Commander Cody Band, Outpost Club, Derry, NH 1977 Backstage Ltd pre-FM reel

Commander Cody Band
Backstage LTD For week of August 8, 1977
Recorded at the Outpost Club, Derry, New Hampshire
Most likely April or May 1977

01 Commander Cody Band - Where Were You
02 Commander Cody Band - Midnight Man
03 Commander Cody Band - Rock That Boogie
04 Commander Cody Band - The Joker's Laugh
05 Commander Cody Band - It Should Have Been Me
06 Commander Cody Band - Seven-Eleven
07 Commander Cody Band - Take The Fifth Amendment
08 Commander Cody Band - Seeds and Stems Again Blues
09 Commander Cody Band - Don't Let Papa Know
10 Commander Cody Band - Hot Rod Lincoln
11 Commander Cody Band - Riot In Cell Block Number Nine, Lost in the Ozone

You get: Flac files of .wavs, 300 dpi scan of the cue sheet.

This is from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection, recorded directly from the original radio reel.  Heck, you can see the imprint of the reel right on the cue sheet so I made no attempt to clean it up.

I was unable to find a date for the show.  It is likely from April or May, as the band played several shows in the New England area during those two months.

As Commander Cody mentions WAAF-FM in the intro to "Hot Rod Lincoln," it's possible there was a local radio broadcast of the show, in addition to this syndicated version.  I ran some searches and came up with nothing, though. 

I have to say the sound quality on this is magnificent.  There's no hiss, great stereo separation...this is as good as any official release you're going to find. 

I've been collecting and trading radio shows since the 1980s, and I've never heard of the Backstage Ltd. shows until our pal Sam shared this with me. I did find a Billboard blurb from 1979 that mentions Backstage shows by Jean Luc Ponty, Tim Curry, and Crawler.  If they were producing shows from 1977 through 1979, there must be more evidence out there. If any of Our Beloved Audience knows anything about Backstage Ltd., please drop us a comment.

This isn't the Lost Planet Airmen, but the New Commander Cody Band.
Darius Javaher - Guitar
Bruce Barlow - Bass
Nicolette Larson - Vocals
Charra Penny ("Holly Toledo") Vocals
Bobby Black - Pedal Steel
Cisco G - Saxophone
Fred Myer - Drums

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Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen - Live The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA.

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted December 1, 2014

Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen

Live The Record Plant

Sausalito, CA.

KSAN-FM , San Francisco

June 10, 1973

FM Source @HQvbr

There is a KSAN recording of the Commander from 1975. This ISN'T it.

 
Set List:
01 - Honeysuckle Honey
02 - Sister Sue
03 - Crying Time
04 - Milk Cow Blues
05 - A Six Pack to Go
06 - I Got Loaded
07 - Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
08 - Hot Rod Lincoln
09 - Joesephine
10 - Rock That Boogie
11 - Twenty Flight Rock
12 - Jailhouse Rock
13 - Lost in the Ozone

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Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Live Stony Brook, NY 1975

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen 
Live at the Stony Brook University Gym
March 9, 1975
Stony Brook, NY.
WQIV FM broadcast @ 224

Artist, musician and pioneering band leader Commander Cody helped invent a whole new style of music during the early ’70s, a period regarded as the height of rock innovation. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were one of the original groups to fuse divergent strains of American roots music - stripped-down basic rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, bop, country, western swing, and rockabilly…Bring on the beer bottles!
Set List:

Track 01. Intro/Good Rockin’ Tonight
Track 02. Four or Five Times
Track 03. That’s What I Like About the South
Track 04. Homesick California Okie
Track 05. Rolling Down South Tonight
Track 06. Oh, Mama Mama
Track 07. Truck Drivin’ Man
Track 08. Say Adios When the Sun Sets on the Sage
Track 09. Violin Solo
Track 10. Mama Tried
Track 11. Diggy Liggy Lo
Track 12. Boogie Man Boogie
Track 13. High on a Hilltop
Track 14. Hot Rod Lincoln
Track 15. Riot in Cell Block #9
Track 16. Too Much Fun
Track 17. Don’t Let Go/Outro

Thanks to BigOzine.com!

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Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen - Live Rotterdam 1973

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
August 28, 1973
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
FM Source @ 320

Set List:
01. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
02. (instrumental)
03. Boppin' The Blues
04. Everybody's Doing It
05. Wine Do Yer Stuff
06. Honeysuckle Honey
07. Mama Tried
08. Mama Hated Diesels
09. Shall We Meet (Beyond The River)
10. Kentucky Hills Of Tennessee
11. What's The Matter Now?
12. My Semi Truck Won't Start
13. Milk Cow Blues
14. Looking At The World Through A Windshield
15. Down To Seeds & Stems Again Blues
16. Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar (excerpt, fade in and fade out)   
   
Bruce Barlow: Bass, Vocals
Bobby Black: Pedal Steel Guitar, Vocals
Commander Cody: Piano, Vocals
Lance Dickerson:  Drums, Vocals
Billy C Farlow: Harmonica, Vocals
Bill Kirchen: Guitar, Vocals
Andy Stein: Violin, Saxophone
John Tichy: Guitar

pass = fbsvw



Thanks to the original source!...

Rotterdam '73

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Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen - Live The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA.

Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen

Live The Record Plant

Sausalito, CA.

KSAN-FM , San Francisco

June 10, 1973

FM Source @HQvbr

There is a KSAN recording of the Commander from 1975. This ISN'T it.
 I'll post that at a later date...
 
Set List:
01 - Honeysuckle Honey
02 - Sister Sue
03 - Crying Time
04 - Milk Cow Blues
05 - A Six Pack to Go
06 - I Got Loaded
07 - Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
08 - Hot Rod Lincoln
09 - Joesephine
10 - Rock That Boogie
11 - Twenty Flight Rock
12 - Jailhouse Rock
13 - Lost in the Ozone



KSAN

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Ludlow Garage

Cincinatti,OH

1970

We talked about the good times of the old FBS,but he`s the one

 who made it all possible:

 Inasilentway! 

He´s the one who never gives it up,

who even opened the "Son" and the new "FBS",

while other guys let it all go down...

mp3

Soundboard!

Thanks to the original source!

Enjoy!

 cody1970

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - Summer 1970 - Ludlow Garage,OH

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Summer 1970
Ludlow Garage

 Cincinatti, OH

"Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is an American country rock band founded in 1967. Core members included founder George Frayne IV (alias Commander Cody, born 19 July 1944, Boise City, Idaho, USA) on keyboards & vocals; Billy C. Farlow (b. Decatur, Alabama, USA) on vocals & harmonica; John Tichy (b. St. Louis, Missouri, USA) on guitar & vocals; Bill Kirchen(b. 29 January 1948, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) on lead guitar;  Andy Stein (b. 31 August 1948, New York, USA) on saxophone & fiddle; Paul "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow (b. 3 December 1948, Oxnard, California, USA) on bass guitar; Lance Dickerson (b. 15 October 1948, Livonia, Michigan, USA) on drums; and Bobby Black on steel guitar."by wikipedia

"Commander Cody And The Lost Planet Airmen were a well known progresive art-rock ensemble notable for their brilliant usage of synthesizers and theremins on such masterpieces as Shostakovich's Concerto in B-flat minor. Ha! Just seein' if you were paying attention. Although, now that I think of it, fiddle player Andy Stein could play any kind of music you put in front of him. The Commander and company were merely the toughest, funniest, countrybilly rockingest band in the Bay Area in the early seventies. No other local country rock group would dare get on the stage after them (with the possible exception of Asleep At The Wheel who wisely kept things on the country side of the equation). Everybody else packed up their dobros and headed for the purple sage from whence they came. Anyway the Commander was best heard live and this is their best live album ergo it is their best album period. Nutty originals go hand in hand with inspired covers in this timeless concert in front of rabid Texas hippies and rednecks. My only complaint ; why oh why in the early seventies, the time of bloated, boring triple and quadruple overdubbed 'live' albums, was this racous masterpiece a single LP? Cody played generous, exciting sets and there must be more live stuff somewhere. But this will do just fine for starters.Crank it up! And I hope your neighbors have a sense of humor!"by David Kinney on amazon and I guess it´s the better one...




End  Early Show:
01: Hard Headed Woman 3:38
02: Lost In The Ozone Again 2:26
Late Show:
03: Good Rockin' Tonight 4:27
04: Singing The Blues In The Rain 3:16
05: Jambalaya 3:18
06: Burned Out Woman 3:29
07: Down To Seeds And Stems Again Blues 4:21
08: Hello Josephine 2:51
09: Never On Sunday 2:45
10: Sleepwalker 4:55
11: Big River 2:58
12: Long Black Limousine 3:54
13: Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line 2:57
14: Shout Bamalama 3:39
15: Rip It Up 3:40
16: Lost In The Ozone Again 2:22



FLAC recording!

Soundboard Recording!

Thanks to the original source!

Enjoy!

Commander Cody