Studio Jam - REO Speedwagon - Rochester, NY Aug. 25, 1979

Studio Jam
REO Speedwagon
Initial air dates between October 16 and October 31, 1979

Recorded at:
Rochester War Memorial
Rochester, NY
August 25, 1979

00 NO ARTIST - NO ARTIST - Four Test Tones (1,000 Hz, 10,000 Hz, 100 Hz, 25 Hz)
01 REO Speedwagon - Say You Love Me Or Say Goodnight
02 REO Speedwagon - Like You Do
03 REO Speedwagon - Heavy On Your Love
04 REO Speedwagon - Drop It (An Old Disguise)
05 NO ARTIST - 25 hz automation tone
06 REO Speedwagon - Only The Strong Survive
07 REO Speedwagon - Easy Money
08 REO Speedwagon - Roll With The Changes
09 REO Speedwagon - Keep Pushin'
10 NO ARTIST - 25 hz automation tone
11 REO Speedwagon - talk
12 REO Speedwagon - The Unidentified Flying Tuna Trot
13 REO Speedwagon - Gary's Guitar Solo
14 REO Speedwagon - 157 Riverside Avenue
15 REO Speedwagon - Ridin' The Storm Out
16 REO Speedwagon - Rock & Roll Music
17 REO Speedwagon - Interview Robin Winter, Kevin Cronin

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

Another one from the radio reels with excellent sound quality.

They mention Rochester twice during the show, which led to the venue and show date. I found a print ad that proves the date and venue.

Everything I said about various tones and the history of the Studio Jam shows on the Molly Hatchet post applies to this one as well.

I found a print ad for the show, and two ads for an in-store appearance by the band at House of Guitars, Inc. at 645 Titus Avenue.  A quick check of the Internet shows....THEY ARE STILL IN BUSINESS AT THE SAME ADDRESS!   

I also found a pre-concert article with a phone interview with guitarist Gary Richrath.

https://mega.nz/file/3EIQhKbS#NC1fx5zjU4nYTdUyEwgG2Qa2XmydifVak0sSKESlRx8

Molly Hatchet - Studio Jam syndicated radio show, unknown venue and date

Molly Hatchet
Studio Jam syndicated radio show
unknown venue and date

00 NO ARTIST - Four Test Tones (1000 Hz, 10,000 Hz, 100 Hz, 25 Hz)
01 Molly Hatchet - Bounty Hunter
02 Molly Hatchet - Let The Good Times Roll
03 Molly Hatchet - Gator Country
04 Molly Hatchet - 25 Hz Automation Tone
05 Molly Hatchet - The Creeper
06 Molly Hatchet - The Big Apple
07 Molly Hatchet - Dreams I'll Never See
08 Molly Hatchet - 25 Hz Automation Tone
09 Molly Hatchet - Long Tall Sally (sort of)
10 Molly Hatchet - Boogie No More

From the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection
Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

The show is hosted by Kathy O'Conner, but she only appears on the 1st and 10th track for a quick hello and goodbye so I didn't break her out as a separate track.

We are missing the cue sheet, but a look at the cue for the REO Speedwagon Studio Jam show (October 1979), we find that the tones at the beginning are listed as

1000 hz tone (O-level vu meter)
10,000 hz tone (-5 vu level)
100 hz tone (O-level nu meter)
25 hz automation tone (-3 vu level) 

The last one led me to ask our resident radio expert member of the Collective about the "automation tone."  He says, "It seems a bit primitive now, but it was typically used to trigger elements at the automated radio station to fire off automatically, including starting commercials, playing local station IDs, etc!"

As it is almost inaudible - 25 hz is right on the edge of what we can hear, humans can hear down to about 20 hz - it's ridiculous to actually listen to these tracks. I've left the starting tones and the automation tones in the show just to document this as it was created.  At one time I would have deleted 'em but these days I'm taking an archival approach, documenting as close to the source recording as possible.  If the past was stupid, well, that's just the way it was.  Feel free to delete 'em.

I've also included a print ad.  The font used for the "STUDIO JAM" text is almost impossible for a Optical Character Reader to interpret.  I did a search for ads, but didn't come up with any examples...but the font being difficult to read might be part of that.

Studio Jam was a syndicated radio show founded and produced by Charles K. "Chip" Altholz in Chicago. The show started out by showcasing in-studio performances usually recorded at Mantra Studios in Chicago and carried by WKQX-FM. A few years later they began to feature live performances recorded at various venues in Chicago, and then from other cities. This grew into the Studio Jam Radio Network, a 50-station radio network to produce and barter syndicated radio concerts in trade for airtime. They produced 24 in-studio live radio concerts featuring major rock stars for seventeen major record labels, including shows by David Bowie, The Police, Kenny Loggins, Styx, Triumph, Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, and Earth Wind & Fire. They co-produced the concerts with JAM Productions Ltd., and Robert Pittman (who later founded MTV).

I've never seen a list of these shows, so I've listed what I've discovered here.  These are not all confirmed. Shows that were mentioned in a newspaper story may not have been recorded. Shows that were already recorded might not have been distributed.  If you know anything about the Studio Jam shows, please leave a comment.

https://mega.nz/file/OZRmURjJ#ETkQVjQIncBm_c5I95SttgxKP82HOwjQY25Mfu7CQmo

I've found print evidence that the following shows were broadcast:

1977
Atlantic Rhythm Section   (WKQX-FM June 14, 1977)
Styx (July 15, 1977, officially released)
Kenny Loggins (WKQK recorded July 22 1977 for late August broadcast)
Outlaws  (WKQX-FM November 16, 1977)
Cheap Trick (WKQX-FM December 20, 1977) (on Guitars101)

This is a photocopy of a velox
of a 2 column x 5 inch print ad.

1978
"at the Studio Jam featuring Charlie…"
Journey (WKQX March 5, 1978) (this is on Guitars101)

1979
Steve Miller (announced late 1978)
Todd Rundgren (announced late 1978)
Peter Gabriel (announced late 1978)

Announced in the Atlanta Constitution May 11, 1979
Meatloaf
The Cars
Styx
Kansas
Bob Seger
Bad Company
Jefferson Starship
Ted Nugent
Cheap Trick
The Kinks
Yes
Eddie Money

Already recorded are: (and known broadcast dates) in Cashbox:

Journey (WMMS November 3, 1979)
Ian Hunter (WMMS July 12, 1979, source show in Chicago)
Tycoon (WMMS Sunday after 5/31)
Jay Ferguson (WMMS May 26, 1979)
Police (WMMS June 16, 1979)
Alice Cooper (WBCN Boston July 29, 1979)
Other "radio highlights" scheduled:
Graham Parker (WMMS June 10, 1979)
Greg Kihn (WMMS September 20, 1979)
Police (KZOK October 5, 1979)
New England (KZOK October 12, 1979)
Herman Brood (KZOK October 19, 1979)
Triumph (KZOK October 26, 1979)
Moon Martin  (Oct. 28, 1979 WCCC-FM)
Journey (WMMS November 4, 1979) (Chicago show)
B-52s (WYSP Nov. 11 , 1979)
Joe Jackson (WMMS December 9, 1979)

Possible other shows (from Internet statements)
David Bowie
Doobie Brothers
Foreigner
Earth Wind & Fire
The Records

The Police / Park West, Chicago, IL May 25, 1979 Studio Jam syndicated broadcast

The Police
Park West Chicago, IL
recorded May 25, 1979
Studio Jam radio program
recorded from the radio reel

01 The Police, Mitch Michaels, Sky Daniels - Intro Can't Stand Losing You
02 The Police - Truth Hits Everybody
03 The Police - So Lonely
04 The Police - Fallout
05 The Police - Born In The 50's
06 The Police - Hole In My Life
07 The Police - Be My Girl, Sally
08 The Police - Message In A Bottle
09 The Police - Peanuts
10 The Police - Roxanne
11 The Police - Next To You
12 The Police - Landlord
13 The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
14 The Police - Interview

Here's another from the vast archives of our pal, Sam Elliot's Mustache.

This is sourced from the original radio reel to reel tape.

We have some of the original collateral that came with the reel: ad slick, and Facts and Important Program Information.

I've added a scan of a ticket and newspaper print ads for the show.  
We don't have the "broadcast window" but it was broadcast on Seattle station KZOK-FM on October 5, 1979.

Please don't forget to tip your bartenders
and waitresses.

https://mega.nz/file/fdAz0SAb#qGn5wcKaN37_3Fk2rNQNYkbGOlW70Gs8jXoATo7iWvg

Alice Cooper - Studio Jam - San Diego, April 9, 1979

Alice Cooper
Studio Jam
For initial broadcast May 1 - 15, 1979
Recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA
on April 9, 1979

01 Studio Jam Intro, From The Inside
02 Serious
03 Monologue Vincent Price
04 Welcome To My Nightmare
05 Billion Dollar Babies
06 Eighteen
07 The Quiet Room, I Never Cry
08 Band Jams
09 Wish I Was Born In Beverly Hills
10 Nurse Rozetta
11 Go To Hell
12 School's Out
13 Interview with Alice Cooper
14 Promo 1 & 2 WSAI-FM Studio Jam 

This version is a pre-FM recording taken directly from the reel-to-reel tapes and presented as part of the Sam Elliot's Mustache Collection.

Flac files of wavs, PLUS a letter introducing the Studio Jam series, a page with Program Information, a copy of the Ad Slick for localized newspaper promotion, and the timing sheet.  Apparently, there was also a "Promo Pak" on the artist but that is missing.

ABOUT THE BAND:
I found a print ad from another concert on the tour that lists some of the band, which was named The Ultra Latex Band.
Pentti Glan (drums)
Steve Hunter (guitar)
Prakash John (bass)
Davey Johnstone (guitar)
Fred Mandel (piano)

ABOUT THE CONCERT:
The Alice Cooper concert at the Sports Arena, San Diego, CA on April 9, 1979 was the source of several releases.  The Studio Jam version was the first that I've been able to identify, with a broadcast window of May 1 to May 15, 1979.

King Biscuit Flower Hour did a broadcast with an air date of June 17, 1979 also sourced from the San Diego show.  This was a 60 minute show distributed on reel to reel tapes, with a few different tracks from the Studio Jam version. The KBFH version adds "Only Women Bleed," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "Wish You Were Here," "How You Gonna See Me Now," and drops the Interview.

King Biscuit repeated three tracks from San Diego (Go To Hell, How You Gonna See Me Now & School's Out) combined with songs from two other concerts (Los Angeles and Saginaw) on CD for broadcast on June 4-June 10, 1990 and repeated the same set again on July 29 - August 4, 1991.

The San Diego show is NOT posted at Wolfgang's Vault.

The Strange Case of Alice Cooper is a live concert video released in September 1979 on both Betamax and VHS, sourced from the San Diego concert.  It was released on DVD in 2012 by Shout Factory.  Several bootleg releases of both the video exist, and a CD bootleg named Mad House Rock came out in 1991.  It adds one more song to the set, "Inmates (We're All Crazy)."

There's a Japanese CD bootleg from 2019 called San Diego 1979 Broadcast Masters (Shades 1028) that has the Studio Jam version, PLUS the King Biscuit Flower Hour version.

ABOUT THE Studio Jam program:
Studio Jam was a syndicated radio show hosted by Robin Winter and founded and produced by Charles K. "Chip" Altholz in Chicago. The show started out by showcasing in-studio performances, and a couple years later began to feature live performances recorded at various venues in Chicago. Some of the in-studio performances were recorded at Mantra Studios.

Studio Jam Radio Network was a 50-station radio network to produce and barter syndicated radio concerts in trade for airtime. They produced 24 in-studio live radio concerts featuring major rock stars for 17 Major Record Labels (David Bowie, The Police, Kenny Loggins, Styx, Triumph, Doobie Bros., Foreigner, Earth Wind & Fire etc.) They co-produced the concerts with JAM Productions Ltd., and Robert Pittman who later founded MTV.

Alice Cooper is the first show in the 1979-80 season.

I found an article in the Atlanta Constitution of May 11, 1979 announcing that local station WKLS-FM will carry the Studio Jam Cooper concert on Sunday May 13th.  The program director claims "the series will feature Meatloaf, the Cars, Styx, Kansas, Bob Seger, Bad Company, Jefferson Starship, Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick, the Kinks, Yes and Eddie Money, among others...."  He adds the series "will eventually be repeated."

I'm not sure how many of those shows were actually produced.  My guess is that at least half of those were never broadcast.  

I did find a newspaper listing that the Studio Jam Alice Cooper show was to be broadcast on WBCN in Boston on Sunday July 29, 1979.  That's two months after the original broadcast window. 

https://mega.nz/file/bJhHFazT#hwDQ0271nShE1DWxIrMeV5N-eRMTXMr7l9tZNdsVQTU

Journey - Chicago, 1979 - Studio Jam radio show - Aragon Ballroom, May 1979

Journey
Studio Jam
For airdates between August 1 and August 15, 1979
Likely recorded at the Aragon Ballroom in May 1979

Studio Jam was a syndicated radio show hosted by Robin Winter and founded and produced by Charles K. "Chip" Altholz in Chicago. The show started out by showcasing in-studio performances, and a couple years later began to feature live performances recorded at various venues in Chicago. 

Studio Jam Radio Network was a 50-station radio network to produce and barter syndicated radio concerts in trade for airtime. They produced 24 in-studio live radio concerts featuring major rock stars for 17 Major Record Labels (David Bowie, The Police, Kenny Loggins, Styx, Triumph, Doobie Bros., Foreigner, Earth Wind & Fire etc.) They co-produced the concerts with JAM Productions Ltd., and Robert Pittman who later founded MTV.

This show comes from the Sam Elliot's Mustache collection. Sam transferred this from the original radio station reel-to-reel tape. Sam included a plethora of the original documents sent to the radio stations. There's a two-page Journey biography, a print ad for insertion in local newspapers, a page with Facts and Important Information about the broadcast, and a timing sheet. 

What there isn't is information on when and where the concert was recorded. Robin Winter introduces the band, but doesn't mention the venue or date of the recording.  So, I cast my gaze over the Internet to see what I could find.

There are several bootlegs dating back to the 1990s, attributing this as "Comiskey Park, August 9, 1979."  Makes sense.  The production company was based in Chicago at 875 N. Michigan Avenue (the John Hancock Center at the time), and Comiskey is six miles south.

Sounds good, right?  And multiple pressings all with the same date, hey, they must be right? 

No, this is the Internet.  People just repeat things and add their own errors. I called up our pal Dr. Strange and asked him to come over to the Voodoo Wagon Secret Headquarters to look at one grey market item.  Doc immediately pointed out that "Corniskey Park" is a load of rubbish.  As to repeating error, the show is now up on YouTube as "Corniskey Park" with tens of thousands of views.  And if they spelled the name wrong, what else is suspect?

Yeah, this is all kinds of wrong...

The next thing I checked was the date.  Surely the date must be correct, even if they spelled the name of the baseball stadium ridiculously wrong.

A quick look at the Wiki for the Evolution tour lists five dates at the Aragon Ballroom (May 16, 17, 18, 19, 20) with a return to Chicago on August 5th at Comiskey Park for the WLUP-FM's "The Loop's Day In The Park." I found newspaper clippings proving the Comiskey concert was on the 5th, not the 9th.  It was a big show, 70,000 people, over 200 arrests, and appearances by Journey, Santana, Thin Lizzy, Eddie Money, and Molly Hatchet. So I thought I had found proof of the date and venue.

Evidence came to light proving that to be wrong.  On the Studio Jam Timing sheet, it says: "For airdates between August 1 and August 15, 1979."

It makes no sense to record a show on August 5th and tell fifty stations they can air it starting August 1.  PLUS...what about production time?  Can you edit, master, and do the tape duplication for the reels, and mail them to the radio stations that fast?  Let's face it, that just can be right.

I went looking for more information and found a blurb in CASHBOX from July 14, 1979, that noted the formation of the Studio Jam Radio Network, with 26 rock concerts scheduled for 47 radio stations.  Journey was listed as "already recorded."

Extra! Extra! Voodoo Wagon 
uncovers proof it's not
Cornisky Park!

That is hard printed proof that it's not Comiskey Park (or Corniskey...), and it's not August 5th (or the 9th...).  If they had the show recorded before mid-July, the August date and venue is proven to be wrong.

My guess is that it's from that run at the Aragon Ballroom in May.  I'm suspicious of the five night run; that seems excessive.  I looked for documentation on the number of dates, and there are newspaper listings for the Friday (May 18), Saturday (May 19), and Sunday (May 20) shows. I also found a ticket stub for May 18.  So we know for a fact Journey played three nights at the Aragon in May.

This proves three nights, but 
there may have been five nights.

I found a bootleg over at  T.U.B.E. named "Shining In The Silver Moon" that lists the source as Aragon Ballroom, but has the date as May 28, 1979.  

The odds are very low that they played three (or five) shows in Chicago and then returned a week later for another show.  One possible source for the May 28 date is that Journey did a King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast on May 28, 1978.  That's a year earlier, and that show was sourced from New York, not Chicago.  But all it takes is someone screwing up labeling a show and the next thing you know the grey-market boys are touting a show from Corniskey Park. The KBFH show may have been picked up for the month and day. That's just a speculation, but it makes sense.

As I mentioned, this has been bootlegged before. The complete digitization of the radio show included an eight-minute interview with Steve Perry, and 45 seconds of promotional ads.  These are often left off the circulating tracks.  Sam's version includes them at the end of the show.

https://mega.nz/file/fUw1yTiC#H-bm01LL6oAI8XsEZzpzE3iCHICJkTQT1YJoqRCWTLY