CAPTURED LIVE!
.38 Special CL 583
For broadcast: Week of May 23, 1983

Recorded at the Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas

The likely recording date is November 26, 1982,

Hosted by Perry Stone.

Captured Live! LPs had a Disc Code numbering system combining the first letters of the show name (“CL”) with the number of the show (1, 2, 3…) and the year (either 1983 or 1984). As an example, the first show of 1983 was CL 183, the second show was CL 283, etc.).

Something went wrong with the numbering for this show, as there is Jethro Tull show with the same number. I've included a copy of the CL 583 Jethro Tull disc label to document that I'm not finally getting that acid flashback they warned me back in the 70s.

00 1000hz Tone
01 Captured Live! CL-583 Intro - Perry Stone
02 Take 'em Out
03 Back On The Track
04 Rough Housin'
05 Captured Live! CL-583 Break - Perry Stone
06 Stone Cold Believer
07 You Keep Runnin' Away
08 Wild Eyed Southern Boys
09 Captured Live! CL-583 Break - Perry Stone
10 Chain Lightnin'
11 Back Door Stranger
12 So Caught Up In You
13 Captured Live! CL-583 Break - Perry Stone
14 Turn It On
15 Around And Around
16 Hold On Loosely
17 I've Been A Mover
18 Captured Live! CL-583 Break - Perry Stone
19 Rockin' In The Night
20 Fortunate Son
21 Captured Live! CL-583 Break - Perry Stone
22 Captured Live! CL-583 Outor - Perry Stone

This is a 3 LP set, but there are only five sides, the sixth side is blank. The last bit of the etching in the run out groove is anybody's guess, part is a cursive script and the letters are not clear.

CL•583•CM CR script: 8e OR Se
CL•583•CM CR script: 8e OR Se
CL•583•CM CR script: 8e OR Se
CL•583•CM CR script: 8e OR Se
CL•583•CM CR script: 8e OR Se

The vinyl on this was not mint, so this one took a lot of work to clean up.

Flac files of .wavs. 300 dpi scans of all six disc labels (yes, even the blank side), the cue sheet (wrinkled, but readable).

This version digitized August 2022 by you-know-who, direct from the syndicated radio station discs.

Captured Live! broadcast a second .38 Special concert in 1984 as CL-1484. Ten of the songs on this 1983 broadcast are repeated, but the set list is reordered (for example, the show opens with Wild-Eyed Southern Boys as the first track). I don't have that show for comparison, but you know how it goes here..."We get on our phones, scour the Internet....and Scooby-Doo this shit."

So here goes:

There's a bootleg released in 2020 named "Hot Night at the Juke Joint: The Dallas Broadcast 1984." The set list matches the 10 song Captured Live CL 1484 1984 show. If the bootleg is from Dallas, then most likely so is the 1984 Captured Live! show. As the 1983 broadcast is identified by Perry Stone as being from Dallas, it's likely they're all sourced from the same concert.

Quod erat demonstrandum:

If you bought the bootleg, this version has five more songs from the same show (Back On The Track, Chain' Lightnin', I've Been A Mover, Take 'em Out, and Turn It On).

From Wiki:

"Reunion Arena was an indoor arena located in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas. The arena served as the primary home of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars and the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks. The venue's capacity held accommodations for 17,000 for ice hockey spectators, and 18,190 for basketball spectators.

Reunion was also a performance venue for some of the biggest names in popular music from the 1980s through the late 2000s including Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Prince, Van Halen, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, David Bowie, Madonna, Gloria Estefan, Mötley Crüe, Pink Floyd, Queen, Journey (band) U2, R.E.M. and Radiohead.

Reunion Arena was demolished in November 2009 and the site was cleared by the end of the year."


List of currently known Captured Live! shows distributed on vinyl LPs (there were shows in 1982 distributed on reel to reel):

CL 183 Ozzy Osbourne
CL 283 Eddie Money (San Bernardino, CA on the No Control Tour on December 18,1982)
CL 383 Kansas
CL 483 Randy Meisner
CL 583 Jethro Tull
CL 583 .38 Special
CL 683 George Thorogood
CL 783 Phil Collins
CL 883 Ted Nugent
CL 983 Jethro Tull
CL 1083 Blue Oyster Cult
CL 1183 Quarterflash/Scandal/INXS
CL 1283 Kinks
CL 1383 Black Sabbath
CL 1483 Danny Spanos
CL 184 Rainbow (Show 1) Hosted and Unhosted versions (St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wales, September 14, 1983)
CL 284 Rainbow (Show 2) hosted and unhosted versions) (St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wales, September 14, 1983)
CL 384 Ronnie James Dio
CL 484 Alcatrazz
CL 584 Night Ranger
CL 684 Zebra
CL 784 Fleetwood Mac - KSAN 1974 Record Plant Show
CL 884 Triumph
CL 984 Molly Hatchet
CL 1084 Roxy Music
CL 1184 Blue Oyster Cult
CL 1284 Saga
CL 1384 Triumph
CL 1484 .38 Special (2 LP, likely to be edited version of the CL 583 1983 show but this is not confirmed)
CL 1584 Tommy Tutone
CL 1684 Phil Collins
CL 1784 Kansas / Heart
CL 1884 Kansas / Heart
S-11930 Best of the Bands fantasy concert Memorial Day Weekend 1984
CL 1984 1st Airborne Rock and Roll Division (Part 1)
CL 2084 1st Airborne Rock and Roll Division (Part 2)
CL 2184 Aldo Nova
CL 2284 Ozzy Osbourne
CL 2285 Ozzy Osbourne
CL 2684 Genesis
CL 2784 Genesis
CL 2884 Rainbow
CL 2994 Duke Jupiter
CL 3084 Triumph
CL 3184 Yes
CL 3284 Yes
CL 3384 1st Airborne Rock and Roll Division (best of parts 1 and 2)
CL 3484 Kick Axe
CL 3584 Bachman Turner Overdrive
CL 3684 Stray Cats
CL 3784 Rod Stewart
CL 3884 Missing Persons
CL 3984 ?
CL 4084 ?
CL 4184 Genesis
CL 4284 Quiet Riot
Cl 4384 Yes (Dortmund)






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