Westwood One "The Chicago Concert" - Park West, Chicago, IL Aug. 5, 1982 (corrected date)

Westwood One
"The Chicago Concert"
Air dates 12/3 - 12/5 (1982)

Recorded at:
Park West
Chicago, IL
August 5, 1982  (Corrected date, thank you GMan!)

01 Phil Hendrie - Intro
02 Commercial - Levi's
03 Phil Hendrie - Segment Intro
04 Chicago - Beginnings
05 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
06 Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
07 Commercial - Michelob
08 Phil Hendrie - Break
09 Chicago - Hard to Say I'm Sorry - Get Away
10 Chicago - Saturday In The Park
11 Chicago - Feelin' Stronger Every Day
12 Commercial - Levi's
13 Commercial - Michelob
14 Phil Hendrie - Break
15 Chicago - Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon
16 Commercial - Levi's
17 Commercial - Michelob
18 Phil Hendrie - Break
19 Chicago - Gimme Some Lovin'
20 Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
21 Phil Hendrie - Outro
22 Phil Hendrie - Promo

Run out grooves:
Chicago-A > ALSHIRE  L-11909
Chicago-B > ALSHIRE  L-11909
(the ALSHIRE is a stamp)

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Flac files of wavs, includes 300 dpi scans of the disc labels, a cue sheet copied from Discogs, and some press coverage.

While the blue disc labels match the Westwood One Concerts & Specials series used the following year in 1983, it is missing "Concerts & Specials" and the series number, which ran PC83-1, PC83-2, PC83-3...  There are no other Westwood One shows up on Discogs from 1982 using this blue label.  It is likely this show represents the first of the Concerts & Specials series.  The show is a bit less than one hour, leaving some room for local ads.

Westwood One revisited the Park West source material on Concerts & Specials PC83-17 (aired May 14, 1983), which was also one hour but added a cover of the Spencer Davis Group's "I'm A Man" to the set list.  A third version of the show was released as Concerts & Specials PC83-39 (air date 10/17/1983) which included "I'm A Man," and adding "Change," "Follow Me," "Just You 'n' Me," "Satisfaction," and "Scrapbook." 

The longer version (PC83-39) is still in our archives.  This version is for completists, and to document these radio albums.

Chicago played two shows that night, with proceeds going to the Kath Memorial Scholarship Fund at DePaul University.

https://mega.nz/file/mAQ2UQ6b#qcxdepJTbjTBULusUe8orJXlkg4h-fmurrsSqAuRrE8

Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 - Chicago, Park West, Chicago, IL Aug. 6, 1982

Chicago

Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39
airs the week of 10/17/83

Recorded at:
Park West
Chicago, IL
August 6, 1982

01 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Intro
02 Commercial - Cadillac
03 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Segment Intro
04 Chicago - Beginnings
05 Chicago - Scrapbook
06 Chicago - Follow Me
07 Commercial - Cadillac
08 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Break
09 Chicago - Just You 'n' Me
10 Chicago - Change
11 Commercial - Cadillac
12 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Break
13 Chicago - Satisfaction
14 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
15 Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
16 Chicago - Saturday In The Park
17 Commercial - Cadillac
18 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Break
19 Chicago - Hard to Say I'm Sorry + Get Away
20 Chicago - I'm A Man
21 Chicago - Gimme Some Lovin'
22 Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4
23 Commercial - Cadillac
24 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Break
25 Chicago - Feelin' Stronger Every Day
26 Chicago - Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon
27 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Outro
28 Phil Hendrie - Westwood One Concerts & Specials PC83-39 Promo

Run out grooves:
PC-83-39-A > ALSHIRE (stamp)  L-15462
PC-83-39-B > ALSHIRE (stamp)  L-15462
PC-83-39-C >       L-15462
PC-83-39-D > ALSHIRE (stamp)  L-15462

Flac files of wavs, includes 300 dpi scans of the disc labels, cue sheet, and some press coverage.
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

Our pal JustDave posted one of his excellent extractions of a Westwood One Concerts & Specials Chicago show back in December.  That version is PC83-17 (aired May 14, 1983) and was a 1 hour show, whereas this show (PC83-39) is 1 hour, 23 minutes.  His rip is at http://thenewjdp.blogspot.com/search/label/Chicago

We're still investigating the Concerts and Specials shows; they're not as common as the Superstar Concert or In Concert series.  Usually,a syndicated shows have a set length of an hour, or an hour and a half.

As for the music...it's Chicago, live in Chicago, which is such an obvious and great idea that I wonder why there's no Boston Live In Boston album.  Songs unique to this version are "Change," "Follow Me," "Just You 'n' Me," "Satisfaction," and "Scrapbook."  The running order is different than on PC83-17, too.  While Chicago played two sets that night, all tracks sound like the same version to me.

PC83-17 runs:
Beginnings
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
If You Leave Me Now
Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Getaway
Saturday In The Park
Feelin' Stronger Every Day
Ballet (Make Me Smile)
I'm A Man
Gimme Some Lovin'
25 or 6 to 4

There's also a difference in the advertising.  The show is sponsored by Cadillac, while the earlier show is Budweiser, Gillette, Snickers, and Agree.

https://mega.nz/file/6dhBxDII#Frlz3Tm8HUmFkjIsFsz0Z9xAfpJPmm4rwLUyW2f1dcM

Chicago / Star Sessions SS-4, Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles 1982

Chicago
Star Sessions SS-4
broadcast date of June 5, 1982
"recorded in Los Angeles with Chicago"
"Wally Heider Studios in Los Angeles"
recorded May 14, 1982 according to Setlist.fm

00 NO ARTIST - 1kc tone for level setting and balance
01 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Intro
02 Commercial - AT&T (Commodores)
03 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro
04 Chicago - Alive Again
05 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
06 Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
07 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
08 Chicago - Bad Advice
09 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
10 Commercial - U.S. Army
11 Commercial - Atari
12 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro
13 Chicago - What You're Missing
14 Chicago - If You Leave Me Now 
15 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
16 Chicago - Chains
17 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
18 Commercial - AT&T
19 Commercial - JC Penny
20 Bill Ayres - Promo
21 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro
22 Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Get Away
23 Chicago - Band Intros, interview
24 Chicago - Just You 'n' Me
25 Chicago - Saturday In The Park
26 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
27 Commercial - U.S. Army
28 Commercial - Atari
29 Commercial - Oxy
30 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro and Interview
31 Chicago - Follow Me
32 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview
33 Chicago - Satisfaction
34 Chicago - 25 or 6 To 4
35 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
36 Commercial - AT&T (Tanya Tucker)
37 Commercial - JC Penny
38 Commercial - Annie
39 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Segment Intro and Interview
40 Chicago - Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon
41 Bill Ayres - Star Sessions SS-4 Break
42 Commercial - U.S. Army
43 Commercial - Atari
44 Commercial - Oxy
45 Bill Ayres & Chicago - Interview and Star Sessions SS-4 Outro

Runout grooves:
Side A: SS-4A    MCR Bre
Side B: SS-4B    MCR Bre
Side C: SS-4C    MCR Bre
Side D: SS-4D    MCR Bre
Side E: SS-4E    MCR Bre
Side F: blank side, no run out grooves

https://mega.nz/file/aAAjTD4Z#c7NJpwKJ-pkpx0bCsrz6e5x26ZfXK3VXoPoVisSQnE0

There is a longer version of this up at Wolfgang's Concert Vault.  The headline there attributes the show to Wally Heider in San Francisco, but the body of the text below lists it correctly as Los Angeles.  Yes, there had been a Wally Heider in S.F., but this was not recorded there.

This show was an exciting preview of live versions of tracks that would be released two days after the original broadcast date of this show on Chicago 16. Chicago 16 is considered a "comeback" album for the band.  They added Bill Champlin, formerly of Bay Area band "The Sons of Champlin," and he sings "Satisfaction" his 1981 solo LP, Runaway.

Chicago Transit Authority - Texas International Pop Festival 1969 - Vol. 1

Chicago Transit Authority - Texas International Pop Festival
Dallas International Motor Speedway
Lewisville, Texas,
August 30-31, 1969
Soundboard (?) @ flac

The story...

Volume 1 of 11 volumes for this festival 

1. Intro / Introduction
2. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
3. South California Purples
4. Beginnings
5. 25 Or 6 To 4
6. announcements
7. I'm A Man

Tracks 1-5: August 30, 1969
Tracks 6-7: August 31, 1969

Robert Lamm - keyboards; Terry Kath - guitar;
Peter Cetera - bass; Danny Seraphine - drums;
Walter Parazaider - woodwinds;
Lee Loughnane - trumpet; James Pankow - trombone

Thanks to P.R. for the links



Volume 1

Chicago / Greek Theatre, Los Angeles 1978, Supergroups In Concert

Chicago
Greek Theater, Los Angeles
Supergroups In Concert
Broadcast date of May 12, 1979 (Premiere broadcast of SuperGroups...)
Recorded August 11, 1978

Band Line Up:
Robert Lamm
Peter Cetera
Donnie Dacus
James Pankow
Walter Parazaider
Lee Loughnane
Danny Seraphine
Laudir de Olivera 
Orchestra conducted by William "Bill" Conti.   From Wikipedia:  "...an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including Rocky (and all but one of the five sequels), For Your Eyes Only, and The Right Stuff, the latter of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score."

Chicago SuperGroups In Concert was the first "SuperGroups" syndicated broadcast on May 12, 1979.  The show was pressed on three LPs, but only five sides had music.  The sixth side is blank.  The cue sheet lists the show as a production of American Broadcasting Companies.  There's an ad in Billboard on Aug. 18, 1979 that says 300 ABC stations carried the show, so that may be a good guess as to how many copies of this show were pressed. 

The Chicago disc labels are numbered with the catalog number OCC 101.  The next SuperGroups show I've identified is Foreigner, which used the code OCC and either 201 or 203 (I've seen both listed, so consider that number unconfirmed). The Foreigner show was identifed as broadcast on May 19, 1979 but is not mentioned in the Billboard ad...

...Which says the next show in the series was the Moody Blues.  With the Moody Blues show, the series used a different code:  The Moody Blues were SGC 101, followed by the Allman Brothers SGC 102, Peter Frampton SGC 103, the Cars SGC 104, Blondie SGC 105, Cheap Trick SGC 106, Journey SGC 107 and Alice Cooper SGC 108.  

The earliest of these shows were distributed in boxes, with similar cover designs.  The background of each box was a solid color covered in a pattern of dots, with the artist's name on the front and the show credits on the back.  The cue sheets were printed on premium paper, and the discs housed in plastic-lined disc sleeves.  Occasionally they "themed" the color of the box: The Moody Blues box is blue, and Blondie is yellow.

The original SuperGroups format had live concerts interspersed with short interviews, and no commercials.  A "SuperGroups Theme Song" played at the beginning and end of the show.   At least two of the shows (Foreigner and Alice Cooper) combined previously unreleased live material with several "faked" tracks from studio albums overdubbed with audience noise.

Sometime in 1980 they dropped the premium presentation (boxes, cue sheets, disc liners) and added prerecorded commercials.  Disc labels switched to a solid color - I've seen red, yellow, and silver used, and the numbering system was discontinued. Some of these are listed as "produced by D.I.R. Broadcasting Corp. for Super Groups In Concert" but also carry the ABC name. Spelling of the shows name often shifts from "SuperGroups" to "Super Groups." There was also a series using the Super Groups name called "A Night On The Road," produced by G.K. Productions with ABC.

This version was digitized from the original syndicated radio discs and declicked in Audacity in September 2014.  Included are 300 dpi scans of the front and back cover, a disc label, and all four pages of the cue sheet.  Flac files of wavs. The only thing I edited out was the 700 Hz test tone. 

There's another version circulating with "Mongonucleosis" and "Got To Get You Into My Life" but without "I Just Want To Be Free."  I haven't heard it, so I don't know if was also a SuperGroups show, an original over-the-air broadcast, syndicated by a different company...or perhaps two versions of the show were produced.


CD 1 - Sides 1, 2, and 3
01.  OCC 101 Intro - Bob Sirott
02.  Feelin' Stronger Every Day
03.  Dialogue Parts I & II
04.  Hot Streets 
05.  OCC 101 Break - Bob Sirott
06.  Interview - James Pankow
07.  Just You 'n Me
08.  Ain't It Time
09.  OCC 101 Break - Bob Sirott
10.  Beginnings
11.  The Inner Struggles Of A Man
12.  Prelude (Little One)
13.  Happy Man
14.  Flight 602
15.  OCC 101 Break - Bob Sirott
16.  Interview - Peter Cetera
17.  If You Leave Me Now

CD 2 - Sides 4 and 5
18.  Alive Again
19.  Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
20.  OCC 101 Break - Bob Sirott
21.  Interview - Pankow/Lamm/de Olivera/Parazaider
22.  Saturday In The Park
24.  (I've Been) Searchin' So Long 
25.  Interview - Robert Lamm 
26.  25 Or 6 To 4  
27.  Free
28.  I'm A Man
29.  OCC 101 Outro - Bob Sirott

https://mega.nz/file/vUA21bZJ#yZ3VV518kqZif2MYHUnIy5ntQx80TKvmU7KLQoQWmfo

Chicago Transit Authority - 1969-08-xx - Fillmore West - San Francisco,CA

Chicago Transit Authority

August 1969

Fillmore West

San Francisco,CA

Awesome Chicago performance!

First: This is not the original cover!

I didn`t get any other one...

What´s a boot without a cover?

(You can purchase this real poster for 200$)

"Before the hits, before Peter Cetera made his name nearly synonymous with "prom ballad"-- before Chicago was even "Chicago" they were the Chicago Transit Authority.

After relocating from the Windy City to LA and becoming the house band at the Whiskey, the CTA started making a name for themselves opening for and touring with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and a handful of other big names of the era.

In August 1969 someone had the foresight to lay down tape and capture directly from the soundboard, one of the CTA's shows at Bill Graham's famed Fillmore West.*
This is one of the earliest known soundboard live recordings of this band-- a band that was still young & hungry. They were still very much a hard rock band with horns and not the pop band they would later become.
The mix is imperfect, as are the performances but that's what makes them so enjoyable. Chicago's debut album had a raw energy to it that producer Jimmy Guercio would seemingly "polish" out of them on their later recordings.

This live bootleg captures that rawness and energy. On the guitar heavy tracks like Poem 58, Liberation, and It Better End Soon Terry Kath's guitar is pushed to the front of the mix. On songs like Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera's vocals are pushed closer to the front of the mix."by the original notes

This is the original concert poster (sent by Anonymous)

CD1

01. 25 Or 6 To 4  6:56

02.  Beginnings 6:13

03. Does Anybody Really Know 3:18

04. Free Form Intro 1:04

05. I`m A Man 6:04

06. Intro 7:48

07. Intro 0:11

08. It Better End Soon 8:14

09. Liberation 16:56

 CD2

01. Listen 4:43

02. Outro 0:14

03. Poem 10:01

04. Question 67 & 68 5:04

05. Someday 5:04

06. South California Purples 6:10

 07. The Road 3:16

Members:

Peter Cetera voc,bg

Walter Parazaider sax

Terry Kath g,voc

Danny Seraphine dr

James Pankow tb

Lee Loughname tpt

Robert Lamm key,voc

224kbit/s

Soundboard Recording!

Thanks to the original source!

Comments are highly appreciated!

Enjoy!

Chicago

or

 mediafire

Chicago - 1970-07-19 - Milwaukee,MI

Chicago
1970-07-19
Milwaukee,WI





This is the first Chicago bootleg on the Wagon,but it won`t be the last!It seems,that they have been forgotten for too long...



They got such a nice horn section,an awesome guitar player and a lot of energy! And mucho positive vibrations!

It`s a short recording and some of you will already know it,but I hope the rest will love it like I did when I fished it out of the big lake...


Terry Kath: Guitar, vocals
Peter Cetera: Bass, vocals
Robert Lamm: Keyboards, vocals
Lee Loughnane: Trumpet
James Pankow: Trombone
Walt Parazaider: Woodwinds
Danny Seraphine: Drums

01 Introduction 6:11
02 South California Purples 6:35
03 25 or 6 to 4 5:25
04 Beginnings 6:32
05 Ballet For a Girl in Buchannon 13:20
06 I'm a Man 7:48

320kbit/s

Soundboard Recording!

Enjoy!

rapid

Chicago - A Hit By Varese