Richard Bush & The Lion Choir
Empire Rock Club
Philadelphia, PA
November 14, 1986
WMMR-FM
Empire Rock Club
Philadelphia, PA
November 14, 1986
WMMR-FM
01 Joe Bonadonna - Stage Intro
02 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - Gotta Survive
03 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - A Woman's Got The Power
04 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - I Want Something Back
05 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - Sometime A Dream
06 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - Beast In Me
07 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - I Would Give Anything
08 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - (cuts in) Soldier On
09 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - Four Walls
10 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - After Last Night
11 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - Habitual
12 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - Encore Break
13 Richard Bush & the Lion Choir - I'm Down
14 Joe Bonadonna - Outro
15 Commercial - Satellite Lounge (Outlaws, Guess Who)
16 Commercial - Stone Balloon (Bricklin, Guess Who, Robert Hazard)
Once again, we excavate lost rock stars of Philadelphia, courtesy of our pal, Sam Eliot's Mustache and his collection of local radio broadcasts.
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This one is a band that (as far as I know) never released a record. Richard Bush had been the lead singer and half of the Notte/Bush songwriting team behind the A's, who'd managed to get two albums out on Arista in '79 and '81.
After the breakup of the A's, he put together the Lion Choir, which included "Michael Pilla from Robert Hazard's Heroes, former A's member Mikey Snyder on drums, Gary Lee on bass, and Michelle Harron (ex Chet Bolins) on keyboards and rhythm guitar." (as per the Philadelphia Daily News)
I had the A's first LP back in 1979 but from the remote vantage point of San Francisco, they were East Coast, didn't tour out here, and I lost track of them. From listening to this tape, it's clear that Richard Bush was an excellent front man with solid songwriting and a good band. The songs here were worthy of release.
I've chosen to keep the two commercials at the end of the show as they are for two local nightclubs and there's bound to be someone who finds them of interest.
