Dave Edmunds
Captured Live 26
recorded at the Peppermint Lounge, New York City, NY
Air date unknown, but likely in October or November of 1982
Recording date likely September 21, 1982
01 Dave Cook, Mark Parenteau - Intro
02 Commercial - Chevrolet Camero
03 Dave Edmunds - Dear Dad
04 Dave Edmunds - True Love
05 Dave Edmunds (Geraint Watkins vocals) - Nobody
06 Dave Edmunds - From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
07 Dave Edmunds (Geraint Watkins vocals) - Blue Moon of Kentucky
08 Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk
09 Dave Edmunds - Me and the Boys
10 Commercial - Mattel M Network
11 Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts
12 Dave Edmunds - It's My Own Business
13 Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking
14 Dave Edmunds - Ju Ju Man
15 Commercial - Chevrolet Camero
16 Commercial - American Express (Manhattan Transfer)
17 Dave Edmunds - Bama Lama Lama Lou
18 Dave Edmunds - Down Down Down
19 Mark Parenteau, Bruce the DJ, Dave Edmunds - Interview
20 Commercial - Mattel M Network
21 Mark Parenteau - Outro
The band:
Dave Edmunds
David Charles
John David
Mickey Gee
Geraint Watkins
The first thing to figure out is the recording date. The 1982 Captured Live shows were recorded in 1982. Mark Parenteau says the show is from the Peppermint Lounge..but Edmunds might have played there more than once in '82.
We know from the interview segment the recording is from after Edmunds "did New York shows, two nights at the Ritz, and then there was this gig thrown in..."
The Daily News Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1982, says Edmunds was "playing tonight and Thursday at the Ritz, (119 E. 11th St.)...so the date must be on or after Sept. 10, 1982.
Brucebase gives a date of Sept. 21, 1982...but the reason it's on Brucebase is because Springsteen joins Edmunds. Another Bruce site lists the songs the Boss is on as:
01 From Small Things Big Things Come [With Dave Edmunds]
02 Johnny B Goode [With Dave Edmunds]
03 Lucille [With Dave Edmunds]
04 Let's Talk About Us [With Dave Edmunds]
05 Carol [With Dave Edmunds]
06 Bama Lama Bama Loo [With Dave Edmunds, Bruce on guitar]
I do not hear Springsteen on the two songs (From Small Things, Bama Lama Lama Lou...) that are on this Captured Live show. And I don't hear anyone in the audience yelling Broooce... Broooce...." and come on, you know if he was onstage a NYC audience would be goin' bug-nuts brooce-loony.
One possibility is there were TWO shows, an early show and a late show.
What else can we determine? Well, during the intro to the show on track 3, announcer Mark Parenteau says "outside (it was) a damp rainy fall evening in New York City in front of the club on 5th Ave...."
We need to know the New York City weather for September 21, 1982...and I've included a clipping from the Press and Sun Bulletin from Sept 21, 1982 that says, "New York City - Periods of rain tonight."
This all makes a strong case for a recording date of September 21, but not from the same set where Springsteen guested.
This show is from the SAM ELLIOT'S MUSTACHE COLLECTION.
https://mega.nz/file/XIAQ2BSS#ad7cG6FUQ-Rbs88xugpZbdrCZMCbDOJPj3qesD_GdX4-------------------------------
Captured Live! was a series of syndicated concerts produced for the stations of the RKO Radio Network and affiliated radio stations from April 1982 through November 1984. An announcement in Billboard on December 12, 1981 says the shows were to be “26 one hour specials featuring top rock performers in concert settings. The series begins in March (1982).”
The 1982 shows were only distributed on reel-to-reel tape. In 1983, Captured Live! switched to distributing the shows on vinyl LPs and extended the time from one hour to 90 minutes.
The reels were 10.5 inch reels - 7.5 IPS 2 track stereo. The 10.5 inch reels were used on professional decks, and can’t be played on most home tape decks. Reel to reel shows are rare in general, but the number of collectors who have the equipment to digitize these larger reels is smaller than for the King Biscuit reels (which were 7 inch).
I’ve only seen a few reels turn up on EBAY over the last twenty years. There are no listings on Discogs for any Captured Live reel to reel shows. Unlike Westwood One, King Biscuit, and NBC’s The Source, there do not appear to have been any print ads when RKO launched the series. There were at least two ads for the later shows in 1984. We know there were 26 shows on reel in 1982, but only a few of them were documented in Billboard’s “Radio Specials” feature…and these often are out of sequence with the “show number” that has appeared on the few Ebay listings.
Recent correspondence with our friend Sam Elliot’s Mustache led to the discovery that he and another collector digitized nine of the 26 known 1982 reel-to-reel Captured Live! Shows. He was kind enough to send me copies to share here. They preserved the entire show, with introductions, breaks, interviews, closing announcements, and commercials. The only editing needed was to split one of the commercial breaks into two separate commercials, and tag the files.
We have nine shows, spread out from the 5th show in the series to the 26th (probably the last show), allowing me to make some generalizations:
The show introduction is by Dave Cook. He hands off the show to a second announcer, who handles the rest of the show. For the nine shows we have, the second announcer is either Ken Calvert or Mark Parenteau. Most of the shows have short interview segments with the band, usually handled by a third announcer "Bruce." Some have interviews with audience members about the concert.
The “outro” to the show says it "...was produced on location....some other materiels were recorded in other locations and then incorporated into the broadcast to give you the impression that you were with us, when (artist’s name) was captured live..." My guess is that some of the interviews with the artist or audience were actually recorded at other venues.
There's only three sponsors (Chevrolet, Mattel, and American Express). The first two use a single commercial across all nine shows. The American Express commercial has four versions, with a famous singer asking you to guess their name by the sound of their voice.
On October 30, 1982, there was an announcement in Billboard Magazine that the show was “being revamped to 90 minute concert presentations from the current one-hour formats. There will be 14 rock concerts recorded live for broadcast on a monthly basis beginning in February with three bonus concerts for summer holiday weekends – Memorial Day, July 4, and Labor Day.”