Alex Chilton
Mountain Stage
Charleston, WV
February 9, 1992
Mountain Stage
Charleston, WV
February 9, 1992
01 Larry Groce - Intro
02 Alex Chilton - Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu
03 Alex Chilton - Guantanamerica
04 Alex Chilton - Single Again
05 Alex Chilton - I'll Turn Your Money Green
Another low generation tape that I got in trade. This is likely a first generation from the master, but it's not written down on the cassette or my list. It's short, a mere four songs, but the sound quality is great and there's not a heck of a lot of live Alex Chilton out there.
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Yeah...but the real reason I rushed this post here was to give some credit to one of our readers, Rudolf.
We've been looking into a Mellencamp promo CD that was only available in Canada:
Is it real or counterfeit? Was there a U.S. issue? You know...the usual obsessive collector stuff that we do here.
Well, Rudolf dug deep....
So...here's what we think we know:
The Garage Tapes Live In The Studio was hosted by Q102 (Dallas, TX) disk jockey Redbeard. Redbeard also hosted the syndicated interview show In The Studio. This "Garage Tapes" show was distributed by the Album Network and officially issued as a promo in Canada.
There are several bootlegs on Discogs, including "John's Garage Tape (Unbelievable Music UM 002) and Live Rehearsals (Kiss The Stone KTS 090). Both include 11 tracks from the Garage Tapes show, plus two acoustic songs (Pink Houses, Small Town), and two tracks from the 1982 KBFH show. A third bootleg Welcome To The Garage (Beech Marten Records BM 068) has the Garage songs plus the two acoustic studio tracks, but drops the KBFH tracks and replaces it with a live version of "Like A Rolling Stone" recorded in 1988.
The two acoustic songs did not have an identified source on any of the three bootlegs.
Our reader, Rudolf, was exploring Redbeard's www.inthestudio.net website, which features tracks and interviews from a variety of sources. He found the two mystery songs are posted there, identified as being recorded on October 1, 1991, at Q102 in Dallas. Playing with Mr. Mellecamp are Mike Wanchic and Kenny Aronoff. He took the time to compare them to the bootleg version, and they're defitinely the same tracks.
Another musical mystery solved!
