Just over a month after Pink Floyd ended their shows at Wembley Arena the next band to move in for a multi-night residency were the Eagles on their first European Tour, following the release of their HOTEL CALIFORNIA album.
Japan: 1978
Source: London, Wembley Arena, 26 April 1977
Side 1: Hotel California / Walk Away / Victim of Love / Rocky Mountain Way / Lyin’ Eyes / Wasted Time
Side 2: Take it To The Limit / New Kid in Town / Wasted Time (Reprise) / Desperado / Life in the Fast Lane / James Dean / Best Of My Love / Take It Easy
Looks like a rarer release that does not turn up very often
BRR 005: Suzi Quatro – Naked Under Leather as featured in the previous post “Western Pop-Rock Acts Bootlegged In Japan 1975-76: …”
BRR & SLA 006: Queen – “STUNNING” ditto
BRR 007: Led Zeppelin – BBC Broadcast
BRR & SLA release numbers were often used interchangeably, it seems.
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SLA 001: Queen – Geisha Boys ditto
SLA 002
Image caption reads: Richie Blackmore: “I yell and scream at home, too.” The text below reads: “Loudest Pop Group. The amplification for Deep Purple on their 10,000 watt Marshall P.A. system attained 117 decibels. This was sufficient in the Rainbow Theatre, London, in 1972, to render three members of their audience unconscious.”
Mostly found with blank labels in various colors; below a copy with a “Duck Hits!” label
Matrix: SLA-00002A/B
Side 1: 01 Lucille (5:25) — probably 12 December 1970, Stuttgart, Germany 02 Mumblin’ thing blues (8:29) — Muelheim Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany, 4 April, 1970 (Progressive Pop Festival ’70) 03 Into the fire (4:16) — probably 12 December 1970, Stuttgart, Germany
Side 2: Space truckin’ (19:02) — Sporthalle, Stuttgart-Boeblingen, Germany, 10 February, 1972
Source: A copy of of the second Edition of the European bootleg LP Back To The Rock
This has been confirmed by a torrent on dime, however, the only images I can find are for the (Dutch?) LP on the Altintas label, which has a different track list and sources, altogether. Can anyone shed some light on this?
OK, hand up! Who in the audience had the recorder?
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SLA 003: Deep Purple – Made For Japanas featured in the previous post “Western Pop-Rock Acts Bootlegged In Japan 1975-76: …”
SLA 007
Vicky Vinyl obviously thought after
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the logical title for the next Queen (bootleg) album must be:
Correct concert date stated. Found with blank, Idle Mind, Duck and Ruthless Rhymes labels
Queenlive.ca dates this release to 1978. An insert, autographed by the band, sold for over $600 in February of 2012.
First 4 songs on side 1 play too slow. The master was originally taped on a Tandberg Model 11 recorder with Sony ECM-22P mics.
Two other insert variations exist:
Incorrect information given regarding the recording equipment and pointing out the date error on P.N.W. (see below) plus a ‘cheeky finish’.
and:
Looking at the set list shows how this was edited and mixed up:
01. Tie Your Mother Down 02. Ogre Battle P1 03. White Queen P2 04. Somebody To Love D1 05. Killer Queen -> P3 06. The Millionaire Waltz -> P4 07. You’re My Best Friend -> P5 08. Bring Back That Leroy Brown P6 09. Brighton Rock -> P7 10. Guitar Solo -> P7 11. Brighton Rock (Reprise) P7 12. ’39 D2 13. You Take My Breath Away D3 14. White Man -> P8 15. The Prophet’s Song P9 16. Bohemian Rhapsody D4 17. Stone Cold Crazy 18. Keep Yourself Alive 19. Liar 20. In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited D5 21. Now I’m Here (cuts in) D6 22. Big Spender D7 23. Jailhouse Rock Medley* D7,8,9,10 * includes Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, Stupid Cupid and Be Bop A Lula
D = Duck Soup + track number on that LP; P = P.N.W. + track number on that LP
Interesting notes from a remastering job of the above master:
“Remaster A copy of this recording was released on LP bootlegs, this is the first time when the original complete recording comes out. Unfortunately this master copy sounds much worse then the LP bootleg, which is pretty unusual. The original master was really heavy in the bottom end, while the LPs sound really clean. …”
2 LP bootleg of the complete master tape, taken from the 2009 torrent; supposedly only 100 copies pressed – I wonder if they used the remaster. This copy sold for a respectable GBP 155 in June of 2013.
I personally prefer the audience recording from the Boston Garden from this tour that was shared on dime a couple of years ago. Some live recordings just have that extra special bit of ‘audio magic’ and that’s one of them.
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The first release containing material from this show was on this LP, released as part of the ODD Wizardo sub label in 1977:
Still sealed copy above
Matrix: ODD THREE -A / B
Does this exist with any other labels?
1980 reissue under this title (with a mismatched The Game Tour 1980 live shot):
1996 copy/re-issue made in Germany on mcv:
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SLA 008
Matrix: ·SLA 0008 A / B
The year is actually correct: Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, Season 1, Episode 20 [broadcast?] April 13, 1974: The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne
Regarding the location as stated on the back cover. The 46th St. Rock Palace in Brooklyn, NY became later known as ‘Bananafish Garden’ (now a furniture show & storage room) named after the J.D. Salinger short story.A few episodes of Rock Concert were filmed there but I could not confirm that this one was.
“A TV show (Howard Stein’s I believe) later used the Rock Palace for some memorable shows with Jerry Lee Lewis, The Byrds, Hot Tuna, Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Steve Stills, and God knows who else […]”
Side 1: America: A Horse With No Name, Lonely People, I Need You, Ventura Highway, Green Monkey, Sandman
Broadcast on August 2, 1974 as part of 3 part series, possibly recorded at the Rainbow Theater in London (show # 38)
Side 2: Tequila Sunrise, Early Bird, Witchy Woman, Take It Easy* (The first three tracks were broadcast on August 3rd, 1973 in show # 13). * maybe from California Jam, as it was broadcast as the only Eagles’ track on May 10th 1974 in show # 32 ‘California Jam part one’.
This determines the late summer/fall of 1974 as the earliest start of the Phonygraf label.
Detailed matrix information: “Written on the margin of Side 1 between the last groove of the record and the label is the following: “MEL AMERICAN SIDE-1 AMERICA I 1385 TPRGL 1101-A”.
The following above words are scratched out: MEL AMERICAN AMERICA I 1385
Written on the margin of Side 2 is the following: “EAGLES SIDE II MEL AMERICAN SIDE-2 1385 1105 1101-B”.
The following above words are scratched out: “EAGLES SIDE II AMERICAN 1385 1105″.”
I’m guessing that this insert and pressing came later.
Live in Sydney around ’75/’76, however, apparently not the same recording or master as “Welcome To The Late Show”/”Live In Sydney, Australia 1976” on ZAP 7849
So, when was this recorded? I have found tour dates in Australia for January of 1975 and 1976 but they are obviously touring the “One Of These Nights” album here, which was released in June of 1975 and the best website I could find on the Eagles touring & live recordings history lists no recordings from the 01/1975 dates but several for the 1976 tour start, so I”m going with that year. I’m spending so much time on this to find out in which year the SODD label got its start.
Set list from Osaka shows in early February of 1976:
1 Take It Easy 2 Outlaw Man 3 Doolin-Dalton/Desperado (Reprise) 4 Turn to Stone 5 Lyin’ Eyes 6 You Never Cry Like a Lover 7 Take It to the Limit 8 Desperado 9 Midnight Flyer 10 One of These Nights 11 Already Gone 12 Too Many Hands 13 Good Day in Hell 14 Witchy Woman 15 Rocky Mountain Way 16 James Dean/The Best of My Love 17 Funk #49 18 Oh Carol 19 Tequila Sunrise
Compare to the track list of the SODD double:
Take it Easy / One of These Nights / Turn to Stone / Outlaw Man / Doolin-Dalton / Desperado / You never Cry Like a Lover / Midnight Flyer / Already Gone / Tequila Sunrise / Early Bird / Foggy Mountain Breakdown / Witchy Woman / Take it Easy II
Source for sides 1 – 3 confirmed as a decent quality audience recording from Sydney, Australia on January 27, 1976.
Side 4 (starting with ‘Tequila Sunrise’): “ABC-TV In Concert” from the Santa Monica Civic Center, August 3rd, 1973. with the exception of the last song, which is most likely from California Jam, as it was broadcast as the only Eagles’ track on May 10th 1974 in show # 32 ‘California Jam part one’. .
Reissued in ’78 on TAKRL 24901 with a b&w cover:
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And after that as the third and very rare release on the Terrific Tunes label, pressed from the original SODD plates with the matrix crossed out and TAKRL number added. Record one has Spunk labels and record two has Monique D’Ozo labels.
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In my opinion, the following is a fake ZAP title, using a number(1849) they knew ZAP would not use as their series started with 1850. Note the Anti Gravity label and atypical cover design.
Side 1: Take it Easy (5:20) / Outlaw Man (5:30) / Doolin’ Dalton (6:23) / Desperado (2:37) / One of these nights (4:10)
Side 2: Turn to Stone (9:00) / You Never Cry Like a Lover (4:18) / Midnight Flyer (4:32) / Already Gone (5:13)
Hot Wacks description: Exs. S: Sydney, Australia Jan. 27 ’76 Very limited pressing (one eBay seller claimed 500; it is certainly a rarer title)
Also available on Anti Gravity 102 as:
First edition was on black & blue ‘splatter’ vinyl.
