Live From The Pit 1997
To be aired From July 28 thru August 4, 1997
Claims to be the Garage, Cincinnati, OH, July 12, 1997..and some of the stage banter is from there.
But the music? No...it's not from there.
The songs are from the Apollo Theatre, May 25th, 1997, Manchester, England.
CD1:
01 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Intro
02 Foo Fighters - Wind Up
03 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Break
04 Commercial - MCI 1-800-Collect (Phil Hartman)
05 Commercial - JC Penny
06 Announcer - Break
07 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Segment Intro
08 Foo Fighters - Wattershed
09 Foo Fighters - Hey, Johnny Park!
10 Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
11 Dave Grohl - Interview
12 Foo Fighters - Alone + Easy Target
13 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Break
14 Commercial - JC Penny
15 Commercial - MCI 1-800-Collect (Phil Hartman)
16 Announcer - Break
17 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Segment Intro
18 Foo Fighters - Doll
19 Foo Fighters - See You
20 Foo Fighters - My Poor Brain
21 Foo Fighters - For All The Cows
22 Foo Fighters - Enough Space
23 Dave Grohl - Interview
24 Foo Fighters - Big Me
25 Foo Fighters - Weenie Beenie
26 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Break
27 Commercial - JC Penny
28 Commercial - MCI 1-800-Collect (Phil Hartman)
29 Commercial - JC Penny
30 Announcer - Break
CD2:
01 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Intro
02 Foo Fighters - February Stars
03 Foo Fighters - Everlong
04 Dave Grohl - Interview
05 Foo Fighters - New Way Home
06 Foo Fighters - This Is A Call
07 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Break
08 Commercial - JC Penny
09 Commercial - MCI 1-800-Collect (Phil Hartman)
10 Announcer - Break
11 Joe Fleischer & Dominic Griffin - Segment Intro
12 Foo Fighters - Up In Arms
13 Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around
14 Joe Fleischer - Break
15 Commercial - MCI 1-800-Collect (Phil Hartman)
16 Commercial - JC Penny
17 Announcer - Break
18 Commercial - Foo Fighters CD Giveaway and Outro
19 Commercial - Promo 1 This Week
20 Commercial - Promo 2 Tomorrow Night
21 Commercial - Promo 3 Tonight
What the heck is going on here?
On CD1, track 7, the (supposed) source venue for this show is identified with the following dialog:
Dominic Griffin: "We're back and we're so high...
Joe Fleischer: ...above the stage at the Garage in Cincinnati with the Foo Fighters..."
As you know I try and verify, verify, verify everything because the world is full of bad information. So I check the newspapers...
The recording of the Garage was mentioned in the Cincinnati Post newspaper prior to the concert as the show "will be recorded for broadcast later this summer." The show was promoted for the broadcast as "the Foo Fighters' July 12 concert at the Garage was recorded for a nationally syndicated radio show, "Live From The Pit, which will air...."
That seems clear enough, doesn't it? The show's announcers say it was from the Garage, and this is repeated before and after the show in the newspapers.
But I found the following at FooFighterslive.com:
"Soundboard Audio #1 Official CD [Live From The Pit #97-31]
In 1997 syndicated US Radio broadcast what they claimed was this show. However for reasons unknown the musical performances they aired were from the 1997/05/25 show in Manchester, England with some of the stage banter from this show mixed in. This recording therefore is only needed for the stage banter, not the musical performance."
Ah, jeez...the next thing you know, "they" will be telling me the world is really a globe, not flat.
Hey. I'm kidding. We can see the Earth is round from the V-W Orbital Platform, where we store all these great shows for you!
The Apollo show was recorded by the BBC and issued as a promo cassette and promo DAT, and was broadcast in several European countries, and was bootlegged. Why the music from the Manchester show was edited with the stage talk from Cincinnati is unknown. The review of the Cincinnati show was positive, so it wasn't that the band had an off night.
So, this is a weird one for your collection: the music from one venue with the stage banter from another. Well, at least we get Phil Hartman on a vintage commercial.
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Today's Rock and Roll Geography Lesson:
The O2 Apollo Manchester (known locally as The Apollo and formerly Manchester Apollo) is a concert venue in Ardwick Green, Manchester, England. It is a Grade II listed building, with a capacity of 3,500 (2,514 standing, 986 seats)
