London, Wembley, Empire Pool October 31, 1979 (BBC Broadcast Completed) FLAC
Complete b'cast and show, longer & superior to "Hellowe'en Headlines" bootleg CD/CD-R.
Comes with full-colour cover (jpg).
Lineage #1 (CD 1, tracks 2-9, CD 2, tracks 1-5): BBC radio b’cast (“Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It”>(x analog copies)>”Hellowe’en Headlines” silver or CD-R>EAC>digitally EQ’ed>CD-R>EAC>FLAC (level 8) Dime>You!
Lineage #2 (CD 1, track 1; CD 2, tracks 6 & 7): BBC FM b’cast (“You Mother Wouldn’t Like It”>(x analog copies)>CD-R (in trade)>EAC>digital EQ’ing & speed correction>CD-R>EAC>FLAC (level 8)
CD 1:
Nicky Horn Intro
Blind Eye ~
Lady Whiskey
The King Will Come
Warrior
Throw Down The Sword
Front Page News
Sometime World
Goodbye Baby, Hello Friend
CD 2:
Runaway
Come In From The Rain
Phoenix
Jail Bait
Blowin’ Free
No Easy Road
Bad Weather Blues
OU: NOT FOR SALE - Trade & sharing only.
DO NOT spread a version of this upload if you fumbled on it (i.e. if you did more "remastering“, doctoring, tinkering…), and DO NOT spread this show in lossy formats, either, OK? OK????
OU: I hope my donation causes a few serious Wishbone collectors to follow suit and to climb up to their attics, dig into their shoe or whatever boxes,and maybe share another uncirculated Wishbone heyday show of old (70's, that is). Wishbone ahoy!
I've long thought of uploading my version of this beautiful show, but discovering how many of my low gen. and rarely circulated shows I have donated during the last year have turned up as commercial bootlegs has really pissed me off big time and kept me from sharing more gems of my collection.
Each time I receive a show from [this site], it reminds me that joy is about the only thing that doubles if you share it.
After Wishbone's bomeback in style with their raw, "live-in-the-studio" 1976 "New England" album, the band obviously gave another shot at finally making it on the US market with their rather Americanized "studio-produced" sounding "Front Page News" album. IIRC, it was Martin Turner who once stated that it was difficult for the band and in some cases even impossible to transfer some of this album's tracks to the stage. It seems that in order to counterbalance the somewhat more-Pop-than-Rock nature of the album they chose to undig a few numbers that they hadn't played in a few years - the first time in their career they's do that. For what it's worth, it's exactly those numbers that make their 1977 tour so interesting (IMHO): Blind Eye (not played since 1972), Lady Whiskey (not played since 1973/74), Throw Down the Sword (not played since early 1975), Sometime World (not played since 1974), Phoenix (not done since 1975), and No Easy Road (not played since 1973).
Wishone embarked on a pretty sucessful UK tour, but the album didn't do much neither in Punk-stricken Blighty nor on the US market which they were obviously aiming at in the first place. This show here was set as the "grande finale" of their UK tour, and turned out to be their only ever headlining Wembley Empire Pool show. Never before or after would they play this prestigious 8,000 seater, most likely their largest UK indoor audience as headliners ever (as far as I know).
Underlining this show's status was the Beeb's b'cast within their famous (or infamous?) "Your Mother Wouldn't Like It" series. Alas, on this occasion the band cut down their set and dropped "You Rescue Me" which they had previously done along the tour. It may be though that was necessary to comply with the b'cast time limitations.
Alas, there doesn't seem to be a low. gen. or even pre-FM copy in circulation. All there is among collectors' circles is a bootleg CD titled "Helloween Headlines" on one Crafty Cat Records label that appeared sometime in the early 2000's. Don't know if this ever was a real silver or just another CD-R "release". Anyway, this thingy was made from a not-really-low gen. copy of the b'cast which suffers from a significantly "flat" image and a slight what seems like a mid-wave b'cast tone. Not too bad, but it caused my good friend and long-time trading & collecting mate Hans-Guether to take care of this show and apply his significant digital EQ'ing skills. Along with my CD, I also sent him the last two tracks (No Easy Road and Bad Weather Blues plus Nicky Horn's intro) which are not included on the boot CD, and thus are only rarely circulated. As a pretty good guitarist himself he of course easily detected that these two tracks ran fast and he easily adjusted them to the correct speed of the remainder of the show.
In case you give a sh*t, my favourites on this show are the rarely played "Sometime World" with Laurie's oh-so-tender quiet guitar part, and "Throw Down the Sword" with some of the most beautiful tone sequences in Andy's solo I know of.
Hence, if you downlod this show, you shall get a
1) completed,
2) heavily sound-improved,
3) speed corrected, and
4) never circulated as such
version of this memorable show - not to mention my labour-of-love cover depicting contemporary tour memorabilia (tell me what you think of it, OK?).
rar files packed with a (winrar) recovery record -
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11 comments:
Thanks for this Wishbone Ash post, Dave.
It looks very promising and I'm looking forward to listening to it.
In my opinion Wishbone Ash was one of the greatest groups in the 70s with their unique twin guitar sound. The group still exists today with Andy Powell as the only original member. They are still an excellent live band but criminally underrated, so it is a pleasure to find this post.
I can only recommend this wonderful group to everybody who likes great guitar playing.
Cheers from Denmark
I look forward to your comments after listening too!
I got their first album when it came out and have loved the ever since. The wife loves them, too. Thanks from both of us!
Thank you very much for this fine Ash show. I really agree to Kim, that this a very underrated band. Great to hear.
Hello Dave,
Now I have listened to it so here are a few words. This is a great concert. The sound quality is 4 out of 6 and the performance is just as excellent as I expected. To this day Argus – their 3rd album – is one of the very best classic rock albums of all time, and it’s great to find that 5 out of 7 tracks from that album are represented.
Not a bad track here. Andy Powel’s guitar in the beautiful “Throw Down The Sword” is always a pleasure that brings back many memories for me. And they also handle the more rocking numbers like “Phoenix” and “Blowing Free” very convincingly.
I have been to a few Wishbone Ash concerts through the years. They have all been great. The official live releases are all great. So are the performances on various bootlegs I have heard. This one is no exception.
Thanks again for this post.
Cheers from Denmark
Just to put the record straight 'Your Mother Wouldn't Like It' wasn't a BBC show - it aired on Capital Radio, no connection to the Beeb at all.
Thank You for this excellant post. One of my favorite bands for sure. The king will come is one of the best songs ever IMHO.
Thanks for this excellent post,i really appreciate your hard work. However,there seems to be a problem with the last track which is corrupt. I have downloaded all the files twice with the same result. The rest sounds great!
thanks for the post. had all their vinyl, but always like a live concert to shake things musically. thanks
I want to thank the availability of Wishbone Ash Bootlegs. I'm a huge fan of the band, I'm always looking for new materials. Never found a place so rich as this. Congratulations on the blog, honestly.
I expect more posts! : D
I have the Live At Rainbow, also tour the Front Page News. If you want I could give the links.
Congratulations!
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