Westwood One Superstar Concert #97-06 - Farm Aid compilation Don Henley, Neil Young, John Mellencamp

John Mellencamp
Westwood One Superstar Concert #97-06 
for broadcast the week of February 3, 1997

Farm Aid IV, Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis, IN - April 7, 1990 *
Farm Aid VII, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA - September 18, 1994 **
Farm Aid '95 10th Anniversary, Cardinal Stadium, Louisville, KY - October 1, 1995 ***
Farm Aid '96, Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia, SC - October 12, 1996 ****

01 Westwood One Superstars Concert 97-06 Intro
02 The End of the Innocence - Don Henley *
03 Heart of the Matter - Don Henley *
04 Westwood One Superstars Concert 97-06 Break
05 All Along The Watchtower - Neil Young **
06 Westwood One Superstars Concert 97-06 Break
07 Heart of Gold - Neil Young ***
08 Westwood One Superstars Concert 97-06 Break
09 Westwood One Superstars Concert 97-06 Break
10 Deana Carter - Introducing John Mellencamp ****
11 Love And Happiness ****
12 Jack & Diane rap middle ****
13 Lonely Ol' Night ****
14 Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) ****
15 Rain On The Scarecrow ****
16 Crumblin' Down ****
17 R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A ****
18 Hurt So Good ****
19 Pink Houses ****
20 Westwood One Superstars Concert 97-06 Outro
21 Westwood One Superstars Concert 97-06 Promo

Yeah.  MellenFest.  You knew it wasn't over, the show must go on!

As I recently posted a Don Henley show, this Farm Aid compilation provides a nice segue from Don Henley through Neil Young and back into Our Favorite Hoosier: John Mellencamp.  I want to point out that Neil's version of All Along The Watchtower is a wondeful performance.

The Mellencamp set is drawn exclusively from Farm Aid '96 at the Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia, South Carolina on October 12, 1996.  Four of the songs were repeated on 98-06, and three on 99-36.
Pink Houses is presented in an epic 8 minute long version as the concert finale.  All in all, a good set for this week's latest installment of MellenStock! 

You get:  The cue sheet!  Scans of both discs!  A scan of the Westwood One CD sleeve!  And a litttle Excel file documenting what I think I know about Westwood One's Mellencamp history...   

https://mega.nz/file/nVIBxBoB#jURNSDCCsYQ6R0odJxbfAj9zh3yPSsADjKmljIyfBHE

Don Henley / Summit, Houston, TX 1989 - Superstar Concert Series CO90-01

Don Henley
Westwood One Superstar Concert Series # CO 90-01
for broadcast the weekend of February 3-4, 1990
Recorded live at The Summit, Houston, Texas on September 15, 1989

Digitized June 2022
Hosted by the fabulous Steve Downes
Recorded during Henley's End Of The Innocence Tour. 

01 Westwood One CO90-01 Intro - Steve Downes
02 Commercial - Miller Lite
03 Driving With Your Eyes Closed
04 Dirty Laundry
05 End Of The Innocence
06 Commercial - Volkswagen
07 Commercial - Miller Lite
08 Commercial - Halls Cough Drops
09 Commercial - U.S. Air Force
10 Westwood One CO90-01 Break - Steve Downes
11 Building The Perfect Beast
12 If Dirt Were Dollars
13 Commercial - Miller Lite
14 Commercial - U.S. Air Force
15 Commercial - Duration Nasal Spray
16 Commercial - Greyhound
17 Westwood One CO90-01 Break - Steve Downes
18 The Last Worthless Evening
19 Life In The Fast Lane
20 The Boys Of Summer
21 Commercial - U.S. Air Force
22 Commercial - Miller Lite
23 Commercial - Kit-Kat Bar
24 Westwood One CO90-01 Break - Steve Downes
25 Sunset Grill
26 New York Minute
27 Commercial - Miller Lite
28 Commercial - Halls Cough Drops
29 Commercial - U.S. Air Force
30 Westwood One CO90-01 Break - Steve Downes
31 All She Wants To Do Is Dance
32 I Will Not Go Quietly
33 Westwood One CO90-01 Break - Steve Downes
34 Commercial - Miller Lite
35 Commercial - Halls Cough Drops
36 Commercial - Flintstones Vitamins
37 Westwood One CO90-01 Break - Steve Downes
38 Desperado
39 Westwood One CO90-01 - Steve Downes
40 Westwood One CO90-01 - Steve Downes

Flac files of wavs.  300 dpi scans of the cue sheet, box, and all six disc labels.

https://mega.nz/file/WJhVyQqR#5CQLyaIRFYyiKvbV_hN5HuRbihtFmWFN-lLllIjgrJI

It looks like this was bootlegged as Don Henley Houston Summer 1989 by The Beat Goes On (BGO-9201), a Netherlands label...Discogs lists the release as 1989 but as the first broadcast was in 1990, I suspect that date is off.

Before this show, Henley was on 85-22, 86-A, and 85-14 (in our archives) with a concert from the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles.

Usually I give a short report about future rebroadcasts of the songs...but this time, we've got to discuss the The Great 1990 Superstar Concert Labeling Screw-Up, or as I call it, the "Henley-Doobie Discontinuity."

This show was repeated as CO 90-15... or 90-27... but only one of those is likely to be correct. 
Starting with the Don Henley 90-15 show, the numbers on Westwood One's Cue sheets did not match up with the numbers on the disc labels.  The cue sheet was 12 digits higher than the disc number.

1990 was rolling along just fine for Westwood One...

Rod Stewart disc and cue 90-11
The Who disc and cue 90-12
Moody Blues disc and cue 90-13
Neil Young disc and cue 90-14

...and then...things went sideways for several months.  Starting with our pal, Don Henley's rebroadcast of these tracks, the disc number no longer matched the cue sheet number.  And it wasn't a one-time mistake, it was repeated for the next twelve shows:

Don Henley 90-15 (discs) / 90-27 (cue sheet)
Allman Brothers 90-16 (discs) / 90-28 (cue sheet)
Bruce Hornsby 90-17 (discs) / 90-29 (cue sheet)
Stevie Nicks 90-18 (discs) / 90-30 (cue sheet)
Guns and Roses 90-19 (discs) / 90-31 (cue sheet)
Guns and Roses 90-20 (discs) / 90-32 (cue sheet)
Steve Miller 90-21 (discs) 90-33 (cue sheet)
Tom Petty 90-22 (discs)/90-34 (cue sheet)
Eric Clapton 90-23 (discs)/ 90-35 (cue sheet)
Stevie Ray Vaughan 90-24 (discs) / 90-36 (cue sheet)
Little Feat 90-25 (discs) / 90-37 (cue sheet)
Elton John 90-26 (discs)/90-38 (cue sheet)
Doobie Brothers 90-27 (discs) / 90-39 (cue sheet)

By the end of the year things got back in sync.  I haven't found any shows that overlap with these numbers except for 90-32, which was a Jackson Browne/Eddie Money show that appears to have the discs and cue back in alignment...and conflicts with the number of the second of the Guns and Roses shows. It would makes sense that there must be more shows from 90-27 to 90-39 that overlap with duplicated numbers, but I have yet to find any.

But enough of WW1's screw-up, let's get back to the artist in question.  Henley's also got two songs on 90-10, a multi-artist compilation from Farm Aid.

It looks like there was a repeat of this show as 91-15 as I saw one on Ebay, but I'm suspicious of the listing because the original show was 90-15, and it seems odd that they'd repeat the show exactly a year later with an almost identical catalog number.

Three tracks (Driving With Your Eyes Closed, Dirty Laundry, The End of the Innocence) are repeated on 91-52, a "Best of 1991" show.

Three more tracks (Sunset Grill, New York Minute, and Desperado) turn up on 92-49, a "best of 1982-1992" compiliation with other artists, and again on 94-49, another "Best of" with the same three songs.

93-43 featured tracks from Foxboro Stadium, Boston Walden Woods Benefit, and 94-21 repeated those tracks a second time.

97-06 had Don on two songs from Farm Aid...and after that I haven't found any Henley tracks...even though Westwood One went on for another 15 years. 

Don Henley - Westwood One Superstars In Concert #86-14

This was over on FBSVIP,  but it's time to move it over here.....This is a digitization of the 3-LP Westwood One Superstars In Concert show #86-14, featuring Don Henley, that I did in 2012.

In an effort to archive the entire show, I digitized all of it, including commercials, promo spots (Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Joe Lynn Turner), and the Westwood One announcer.   I tracked all of these and clearly named the files.  If you want to burn this to an 80 minute cd-r, you can just leave them off.

300 dpi scans of the cover, the cue sheet, disc labels, and even a ticket image I found on Ebay.  No affidavit, though......:)

https://mega.nz/file/3MQkkCwI#hFKRQy6MDPFroTWYzX-i7Zwx4-j-iaORDB-t4YL_4ew

Don Henley

Universal Amphitheatre, 

Universal City, CA "Los Angeles"

Westwood One Superstars in Concert Show #86-14 3-LP set

For Broadcast the weekend of July 12, 1986

Recorded September 4 or 5, 1985

01 Superstars 86-14 Intro

02 Commercial - Sprite

03 Building The Perfect Beast

04 Dirty Laundry

05 Commercial - Coca Cola

06 Westwood One - Charlie Kendall

07 Commercial - Sprite

08 Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed

09 You Can't Make Love

10 You're Not Drinkin' Enough

11 Commercial - Coca Cola

12 Westwood One - Charlie Kendall

13 Them And Us

14 Lilah

15 Not Enough Love In The World

16 Commercial - Sprite

17 Westwood One Promo - Brian Wilson

18 Westwood One - Charlie Kendall

19 Bob Dylan - Tom Petty Tour Update

20 Commercial - Coca Cola

21 Desperado

22 The Boys Of Summer

23 All She Wants To Do Is Dance

24 Commercial - Sprite

25 Westwood One - Charlie Kendall

26 Sunset Grill

27 Talking To The Moon

28 Commercial - Coca Cola

29 Westwood One - Promo Joe Lynn Turner

30 Hotel California

31 Superstars 86-14 Outro

32 Commercial - Sprite

33 Superstars 86-14 Promo Spot

NOTES:  

1)  This attributed to "Los Angeles" on the broadcast. Universal City is an unincorporated area entirely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles.

2)  I do not know the date for the show, but Henley was on tour during the summer and fall of 1985.  I have seen this show attributed to November of 1985.  I found a ticket image on Ebay that clearly shows that he also played there in September.  The ticket is included here, but is not intended as a claim it represents the date of the show.

3)  I included all commercials and promo spots.  They are clearly marked and tracked so you can exclude them from a CD-R burn.  The intention here was to reproduce the entire show as it exists on the discs.

4)  The tracks were manually declicked one click at a time in Audacity.

5)  Westwood One had a problem with their disc labels.  

One disc has the number corrected by pen, and another has a typed

sticker glued on to it. Discogs shows there were 86-14 labels printed so my guess is they ran out, and used some left over labels.

6)  The Westwood One "affidavit" was missing from the set (presumably sent in to document that it had been played on the air).  Hence the (Almost) Complete in the title.

Runout grooves:

SS 86•14•1    JS KM

SS 86•14•2    JS KM

SS 86•14•3    JS KM

SS 86•14•4    JS KM

SS 86•14•5    JS KM

SS 86•14•6    JS KM

UPDATED file tagging December 2024