Various Artists/The Mick Ronson Memorial Concert Live in London UK 1994

 Various Artists

The Mick Ronson Memorial Concert

Hammersmith Apollo

London UK

1994-04-29 (Recording Date)

1994-04-30 (Broadcast Date)

BBC Radio 1 FM Broadcast @320

01. It Ain't Easy - The Rats 

02. I Feel Free - The Rats 

03. Be My Sugar (Sting Me Now) - The Dana Gillespie Blues Band

04. A Lotta What You Got - The Dana Gillespie Blues Band

05. My Man - Glen Matlock and the Mavericks

06. Take The Long Ride - Glen Matlock and the Mavericks

07. Burning Sounds - Glen Matlock and the Mavericks

08. Medicine Show - Big Audio Dynamite

09. Got To Get Myself Right Out Of Here - Big Audio Dynamite

10. Whiter Shade Of Pale - Gary Brooker

11. Mystery Train - Willy and the Poor Boys

12. At The High School Hop - Willy and the Poor Boys

13. Width Of A Circle - The Spiders From Mars

14. Ziggy Stardust - The Spiders From Mars

15. I Want You Here Beside Me - The Spiders From Mars

16. Don't Look Down - The Spiders From Mars

17. Moonage Daydream - The Spiders From Mars

18. White Light, White Heat - The Spiders From Mars

19. Suffragette City - The Spiders From Mars

20. Last Time I Saw You - Steve Harley

21. Come Up And See Me (Make Me Smile) - Steve Harley

22. It's A Kind Of Magic - Roger Taylor/Ian Hunter/ Roger Daltry

23. Once Bitten Twice Shy - Roger Taylor/Ian Hunter/ Roger Daltry

24. Resurection Mary - Roger Taylor/Ian Hunter/ Roger Daltry

25. Baba O'Riley/My Generation - Roger Taylor/Ian Hunter/ Roger Daltry

26. Michael Picasso - Roger Taylor/Ian Hunter/ Roger Daltry

27. All The Young Dudes - Roger Taylor/Ian Hunter/ Roger Daltry

The Rats:

Benny Marshall - Harmonica, Vocals

Keith Cheesman - Guitar

Tony Visconti - Guitar

John Bentley  - Bass

John Cambridge - Drums

Willy and the Poor Boys: 

Andy Fairweather-Low - Guitar, Vocals

Terry Taylor - Guitar

Gary Brooker - Piano, Vocals

Bill Wyman - Bass

Henry Spinetti - Drums

The Spiders From Mars:

Joe Eliott -  Vocals

Maggi Ronson - Vocals

Bill Nelson - Guitar, Vocals

Phil Collen - Guitar

Phil Lanzen - Keyboards

Trevor Bolder - Bass, Vocals

Woody Woodmansey - Drums

Maggi Ronson - Vocals

I go to the venue, put on my make up, play my guitar, take my make up off. And go home. - Mick Ronson

The Hunter Ronson Band - BBC Live In Concert 1989

Back from the Dead...Again
Originally posted June 11, 2010 and July 30, 2017

The Hunter Ronson Band - BBC Live In Concert
London, UK
February 15, 1989

FM Source @192

Liberated Bootleg

Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson were coming back from half a decade of semi-retirement when they toured without a record contract in early 1989. But at the time of their stop at the Dominion Theatre in London on February 15, chronicled on this 73 1/2-minute, 13-track disc, they had already begun to compile the new material that would be included on their excellent Y U I ORTA album. So, the show consisted of old Hunter favorites like the U.K. Top Ten hit by his old group Mott The Hoople, "All The Way From Memphis," and his own U.K. Top 40 hit "Once Bitten Twice Shy," plus six songs that would turn up on the album, including powerful Hunter compositions like "Following In Your Footsteps" and "Big Time" (which was misidentified here as "You're Never Too Old To Hit The Big Time"—the chorus line is actually "You're never too small to hit the big time"). The Hunter/Ronson live sound previously had been displayed on the 1980 album Welcome To The Club, with which this set shared many selections, and it remained an effective combination, with Ronson playing powerful hard rock lead guitar to support Hunter, the frontman, and his plaintive, autobiographical songs. If anyone feared that the/two had lost their rock 'n' roll fervor after the lay-off, this concert dispelled that notion. It's no surprise they earned another record contract soon after.

Track List:
01. Once Bitten Twice Shy
02. How Much More Can I Take
03. Beg A Little Love
04. Following In Your Footsteps
05. Just Another Night
06. Sweet Dreamer
07. (Give Me Back My) Wings
08. Standin' In My Light
09. Bastard
10. Loner
11. You're Never Too Old To Hit The Big Time
12. All The Way From Memphis
13. Irene Wilde


BBC '89

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Ian Hunter - Berkeley Community Theatre, July 7, 1979 KSAN-FM

The July 7, 1979 Ian Hunter show from the Berkeley Community Theatre circulated widely on the “Drunk On Wine And Wisdom" bootleg. For many years, that was one of the only Ian Hunter bootlegs available.

But if you have that bootleg....check this out. I digitized this in July 2011 from an uncirculated master cassette.

The cassette is of a later rebroadcast of the July 1979 show that I believe to be from October of 1980. The deejay refers to the show as a “Rock-tober Special” which gives us a month, and the Don Wehr Music City commercial references the start of the Iran - Iraq War (“while Iran and Iraq are cutting each other in half, we’re cutting prices in half….”) which started in late September of 1980….so that gives us October of 1980.

I left the Don Wehr commercial in;  I used to buy guitar equipment there (as did most of San Francisco's famous bands, and they also rented gear to many touring bands playing the Fillmore and Winterland...)   Plus, its tasteless, topical and references vintage effect pedals ("even the Ayatollah could use a Crybaby Wah-wah pedal about now...").  It gives you a feel for the era when a LOCAL guitar emporium was running ads on a LOCAL radio station.  While I enjoy Guitar Center as much as the next guy, it's not the same!

There is a long tape flip at the start of “Cleveland Rocks,” so I used a patch from the 6/18/79 Cleveland show to make the gap less jarring. (Yeah, I patched "Cleveland Rocks" with a patch FROM Cleveland.....) The last three songs had increasingly worse radio static and distortion issues, but I spent many hours minimizing the problems with Audacity.

So....it's still not perfect (there must be a copy without a tape flip....), but most of this is better than any copy you've heard before, if you owned the bootleg LP. The first three quarters of this sound incredible, for a thirty year old tape.

Ian Hunter
Berkeley Community Theatre
KSAN-FM
July 7, 1979
Sourced from rebroadcast - most likely in October 1980

Master copy: TDK-SA90>Audacity>wav>flac

01. FBI
02. Don Wehr's Music City commercial
03. Once Bitten, Twice Shy
04. Life After Death
05. Laugh At Me
06. Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack
07. Just Another Night
08. Angeline
09. Standing In My Light
10. Bastard
11. Cleveland Rocks (12 second patch from show on 6/18/79 )
https://mega.co.nz/#!uFYQXDpJ!6F6KBIG2tSBiG1AeFV2vSrYgrGs7HtfCarcWNsEcUlU

The Hunter Ronson Band - BBC Live In Concert 1989

The Hunter Ronson Band - BBC Live In Concert
London, UK
February 15, 1989
FM Source @192
Liberated Bootleg

Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson were coming back from half a decade of semi-retirement when they toured without a record contract in early 1989. But at the time of their stop at the Dominion Theatre in London on February 15, chronicled on this 73 1/2-minute, 13-track disc, they had already begun to compile the new material that would be included on their excellent Y U I ORTA album. So, the show consisted of old Hunter favorites like the U.K. Top Ten hit by his old group Mott The Hoople, "All The Way From Memphis," and his own U.K. Top 40 hit "Once Bitten Twice Shy," plus six songs that would turn up on the album, including powerful Hunter compositions like "Following In Your Footsteps" and "Big Time" (which was misidentified here as "You're Never Too Old To Hit The Big Time"—the chorus line is actually "You're never too small to hit the big time"). The Hunter/Ronson live sound previously had been displayed on the 1980 album Welcome To The Club, with which this set shared many selections, and it remained an effective combination, with Ronson playing powerful hard rock lead guitar to support Hunter, the frontman, and his plaintive, autobiographical songs. If anyone feared that the/two had lost their rock 'n' roll fervor after the lay-off, this concert dispelled that notion. It's no surprise they earned another record contract soon after.

Track List:
01. Once Bitten Twice Shy
02. How Much More Can I Take
03. Beg A Little Love
04. Following In Your Footsteps
05. Just Another Night
06. Sweet Dreamer
07. (Give Me Back My) Wings
08. Standin' In My Light
09. Bastard
10. Loner
11. You're Never Too Old To Hit The Big Time
12. All The Way From Memphis
13. Irene Wilde

BBC '89