Rockpile 1978-05-08 Bottom Line, NY, NY (pre-FM)

Rockpile
Bottom Line
New York, NY
1978-05-08
Broadcast 1978-06-09 on the Live From The Bottom Line radio show

01 Down Down Down
02 Back To School Days
03 I Knew The Bride
04 So It Goes
05 I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
06 Here Comes The Weekend
07 I Hear You Knockin'
08 Heart Of The City

Total Time: 28:00

Nick Lowe: bass and vocals
Dave Edmunds: guitar and vocals
Billy Bremner: guitar and vocals
Terry Williams: drums

My college roommate worked at a radio station and would occasionally bring home the original reels for the King Biscuit Flower Hour, Live From The Bottom Line, and other radio shows. This transfer is from my cassette that was made from the original reel way back in 1978.

1978: pre-FM reel>cassette
2008: cassette (azimuth adjusted)>CD-R>EAC>Audacity (amplify)>CD Wave>FLAC

Many of the Live From The Bottom Line shows appear on Wolfgang's Vault in lossy versions, but this one doesn't, so don't be concerned that this might be lossy.

This is not the same show as either of the Bottom Line shows, from Oct. 24 and 25, 1978 (where Keith Richards shows up for one song), currently torrented here:

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-nfo.php?id=124208

Confusingly, the Bottom Line timeline (http://www.bottomlinecabaret.com/tline_index.html) lists Keith Richards as appearing at BOTH the May and October shows, which clearly wasn't the case (but then again, the Bottom Line timeline is full of mistakes. Note the band's name spelled as "Rickpile" with members "Billy Bremmer" and "Dave Edmonds").

MAY 8, 1978
RICKPILE
With NICK LOWE, DAVE EDMUNDS, TERRY WILLIAMS AND BILLY BREMMER
WILLIE ALEXANDER and the BOOM BOOM BAND
* KEITH RICHARDS sits in with ROCKPILE

OCT 24 - 25, 1978
ROCKPILE featuring: DAVE EDMONDS, NICK LOWE, BILLY BREMMER
and TERRY WILLIAMS
JULES and the POLAR BEARS
* KEITH RICHARDS jams with ROCKPILE on 10/25
* ROCKPILE¹S show on 10/24 was broadcast live on WNEW F.M.

And just for the sake of completeness, I note that an FM-sourced and more complete version of what's probably the May 8 show was uploaded to Dime back in the EZT days. It was removed from the tracker in April 2005. Here's the info from the dime-bot regarding that torrent:

A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT.

Torrent: 29472
Title: ROCKPILE BOTTOM LINE NYC WNYU FM 1978
Size: 251.74 MB
Category: Rock'n'Roll
Uploaded by: nevinsrip

Description
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ROCKPILE BOTTOM LINE NYC WNYU FM 1978?

Since the first Rockpile show was in such demand, I decide to release another Rockpile show as the second of my basement tapes. This show was taped from WNYU FM in NYC and is from my original first generation master tape. Unfortunately, I never marked the tape with the date of the show. I am guessing that it is around 1978. WNYU FM was a college radio station (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY) that broadcast taped shows from the Bottom Line every Monday night from 10 till 11:30 pm. I have many, many more tapes from this series. I forgot to give credit to Craig Fritschkorn who did such a fine job of remastering this and the first Rockpile show I offered. Great job!! If anyone is inclined to do artwork for these two shows I would love to get copies for my own collection. Credit for the source tape and the remastering would be appreciated

LINEAGE MY Original Tape > sony WDR 565 cassette player > Monster Cables >
Philips CDR 765 > Toast 6.07 (extraction) > Apple G4
Powerbook>Jam 5.01 (indexing)>Plextor 708 UF> CD > WAV > FLAC

SETLIST

1. DJ Intro
2. Down, Down, Down
3. Back To Schooldays
4. Band Intros
5. I Knew The Bride
6. And So It Goes
7. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
8. A Mess Of The Blues
9. Trouble Boys
10. Here Come The Weekend
11. They Call It Rock
12. I Hear You Knocking.
13. Ju Ju Man
14. Heart Of The City
15. Fool Too Long