercial - U.S. Army
04 Commercial - Lorimar People's Court
05 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
06 Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
07 Joe Cocker - Feelin' Alright
08 Joe Cocker - A Whiter Shade of Pale
09 Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful
10 Joe Cocker - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
11 Joe Cocker - The Letter
12 Bill Minkin - Break
13 Commercial - U.S. Army
14 Commercial - Greyhound
15 Commercial - Eveready Batteries
16 Commercial - Lorimar People's Court
17 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
18 Go - Ghost Machine
19 Go - Winner/Loser
20 Go - Man of Leo
21 Bill Minkin - Break
22 Commercial - U.S. Army
23 Commercial - Budweiser (Wilson Pickett)
24 Bill Minkin - Outro
25 Bill Minkin - Promo

By Special Request from Germany!  Our pal Propylaen2001 asked if I had this; I didn't, but our behind-the-scenes friend Sam Eliot's Mustache had a copy back east; he shipped me a CD-R and emailed the scans.  I've chaptered the files, and here they are!

The big mystery on this one is the source and date of the Go material.  Our pal Bill Minkin introduces it as Go "recorded in England in 1976." I've got a newspaper clipping from the Acton Gazette that says "Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta has formed an exciting new group featuring Stevie Winwood, which is about to go on the road.  Only one British date has been arranged, and will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday."  That gives us a date of May 29, 1976. 

Well, we don't trust, we verify. Or at least try to verify.  Over at Concert Vault they have a Go show identified as "Palais des Sports, Paris, France June 12, 1976."  The Concert Vault version of "Man of Leo" has the same vocal of "come on, get your hands together" at the start as the KBFH "London" version.

The two versions are from the same show. My understanding is the Paris show was the source of the official release Go...Live From Paris, and that the Vault tracks don't match the official release.

Klaus-schulze.com lists only these two shows (London and Paris).  No other concerts were listed.

I'm going with the London date.  My conclusion is that the streaming version has the wrong date and venue.

https://mega.nz/file/OE4hkbaR#oy9NI9O4-FDtmA-1DjaR6-EF-9DTX72AciaSRhqBSnw

Fu Manchu - Roadburn Fest 2003

Back From the Dead...
Originally posted January 28, 2009

Fu Manchu - Roadburn Festival 2003

Eindhoven, NL
Soundboard @320

After Monster Magnet, these guys are my favorite stoner band. They never fail to put on a great show!

Track List:
1.Squash That Fly (4:49)
2.Hell On Wheels (4:44)
3.Eatin Dust (3:24)
4.Laserblast! (3:50)
5.I Wanna Be (4:00)
6.Boogie Van (5:14)
7.King Of The Road (4:46)
8.Written In Stone (4:17)
9.Saturn III (10:02)

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Roadburn

Jerry Jeff Walker / NBC's Country Sessions #58 - Lone Star Cafe, NYC 1981

Jerry Jeff Walker
Country Sessions #58
air date April 24, 1982
recorded at the Lone Star Cafe, NYC, NY
most likely recorded November 22, 1981

01 Dan Daniel - Country Sessions #58 Promo
02 Dan Daniel - Country Sessions #58 Promo 2
03 NO ARTIST - 1000 Hertz Tone
04 Dan Daniel - Country Sessions #58 Intro
05 Jerry Jeff Walker - Gettin' By
06 Jerry Jeff Walker - L.A. Freeway
07 Dan Daniel - Country Sessions #58 Break
08 Commercial - Allied Van Lines (John Wooden)
09 Commercial - US Mail
10 Jerry Jeff Walker - Leavin' Texas
11 Jerry Jeff Walker - Desperados Waiting For A Train
12 Commercial - Canon NP3F Copier
13 Commercial - Allied Van Lines (Tom Sneva)
14 Jerry Jeff Walker - Jaded Lover
15 Jerry Jeff Walker - Cross The Borderline
16 Commercial - Allied Van Lines (Buzz Aldrin)
17 Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr. Bojangles
18 Jerry Jeff Walker - Takin' It As It Comes
19 Dan Daniel - Country Sessions #58 Break
20 Commercial - Ford
21 Jerry Jeff Walker - We Were Kinda Crazy Then
22 Jerry Jeff Walker - Pick Up The Tempo
23 Dan Daniel - Country Sessions #58 Outro

Run out grooves:
NBC-CS-58-A     SMK
NBC-CS-58-B     SMK

Digitized December 2023 by you-know-who.
Flac files of wavs. 300 dpi scans of disc labels and cue sheets.
Copy of newspaper article establishing a likely concert date.

Celebrity commercials!
John Wooden - UCLA basketball coach
Tom Sneva - Indy race car driver
Buzz Aldrin - Second man on the moon.

Jerry Jeff rocks out on this one.  Plus... take close look at the label:  "This record must be destroyed..."

https://mega.nz/file/6d5TjQhK#tOSUl05bdFudWYgXqdCMVMLPMM5B7-bHwbN6dyoqk34