Love Tractor – Iowa City 1989 & 1983 bonus

Polo Club

Iowa City, Iowa

KRUI-FM broadcast

1989-XX-XX        

FM broadcast (sound quality VG+)

Repercussion: Mitch Easter produced the 1989 Love Tractor album Themes from Venus, and members of Love Tractor were some of the pioneers of the Athens, GA indie music scene, along with B-52s, Pylon and (of course) R.E.M.
 

What kind of photos would you expect

 from a group named “Love Tractor”?!?

BIG THANKS to the taper, original uploader and those who posted the videos from which I ripped the audio...

01 Nightclub Scene

02 Neon Lights

03 Themes from Venus

04 Venice

05 Festival

06 Beatle Boots

07 brief station ID

08 Sixty Degrees Below

09 Cartoon Kiddies

10 Hey Mess

11 Nova Express

12 Outside With Ma

Atlanta Arts Festival

Atlanta, GA

May 17, 1983

VHS audio rip (sound quality VG-)

13 Buy Me a Million Dollars

14 Paint

15 Tropical

Athens, GA

1983-XX-XX

VHS audio rip (sound quality VG-)

16 Sharp Dressed Man*

           *Track 16 with Peter Buck and Mike Mills of R.E.M.

Any help identifying tracks 5 & 15 will be appreciated…

MP3@320

Alt. Link

This is Love Tractor's original lineup. The band re-grouped
some years ago and remains active today.

Love Tractor:

Mark Cline

Mike Richmond

Kit Swartz

Armistead Wellford

(Andrew Carter may have played in place of Kit S. for 1989 show)
  

Learn more about Love Tractor and its music at AllMusic, the band's MySpace site, or blog.