the Rat Race Choir
(with John Entwistle, 2nd set only)
Dave Chmela: vocals
Mark Hitt: guitar
Gordon Merrill: keyboards
John Entwistle: bass
Steve Luongo: drums

The Channel
Boston, Mass. U.S.A
November 19, 1987
source: master audience tape
Gotham City opened (not recorded)
runtime: 102:12 (minutes/ seconds)
setlist:

set 1: 30:11
1: pythagoras 8:03
2: night road 6:06
3: anyway you want it 4:36
4: struck by lightning 3:37
5: dance with flame 7:49

set 2 72:00
6: stage announcer introduction 1:12
7: summertime blues 3:41
8: pinball wizard > 2:44
9: my wife 3:46
10: 5:15 5:19
11: bargain (and crowd "Boris" chant) 6:04
12: boris the spider 3:31
13: behind blue eyes 3:54
14: band introductions :57
15: shakin' all over 6:56
16: my generation > 2:19
17: see me, feel me > 1:29
18: so very long > 2:09
19: underture 3:49 (spliced at 2:15, tape flip)
20: won't get fooled again 10:18
21: encore break crowd 2:51
22: young man blues 7:38
23: twist and shout 3:19

lineage: Realistic mini-mikes (on shoulders under T shirt) >
Sony WMD-6 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLII-S 90 minute master tapes >
played on tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
This Entwistle set was previously posted in 2010, first posted in 2009
reseeded in 2010 with some spelling corrections of band members names.
this is from a new 2014 transfer and includes the opening Rat Race Choir set
recorded, digitized and posted by glasnostrd19.
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comments:
Rat Race Choir opened their own show here
(along with Gotham City, not recorded)
This is both sets of RRC performance.
not sure who played bass in the 1st set,
Dave plays bass too but I don't think in this show,
John Entwistle plays bass in the whole 2nd set,
minus just a few seconds for tape flip
which you may not even notice in this torrent.
The recording is pretty good, but the sound was
very bassy at this show. (of course, J.E. with a
no name backing group, everyone wanted to hear him)
I recorded this one, standing about 25 feet from
center stage (most of the crowd wanted the best
view, even when I'm not recording I go for the best
sound at a gen. adm. show, which this was). It cost
all of $8:50 for a ticket. I decided to seed this because
it's John Entwistle in a club gig, a rather unusual
engagement that many of his fans have never heard him
in before (and likely never will again), it's from my
master audience tape, and it's mostly Who songs (some others
that they have played a few times.) The band will never
be mistaken for the Who, but they did a good job.
Sounded like they knew the material pretty well.
apparently they've been friends with John for years.
I never did see the Who, this is the only directly-Who-related show
I've seen and I think some folks would be interested in hearing this
show. (the singer says "Where were you folks in Albany last night?",
presumably making reference to a wimpy crowd response there. Not this
time! The crowd was into it.) John delivered a nice performance,
probably doing more jamming out than he would in a band of well-knowns
(post-Who). John is a name that bassist in one note player, and
proves he is that way, even in a band of unknowns. You can tell who
is playing the bass in this show from just a very short listen to
any part of the second set of this concert.