BBC Rock Hour 419 Version A - Paul Barrere, Robert Hazard

Paul Barrere / Robert Hazard
BBC Rock Hour 419 Version A
London Wavelength's Broadcast Week of May 8, 1983

Paul Barrere recorded at:
Toad's Place
New Haven, CT
March 18, 1983

Robert Hazard recorded at:
The Silo
Reading, PA
unknown date

01 Jess Ellis - BBC RH 419 A Intro
02 Paul Barrere - She Lays Down The Beat
03 Paul Barrere - High Roller
04 Paul Barrere - Romance Dance
05 Commercial - Miller Time (Southside Johnny)
06 Commercial - Jensen
07 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
08 Paul Barrere - Keepin' Up With The Joneses
09 Paul Barrere - Fool For You
10 Jess Ellis - BBC RH 419 A Break
11 Commercial - Miller Time (Southside Johnny)
12 Commercial - Certs
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01 Jess Ellis - BBC RH 419 A Intro
02 Robert Hazard - Dream Man 
03 Robert Hazard - Be My Girl
04 Robert Hazard - Hard Hearted 
05 Commercial - Miller
06 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
07 Commercial - Certs
08 Robert Hazard - Help Yourself
09 Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
10 Robert Hazard - Change Reaction
11 Jess Ellis - BBC RH 419 A Outro

Runout grooves say:
BBC Rock Hour #419 Version A 5-8-83 Side 1
BBC Rock Hour #419 Version A 5-8-83 Side 2

Brought to you by the groovy guys at the Collective For Live Music.

You get flac files of wavs, recorded right off the vintage vinyl.  But wait, there's more!  You get 300 dpi scans of the disc labels!  Yes! Side 1, and Side 2!  And 300 dpi scans of both sides of the cue sheet!

This is the "Version A" edition of the show.  That means there's a "Version B" out there with a different set of commercials.

I've split each side into its own folder in case you want to file them by artist rather than by the show.  

"Out of the Blue" is listed on the cue sheet, but I don't hear it.

I wasn't able to find a print ad for the Robert Hazard show.  The following year in 1984, the Silo was running ads in the Pottsville Republican, but reading the entertainment sections in that newspaper didn't reveal any ads.

When I heard the first Miller commercial, I thought it sounded like Southside Johnny...but figured it must be an imitation.  Further investigation found a television commercial Southside did for Miller.  He's on the first two commercials for sure...the second one is the same arrangement as the television ad.  I don't think the last Miller ad is Southside, however...but if you think so, leave a comment.

https://mega.nz/file/vMJnFZyI#LqHEv0yCDzt9a0fFSo-rxJt78ZZyWrOD5BS_j-Gxfyc

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Robert Hazard & the Heroes / Ripley Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA April 29, 1982, WMMR-FM

Robert Hazard & the Heroes
Ripley Music Hall, 
Philadelphia, PA 
April 29, 1982 
WMMR-FM

01 Southside Johnny - Intro
02 Robert Hazard - Escalator Of Life
03 Robert Hazard - Out Of The Blue
04 Robert Hazard - You'll Be My Girl
05 Robert Hazard - Hard Hearted
06 Robert Hazard - Land of Vice
07 Robert Hazard - Space Majorettes
08 Robert Hazard - Red Rocket
09 Robert Hazard - Hang Around With You
10 Robert Hazard - Change Reaction
11 Robert Hazard - Say Yo
12 Robert Hazard - Blowing In The Wind
13 Southside Johnny - Outro

Another from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection!

A glance at the print ads in the Philadelphia Inquirer shows this was a WMMR-FM 14th Anniversary concert.  The headliner was Aldo Nova.  Hazard was added to the bill later, as he's not listed on the first print ad which only mentioned the second bill as "Special Guest."

Southside Johnny turns up as the stage announcer, but it doesn't look like he played a set that night.

This one sounds great up until the last twenty seconds of "Say Yo" and then the radio reception goes wobbly, which continues through "Blowing In The Wind." There are volume issues, plus a heavy dose of radio static. Before that, everything's great on this one. I did what I could to knock down the radio static with Click-Fix plus leveled out a few of the volume issues.

https://mega.nz/file/KIA32RrJ#QjNTMwBpCG0mgad4B29NRe5sJ7AGrwHmPm1xlrAtZ9A

NBC The Source 83-20 Berlin / Robert Hazard

Berlin / Robert Hazard
NBC The Source 83-20
broadcast dates May 20, 21, 22, 1983

Berlin 

recorded at:

unknown venue

Cleveland, OH

unknown date

Robert Hazard

Recorded at:

New Paradise, Boston, MA

February 20, 1983

Terri, before exposure to dangerous
synthpop radiation mutated her hair.

Berlin:
01 Rona Elliot - Intro
02 Commercial - Honda
03 Commercial - Budweiser
04 Berlin - Masquerade
05 Berlin - The Metro
06 Berlin - World of Smiles
07 Berlin - Now It's My Turn
08 Berlin - Touch & Go
09 Rona Elliot - Break
10 Commercial - Jensen
11 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
12 Commercial - Honda
13 Rona Elliot - Segment Intro
14 Berlin - Pleasure Victim
15 Berlin - Rumor Of Love
16 Berlin - Tell Me Why
17 Berlin - Sex (I'm A...)
18 Rona Elliot - Break
19 Commercial - Budweiser (Joe Jackson)
20 Commercial - U.S Army Reserve

Robert Hazard
01 Robert Hazard - Hard Hearted
02 Robert Hazard - Dance A Tron
03 Rona Elliot - Break
04 Commercial - Honda
05 Commercial - Jensen
06 Rona Elliot - Segment Intro
07 Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
08 Robert Hazard - Out of the Blue
09 Robert Hazard - Change Reaction
10 Robert Hazard - Say Yo
11 Rona Elliot - Outro

Our pal Sam Elliot's Mustache has a cache of shows on CD-R that he digitized several years ago.  The files were chaptered, but the commercials were grouped together instead of individually chaptered. The files weren't declicked, and he didn't scan the disc labels.

He's sent me a stack of these CD-Rs, and I'm going to re-chapter them, and clean up the clicks n' pops, and they'll be appearing here every few weeks.

As Sam's from Philadelphia, and we had a great response from our recent run of shows with Philadelphia bands, I'm leading off with a Berlin/Robert Hazard show.  

So..you get flac files of wavs and the cue sheet. 

I found a review of the Hazard concert.  I couldn't find anything about the Berlin show. 
I did find an ad for Terri Nunn's third-billed role in "Georgia Peaches," one of those flicks released in the wake of Smokey & the the Bandit. Nunn was paired with "singing star Tanya Tucker" as the Peach Sisters, "mixed up with moonshine and money."  The movie was a pilot for a possible television series.  Had it been more successful, we might not have had this Berlin show.

On the Berlin show, "Touch & Go" is unreleased.

On the Hazard show, "Escalator of Life," "Out of the Blue," and "Change Reaction" are from his self-released 1982 EP. "Say Yo" was the b-side to "Escalator of Life" (RCA PB-3449).  "Hard Hearted" was on his RCA LP, Wing of Fire. "Dance A Tron" appears to be unreleased.

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music

https://mega.nz/file/mNZQHByB#ldzhOdfpjxJHmhOPawSMvrg2Gy8-qLdxkgOEmKEPoAE

Robert Hazard / Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA Nov. 26, 1986 WMMR-FM

Robert Hazard
Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA
November 26, 1986
WMMR-FM

01 Pierre Robert & Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Intro
02 Robert Hazard - Hollywood
03 Robert Hazard - Hard Hearted
04 Robert Hazard - Fire On Fire
05 Robert Hazard - You'll Be My Girl
06 Robert Hazard - All My Kisses
07 Robert Hazard - Darling
08 Robert Hazard - Hip Pocket
09 Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
10 Robert Hazard - Change Reaction
11 Robert Hazard - (I Just Want To) Hang Around with You
12 Pierre Robert - Applause & encore break
13 Robert Hazard - Out of the Blue

Flac files of .wavs.  Digitized May 2023 from a Maxell XL-II 60.

Once more, we dip into the Sam Elliot's Mustache collection.  Our friend was gracious enough to ship a box of cassettes from the 1980s across the country, and we're sharing them here.  

This show features Philadelphia favorite Robert Hazard.  I've included a newspaper article from the Nov. 22, 1986 The Morning Call, which mentions that "Hazard was the Delaware Valley's favorite rocker.  He routinely sold out clubs, commanded lots of airplay for his independently released EP, "Escalator of Life," which sold 50,000 copies in his hometown..."

One of the great things about the Sam Elliot's Mustache collection is regionally popular acts from the Philadelphia area such as Mr. Hazard.  As we've discussed before, bands are constrained by the vast distances in the U.S.A.  Without a label supporting a band on a national tour, they're stuck in a van, limited to a circle around their home city of five or six hundred miles.

Hazard put out a self-released EP in 1984 on RHA Records ("Escalator of Life") which made it to #58 on the Billboard Hot 100.  This was enough for RCA to back him for 1984's "Wing of Fire" LP, but by the time of this tape, he was pushing another RHA Records release. While I'd heard of him, I was unfamiliar except as the writer of Cyndi Lauper's mega-smash-o-rama "Girls Just Want To Have Fun."   I don't know if he made it out here to the West Coast.  

There's not a lot of live Robert Hazard out there.  Discogs shows a BBC Rock Hour show, split with Paul Barrere, and a King Biscuit Flower Hour, similarly split with Dave Edmunds.  Concert Vault has streaming audio of two shows from 1983.  Guitars101 has dead links for several shows:

1981-12-02 London Victory Club, Philadelphia, PA
1983-02-17 Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA  (on Concert Vault....)
1983-03-02 Ripley's Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA (on Concert Vault....)
1984 Empire Rock Club, Philadelphia, PA

None of 'em, though, have (or had...) this particular 1986 Trocadero show, so this is something that's not well-circulated.

https://mega.nz/file/XJYk0RjK#Br-5NDkWYDziooTD-XZ1oHXRjU-2db11XFjo9PhzGYc

Also...if any of Our Beloved Audience has a copy of any other live Robert Hazard, please leave a comment.