Mello Yello Presents Rod Stewart - Wembly Dec. 5, 1981

Mello Yello Presents
Rod Stewart
Air date: 5/2/81

Recorded at:
Wembley Arena
London, England
December 5, 1980

01 Tony Pigg - Intro
02 Commercial - Mello Yello
03 Rod Stewart - Hot Legs
04 Rod Stewart - Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller
05 Rod Stewart - Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
06 Rod Stewart - You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
07 Tony Pigg - Break
08 Commercial - Mello Yello
09 Rod Stewart - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
10 Rod Stewart - She Won't Dance With Me
11 Rod Stewart - Passion
12 Tony Pigg - Break
13 Commercial - Mello Yello
14 Commercial - Mello Yello
15 Rod Stewart - Maggie May
16 Rod Stewart - Sailing
17 Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It
18 Tony Pigg - Break
19 Commercial - Mello Yello
20 Rod Stewart - Carol
21 Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
22 Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
23 Tony Pigg - Break
24 Commercial - Mello Yello
25 Commercial - Mello Yello
26 Rod Stewart - I Was Only Joking
27 Rod Stewart - This Old Heart Of Mine
28 Rod Stewart - Get Back
29 Tony Pigg - Break
30 Commercial - Mello Yello
31 Rod Stewart - The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)
32 Rod Stewart - Stay With Me
33 Tony Pigg - Break
34 Commercial - Mello Yello
35 Commercial - Mello Yello
66 Tony Pigg - Outro

Example of the 5 LP version
with the withdrawn disc.

We do not have the run out grooves.  We've got the cue sheets. I don't have scans of the disc labels, but I was able to find some low resolution scans that show the "Mello Yello" disc labels were yellow labels.

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache collection

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Production of D.I.R. Broadcasting for the ABC Radio Network
Executive Producers: Bob Meyrowitz and Peter Kauff
Produced by Bob Kominsky
Host: Tony Pigg

There was some issue with the first pressing of this show sent to the radio stations. A corrected version of sides B and C was sent out, as those sides were deemed unsuitable for airing by the ABC network. We do not know the reason for the replacement.  It may have been a censorship issue, or something wrong with the pressing.

I've seen two copies of this as a 5 LP set, including the "unsuitable" disc.  This is just from a 3 LP set.  You know how I am, I will make it my life's work to track down that 5-LP version and reveal its horrible secrets to the world.

The Mello Yello series took place in 1981, with three shows in May on three consecutive nights...but targeted to different audience segments.   A combined Christopher Cross/Leo Sayer show was on May 1, Rod Stewart on May 2, and Anne Murray on May 3.  Each of them reached a slightly different segment of the pop-rock marketplace.

The shows were very successful.  Billboard magazine reported, "The May 2 Rod Stewart special, according to an ABC spokesman, had the highest ratings of any national FM radio broadcast since the rebirth of national radio programming in the late 1960s" with approximately nine million listeners.  Later that summer, "Advertising Age gave its Most Creative Use Of Radio award to McDonald & Little for it's Saturday radio rock concert series."

The shows were so successful that they followed up with three consecutive nights in October with the Jefferson Starship, Moody Blues, and Charlie Daniels.

While Mello Yello was the sponsor of other shows in future years, the shows do not appear to be part of this series.  

List of 1981 shows:
Mello Yello Presents Rocks Best Starring Christopher Cross and Leo Sayer air date 05/1/81
Mello Yello Presents Rod Stewart air date of 5/2/81
Mello Yello Presents Country Comfort, An Evening With Anne Murray 5/3/81

Mello Yello Presents Jefferson Starship broadcast date of 10/9/81
Mello Yello Presents the Moody Blues air date 10/10/81
Mello Yello Presents Charlie Daniels air date 10/11/81 

https://mega.nz/file/GVwFiQDb#fXT_KfB5qvu_FACJJGD93aVZqwOJD8-UewTJIBgyrFE

If you play Rod's version of
"Some Guys Have All The Luck" backwards, it says,
"Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”

Rod Stewart – BBC Radio Broadcast, Newcastle City Hall, 18th December 1976

 

Rod Stewart – BBC Radio Broadcast, Newcastle City Hall, 18th December 1976

A young Rod the Mod rockin' it way back when!

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Westwood One In Concert 91-24 The Faces/Rod Stewart

Westwood One In Concert 91-24

The Faces/Rod Stewart
Show #91-24 for broadcast the week of June 10, 1991

Sides 1 and 2:
01 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Intro
02 Commercial - AT&T
03 Commercial - T.G.I. Fridays
04 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One
In Concert 91-24 Segment Intro
05 The Faces - Cindy Incidentally
06 The Faces - Memphis, Tennessee
07 The Faces - Angel
08 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
09 Commercial - Dentyne
10 Commercial - Bacardi
11 Commercial - Schick
12 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
13 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Segment Intro
14 The Faces - Stay With Me
15 The Faces - Twistin' The Night Away
16 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
17 Commercial - U.S. Army
18 Commercial - Bacardi
19 Commercial - Dentyne
20 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
21 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Segment Intro
22 Rod Stewart - Three Time Loser
23 Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
24 Rod Stewart - Big Bayou
25 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
26 Commercial - T.G.I. Fridays
27 Commercial - Schick
28 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break

Sides 3 and 4:
29 Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night
30 Rod Stewart - The Wild Side Of Life
31 Rod Stewart - This Old Heart of Mine 
32 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
33 Commercial - Bacardi
34 Commercial - T.G.I. Fridays
35 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
36 Rod Stewart - Sweet Little Rock and Roller
37 Rod Stewart - I Don't Want To Talk About It
38 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
39 Commercial - Bacardi
40 Commercial - Dentyne
41 Commercial - U.S. Army
42 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Break
43 Rod Stewart - Get Back
44 Rod Stewart - Sailing
45 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Outro
46 Tawn Mastrey - Westwood One In Concert 91-24 Promo

Run Out, Grooves!
I•91-24-1 MDC KM
I•91-24-2 MDC KM
I•91-24-3 MDC KM
I•91-24-4 MDC KM

This is a Westwood One show combining 1973 tracks by the Faces with 1976 tracks by Rod Stewart as a solo act.

The Faces tracks are identified as from the BBC in 1973. Four of them are from the April 1, 1973, BBC In Concert show recorded at the Paris Theatre. "Angel" may also be from that show, but I don't see "Angel" listed as played on Setlist.fm.  I cross-referenced it and it's the same track as on "Five Guys Walked Into A Bar." That one is identified as 1973 BBC, so that's how I'm tagging it in the commentary meta-tag.

The Rod Stewart tracks are from his four-night run at Olympia in December 1976. He played December 21, 22, 23, and 24. I believe all of these tracks are from the 24th, which was broadcast on BBC 2 as "The Old Grey Whistle Test brings us Rod Stewart's Christmas concert from Olympia, live, in stereo."

However, the King Biscuit Flower Hour recorded several shows at Oympia.  Concert Vault has the 21, 22, and 23rd in streaming audio.  I haven't cross referenced to check every track.

This show has been bootlegged many times, under many titles.

As per WIKI, "Olympia London, sometimes referred to as the Olympia Exhibition Centre, is an exhibition centre, event space and conference centre in West Kensington, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England. A range of international trade and consumer exhibitions, conferences and sporting events are staged at the venue.

There is an adjacent railway station at Kensington (Olympia) which is both a London Overground station, and a London Underground station."

I've seen this show listed as "Olympia London," "Exhibition Hall," "Olympia Theatre," "Olympia Grand Hall," "Grand Hall Olympia," and "Christmas Concert."

I looked it up...the location is now a chip shop.

December 1976 was a moment when things were shifting.  Teddy Boys riot at a Bill Haley concert.  An unrepentant Bill Grundy stands his ground, claiming he used sarcasm to show up the Sex Pistols. 

And Rod Stewart was riding high.  The critics still loved him; as did his original audience.  From fifty years out, it's hard to remember just how big Rod Stewart was in 1976. He was daily front page news in the United Kingdom. As the Huddersfield Daily Examiner put it, "There's been nothing quite like it since the Beatles."

So... I've put in a plethora of press for you to peruse and ponder.

There's an exchange of bitchy remarks in the press between Rod Stewart and Elton John.  Rod says Elton was born to be chairman of a football club, not a rock star, and Elton tells Rod he should stick to grave-digging.

There's an article mentioning Rod was under police guard after "a gang of youths had hired a local thug to beat him up."

There's a six-part series in the Manchester paper, spread over six days, detailing Rod's rise to superstardom. 

I've got two concert reviews of the 21st, a newspaper advert mentioning the show was starting earlier than advertised, pictures of Rod on stage from one of the nights (not sure which night...) and a follow up article that Rod was cancelling his Glasgow concert due to illness.

Plus, 300 dpi scans of the disc labels, cue sheet, and the Certificate of Performance!

https://mega.nz/file/rZxw1bra#M4ps91WG6A0ctJStKUxrNNL78JBmBxMeMpUxnd3TgIM

Jeff Beck Group - Fillmore West 1968

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted April 24, 2019

Jeff Beck Group - Live Fillmore West 

June 24, 1968

KSAN FM BROADCAST FROM THE BILL GRAHAM MASTER TAPES

Excellent FM Source @flac

SET LIST:
1 YOU SHOOK ME
2 LET ME LOVE YOU
3 MORNING DEW
4 JEFF'S BOOGIE
5 THE SUN IS SHINING
6 HI HO SILVER LINING

THE BAND
JEFF BECK GUITAR VOCALS
ROD STEWART VOCALS
RON WOOD BASS
MICKY WALLER DRUMS

LINEAGE KSAN FM BROADCAST TO REEL TO REEL MASTER TO DAT
FIBER OPTIC CLONE TO CDR KRW TRANSFER TO EAC TO TLH FLAC LEVEL 8

Please DO NOT SHARE IN LOSSY FORMAT!!

MP3 for personal use only!!

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Bonus

 

Jeff Beck - BBC Top Gear 1967, In Concert 1972

Jeff Beck Group
Top Gear 1967-68 & In Concert 1972
 Soundboard/FM source @320

 

Track List:

1.I Ain't Superstitious
2.Beck's Bolero
3.You'll Never Go To Heaven
4.You Shook Me
5.Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
6.Jeff Beck In Concert 1972 (1 unchaptered file) 60 minutes

Thanks to the Original Source!!

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The Faces - Live San Bernadino 1975

Back From the Dead...
Originally posted May 27, 2013

The Faces - Live San Bernadino, CA. 

aka-Rhythm & Booze
San Bernadino, California
March 7, 1975

FM Source @320

2 versions included here. Please see enclosed notes.

Track List:

1. I'm Losing You
2. Bring It On Home
3. Sweet Little Rock n' Roller
4. Too Bad
5. Every Picture Tells A Story
6. Stay With Me
7. Motherless Children
8. Gasoline Alley
9. You Wear It Well
10. Maggie May
11. Twistin' The Night Away

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San Bernadino '75

The Faces Ooh La La Sessions @ 224 Kbps

*WHILE LOOKING THROUGH MY FILES I FOUND THE VERSION LISTED SO THIS WILL BE COMING DOWN SHORTLY AND REPOSTED WITH ALL OF THE "Ooh La La" OUTAKES I HAVE

We've put this up before, but with only 9 tracks. This is the closet I can find to the full 19 tracks.

This version has 16 tracks. If you know where I can find the version pictured above I would be grateful if you could leave me a link or give me a site that has it. Studio quality.

Thanks to teenagedogsintrouble.blogspot.com...?

ROD KINDA SUCKS NOWADAYS

WAIT THERE'S MORE

Rod Stewart and The Rolling Stones - The RoDDing Stones @192kbps

Short one here. Only four songs. See scans

IF YOU GOTTA MAKE A FOOL OUTTA SOMEBODY

The Faces - Rhythm and Booze - Detroit 1974

(This also means that we're still looking for those Ooh La La outtakes! It's a $$ item for sure.)

The Faces - Rhythm and Booze.
Recorded Live in Detroit, USA - xx-xx-1974 (see notes below).
Excellent Soundboard Recording

01. I'm Losing You
02. Bring It On Home
03. Sweet Little Rock n' Roller
04. Too Bad
05. Every Picture Tells a Story
06. Stay With Me
07. Motherless Children
08. Gasoline Alley
09. You Wear It Well
10. Maggie May
11. Twistin' The Night Away

320kbps of hard-drinking mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/253287520/acesfa.zip