KITS-FM Live 105 Acoustic Green Christmas Highlights From 1991

Live 105 Acoustic Green Christmas Highlights From 1991
Hyatt Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
December 1991

Featuring:
This Picture
School of Fish
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Matthew Sweet
Dramarama
Miles Hunt from Wonder Stuff
Chris Isaak

01 KITS-FM Intro - Cynthia D, Mark Hamilton
02 This Picture - Step Up
03 This Picture - Naked Rain
04 School of Fish - Wrong
05 School of Fish - 3 Strange Days
06 Toad The Wet Sprocket - Walk On The Ocean
07 Toad The Wet Sprocket - Spirit (Waterboys cover)
08 KITS-FM Break - Cynthia D, Mark Hamilton, Steve Masters
09 Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
10 Matthew Sweet - I've Been Waiting
11 KITS-FM Break - Cynthia D, Mark Hamilton, Steve Masters
12 Dramarama - Wonderamaland
13 Dramarama - What Are We Gonna Do
14 Dramarama - Last Cigarette
15 Wonder Stuff - Don't Let Me Down Gently
16 Wonder Stuff - It's Yer Money I'm After
17 KITS-FM Break - Mark Hamilton, Steve Masters
18 Chris Isaak - Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas Song)
19 Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
20 KITS-FM Outro - Cynthia D, Mark Hamilton

With the holidays fast approching, it's time for the VooDoo crew to help stuff your stocking.  I went down into the basement and dug out a cassette to digitize.  This is from a 1992 broadcast of tracks from the December 1991 KITS-FM First Acoustic Green Christmas show recorded at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.  

KITS-FM picked up the idea from Los Angeles' KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas, started a year prior in 1990.  The line-up is a snapshot of "modern rock" just before grunge became the popular style.  Matthew Sweet, the Wonder Stuff, and Chris Isaak are still out there, doing the work, but This Picture, School of Fish, Dramarama and Toad the Wet Sprocket didn't make it past the 90's (there have been some reunions, though...)

This is digitized December 2021 off of my off-the-air master cassette of the radio broadcast.  Flac files of .wavs.

https://mega.nz/file/7J4RBKDK#Ic9bHGj9pj4zyjYUHhyKyXG1fU7n11FuYez3rN66CWE

David Byrne / Fashion Center, San Francisco, CA Dec. 13, 1992 KITS-FM

David Byrne
Fashion Center, S.F. CA
Dec. 13, 1992
KITS-FM
Live 105 2nd Annual Green Christmas
digitized from master Maxell XL-IIS cassette

Hey!  There's a VERY NICE silver CD bootleg from the 1990s that has this material...but it is NOT AS GOOD as this...they probably sourced it from a low-bias tape.  It's not bad...it's just not as good as this. 

01. KITS Intro
02. The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Lookit Me Now)
03. Nothing But Flowers
04. Buck Naked
05. The Future
06. Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)
07. Girls On My Mind
08. Wall Of Death
09. Road To Nowhere
10. Rockin' In The Free World
11. Psycho Killer
12. KITS Outro
13. Interview

https://mega.nz/file/LB5mDDpS#2Q-0Fwfs_N3nCiejz3kBvDCucaCNmfIUEjADOOe2XJw

James / Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA June 10, 1994 KITS-FM

Another in our on-going series of short sets from the first BFD concert...only five songs here, but it's the entire set the band performed that day.

James
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
June 10, 1994
KITS-FM

Flac files of wavs....

01.  KITS-FM Intro
02.  Sit Down
03.  Sometimes
04.  Jam J
05.  Honest Joe
06.  Laid
07.  KITS-FM Outro

https://mega.co.nz/#!6Jx0EIxI!QMfMwXcFYMZbxVKCLYHJMWR4VqNJMxrEFruHKM7qR6Y

Oingo Boingo / Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA KITS-FM

Here's a digitization of a broadcast by Oingo
Boingo, from the Live 105 (KITS-FM) broadcast of the "BFD" concert from 1994.  As with most of the sets from this show that I've uploaded, the show is a short set, but it's the entire show the band did that day.  I've left in a little bit longer portion of  both the Intro and the Outro by the KITS disc jockeys to give a feel of the slightly chaotic, unrehearsed nature of the "alternative rock" nature of the broadcast.

This is right off my master cassette, so the sound is excellent.

Oingo Boingo
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
June 10, 1994
KITS-FM
Maxell XLII-S 100 > Audacity > wav > flac

01.  KITS-FM Intro
02.  Insanity
03.  Hey!
04.  Change
05.  War Again
06.  I Am The Walrus
07.  No One Lives Forever
09.  KITS-FM outro

https://mega.co.nz/#!fFoXhZZb!ghvpqyuZaWJc27ekT_yOkVNuM_TS88ySekEbLKRcY5U

The Knack / Shoreline Amphitheatre,Mountain View, CA June 10, 1994 KITS-FM

More housecleaning...I'm moving this one over from FBSVIP...

This tape is from an all-day broadcast of a modern rock festival at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.   As many bands were billed, the set lists were short, but that just makes the bands a bit more focused.


According to Wikipedia, the Knack reunited that year to capitalize on the "My Sharona" appearance on the soundtrack of the movie "Reality Bites."

The Knack
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
June 10, 1994
KITS-FM - LIVE 105
Maxell XLII-S > audacity>WAV>Flac

01.  I Want Love
02.  Baby Talks Dirty
03.  Praying For You
04.  Frustated
05.  She's So Selfish
06.  My Sharona

https://mega.co.nz/#!CE5EnRJa!xrAqE9PdrfCzBIKCugg4jZk2u8em5xgwYQhKzUHa0zQ

Toad The Wet Sprocket / Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA June 10, 1994 KITS-FM

This is another tape from the KITS-FM broadcast of the "BFD" concert.  As with the other sets I've posted from this show, it's an abbreviated set.  So while it's short, it's the entire performance.

Toad The Wet Sprocket
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
June 10, 1994
KITS-FM Live 105
Maxell XLII-S 100 > Audacity > wav

01.  Walk On The Ocean
02.  Fly From Heaven
03.  All I Want
04.  Wood Burning
05.  Hold Her Down
06.  Fall Down

https://mega.co.nz/#!vFgwELaL!B5zCgQon2UtKvLOWzu2AFMlZQNgu1pHqv-ZwJVL19Ns

Violent Femmes - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA June 10, 1994

Here's a digitization of a tape of the Violent Femmes at radio station KITS Live 105's "BFD" concert.

The Violent Femmes somehow managed to miss getting "bleeped" during Dance, M.F., Dance! not once...not twice...but twelve times. Consider it a "carpet f-bombing," to coin a phrase.  

Violent Femmes
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
June 10, 1994
KITS-FM
Maxell XLII-S > Audacity > wav

01. Introduction
02.  Blister In The Sun
03.  American Music
04.  Dance, M.F., Dance!
05.  Don't Start Me On The Liquor
06.  Breakin' Up
07.  Key of 2
08.  Kiss Off
09.  Add It Up

Ridiculous extra track:
10.  Don Henley Rant by the KITS D.J.s....

https://mega.co.nz/#!PBwwmAxb!aAfqiXS6V88Liy2rFq1CApcZ_ewEc1bBl0ic34R4nsA