Captured Live! CL-483
for broadcast week of May 9, 1983
Recorded at:
Nick's Uptown Theater
Dallas, TX
December 1, 1982
01 Perry Stone - CL 483 Intro
02 Randy Meisner - Bad Man
03 Randy Meisner - Nothing Is Said ('Til The Artist Is Dead)
04 Randy Meisner - Playin' In The Deep End
05 Randy Meisner - Doin' It For Delilah
06 Perry Stone - CL 483 Break
07 Randy Meisner - Gotta Get Away
08 Randy Meisner - Try And Love Again
09 Randy Meisner - Never Been In Love
10 Perry Stone - CL 483 Break
11 Randy Meisner - Lonesome Cowgirl
12 Randy Meisner - Band Introductions
13 Randy Meisner - Jealousy
14 Randy Meisner - Too Many Hands
15 Perry Stone - CL 483 Break
16 Randy Meisner - Tonight
17 Randy Meisner - Strangers
18 Randy Meisner - Deep Inside My Heart
19 Perry Stone - CL 483 Break
20 Randy Meisner - Take It To The Limit
21 Randy Meisner - Hearts On Fire
22 Randy Meisner - Darkness Of The Heart
23 Randy Meisner - I Need You Bad
24 Perry Stone - CL 483 Outro
Run out grooves:
CL-483-A MCR Joe
CL-483-B MCR Joe
CL-483-C MCR Joe
CL-483-D MCR Joe
CL-483-E MCR Joe
blank disc, no etchings
July 2025 update:
I couldn't find any press on the concert, but did find a story about another show in Fort Worth around the same time. I've added scans of all six disc labels.
Randy Meisner was touring in support of his third and final solo LP, the self-titled "Randy Meisner," released in August 1982. Ten tracks from this concert were released in Japan in 1983 as "Dallas" (Epic – 25.3P-482). This album didn't see another release until 2002, when Rev-Ola added one more track, a second mix of "Take It To The Limit." This made it 11 tracks but still only ten songs. It was released in the U.S.A. in 2003 as "Live in Dallas," and in Japan as "Live In Dallas, 1982." Both versions kept the additional alternate mix of "Take It To The Limit" as a bonus track.
There are seven additional songs on the Captured Live! version. You'll need one of the officially released versions to get the best quality of the other songs.
Captured Live! was a series of syndicated concerts produced for the stations of the RKO Radio Network and affiliated radio stations from 1982 through 1984. An announcement in Billboard Dec 12 1981 says the shows were to be 26 one hour specials featuring top rock performers in concert settings, with the series to begin in March 1982.
It appears that the 1982 shows were distributed on reel-to-reel tape. In 1983, they switched to LP sets. Stations received both a hosted version with prerecorded announcements, and an unhosted version with a script, allowing the local disc jockey to do the lead ins to each segment. The unhosted version had "beds" of a live concert audience for the disc jockey to talk over, making it sound like he was at the show. Most of these sets of both version (hosted and unhosted) have been broken up into two versions for resale on the collector's market.
The LPs had a Disc Code numbering system that combined the first letters of the show ( CL ) with the number of the show for that year (1, 2, 3 ) with the year (either 1983 or 1984). As an example, the first show of 1984 was CL 184, the second show was CL 284, etc.)
The RKO radio network ran into trouble when a television advertising billing scandal provoked the FCC to force RKO out of the broadcasting business. In 1985, the RKO Radio Networks was purchased by United Stations Programming Network and the Captured Live! series came to an end.
