Captured Live! CL-3084
For broadcast: week of 8/20/84
Recorded at:
Towson Center at Towson State University
Towson, MD ("Baltimore")
February 21, 1982
00 NO ARTIST - 1 kHz Tone
01 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Intro
02 Commercial - Chevrolet
03 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Segment Intro
04 Triumph - Allied Forces
05 Triumph - Fight The Good Fight
06 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Break
07 Commercial - Levi's
08 Commercial - U.S. Army
09 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Segment Intro
10 Triumph - Rap
11 Triumph - Rock & Roll Machine
12 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Break
13 Commercial - Levi's
14 Commercial - Doritos
15 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Segment Intro
16 Triumph - Rocky Mountain Way
17 Triumph - Hot Time (In This City Tonight)
18 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Break
19 Commercial - Levi's
20 Commercial - Chevrolet (Bowie imitation)
21 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Segment Intro
22 Triumph - Lay It On The Line
23 Triumph - I Live For The Weekend
24 Jim Ladd - CL-3084 Outro
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Runout grooves:
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The Voodoo Wagon research team had to dig deep on this one.
The RKO Radio Network's Captured Live series broadcast four shows shows by Triumph:
The first was Triumph - Centrum, Worchester, MA on March 12, 1982, with a broadcast window of April 10/11, 1982. Captured Live! was distributed on reel-to-reel in 1982, and this version included interviews by Marc Parenteau.
There were no Captured Live! shows by Triumph in 1983.
In 1984 there were three shows distributed on 2-LP vinyl records.
CL 884 03/19/84 Triumph - Towson Center, Towson, MD
CL 1384 04/23/84 Triumph - Reunion Arena, Dallas TX
CL 3084 08/20/84 Triumph - Towson Center, Towson, MD (same set list as CL 884)
All of the concert tracks on CL 884 and CL 3084 are the same music.
On the Intro to CL 3084 announcer Jim Ladd says "we're at the Baltimore Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland where we're looking forward to a concert by Triumph."
I found a ticket for the Baltimore Civic Center proving Triumph played there May 15, 1983.
The Discogs listing for CL 3084 says, "Triumph recorded live February 21, in Towson, Md. on the Allied Forces tour. Gil references are their first time in MD."
Towson or Baltimore? We have a contradiction we must investigate!
I checked, and Triumph played the Towson Center at Towson State University on February 21, 1982. I found a ticket for that show, too, so we know the date and venue are correct.
The Towson Center is a 5,000 seat arena. Towson borders Baltimore on the north. Towson Center is eight miles from the Baltimore Civic Center.
The Baltimore Civic Center (now named CFG Bank Arena) is a much larger arena, holding up to 15,000.
As Towson borders Baltimore, I would say their first appearance in the Baltimore area would be the 1982 Towson show. Towson isn't far enough away to make that second 1983 show count as the first time in town.
And also, a 15,000 seat area is pretty big for a "hall."
The exact quote is from track 10, the "rap" before "Rock & Roll Machine:" "I can't believe that we've been taking the rock and roll crusade from coast to coast of the United States for four years and this is the very first time we come to Baltimore and you people sell this hall out."
During the rap, he also references they're on the Allied Forces Tour.
Allied Forces came out in late 1981. They were promoting that album in February 1982 when they played Towson; it's right in the ad.
Triumph issued their next album Never Surrender in late 1982.
If this was recorded at the Baltimore Civic in May 1983, wouldn't it make more sense to promote the Never Surrender album?
I didn't find a print ad for the '83 show but there was a record store ad mentioning the concert, and it's for the Never Surrender "LP or cassette." They were clearly promoting the Never Surrender album in 1983, not the Armed Forces album.
Based on this circumstantial evidence I think the Discogs listing is correct, and the Captured Live show was recorded at Towson Center on February 21, 1982.
