Westwood One In Concert 87-23
For broadcast the week of November 16, 1987
NOTE: The cue sheet gives the Beat Farmers first billing, even though the show opens with Insiders.
"Key To The World" is not listed on the cue sheet.
I couldn't find "Backin'" listed as an Insiders song on their four albums; it may be an unreleased track, or have a different title.
Digitized April 2015 from the syndicated radio discs. Flac files of wavs.
Includes scans of cue sheet, disc label, Insiders gig flyer, Beat Farmers Chicago Tribune article.
Commercials are tracked so you can delete them if you don't like them. The Sticklets commercial is particularly grating to my ears, featuring an over-the-top imitation of Cyndi Lauper.
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Insiders
Park West, Chicago, IL
(Possibly August 31, 1987 - based on gig flyer)
Sides One and Two
01. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Intro - Steve Downes
02. Commercial - Budweiser
03. Commercial - Dentyne
04. Moondog Howl
05. Love Like Candy
06. Memory Row
07. Commercial - U.S. Army
08. Commercial - Sticklets Gum
09. Commercial - Benylin
10. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
11. Fleetwood Mac Tour Update - Billy Burnette (Guitarist)
12. Little Miss Information
13. Backin'
14. Peace In Time
15. Commercial - Dentyne
16. Commercial - Milky Way
17. Commercial - Budweiser
18. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
19. Stand In Chains
20. The Price Of Love
21. Ghost On The Beach
22. Commercial - Ghost On The Beach
23. Commercial - Sticklets Gum
24. Commercial - Milky Way
25. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
Sides Three and Four:
Beat Farmers
Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL
(Possibly September 18, 1987 - based on Chicago Tribune article)
02. Ridin'
03. Bigger Stones
04. Dark Light
05. Commercial - Listerine
06. Commercial - Dentyne
07. Commercial - U.S. Army
08. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
09. Make It Last
10. Texas
11. Hollywood Hills
12. Commercial - Benylin
13. Commercial - U.S. Army
14. Commercial - Sticklets Gum
15. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Break - Steve Downes
16. Heart Tour Update - Denny Carmassi (Drummer)
17. Deceiver - Key To The World
18. God Is Here Tonight
19. Riverside
20. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Outro - Steve Downes
21. Westwood One In Concert 87-23 Promo
Insiders were a pop/rock band from Chicago formed in 1985. Singer John Seigle had been in the Screams, who released a power-pop album on MCA's Infinity Records in 1979.
Insiders sound is reminiscent of the Smithereens and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - singer-songwriter pop-rock. Courted by Warner, Capitol, and Epic Records, Insiders signed a 10 album deal with Epic in 1987. "Ghost On The Beach," the single from their radio-friendly debut album hit number 8 on Billboard, and the album broke into the Top 20 on the Album Rock chart, going on to sell 100,000 copies.
Three months after the release of their debut album and poised on the edge of a national break-out from the Midwestern market, their friends at Epic left for other labels, leaving Insiders to face a new Epic A&R department more interested in rap and hair metal.
Two years of struggle on a second album followed, with Epic rejecting song after song. The band worked with Joe Hardy (Replacements, Steve Earle, ZZ Top) at Memphis' famed Ardent Studios and wrote an album Epic finally agreed to release...but not promote. The band asked to shop the album to other labels...and Epic put a price tag of $150,000.00 on the master tape. In short, the label didn't want the band finding success elsewhere and priced them out of two years of work. Epic retained ownership of all submitted material, so they couldn't re-record the songs, either. The album remains unreleased to this day.
Always favorites on Chicago's WXRT-FM, Insiders put out three more albums on independent Monsterdisc in the 1990s before members of the band moved on to other musical projects.
This was a good band with a fine debut album, sunk by their own record company.
Ed Beckenfeld - Drums
Gary Yerkins - Guitar
John Seigle - Vocals
Jay O'Rourke - Guitar
Jim Demonte - Bass
And the Beat Farmers set is great, too...but I figure you know them already.
:)
Yours, D.