Live From Electric Ladyland radio show
Unknown broadcast date
Recorded August 20, 1991
at Electric Lady Studios
New York City, NY
01 Pat St. John - LFEL Intro
02 Commercial - Budweiser (unknown)
03 Commercial - Brut (Kelly LeBrock)
04 Commercial - Volkswagen
05 Commercial - U.S. Department of State
06 Commercial - Brotherhood of Vietnam Veterans
07 Pat St. John & Ian Anderson - Interview 1
08 Jethro Tull - Doctor To My Disease (studio)
09 Pat St. John & Ian Anderson - Interview 2
10 Jethro Tull - Gold-Tipped Boots, Black Jacket and Tie (studio)
11 Pat St. John & Ian Anderson - Interview 3
12 Commercial - Brut (Kelly LeBrock)
13 Commercial - Budweiser (unknown)
14 Commercial - Volkswagen
15 Commercial - U.S Centers for Disease Control
16 Commercial - U.S. Savings Bonds
17 Pat St. John & Ian Anderson - Interview 4
18 Jethro Tull - Rocks On The Road
19 Pat St. John & Ian Anderson - Interview 5
20 Jethro Tull - Like A Tall Thin Girl
21 Jethro Tull - Mother Goose, Jack-A-Lynn
22 Commercial - Volkswagen
23 Commercial - Budweiser (unknown)
24 Commercial - Brut (Kelly LeBrock)
25 Commercial - CARE International
26 Commercial - PSA Advertising Council
27 Commercial - President's Council on Physical Fitness
28 Pat St. John & Ian Anderson - Interview 6
29 Jethro Tull - Bourée
30 Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, Black Sunday
31 Pat St. John - LFEL Outro
This show is also attributed to August 21, 1991. Copies of the show are posted on Guitars 101 with dates of August 20 or August 21.
During the broadcast Ian Anderson mentions they "came straight from doing the David Letterman show which as you know is recorded in the afternoon and goes out live at night."
Was Jethro Tull on Letterman on August 20 or August 21 in 1991? The answer is "both" because his show aired in different markets from 11:00 to 12:30. The taping had to be on the earliest date: Aug. 20. I've included a television listing as proof of the date of the Letterman show. The fact that you can discover proof that the Letterman show was (also) on the 21st may have led to the error.
In addition, behind the scenes, one of our Voodoo Wagon readers chipped in to help confirm the facts. He's got a Letterman expert on tap, so he reached out and received independent confirmation of the date...PLUS....a photo of the Letterman show on that date.
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| Jethro Tull On Letterman (photo credit: Our blog-friend Matt's "Letterman Guy") |
With one rock and roll mystery solved, we move on to "Does a syndicated CD version of this exist?" '
1991 is well after the start of the distribution of LFEL show on CD. By August 1991, seven shows (Little Feat, Living Colour, Slaughter, The Fixx, Great White, Roger McGuinn and .38 Special) had been distributed to radio stations on compact disc.
The first three shows have cassette distribution (Jeff Healey Band, Santana, Damn Yankees) and I've seen a reel of the Jeff Healey show, so it's likely the other two were on reel as well. What I haven't seen are CD copies. As these are the first three shows, no CDs makes sense. You're starting a new show, and cassettes are cheaper than pressing up CDs.
But this Jethro Tull show comes well into the syndication, it's full of national ads, there's nothing different about the host, the intro and outro music/sound effects, so it's part of the series...but there's no CD version that I've seen in twenty years of searching.
Maybe a production issue? Perhaps they got Jethro Tull at the last minute and didn't have the time to produce the CDs? One of our readers (Hi, Matt!) suggested that Jethro Tull was out of favor on radio at the time, so perhaps only a few stations signed on to carry the show. The LFEL was thinly distributed as compared to Westwood One or King Biscuit Flower Hour.
Next up: Can anyone identify any of the groups performing the Budweiser ads? Hey! I'm serious! I need help from Our Beloved Audience! I'm sure these are from real bands, but I can't solve the mystery.
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| I coulda put a can of Budweiser here, but figgered this crowd would want the LeBrock cheesecake... |
Will you please help?
I also want to note that this wraps up the Live From The Electric Ladyland series, with the exception of the Kinks show (which is up 3x over on Guitars101 (and there's no evidence that was syndicated on CD or cassette). I'll note this declaration of completion is "as far as we know," as there are rumors of a few other shows but no actual evidence. There are a few odds and ends to tie up; we're missing a cue sheet here, and a disc scan there, and it would be nice to have the posters in 300 dpi scans...but here at Voodoo Wagon you now have a complete run of the Live From Electric Ladyland syndicated radio broadcasts.
