I have only found this on colored vinyl and stamp-less. Do other variations exist?
USA: 1979
Source: Incomplete FM broadcast of the Warner brothers promo album TALKING HEADS LIVE ON TOUR, which had been recorded at the Agora in Cleveland, OH on 18 December 1978. The promo album, needless to say beats the boots hands down.
The same recording was also released with all tracks present in 1979 as ELECTRICITY , the double album on Ken’s EXCITABLE RECORDWORKS label (# 2R-69, also known by the fake pseudo-German label name KÜNSTLER RECORDS created just for this release), spread over the first three sides.
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A final bootleg vinyl issue came in the 80’s on what may have been an Italian release:
[Although it has an IMP number, this may only be available with Excitable Recordworks labels.]
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Original version with 1970’s GLC labels, confirmed by the matrix number:GLC415A / B / C / D
A mono-reduced reissue of this release on the Excitable Recordworks label (same matrix #):
Source: The Oakland Coliseum, July 13th 1974, only the third show of their long awaited reunion tour. Billed as “Days On The Green N. 2″ and organized by Bill Graham, of course.
Side 1: Suite Judy Blue Eyes (1:06)/ Wooden Ships (8:22)/ Immigration Man (2:15)/ Traces (2:45)/ Grave Concern (3:30)/ Black Queen (5:20)/ Ohio (4:33) Side 2: Black Bird (2:45)/ Human Highway (4:09)/ Carry Me (4:45)/ For Free (4:55)/ Prison Song (4:00)/ It’s Alright (2:43)/ Our House (3:27) Side 3: Long May You Run (5:04)/ Only Love Will Break Your Heart (4:41)/ Ambulance Blues; Pissing In The Wind (7:00)/ On The Beach (8:45) Side 4: Can’t Catch Me (8:00)/ Long Time Gone (6:09)/ Revolution Blues (3:00)/ Falling Down (8:35)
“The Song “Falling Down”, the other unreleased Neil Young song here besides “Traces”, might be better known as “Pushed It Over The Edge” [“Pushed It Over The End” is the correct title].”
Original set list was:
01. Love The One You’re With
02. Wooden Ships
03. Immigration Man
04. Traces
05. Cowgirl In The Sand
06. Grave Concern
07. Black Queen
08. Ohio
09. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
10. Blackbird
11. Human Highway
12. Carry Me
13. For Free
14. The Lee Shore
15. Prison Song
16. It’s All Right
17. Our House
18. Long May You Run
19. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
20. Ambulance Blues
21. Sugar Mountain
22. Know You Got To Run
23. You Can’t Catch Me / Word Game
24. Don’t Be Denied
25. Deja Vu
26. Pre-Road Downs
27. First Things First
28. Long Time Gone
29. Revolution Blues
29. Pushed It Over The End
30. Carry On
00. band introduction / encore announcement
31. On The Beach
32. Chicago
“…Neil Young would enter the dressing room in a foul mood, saying the show, now trimmed by ten minutes, was still too long…” [I can certainly see that]
collectorsmusicreviews.com writes: “A tape featuring part of this show was released in the seventies titled Traces on vinyl. A condensed version of this tape was issued on two discs called We Waited 3 Years For This…” [this is incorrect, both vinyl releases contain the same tracks] “It is a very good to almost excellent sounding tape that is a bit thin on the lower end. The first couple of seconds of “Love The One You With” are missing…”
From a torrent of this material: “c. On all known DAT/CDR copies of this show, about 10 seconds are missing from Pushed It Over The End. However, there is a bootleg double LP called ‘Traces’ from part of this show, where that part is curiously NOT missing.”
A1 Sweet Jane Medley A2 I’m Waiting For The Man Medley (Work With Me Annie/Sexy Ways/I Wanna Be Black) B1 I’ll Be Your Mirror B2 Perfect Day B3 Men Of Good Fortune
Quality listed as “Exm” – audience recording
Side 2 mangled on the cover to: 1) Eyes, 2) Perfect Day, 3) Your Going To Reap Just What You Sow, 4) Men Of Good Fortune
Notes.- “Sexy Ways” was written by Henry Ballard and was released as a 45 on Federal 45-12185, perfomed by The Midnighters. “Work With Me Annie” is probably from a similar source This show was reviewed in Rolling Stone, 23 August 1979. Lou climbed up on to a table in the audience to sing the “Waiting For The Man” medley.
Lou Reed did a number of shows at the Bottom Line as part of “The Bells” US Tour. More information can be found here:
Source: CHUM-FM had recorded Elvis’ gig at the El Mocambo in Toronto on March 6th 1978 (and Columbia Records Canada pressed it into the radio station promo Live at the El Mocambo). As “Heart of the City”is not on the LP, this probably comes from the original radio broadcast.
A1 Mystery Dance
A2 Waiting For The End Of The World
A3 Welcome To The Working Week
A4 Less Than Zero
A5 The Beat [not listed]
A6 Lip Service
A7 (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea [not listed]
B1 Little Triggers
B2 Radio, Radio
B3 Vogue
B4 Wathin’ The Detectives
B5 Heart Of The City [w. Nick Lowe]
B6 Miracle Man
“Heart Of The City is one of the 4 songs performed as encores with Nick Lowe, and is clumsily inserted after the opening chord to Miracle Man.”
Also, and probably first, released as TAKRL 901 – The Kornyfone Radio Hour:
and finally as LP 1 of this double set on Toasted:
Source: KBFH recording from the New York Palladium on September 22nd, 1978. The Cars opening for Cheap Trick. The headliner was recorded as well and this ended up as the hi-fidelity side 4 of the California Man ’78 double set on Audifon records.
A1 My Best Friends Girl A2 Moving In Stereo A3 Since I Held You A4 Just What I Needed B1 Candy-O B2 Don’t Cha Stop B3 Take What You Want [this is either “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” or “Misfit Kid“]
Another KSAN broadcast. The pattern is clear, any of their broadcasts Ken would press into hard copy within weeks and available to the buying public who would know that the quality would be at least decent.
“For many years, the LP of the same name was the only Ian Hunter bootleg album in circulation. Its source is a 1979 FM radio show recorded at the Berkley Community Theatre early in the Schizophrenic tour. The performance is strong, and the playing is top-notch. The band work well together, and are clearly enjoying themselves. By the time this was recorded, the Schizophrenic album was selling strongly, beyond everyone’s expectations, which of course helps enormously.
Sound quality is very good, although a bit muddy in places. This is probably the fault of the mix engineer – it sounds as though the show was recorded straight onto quarter-inch (two-track) for broadcast, with no re-mixing/cleaning up otherwise done.” [www.hunter-mott.com]
The bill on this night was “Ian Hunter Band, Nick Gilder, John Hiatt”
A1 Once Bitten Twice Shy A2 Life After Death A3 Long For Me A4 Letter To Brittania From The Union Jack A5 Just Another Night B1 Angeline B2 Standin’ In My Light B3 Bastard B4 Cleveland Rocks
Notes from a digitized analog tape {I guess we have some song title conflicts]:
The Ian Hunter Band with Mick Ronson July 7, 1979 Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA KSAN-FM broadcast
1. KSAN announcer intro > crowd > stage intro 0:46 2. FBI [instrumental] 4:51 3. Once Bitten Twice Shy 5:13 4. Life After Death 4:54 5. Laugh At Me 4:15 6. Ships 3:59 7. Just Another Night 6:45 8. Angeline 4:58 9. Standing In My Light 5:42 10. Love Story Part Two 6:38 11. KSAN announcer 0:09 12. Cleveland Rock [cuts in] 4:34 13. final thanks, crowd + KSAN announcer outro 0:40 Total: 53:24
Significant upgrade over the other upload of this show. Very good to excellent sound quality. Mostly a combination of 2 low gen. reels but also has KSAN DJ bits spliced in from the previous seeded copy in a few spots. Monophonic recording up to end of track 9. Stereo for the remainder except for the announcer splices from the previous seed.
Source & transfer info: low gen. off-air reels
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4513-1 Rolling Stones, The Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be [I’m taking the liberty of skipping this one as I don’t think I can offer anything new to this well known release]
4514-1 Little Feat Wheeling And Dealing [has been added to the TAKRL entry for Aurora Backseat]
4515-1 Fleetwood Mac Albatross But Not Around My Neck [already listed under it’s parent entry ZAP 7858: The Rockhoppers Live 1976]
Source: The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA – April 9, 1979
Side 1: Local Girls / Soul On Ice / Passion Is No Ordinary Word / Protection / Mercury Poisoning Side2: Stick To Me / You Can’t B Too Strong / Watch The Moon Come Down / Tear Your Playhouse Down / Saturday Night Is Dead / I Want You Back
Source: University of Leeds, March 13th 1971, as recorded by the Rolling Stones crew and later given to the BBC. collectorsmusic.com writes: “This tape was broadcast as a BBC Radio special on April 13th and again on May 30th on “Sunday Music” hosted by John Peel. The show was played a month before the release of Sticky Fingers (with the radio broadcast a month after to benefit from the LP’s release), and their playing in these live shows has the same dark, cut throat nihilism. “
A1 Dead Flowers [04:37] A2 Stray Cat Blues [03:42] A3 Love In Vain [06:28] A4 Midnight Rambler [12:46] B1 Bitch [05:53] B2 Honky Tonk Women [03:14] B3 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [05:22] B4 Little Queenie [04:18]
Q: Excellent mono
Original set list: Jumping Jack Flash (unavailable), Dead Flowers, Stray Cat Blues, Love In Vain, Midnight Rambler, Bitch, band introduction, Honky Tonk Women, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Little Queenie, Brown Sugar, Street Fighting Man, Let It Rock “… and presumably ”Live With Me.” The tape cuts in with Mick Jagger introducing the new song “Dead Flowers” and what follows is a brilliant performance all around.
“Midnight Rambler” has a strange sounding, happy introduction before the song gets started. Jagger is very animated during “Midnight Rambler” as he repeats his smut with “go down on me baby.” The new song “Bitch” is referred to as an “uptempo ditty.”
But the arrangement of “Satisfaction” is very strange. The ending has two Chuck Berry covers and one of the most aggressive performances of “Brown Sugar” on tape.”
I believe Ken’s TMOQ ‘smokin’ pig’ version was the first release of this material in 1974:
ERW 4511 was not a straight copy of this earlier LP as the master was a different one. Hot Wacks feels this first version sounds less good than the 1979 one but dbboots.com makes no difference between the two, rating them both “Excellent mono”.
A1 Dead Flowers [03:44] A2 Stray Cat Blues [04:04] A3 Love In Vain [06:27] A4 Bitch [04:00] A5 Brown Sugar [04:41] B1 Band intro [00:51] B2 Honky Tonk Women [03:07] B3 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [05:01] B4 Midnight Rambler [12:25]
Source: Soundboard recording from the Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ – 14 June 1978, except B6: audience recording from John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia, PA – June 17 1978
A1 Let It Rock [02:45] A2 All Down The Line [05:03] A3 When The Whip Comes Down [05:13] A4 Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) [06:16] A5 Beast of Burden [06:30] A6 Sweet Little Sixteen [03:05] B1 Respectable [04:06] B2 Far Away Eyes [06:32] B3 Love In Vain [05:49] B4 Happy [03:24] B5 Jumping Jack Flash [04:18] B6 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [03:36]
According to Hot Wacks, this is a re-release of this previous album:
ON TOUR 1978
which was a copy of this fine bootleg, earning a good reputation due to its excellent quality:
OUT ON BAIL – 1978 U.S. TOUR
Design-wise, clearly a homage to the very first Rolling Stones bootleg LIVEr Than You’ll Ever Be by what would become the TMOQ label. This release and it’s second part IN AGAIN OUT AGAIN (see below) has been attributed to Vicky Vinyl.
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Another copy of the Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ recording, this time on SMILIN DORK Records:
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Ah, the Stones ’78 tour, it’s either loathed or quite well liked, depending on where you approach it from. A fan of the Mick Taylor years will probably not rate it highly but I think this tour had a certain something beyond the erratic state of many of the performances that none of the other tours did – and it was in promotion for one of their best albums.
“The 1978 US tour was put together very quickly, in light of the fact that Keith Richards was facing a lengthy prison sentence in Toronto on heroin trafficking charges. At the start of the tour, only twelve dates were actually booked. On this tour, the Rolling Stones intended to go back to their roots, back to rock and roll basics, and back to the simplicity of club and theater shows (as opposed to the large sports arenas and huge football stadiums that they had been playing in since 1969). Because major tour announcements and their name itself caused sell-out ticket runs, general panic and hysteria, and much of the ensuing craziness, paranoia and pandemonium (Stonesmania) that surrounds them during a Stones tour, for the small venue shows, it would be necessary to employ both secrecy and pseudonyms; in effect, some dates were unannounced, and, for some club shows, the band played under a variety of different names.”
“Following rehearsals in Woodstock, New York, the Stones launched their trek in Lakeland (Florida) on June 10, billing themselves as the “Great Southeast Stoned Out Wrestling Champions.” It was the first indication of how sneaky the Stones would be that summer. Two days later, they played the 4,000-seat Fox Theatre in Atlanta, where they billed themselves as the “Cockroaches.”
The Stones did not announce any concerts for New York City. Instead, there were rumors they would play a small nightclub or theatre. At the Bottom Line, a concert by the Roches, a folk-singing sister act, sold out within minutes, due to hysteria and speculation. (WNEW-FM had to break format and play Roches records, just to prove that the Roches were not the Cockroaches.)
On June 14, the Stones played the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, where the marquee deceptively stated, “Closed for Repairs.” Tickets for the concert were sold without warning at a handful of record stores and head shops. (An announcement suddenly came over the stores’ PA systems: “Tickets for the Stones are on sale now.”)” [source: Bill German]
Above: Back of that night’s program, the usual front page had to be shifted to the last page as the Stones insisted on using their logo for the tour – the Chinese propaganda girl – on the front.
THE AMAZING KORNYFONE LABEL 