Utica, N.Y.
March 2, 1985
soundboard recording (quality: Ex-; sounds great!)
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| MC: musical man of mystery |
02 Our Town
03 Little Sister
04 There She Goes Again
05 (We're Gonna) Shake Up Their Minds
06 Soldier of Love
07 One More Reason
08 I'm Alive
09 Reet Petite
10 Mary Anne
11 Monday Morning Rock
12 Whenever You're On My Mind
13 Big Hunk of Love
14 Little Wild One*
15 Cynical Girl
16 She Can't Dance
17 Someday Someway (cuts out)
18 Girls
19 Endless Sleep
20 Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
*the brief cut in track 14 was also on the master recording
ROB SEZ: Once I started posting MC shows starting with 1982, I decided to just keep going forward chronologically. Most self-respecting MC fans probably have this already because it circulated pretty widely over the years. I think I first acquired it from the late, great Quality Bootz site. The sound quality on this one can't be beat, and is most likely from a master tape or, at most, 1st-generation copy. The early part of the performance is a bit lackluster compared to the rest of what I've posted, but that's probably because it's one of the band's first shows of 1985, and there are players new to the touring lineup, like the great Graham Maby. Fortunately, the show picks up steam about a third of the way through, so it's worth staying with it — or just skipping straight to track 8. (The bonus mystery share won't be hard to find.)
REPERCUSSION:
Marshall Crenshaw & The dB's go way back to the earliest days of their music. They shared a record label for about a minute: Alan Betrock's Shake Records, which released the first bonafide dB's single in 1980 (after the "Chris Stamey and The dB's" self-released CAR single) and MC's first single in 1980, just before he signed to Warner Brothers. With both MC and The dB's based in the NYC area in the 1980s, they no doubt crossed paths with each other more than a few times. Fast forward to 2016, when Crenshaw uncovered multi-track tapes of a live show he decided to release on vinyl. He asked none other than his "great friend" Chris Stamey to mix the tracks, which became the 2017 vinyl release Thank You, Rock Fans. Here's what MC said about Chris when it was released: "He was one of the mainstays of the scene that we were part of, felt whatever energy we were able to put into a live room back then, understood where we were coming from, etc. I'm glad that this new live album has his fingerprints on it." One more dB's-related connection: Mitch Easter and Don Dixon have both produced music for MC over the years.
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| Chris Stamey mixed this LP |
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