NBC The Source
for broadcast August 8-9-10, 1980
recorded at:
Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
on May 25, 1980
Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
on May 25, 1980
01 Pat Travers Band - Rock n' Roll Susie
02 Pat Travers Band - Hooked On Music
03 Pat Travers Band - Gettin' Betta
04 Commercial - A&W Root Beer
05 Pat Travers Band - (Your Love) Can't Be Right
06 Pat Travers Band - Life In London
07 Pat Travers Band - Snortin' Whiskey
08 Pat Travers Band - Stevie
09 Commercial - A&W Root Beer
10 Pat Travers Band - Born Under A Bad Sign
11 Pat Travers Band - Boom Boom (Out Goes the Lights)
12 Pat Travers Band - Crash And Burn
13 Pat Travers Band - The Big Event
14 Commercial - A&W Root Beer
15 Pat Travers Band - Hammerhead
16 Pat Travers Band - Statesboro Blues
17 John McGhan - NBC The Source Outro
02 Pat Travers Band - Hooked On Music
03 Pat Travers Band - Gettin' Betta
04 Commercial - A&W Root Beer
05 Pat Travers Band - (Your Love) Can't Be Right
06 Pat Travers Band - Life In London
07 Pat Travers Band - Snortin' Whiskey
08 Pat Travers Band - Stevie
09 Commercial - A&W Root Beer
10 Pat Travers Band - Born Under A Bad Sign
11 Pat Travers Band - Boom Boom (Out Goes the Lights)
12 Pat Travers Band - Crash And Burn
13 Pat Travers Band - The Big Event
14 Commercial - A&W Root Beer
15 Pat Travers Band - Hammerhead
16 Pat Travers Band - Statesboro Blues
17 John McGhan - NBC The Source Outro
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection. Flac files of wavs. We're missing good scans of the disc labels, but I've put some lousy low-rez junk I found out on the Internet in the Artwork file. I've included all five print ads from the SF Chronicle/Examiner "pink section" (the Sunday entertainment tab section), plus a low-resolution of the trade ad.
Plus an exclusive interview with Pat Thrall, the second guitarist in the Pat Travers Band. Thrall was originally from Alameda in the East Bay, and had played previously with Automatic Man.
This show was added to the tour schedule a week prior to the concert. The print ads from April 20 and May 4 have Travers at the Oakland Auditorium on May 24 and at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on May 26, with no show at the Warfield. The ad on May 18 adds the Warfield.
This is unusual. Concerts were not booked in Oakland and San Francisco on the same tour. It's ten miles from the Warfield Theatre to the Oakland Auditorium (now the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts). Yeah, you've got the traffic nightmare that is the Bay Bridge, but you can take BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) from Lake Merritt Station in Oakland to Powell Station in San Francisco in 39 minutes (plus walking two blocks at each end). In a lot of cities, ten miles between the two venues is in the same city.
Def Leppard was the opening act, and for the Oakland show they added a band named Russia.
The ad on the May 25th mentions San Francisco's KSAN-FM as sponsor. KSAN did frequent live broadcasts, but there is no radio listing in the newspapers that KSAN did a live broadcast of this show.
This was up for an hour with the wrong cue sheet; it has since been replaced with the correct cue seet from Discogs.
Thank you
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ReplyDeleteAwesome share and hot damn the newspaper clippings are way cool! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi, ex_mixer! Yeah, the newspapers.com account is a great resource for resolving questions about dates and venues, and providing context. While I'm a Bay Area guy...and actually live in Pat Thrall's hometown of Alameda... I didn't know who he was, or that he was from the Bay Area. I remember Automatic Man, but didn't know that he was in band. The music lives on its own, but adding the press coverage gives us something to do while we listen to it. :)
ReplyDeleteI have two copies of this show, the bootleg and the official release and neither of them have Rock 'n' Roll Susie. So thanks for this and all of the extra info. And the clippings that you include are great!
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