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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024

Jo Ann Kelly - Tramp 1974 {Out of Print}

Back from The Dead...by Request
Originally posted January 1, 2015


Jo Ann Kelly - Tramp 1974
(Reissued 2000)
Studio Recordings @192
{Out of Print}

The British blues singer/guitarist Jo-Anne Kelly (1944-90) was a little-known treasure. She was a member of the same generation of musicians as the Rolling Stones, but she was more interested in reviving prewar country blues than in popularizing postwar electric blues. Jo-Anne sat in with the Yardbirds in early in their early Clapton days, had a long association with The Groundhogs, and in the 1970s did a stint in the blues-rock band Tramp. But mostly she played acoustic guitar and performed in folk music clubs. She was a regular support act for American blues musicians of an older generation touring England, such as Fred McDowell and Big Joe Williams.
Jo-Anne didn't record much, and her records were hard to find in the shops - certainly in my country(Australia). Those that that I did lay my hands on revealed a powerful voice and a driving, rhythmic guitar style. Her heroine was Memphis Minnie.

Digitally remastered 2001. A great mix of previously unreleased & rare live & studio sessions (14 tracks, over 65 minutes of music). Features contributions from Fleetwood Mac's Danny Kirwan, plus Keef Hartley, Bob Brunning & Bob Hall. Tracks 9-14 feature Danny Kirwan.

Track List:
1. Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone
2. Love Blind
3. Nicki Hoeky
4. Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home
5. Jump Steady Daddy
6. Put A Record On
7. Help Me Through The Night
8. Travellin' Mood
9. Baby What You Want Me To Do (Live)
10. It's Too Late For That Now (Live)
11. What You Gonna Do (Live)
12. You Don't Love Me Baby (Live)
13. Put A Record On (Live)
14. You Got To Move (Live)

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

Beru Revue / Empire Rock Club, Philadelphia, PA Dec. 26, 1986 WMMR-FM

Beru Review
Empire Rock Club
Philadelphia, PA
December 26, 1986
WMMR-FM

01 Joe Bonadonna - WMMR-FM Intro
02 Beru Review - I Wanna Play A Little Music
03 Beru Review - Yo Ho
04 Beru Review - Hoods A-Go-Go
05 Beru Review - I Got A Job
06 Beru Review - Band Intro
07 Beru Review - Are You Coming Home
08 Beru Review - Monopoly
09 Beru Review - Be Careful Tonight
10 Beru Review - In The Dark
11 Beru Review - Under Greek Stars
12 Beru Review - It's Not My Fault
13 Beru Review - Women Can Fly
14 Beru Review - Trains Are Cool
15 Beru Review - Trouble
16 Beru Review - Bwaah - Real Rock 'N' Roll 
17 Beru Review - Encore Break
18 Beru Review - Hungry Dude
19 Beru Review - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
20 Beru Review - Get Me High
21 Beru Review - Encore 2 Break
22 Beru Review - Wakin' Up When The Party's Over
23 Beru Review - Casio Selecter
24 Beru Review - Hawaii

A website with band approved downloads can be found at http://www.berurevueshare.com
This show is there in mp3 form, from another source.  It sounds the same as this version to my ears.  The last song on the tape ("Hawaii") was cut off just before the end, so  I patched it with the mp3 to make a complete version.

Once again, we have a tape from our pal Sam Eliot's Mustache.  Beru Revue is another unsigned band I'd never heard of.  A search on the Internet reveals they ruled in the Delaware Valley from 1981 to 1998 (with occasional reunions).  


While they don't sound anything like the Tubes, they worked a similar multi-media cabaret style supported by top-notch musicianship.

One listen to this show made me an instant fan. Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï says, "Check them out!"

Monday, February 19, 2024

Mitch Ryder / 23 East Cabaret, Ardmore, PA ("Philadelphia") Aug. 22, 1984 WMMR-FM

Mitch Ryder
23 East Cabaret
Ardmore, PA ("Philadelphia")
WMMR-FM
August 22, 1984

01 Announcer - WMMR Intro
02 Mitch Ryder - Bow Wow Wow Wow
03 Mitch Ryder - B.I.G.T.I.M.E. 
04 Mitch Ryder - A Thrill's A Thrill
05 Announcer - WMMR-FM Break
06 Mitch Ryder - Rock and Roll
07 Mitch Ryder - It Ain't Easy
08 Mitch Ryder - Jenny Take A Ride
09 Mitch Ryder - Liberty
10 Mitch Ryder - Little Latin Lupe Lu
11 Mitch Ryder - War
12 Announcer - WMMR-FM Break
13 Mitch Ryder - Band intros
14 Mitch Ryder - Tough Kid
15 Mitch Ryder - Devil With A Blue Dress
16 Mitch Ryder - Encore Break
17 Mitch Ryder - When You Were Mine
18 Mitch Ryder - Encore 2 Break
19 Mitch Ryder - True Love
20 Mitch Ryder - Long Neck Goose

Okay, gang, this one comes from the Sam Elliot's Mustache collection, and it's a great one.  This forty-year-old cassette features a midnight broadcast on WMMR-FM with (as the newspapers put it) "Detroit rock legend Mitch Ryder."

Ryder's career in the U.S. got off to a good start, hitting #4 with Devil With A Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly, Jenny Take A Ride! followed up at #4, Little Latin Lupe Lu #17, Sock It To Me Baby #6, Too Many Fish In The Sea #24, and What Now My Love at #30.

In the UK Jenny Take A Ride spent 3 weeks on the Top 40 charts, peaking at #33...so from the U.K. perspective Ryder was more of a one-hit wonder.

The charts don't always tell the entire story, though...he could have been a brighter star. Ryder was on New Voice Records, a very small label.  Their next biggest hit was Norma Tanega's "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog."  New Voice was a subsidiary of DynoVoice Records, run by Bob Crewe of Four Seasons songwriting fame. The parent label had a big hit with Crewe's easy listening "Music To Watch Girls By" and the Toys' "A Lover’s Concerto," but the label had nothing else on it like the red-hot R&B rock of Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels. 

Crewe, unfortunately, pushed Ryder in the direction of becoming a Las Vegas lounge performer, leading to poor song choices like "You Are My Sunshine."  It's not as bad as it sounds, Ryder rocks it up, but it went nowhere and led to a split with his band.  You can find it on YouTube, if you want to hear it.

So it's the old story: third-rate record label, poor management, a bit of substance abuse, and Ryder was out of the Top 40 hit business by the end of the Sixties.

But he didn't give up.  Reduced down to the band name "Detroit," he cut a credible 1971 LP with a solid cover of the Velvet Underground's "Rock 'n' Roll" featuring fretboard hotshot Steve Hunter.  This hard rock version pointed the way to the extended track Lou Reed cut on his Rock and Roll Animal LP in 1974, with Reed recruiting Hunter to join his stage band. 

A long hiatus followed, with Ryder recuperating in Denver as a day laborer.

While he might have been a dimly remembered 60s oldies act, Bruce Springsteen kept his music in the public eye through his "Detroit Medley" encore performances, running through "Devil With A Blue Dress" and "Jenny Take A Ride" as the concert closer on dozens of shows.

Ryder began issuing albums again in 1977, first on his own record label and then on Germany's Line Records. He found a new audience in Europe. He cut the fabulous track "Bow Wow Wow Wow" with Was (Not Was). This was covered live by John Mellancamp (see our archives).  

UPDATED to reflect new information:  A sharp-eyed reader pointed out that not only did Ryder continue to issue albums into the 2000s, he continued to so throughout the 2010s, and currently (2024) has a new LP out, "The Roof Is On Fire."

This show is from 1984.  The sound is very good, albeit in mono. But mono is the way Ryder's original music was meant to be heard, so it's a benefit here.  You get a couple of the big 60s hits, high points from the Detroit band, and selections from his solo career.  It's really quite good; Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï says, " "Check it out!"


Sunday, February 18, 2024

The Hunter Ronson Band - BBC Live In Concert 1989


Back from the Dead...Again
Originally posted June 11, 2010 and July 30, 2017

The Hunter Ronson Band - BBC Live In Concert
London, UK
February 15, 1989
FM Source @192
Liberated Bootleg

Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson were coming back from half a decade of semi-retirement when they toured without a record contract in early 1989. But at the time of their stop at the Dominion Theatre in London on February 15, chronicled on this 73 1/2-minute, 13-track disc, they had already begun to compile the new material that would be included on their excellent Y U I ORTA album. So, the show consisted of old Hunter favorites like the U.K. Top Ten hit by his old group Mott The Hoople, "All The Way From Memphis," and his own U.K. Top 40 hit "Once Bitten Twice Shy," plus six songs that would turn up on the album, including powerful Hunter compositions like "Following In Your Footsteps" and "Big Time" (which was misidentified here as "You're Never Too Old To Hit The Big Time"—the chorus line is actually "You're never too small to hit the big time"). The Hunter/Ronson live sound previously had been displayed on the 1980 album Welcome To The Club, with which this set shared many selections, and it remained an effective combination, with Ronson playing powerful hard rock lead guitar to support Hunter, the frontman, and his plaintive, autobiographical songs. If anyone feared that the/two had lost their rock 'n' roll fervor after the lay-off, this concert dispelled that notion. It's no surprise they earned another record contract soon after.


Track List:
01. Once Bitten Twice Shy
02. How Much More Can I Take
03. Beg A Little Love
04. Following In Your Footsteps
05. Just Another Night
06. Sweet Dreamer
07. (Give Me Back My) Wings
08. Standin' In My Light
09. Bastard
10. Loner
11. You're Never Too Old To Hit The Big Time
12. All The Way From Memphis
13. Irene Wilde


BBC '89


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Monday, February 12, 2024

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Brest Rockscene Festival 1986

Siouxsie And The Banshees
Brest Rockscene Festival

Stade Francis-Le Blé Brest, Brest, France
July 12, 1986
FM Source @flac


 

Setlist:
Green Fingers
Candyman
The Sweetest Chill
Cannons
Christine
Melt
Preacher Man
92 degrees
Nightshift
Sin In My Heart
Headcut
Arabian Knights

 

Thanks to Dime & Guitars101!

 

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

World Party, Live At The Wireless, Triple J, Sydney, Nov. 22, 1993

World Party
Live At The Wireless
Triple J, Sydney
November 22, 1993
1st generation

01 World Party - Is It Like Today
02 World Party - Sunshine
03 World Party - Mystery Girl
04 World Party - Sooner or Later
05 World Party - No More Crying
06 World Party - Sweet Soul Dream
07 Andy Glitre - JJJ Outro

This is a 1st generation tape I got from an Australian tape trader back in the Goldmine days.  There were classified ads in back of the magazine, and we'd exchange lists of what we had, always on the hunt for someone with a "master copy" of a broadcast.

A lot of what was out there was five or six generations from the original recording, so there was a thick layer of tape hiss over the music.  While this one is not a master, it's a 1st generation and it sounds pretty good.

Andy Glitre was the usual host of Live at the Wireless in 1993.  I don't know his voice so I can't confirm that he's the one on this broadcast.  I've labeled it with his name, but if any of Our Beloved Audience know differently, please leave a correction below.

Two of the songs on this performance were not on an album at the time of the recording:
No More Crying was the B-side of "All I Gave."
Mystery Girl was the B-side of "Giving It All Away (extended version)."

While I didn't find any press coverage of the broadcast, I've included some contemporary Australian press coverage of World Party for you to read.



Friday, February 9, 2024

The A's / Empire Rock Club, Philadelphia, PA Sept. 16, 1983 WMMR-FM "A's Farewell Broadcast"


The A's
Empire Rock Club
Philadelphia, PA
September 16, 1983
WMMR-FM

01 The A's - After Last Night
02 The A's - Everlasting Love
03 The A's - How Do You Live
04 The A's - Nothing Wrong With Falling In Love
05 announcer - WMMR ID
06 The A's - C.I.A.
07 The A's - Electricity
08 The A's - Painting By Numbers
09 The A's - Swept Away
10 announcer - WMMR ID
11 The A's - Ain't No Secret
12 The A's - Misunderstanding
13 The A's - A Woman's Got The Power
14 The A's - Do The Dance
15 The A's - Batman

We've got the A's, in a "fairwell broadcast" from the Empire Rock Club, on Philadephia's fabulous WMMR-FM.

While I had that first A's LP when it came out in 1979, I never bought their second record.  And two was all these guys got, although from the unreleased songs in this show, they could easily have put out a third album.

Once again....can you guess where I got this tape?  Yes, it's another in the Sam Elliot's Mustache collection!



Journey / Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, OK WW1 Superstar Concert #00-25

Journey
Superstar Concert Series #00-25
for broadcast the weekend of June 17/18, 2000

Recorded at:
Lloyd Noble Center
Norman, Oklahoma
July 21, 1983

CD1
01 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Intro
02 Commercial - Jeep Cherokee
03 Commercial - Goodyear Tires
04 Commercial - Michelob Amber Bock
05 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Segment Intro
06 Journey - Chain Reaction
07 Journey - Wheel In The Sky
08 Journey - Line of Fire
09 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Break
10 Commercial - Jensen Car Stereo
11 Commercial - LendingTree.com
12 Commercial - Doc Otis Hard Lemonade
13 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Segment Intro
14 Journey - Send Her My Love
15 Journey - Still They Ride
16 Journey - Open Arms
17 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Break
18 Commercial - Goodyear Tires
19 Commercial - U.S. Navy
20 Commercial - Jensen Car Stereo
21 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Segment Intro
22 Journey - Rubicon
23 Journey - Escape
24 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Break
25 Commercial - Goodyear Tires
26 Commercial - U.S Navy
27 Commercial - Jensen Car Stereo

CD2
01 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Segment Intro
02 Journey - Faithfully
03 Journey - Who's Crying Now
04 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Break
05 Commercial - Michelob Amber Bock
06 Commercial - LendingTree.com
07 Commercial - Jensen Car Stereo
08 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Segment Intro
09 Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
10 Journey - Stone In Love
11 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Break
12 Commercial - Showtime Boxing Promo (Tyson vs Savarese)
13 Commercial - Goodyear Tires
14 Commercial - LendingTree.com
15 Commercial - Doc Otis Hard Lemonade
16 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Segment Intro
17 Journey - Lights
18 Journey - Anyway You Want It
19 Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
20 J.J. Jackson - Superstar Concert 00-25 Outro

This show was sent to me for chaptering by our pal, Sam Eliot's Mustache.  

Setlist.fm says Journey played the Lloyd Noble Center on July 19, 20, and 21st, 1983.  This is confirmed by a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper of Thursday July 21, 1983, which published a review of the Tuesday July 19th show.

Tracks from the show were syndicated by Westwood One as a 3-LP set with the number of SS85-15 for the broadcast date of July 27, 1985.  There was a long gap of 15 years before tracks from the show were repeated by Westwood One as #00-25.  The two sets do not have identical track listings. 

Note: the Discogs listing for the 3 LP set incorrectly lists this as "Lloyd Noble Centre, Norman, OK. 27th July 1983."  It's "center" and it's not the 27th, it's the 21st.

The review in the newspaper mentions Journey "arranged to hire a full film production crew to record all three nights in Oklahoma... which may be used later for live cuts or possibly a feature-length concert film.  The Norman audio track also is being carefully preserved for possible use as a recorded concert on a syndicated radio show."

The Journey Greatest Hits Live CD had two songs (Send Her My Love, and Still They Ride) recorded at Lloyd Noble Center on July 19, 1983, with Biff Dawes on the credit, confirming that WW1 was the syndicated radio show recording the concerts. 

There is a 2-cd bootleg on Zion (Zion-106) that says, "taken from the Superstars In Concert Radio Show LPs" on the back cover, along with "Pre-FM Master."  This has additional tracks, which are from another broadcast of the show with a slightly different set list.  That's 88-15, and it's in our archives.

If you like this version, you can find the 2-cd version over on Guitars 101.  Or you can take tracks from both shows I've posted and make your own version!

On the commercials:


The Showtime Boxing Promo was for the second shortest fight of Mike Tyson's career: It took 38 seconds for Savarese to be out of the fight by a technical knockout.  

Doc Otis Hard Lemonade lasted longer than Savarese, but eventually went down for the count, too.  It's another product lost to the mists of time. 
I'll have a Zima!




Tuesday, February 6, 2024

The Cure - BBC Sessions (1979 - 1985)

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted July 15, 2023

The Cure - BBC Sessions 1979-1985
FM Source @flac


A compilation of nine radio sessions recorded by The Cure for the BBC between 1979 and 1985, taking in many of the highlights from their early albums.



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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Little Feat / Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA - Dec. 3, 1988 WMMR-FM

Little Feat
Tower Theater
Upper Darby, PA ("Philadelphia")


December 3, 1988 
WMMR-FM

01 Announcer - Stage Intro
02 Little Feat - Fat Man In The Bathtub
03 Little Feat - Spanish Moon
04 Little Feat - Business As Usual
05 Little Feat - All That You Dream
06 Little Feat - Rocket In My Pocket
07 Little Feat - Changin' Luck
08 Little Feat - One Clear Moment
09 Little Feat - Cajun Girl
10 Little Feat - Hate To Lose Your Lovin'
11 Little Feat - Oh Atlanta
12 Little Feat - Down On The Farm
13 Little Feat - Time Loves A Hero
14 Little Feat - Rock & Roll Doctor
15 Little Feat - Let It Roll
16 Little Feat - Band introductions
17 Little Feat - Old Folks Boogie
18 Little Feat - Willin'
19 Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
20 Little Feat - Tripe Face Boogie
21 Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
22 Little Feat - A Apolitical Blues

Another from the Sam Eliot's Mustache collection.

Little Feat on a WMMR-FM broadcast.  In the artwork folder we've got the original ad clipped out of the newspaper by Sam, plus ads I found on Newspapers.com.

Little Feat had been defunct since leader Lowell George's death from a heart attack in 1979. In 1987 the group reformed, adding Craig Fuller (formerly of Pure Prairie League) as lead singer.  The reformed group was successful immediately; the first single "Hate To Lose Your Lovin' was a #1 hit on the Mainstream Rock charts, with follow-up singles "Let It Roll" placing at #3, "Long Time Till I Get Over You" #19, and "One Clear Moment" at #10.  

Four U.S. chart hits from one album is a smash hit, and this show takes place right in the middle of that chart run.

Thursday, February 1, 2024

NBC The Source 83-20 Berlin / Robert Hazard

Berlin / Robert Hazard
NBC The Source 83-20
broadcast dates May 20, 21, 22, 1983

Berlin 
recorded at:
unknown venue
Cleveland, OH
unknown date

Robert Hazard
Recorded at:
New Paradise, Boston, MA
February 20, 1983

Terri, before exposure to dangerous
synthpop radiation mutated her hair.
Berlin:
01 Rona Elliot - Intro
02 Commercial - Honda
03 Commercial - Budweiser
04 Berlin - Masquerade
05 Berlin - The Metro
06 Berlin - World of Smiles
07 Berlin - Now It's My Turn
08 Berlin - Touch & Go
09 Rona Elliot - Break
10 Commercial - Jensen
11 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
12 Commercial - Honda
13 Rona Elliot - Segment Intro
14 Berlin - Pleasure Victim
15 Berlin - Rumor Of Love
16 Berlin - Tell Me Why
17 Berlin - Sex (I'm A...)
18 Rona Elliot - Break
19 Commercial - Budweiser (Joe Jackson)
20 Commercial - U.S Army Reserve

Robert Hazard
01 Robert Hazard - Hard Hearted
02 Robert Hazard - Dance A Tron
03 Rona Elliot - Break
04 Commercial - Honda
05 Commercial - Jensen
06 Rona Elliot - Segment Intro
07 Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
08 Robert Hazard - Out of the Blue
09 Robert Hazard - Change Reaction
10 Robert Hazard - Say Yo
11 Rona Elliot - Outro

Our pal Sam Elliot's Mustache has a cache of shows on CD-R that he digitized several years ago.  The files were chaptered, but the commercials were grouped together instead of individually chaptered. The files weren't declicked, and he didn't scan the disc labels.

He's sent me a stack of these CD-Rs, and I'm going to re-chapter them, and clean up the clicks n' pops, and they'll be appearing here every few weeks.

As Sam's from Philadelphia, and we had a great response from our recent run of shows with Philadelphia bands, I'm leading off with a Berlin/Robert Hazard show.  

So..you get flac files of wavs and the cue sheet. 

I found a review of the Hazard concert.  I couldn't find anything about the Berlin show. 
I did find an ad for Terri Nunn's third-billed role in "Georgia Peaches," one of those flicks released in the wake of Smokey & the the Bandit. Nunn was paired with "singing star Tanya Tucker" as the Peach Sisters, "mixed up with moonshine and money."  The movie was a pilot for a possible television series.  Had it been more successful, we might not have had this Berlin show.

On the Berlin show, "Touch & Go" is unreleased.

On the Hazard show, "Escalator of Life," "Out of the Blue," and "Change Reaction" are from his self-released 1982 EP. "Say Yo" was the b-side to "Escalator of Life" (RCA PB-3449).  "Hard Hearted" was on his RCA LP, Wing of Fire. "Dance A Tron" appears to be unreleased.

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