holiday spring training warmups with
Blondie
Leroy Theater
Pawtucket, R.I.
July 5, 1979
performance quality: B+
recording quality: B
source: 1st generation audience tape
runtime: 63:28
lineage: AKG D-190E microphones >
Sony 158 cassette deck (don't know if dolby was used or not) >
TDK SA 90 min. cassette > my copy (same) >
soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.
a this and that production.
setlist:
1: dreaming
2: one way or another
3; hanging on the telephone
4: you look good in blue
5: youth nabbed as sniper
6: pretty baby
7: slow motion
8: Sunday girl
9: in the flesh
10: man overboard
11: heart of glass
12: 1159
13: rip her to shreds
14: in the sun
15: X offender
16: I'm on E
17: Kung Fu girls
18: encore a shark in jet's clothing
comments:
I first posted this show myself last March 26 as torrent# 189815 without anywhere near a full setlist,
and am replacing that posting with this one, identical except for added track titles that were missing before.
If you got the previous post of this, you don't need this one too, except maybe to update your title info.
Except for a few seconds for a tape flip just after Heart of Glass, this is Blondie's full show at the
intimate Leroy Theater. I've never been in there, heard it's a nice place for a concert. This show has
the feel of a club show, not alot of crowd noise, and the taper had a good seat for this, pretty clean
sound for a 1979 Blondie audience tape, I'd say, on the tour of the album after 78's Parallel Lines
which produced many of their biggest hits. Heart of Glass was a current hit of this time, not my favorite
Blondie song but it sounds all right in this set. Debby and the band sound in very good form, tight and having
fun. At the time of this concert I still thought Blondie was some sort of cheesy pop perversion, wondering
if Robert Fripp joined them to record "Fade Away and Radiate" (in 78, on Parallel Lines disc) for some
musical reason I did not fathom, or simply because Debra Harry was quite hot looking at this time, but a close
friend of mine really liked them alot (also Elvis Costello) and that rubbed off some on me. Another friend of
mine liked them enough to record them twice, with my recorder- this show and Orpheum Boston from 6/29/79. I
always thought Blondie belongs in a dance club somewhere, they're very good for that. This was probably around
the height of their popularity too, even though larger venues followed for "atomic", many see that as the atomic
bomb of Blondie's career musically. I think this was the last really good Blondie tour. 78 was my favorite but
I was still being broken into Blondie's sound then, so I didn't even bother to keep the Paradise 78 broadcast tape.
I think I gave the master to a friend, something I rarely do with any master without at least copying it.
Pawtucket, R.I. is probably best known for being home of McCoy Stadium, where the MLB Boston Red Sox top-level
(AAA) minor league "Pawsox" team plays their home games. As is needed for a good pro team, the Pawsox are pretty
good too, and have reaped very ripe fruits lately for their parent club for which Boston Red Sox fans are very
happy to see (like Jacoby Ellsbury, Jonathan Papelbon, Dustin Pedroia, Brandon Moss and now Texas Ranger outfielder
David Murphy all fine recent examples of that.)
do not sell, or harry, this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.