Captured Live! 24
recorded at
Mississippi Nights,
St. Louis, MO
July 10, 1982
Pre-FM from radio reel
01 Dave Cook, Ken Calvert - Intro
02 Commercial - Chevrolet Camero
03 Ken Calvert & Bruce, David Johansen - Interview
04 David Johansen - Funky But Chic
05 David Johansen - Melody
06 David Johansen - Donna
07 David Johansen - Stranded In The Jungle
08 David Johansen - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
09 Commercial - Mattel M Network
10 David Johansen - Frenchette
11 David Johansen - Personality Crisis
12 Commercial - Chevrolet Camero
13 Commercial - American Express (Bill Withers)
14 David Johansen - Babylon
15 Ken Calvert & Bruce, David Johansen - Interview
16 Commercial - Mattel M Network
17 Ken “The Casual One” Calvert - Outro
Another from the fabulous Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection!
Wiki says:
Mississippi Nights was a music club in St. Louis, Missouri. It opened on October 11, 1976 and was located at 914 N 1st Street, on the western bank of the Mississippi River, four blocks north of the Gateway Arch in Laclede's Landing.
Concerts at the venue, which held up to 1,000 people, were often "all ages" events, with just over one percent restricted to patrons 21 and over.
The club is the subject of a song on the album Venue Songs by They Might Be Giants. George Thorogood & the Destroyers' album Live: Let's Work Together features tracks recorded at Mississippi Nights.
While closed now, they have a website where you can buy merch: https://store.mississippinights.com/index.php
We don't have the cue sheet for this, but I did find a newspaper ad.
And there's a mystery. Or at the least a contradiction.
The Billboard listing says this was scheduled for broadcast June 21, 1982...this was in Billboard a week AFTER that date on June 26. But the print ad I found for the Mississippi Nights club shows Johansen played on Saturday July 10, 1982.
I don't have an answer to this mystery. It could be Billboard was just plain wrong, or that Johansen played the same club twice in a very short period of time.
An Amex commercial by Bill Withers?! Oh hell yes! Thanks for the complete DJ show. The NY dolls were essential part of my survival during my teen years. Always had a soft spot for Johansen and his post Dolls music/acting career. Thank you also for the history as well of the Mississippi Nights club. They have some nice looking merch.
ReplyDeleteHi, Ex_mixer! Yes! The premise is "who is singing this song?" and you're supposed to guess the singer. There were several other commercials in the series that will turn up soon when I post a few more Captured Live! shows.
ReplyDeleteAlso...I came to the Dolls about 1976. Glam Rock hadn't made much of an impression here in the Bay Area, we were still in the backwash of the hippie wave that rolled through in '67. But I began digging into the New York scene; we'd heard about CBGBs and wanted to know more...
Here's a gift to the blog! feel free to contact me at. exmixerny AT gmail DOT COM. One of the first projects I worked on was the Thelonious Monk Tribute Album “That’s The Way I feel Now”. It was produced by Hal Wilner and was an amazing introduction to the world of Music production in the early eighties. This was all analog and man was it fun. I worked on songs with the legendary Sly and Robbie, NRBQ and hung around as much as I could for any other setups and breakdowns. This allowed me to meet just about the entire lineup of musicians. Donald Fagen, Gil Evans, Peter Frampton, Dr. John, Joe Jackson, Was Not Was..wow..even today - years later it is a head shaking memory.
ReplyDeleteSly and Robbie - Robbie would have his Bass Amp next to him with the volume Low as he played! It was recorded with a DI box and the amp was for feel. NRBQ were a blast as you can imagine, though we got off to a shaky start. We setup all the instruments for maximum isolation. Blankets covering Piano and amps. The band took one look and said what the hell is all this shit? We removed all the muffling and they played wide open as if on stage. Leakage and all… wow again.
Fagen arrived for the session is his usual grumpy nature, announcing what he WASN”T gonna play! Stuff of legends, when musical GIANTS walked among us!.
My LP copy ripped by myself - I believe this is out of print on Vinyl. Enjoy!
And Happy Holidays to all! Enjoy!
https://pixeldrain.com/u/EirFLKQi
Christgau review A- not too shabby
https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1489
All music review
https://www.allmusic.com/album/thats-the-way-i-feel-now-a-tribute-to-thelonious-monk-mw0000188440
Hal Wilner-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Willner
ex_mixer, this is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing it!
DeleteEarly 80s were good to Johansen solo career.
ReplyDeleteBest regards
Zippy
The Mississippi Nights merch site is unofficial, I think --- but run by some STL folks who wrote what I understand to be a really good book (which of course is available at the merch page) regarding the history of the venue. It's been on my to-read list for a good long while and as always, this is a reminder that I need to find my way back around to reading it! Thanks for the DJ post....always love coming across shows from the venue....and in such good quality, to boot!
ReplyDeleteYeah, one interesting thing about the future is that there's a lot of bootleg merch out there; the guy that ran the Mabuhay Gardens, our local punk club, died penniless; these days there's a dozen people selling t-shirts with the club logo on Ebay.
DeleteThank you draftervoi !
ReplyDeleteCan't say enough about this share. Outstanding! Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteThese early Captured Live shows are pretty rare. We think there were 26 of 'em in '82 on reel-to-reel only. Sam's got eight of 'em direct from the reel and I'll be posting the rest of 'em soon.
DeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteI was there for this one too. Tornado warning that night and if you listen to the outro, my name is mentioned which was rare.
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