Jason & the Scorchers / Howard Jones
Westwood One In Concert 85-12
airs 5/24 - 5/26
Sides 1 and 2:
Jason & The Scorchers
Recorded at:
Uptown Theater
Kansas City, Missouri
March 23, 1984
01 Westwood One Promo and In Concert 85-12 Intro - Dave Edmunds and Steve Downes
02 Commercial - Durasoft Contact Lenses
03 Commercial - Starburst Fruit Chews
04 Westwood One In Concert 85-12 Intro 2 - Steve Downes
05 Lost Highway
06 Change The Tune
07 Are You Ready For The Country
08 I Can't Help Myself
09 Commercial - Budweiser (B.B. King)
10 Commercial - Levi 501 Jeans
11 Westwood One In Concert 85-12 Break - Steve Downes
12 Broken Whiskey Glass
13 Shop It Around
14 Last Time Around
15 Hot Nights In Georgia
16 Commercial - Levi 501 Jeans
17 Commercial - U.S. Army
18 Westwood One In Concert 85-12 Break - Steve Downes
19 Poke Salad Annie
20 Why Baby Why
21 I Really Don't Want To Know
22 White Lies
23 Commercial - Starburst Fruit Chews (in the style of Cyndi Lauper)
24 Commercial - Budweiser (Ronnie James Dio)
25 Westwood One In Concert 85-12 Break - Steve Downes
Sides 3 and 4:
Howard Jones
Recorded at:
Apollo Theatre
Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
likely December 20, 1984
01 Hunt The Self
02 Pearl In The Shell
03 Change The Man
04 Commercial - Budweiser (Icicle Works)
05 Commercial - Durasoft Contact Lenses
07 Always Asking Questions
08 What Is Love
09 Equality
10 Commercial - Budweiser (Bus Boys)
11 Westwood One In Concert 85-12 Break - Steve Downes
12 Westwood One Promo - Gil Moore (Triumph)
13 Dreams Of A Better Place
14 New Song
15 Westwood One In Concert 85-12 Outro - Steve Downes
Howard Jones played the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow on March 19, 1984 and December 20, 1984. Jason & The Scorchers played the Uptown Theater in Kansas City on March 23, 1984.
I do not know if this show was sourced from those concerts. As the broadcast window was May 24th to 26th, 1985, it's possible there were later shows by both performers...although the Apollo Theatre, as a "legendary" venue, has been extensively documented so it is not likely there was a 1985 Howard Jones concert.
So...both of these shows are possibly from 1984, but I don't know for sure.
Note that "Pearl In The Shell" is listed as "Fool In The Shower" on the cue sheet. WHAT?!
Budweiser commercials include B.B. King and Ronnie James Dio. MetalInsider.net says the Dio commercial is "pretty much a straight cover of Holy Diver‘s “Rainbow in the Dark.” And B.B. King! The man was a guitar god! Even a Budweiser commercial sounds great when he plays it!
There's also a Cyndi Lauper "sound-alike" commercial imitating the burbling synth-swirl sound of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," along with Lauper's Long Island accent.
As is often the case, we have a SCOOBY DOO rock n' roll mystery to solve:
The third Budweiser commercial (Track 4 on "Sides 3 and 4") sounds familiar, but I can't figure out the name of the group! It's got pounding drums and a touch of the West African "highlife" guitars that showed up in groups like the (English) Beat (but it's not them!). Does anyone have an idea who does this commercial? I don't ask much of our Beloved Audience, but "Please, Please Please" (as James Brown put it...), if ANY of you recognize the group, could you please give us their name in the comments?
MYSTERY SOLVED! It's the ICICLE WORKS!
Flac files of wavs; feel free to convert to MP3 or to play backwards to search for backward masking Satanic messages! Includes a 300 dpi scan of the cue sheet, and a disc label!https://mega.nz/file/eExWSapQ#Krbm7nB9Xs2bZHXag5S_i9T65bz3plEioyQ9krs99N8
Run out groove Side 1: IC 85-12-1 JS KM
Run out groove Side 2: IC 85-12-2 JS KM
Run out groove Side 3: IC 85-12-3 JS KM
Run out groove Side 4: IC 85-12-4 JS KM
Note: the "KM" looks like a mechanical stamp; the other text is hand etched.
FILES UPDATED September 2025
