Starship
Superstar Concert Series SS86-10
for broadcast the weekend of June 14, 1986
for broadcast the weekend of June 14, 1986
Recorded at:
Texas
March 1986
Attributed to:
City Coliseum
Austin, Texas
March 20, 1986
Sides 1, 2, and 3:
01 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Intro
02 Commercial - Sprite
03 Starship - We Built This City
04 Starship - Somebody To Love
05 Starship - Find Your Way Back
06 Commercial - Coke
07 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Break
08 Stevie Nicks - Stevie Nicks Tour Update
09 Commercial - Sprite
10 Starship - Private Room
11 Starship - Stranger
12 Commercial - Coke
13 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Break
14 Starship - Be My Lady
15 Starship - Rock Myself To Sleep
16 Starship - Sara
17 Commercial - Sprite
18 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Break
Sides 4, 5, and 6:
01 Tom Petty - Bob Dylan Tom Petty Tour Update
02 Commercial - Coke
03 Starship - Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight
04 Starship - Love Rusts
05 Commercial - Sprite
06 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Break
07 Starship - No Way Out
08 Starship - Jane
09 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Break
10 Commercial - Coke
11 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Break
12 Starship - White Rabbit
13 Starship - Laying It On The Line
14 Starship - We Built This City
15 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Outro
16 Commercial - Sprite
17 Charlie Kendall - Superstar Concert 86-10 Promo
Runout grooves:
Matrix / Runout (etched side A): SS 86•10•1 JS KM
Matrix / Runout (etched side B): SS 86•10•2 JS KM
Matrix / Runout (etched side C): SS 86•10•3 JS KM
Matrix / Runout (etched side D): SS 86•10•4 MZ KM
Matrix / Runout (etched side E): SS 86•10•5 JS KM
Matrix / Runout (etched side F): SS 86•10•6 MZ KM
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music.
From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection.
The first mystery to solve is where and when this was recorded.
Host Charlie Kendall does not mention the venue or city. There are versions of this show at Guitars 101 attributing it to Austin, Texas on June 14, 1986.
The date is incorrect, as that is the date on the cue sheet of the original syndicated broadcast. Setlist.fm repeats this error. If the date is wrong, we need to search for actual evidence.
The band doesn't shout any helpful "Hello, Springfield, are you ready to rock?" stage patter. However, the V-Dub research boffins uncovered a print ad from the May 31, 1986 Billboard magazine. The print ad says the show was "Recorded by Westwood One's mobile studios during the fivesome's most recent swing through Texas." This narrows it down to somewhere in the Lone Star State's 261,797 square miles, which makes Austin a plausible location.
Newspapers.com reveals Starship played the City Coliseum in Austin on March 20, 1986. I've included a review of the show from the Austin American Statesman, and a poster.
I'm going with the Austin attribution but I included a review of Starship at the Dallas Convention Center and a mention of a show at Port Isabel/South Padre Island Spring Break March 24 as a reminder the "swing through Texas" might have been somewhere besides Austin. Also, Westwood One has been known to record several shows and combine them all into one show attributed to a single venue.
Conclusion: the Austin attribution is likely, and if true, we have proved the correct date.
"Laying It On The Line" was unreleased at the time. It was not released until 1988.
The show was repeated on November 1, 1986 as SS86-24.
The second mystery is why Bing Copilot returned the following to me when I typed in the lyric "Marconi plays the mamba"
"Ah! You're referring to the mysterious lyric from the song "Radio Ga-Ga...."
Yeah. Radio Ga Ga. The song by Queen.
Now, that "fact" only turned up once; further inquiries returned a bunch of pseudo-intellectual analyses of the lyric as a "quirky emblem of 80s pop mystique" that "blends reverence for radio's role in rock history with the quirks of 1980s pop-rock lyricism" but correctly named the song as "We Built This City."
This is what happens when you scrape the bottom of the internet and have a computer throw the dregs back at you. Somewhere out there is an Internet page with the lyric misidentified, and our "co-pilot" landed the metaphoric airplane of inquiry there.
