Title on cue sheet: "Whenever We Wanted" Concert Tour Special
Air date on cue sheet:
Airs week of January 6, 1992
Air date on CDs:
Airs weekend of January 10, 1999
CD1:
01 Redbeard & John Mellencamp - Intro
02 John Mellencamp - Love and Happiness
03 John Mellencamp - Paper In Fire
04 John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane
05 John Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' Night
06 Redbeard - Break
07 Commercial - Trident
08 Commercial - Cepastat
09 Commercial - U.S. Navy
10 Redbeard & John Mellencamp - Interview
11 John Mellencamp - Check It Out
12 John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow
13 John Mellencamp - Martha Say
14 John Mellencamp - false start
15 John Mellencamp - Real Life
16 Redbeard - Break
17 Commercial - Cepastat
18 Commercial - Almond Joy
19 Commercial - National Dairy Board
20 Commercial - Trident
CD2:
21 Redbeard & Kenny Aronoff, Mike Wanchic - Interview
22 John Mellencamp - Get A Leg Up
23 John Mellencamp - Again Tonight
24 John Mellencamp - Authority Song
25 Redbeard - Break
26 Commercial - Cepastat
27 Commercial - Trident
28 Commercial - National Dairy Board
29 Commercial - Cepastat
30 Redbeard & John Mellencamp - Interview
31 John Mellencamp, Mike Wanchic, Kenny Aronoff - Small Town [1991.10.01 Q102 Dallas-Ft. Worth]
32 John Mellencamp, Mike Wanchic, Kenny Aronoff - Pink Houses [1991.10.01 Q102 Dallas-Ft. Worth]
33 Redbeard - Break
34 John Mellencamp - Like A Rolling Stone [B-side, recorded live during LJ tour]
35 Redbeard & John Mellencamp - Interview
36 Buzzin' Cousins - Sweet Suzanne [Falling From Grace soundtrack]
37 Redbeard - Break
38 Commercial - Cepastat
39 Commercial - Trident
40 Commercial - National Dairy Board
41 Commercial - Almond Joy
42 Redbeard - Outro
43 Commercial - Cepastat
44 Commercial - Cepastat
45 Commercial - Cepastat
46 Commercial - Cepastat
47 Commercial - Cepastat
48 Commercial - Cepastat
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Includes 300 dpi scans of the cue sheet and both CD discs.
I posted a version of this last year. The show was sent to me by our reader Rudolf, who tracked down a copy of the original broadcast over on Soulseek. Unfortunately, it ran slightly fast, which I fixed by slowing down the tracks. We compared it with bootlegs, which proved to sound better. While our version was a decent listen, it wasn't as good as it could be.
I found the original Album Network CDs of the show on EBAY, and now we can present to you an updated, pre-FM version, ripped directly from the original radio CDs. I've included all of the commercials. All of the tracks are identified as to source. I'm deleting the previous version from our archives as this is now the definitive version.
While this circulates as "The Garage Tapes," that name is not mentioned on the CDs, the cue sheet or by the announcer.
The show was hosted by Q102 (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX) disk jockey Redbeard and distributed by the Album Network.
The show was officially issued as a promo CD in Canada (without the commercials).
The original broadcast presented eleven songs recorded live in early December 1991 at Belmont Mall Studio in Belmont, Indiana. The promotional CD cover refers to the studio as "The Garage." In listening to the show, Mellencamp has both a garage rehearsal space for band practice, and a recording studio. This was recorded in the studio, not the garage rehearsal space.
Mellencamp's film "Falling From Grace" was released seven weeks after this show on February 21, 1992. The soundtrack's first release was "Sweet Suzanne" by the Buzzin' Cousins, a supergroup composed of Mellencamp, Joe Ely, Dwight Yoakam, James McMurtry, and John Prine. This came out on January 20th, so this radio show preview was in advance of the release of both the official soundtrack and the movie.
There are three bootlegs on Discogs sourced from this show. Two of them have identical tracks lists: "John's Garage Tape (Unbelievable Music UM 002) and "Live Rehearsals" (Kiss The Stone KTS 090). Both include tracks from the show but drop "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Sweet Suzanne," and adds two 1982 King Biscuit tracks. A third bootleg named "Welcome To The Garage" (Beech Marten Records BM 068) skip the KBFH tracks but include "Like A Rolling Stone." None of the bootlegs have the interviews or "Sweet Suzanne." "Welcome To The Garage identifies the recording date as January 6, 1992. That's NOT the recording date; it's the air date listed on the cue sheet.
During the broadcast, the two acoustic songs from Q102 were not identified as being from another source. There's no source listed on the bootlegs or the officially released promo CD. The promotional CD did not identify that "Small Town" and "Pink Houses" were from another date and location.
Redbeard also hosted the syndicated interview show In The Studio. Our reader, Rudolf, was exploring Redbeard's www.inthestudio.net website, which features tracks and interviews from a variety of sources. Rudolf found the two mystery studio songs are posted there in streaming audio, identified as recorded on October 1, 1991, at Q102 in Dallas. Playing with Mr. Mellencamp are Mike Wanchic and Kenny Aronoff. Rudolf took the time to compare them to the bootleg versions, and they’re the same tracks.
As a bonus, the relevant streaming audio from the In The Studio site is included as mp3s. The October 1991 session had one additional song not included with the January 1992 broadcast ("Rain On The Scarecrow").
The version of "Like A Rolling Stone" was released on the B-side of "Pop Singer" and as the B-side of "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) and is sourced from the Lonesome Jubilee Tour in 1987.




























