Hagar, Schon, Aaronson, Shrieve (HSAS Band) Westwood One In Concert 84-24

Hagar, Schon, Aaronson, Shrieve (HSAS Band)
Westwood One In Concert 84-24
Airs 11/9 - 11/11   (1984)
01 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Intro - Phil Hendrie
02 Commercial - Budweiser (in the style of X's "Wild Thing")
03 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Intro 2 - Phil Hendrie
04 Missing You
05 Top Of The Rock
06 Movin' In For The Kill ***
07 Commercial - Levi's 501 Jeans
08 Commercial - Budweiser
09 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Break - Phil Hendrie
10 Hot and Dirty
11 Tough Enough ***
12 He Will Understand
13 Eyes of Love ***
14 Commercial - Budweiser (Dexy's Midnight Runners)
15 Commercial - Levi's 501 Jeans
16 Commercial - U.S. Navy
17 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Break - Phil Hendrie
18 Animation
19 Valley of the Kings / Giza
20 My Home Town
21 Commercial - Levi's 501 Jeans
22 Commercial - Budweiser (Ronnie Dio)
23 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Break - Phil Hendrie
24 Hope and Fear ***
25 A Whiter Shade of Pale
26 Commercial - U.S. Navy
27 Commercial - Levi's 501 Jeans
28 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Break - Phil Hendrie
29 Ever Since You Came ***
30 What Will Never Be ***
31 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Outro - Phil Hendrie
32 Westwood One In Concert 84-24 Promo Spot - Phil Hendrie
*** Not on the Through The Fire LP

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This version digitized November 2021.  Flac files of wavs.  Includes 300 dpi scans of disc labels and cue sheet, a backstage pass from one of the shows, and a scan of a concert t-shirt I saw on Ebay.  Plus...newspaper clippings!

I was inspired to get to work on this show by the posting of a vinyl rip of the original LP over on the ROCK ON VINYL blog.  I'd already digitized the syndicated radio discs, but hadn't started on chaptering and declicking.  Reading AussieRock's post on HSAS, I was inspired.  So, we're going to do a blog cross-over here; I'm sending AussieRock the files of this show, and we're both going to post it at the same time.  Or SORT OF the same time, as he's in another hemisphere on the other side of the International Date Line, and punctuality was never one of my strong points.

Anyway...go visit http://rockonvinyl.blogspot.com/ to check out his digitization of the original HSAS LP, and while you're there, give AussieRock a big "hello" from his pal over here at the Voodoo Wagon.  

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While I'm a Bay Area guy, and was familiar with the players, I had no memory of this band. They were a "blink and you missed them" phenomena. 

Hagar, Schon, Aaronson, Shrieve was a short-lived band (late '83 to mid '84) comprised of Kenny Aaronson (bass for Rick Derringer, Billy Squire, Foghat, et al), Michael Shrieve (Santana), Neal Schon (lead guitar for Journey), and Sammy Hagar (vocalist from Montrose).  They rehearsed for a few weeks and then recorded their only album by taping live performances at several Bay Area concerts. The shows and merchandise profits were given to local schools music and arts programs to make up for money lost due to Prop. 13.  For you non-Californians, Prop. 13 limited the annual increase in property taxes to 2% of the assessed value.

The LP's back cover says, "This album was recorded live by the Westwood One Mobile Facility November 9-21, 1983 with additional overdubs at Fantasy Studios, December 1983."
Both SetLists.com and a "merch" T-shirt (scans included) sold at the shows by Bill Graham Productions lists the following shows during that period:
November 10, 1983 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
November 11, 1983 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
November 12, 1983 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
November 14, 1983  San Jose Civic Auditorium, San Jose, CA
November 15, 1983  San Jose Civic Auditorium, San Jose, CA
November 16, 1983  San Jose Civic Auditorium, San Jose, CA
November 20, 1983  Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
November 21, 1983  Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA

From an interview in Classic Rock magazine with Kenny Aaronson: "So we recorded two shows and we played I believe, three shows. One was at the Warfield, a club in San Francisco, and then one was in Marin County and then one was in San Jose. I believe we used most of the San Jose show, if not all of it. You know, we threw it together. We wrote it in about a week and we rehearsed for a week and then we went and we played. That was that. Then Sam left me in the studio to mix everything. Well, they had the idea to do it like that and then do this longform video for MTV. So what happened was that, if you remember, the record -- except for one tune -- doesn’t have an audience on it. Well, that’s because it was a soundcheck. Because none of the shows were really up to par for putting out as a performance.
So as a safety net, we recorded soundchecks and most of that record, I believe, is [from] soundchecks. There’s that one track that’s got the audience on it and that is really live. [We] had to record the soundchecks just so [we] could have a safety net."

He's clearly wrong on the number of shows played, but he establishes that the LP's performances are from the soundchecks, not the actual concerts.  Both of the San Jose shows were taped for MTV.  Parts of the MTV video are on YouTube, and some of the performances seem to match this Westwood One show.  At the end of "Movin' In For The Kill" Sammy Hagar says "All right San Jose!" so some of the WW1 tracks are from the San Jose Civic Auditorium.  

There may have been a few additional shows played, too, as a "tweet" from Sammy Hagar in 2020 mentioned that HSAS also played in Stockton and Sacramento.

Geographical note:  The Marin Civic Center is 22 miles (33km) north of the Warfield Theatre, and the San Jose Civic Auditoriau 52 miles (78 kim) south, so it's not much of a "tour."'

I included newspaper clippings from several local newspapers.  Of note is Phillip Elwood's tart review of one of the Warfield shows.  Mr. Elwood's speciality was jazz. He was a jazz disc jockey from 1952 through 1996, taught the history of jazz at a local college...but also wrote about pop and rock.  As such, everyone knew Elwood's heart wasn't in hard rock, and that came through in many of his reviews.  In this one, Mr. Elwood takes Mr. Hagar to task for profanity from the stage.  I'm not that thin-skinned, but on this live show, Mr. Hagar gets  a "sh*t" past the censors in "Movin' In For The Kill," and in "Tough Enough," he drops the "F word". Westwood One bleeps profanity, so it's noteworthy.

Advertising note:  the Budweiser commercial done in the style of L.A. punk band X is, for my money...the best Budweiser commercial, ever.