Rockpile / Rock Around The World Interview & four live tracks

Rockpile
Rock Around The World radio show
Broadcast date of December 24-30, 1978

01 Dave Edmunds - Interview
02 Rockpile - Down Down Down
03 Rockpile - So It Goes
04 Rockpile - Trouble Boys
05 Dave Edmunds - Interview
06 Rockpile - I Hear You Knocking

Another tape I received in trade.

This one was recorded onto a cassette from the original LP and mailed to me, but there was no documentation as to the year or the venue.  It's from the "Rock Around The World" radio show, and I was able to find some low resolution scans that prove it is Show #229, described as "Eagles/Dave Edmonds (sic), Rockpile/Sly Stone."

At the end of the segment, the announcer mentions that the Sly Stone portion is coming up next, so I'm sure we've got the original source identified correctly.

I suspected the tracks might be from the Bottom Line show. Every so often we reach out across the Vast Gulfs of Cyberspace to our friends on other blogs for aid and assistance.  In this case, I recalled that Stinky, who posts over at Jonder's joint (located at https://jonderblog.blogspot.com/ and tell 'em that Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï sent you) had put up a 5-cd set of Rockpile, and wrote to him for help.  Here's Mr. Stinky's response:

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Hi Draftervoi:
Nice to meet you. I love your blogs!
Here’s my take on the origin of these takes:
01 Interview - Unknown (Sounds like The BBC)
02 Down Down Down - Live At The Bottom Line, NY (FM) 10/25/78 (Kinda Sure)
03 So It Goes - University Of Maryland, College Park MD (FM) 11/03/78 (100% Sure: Feedback)
04 Trouble Boys - University Of Maryland, College Park MD (FM) 11/03/78 (100% Sure: HEY! In intro)
05 Interview - Unknown
06 Live At The Bottom Line, NY (FM) 10/24/78 (90% Sure Intro)
I can’t find the interviews anywhere in my files.
Hope that helps!
Stinky
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Anyway...while this would be better if it was the ENTIRE RECORD, for those of us in the Dave Edmunds Fan Club, it's a great obscurity to finally track down.

https://mega.nz/file/PY5S2KbD#BcAzRS7zRtNtkShRP1RRSQihctzjpFCrGMGi7YOU_gQ

Dave Edmunds / Cheap Talk, Patter & Jive (Five Dolar Records FDR 088) (2000)

Dave Edmunds
Cheap Talk, Patter & Jive
Five Dollar Records FDR 088

Tracks 1-9: Rockpile Live on John Peel's Radio Show 4/1/77
01 Down, Down, Down
02 Back to School Days
03 I Knew the Bride
04 A Mess of Blues
05 They Call It Rock
06 I Hear You Knockin'
07 Here Comes the Weekend
08 So Fine
09 Heart of the City
Tracks 10-11: BBC 1979 with Nick Lowe
10 What Looks Best on You
11 Problems
12 The Joke (Ultra Rare Studio Outtake)
13 Closer to the Flame (Live at the Ritz, 3/90)
14 Great Balls of Fire (Live at the BBC with Love Sculpture, 1969)
15 Boys Talk (Rare B-Side of Singin' the Blues)
16 Chutes and Ladders (Live Boston, 1994)
17 C'mon Little Dixie (From the 'Stardust' Soundtrack as The Stray Gators)
18 Big Blonde Baby (Rockpile Live on Fridays 1980)
19 Crawling from the Wreckage (Live at the Concert for Kampuchea with Robert Plant)
20 Little Sister (Live at the Concert for Kampuchea with Robert Plant)
21 You'll Never Get Me Up (Rockpile at My Father's Place, 1978)
22 New York's a Lonely Town (Rare B-Side of Where or When)
23 Let's Eat (On Live Stiffs With Nick Lowe)

This one's a collection of stray tracks; most Edmunds fans will have most of these already, but it's nice to have everyting in one big (rock) pile.  The cover is pretty bad...surely they could have found a better photograph than the murky one they picked.

https://mega.nz/file/jdZyDBCD#mGcOzWi7-xeGUB8UtL9ee1b8qy1XuWB0m9ZVkdwD3rM

Rockpile - My Father's Place Roslyn, NY 1978

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted December 11, 2014

Rockpile - My Father's Place Roslyn, NY

November 4, 1978 (Early Show)

FM Source @320
WILR-FM

Set List: 

1. Intro
2. Down Down Down
3. And So It Goes
4. I Knew The Bride
5. Deborah
6. Trouble Boys
7. Breaking Glass
8. Never Get Me Up in One of Those
9. Let It Rock
10. So Fine
11. I Hear You Knockin'
12. They Called It Rock
13. Ju Ju Man
14. Heart of the City
15. Crowd noise
16. Let's Talk About Us

My Father's Place '78

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Mary Hanson - Miss October 1978

Rockpile - Live The Palladium, NYC 1979

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted July 21, 2014 & March 24, 2016

 

Rockpile - Live The Palladium
New York City, NY

August 20, 1979
WLIR-FM broadcast @320 kbps

Set List:

01. DJ Intro
02. Down, Down, Down
03. And So It Goes
04. I Knew The Bride
05. Switchboard Susan
06. Crawlin From The Wreckage
07. Trouble Boys
08. Girls Talk
09. Band Intros
10. Crackin Up
11. Born Fighter
12. Let It Rock
13. Cruel To Be Kind
14. I Hear You Knocking
15. Elvis Rap
16. Jailhouse Rock
17. Sweet Little Lisa
18. Love So Fine
19. Love So Fine (cont.)
20. They Call It Rock
21. Ju Ju Man
22. Encore Break
23. Promised Land
24. Lets Talk About Us
25. DJ Outro 

 Thanks to the original source!!

pass = fbsvw

Palladium '79

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Rockpile - Down Down Down bootleg

The first bootlegs I bought in the early 1970s had hand-stamped covers, or a cheaply printed monochrome insert slid into the plastic sleeve.  By the end of the decade, high quality sleeves turned up.  Unfortunately, the classy graphics outside were not always reflected in quality music inside, as is the case with this Rockpile bootleg.

To start with, the cover looks great, but screws it right up by misspelling Dave Edmund's name as "Dave Edmonds."  Then there's the cover itself: there's some sort of structure in the background that reminds me of a prison.  Perhaps they're going for the old cliche of chained prisoners smashing rocks with a hammer; if so, why are the prison walls done up in a textured paisley pattern?  And the center piece of the front cover art is a plant, not a rock pile.

The back is no better; the stylish art college image has no connection Rockpile's earthy roots-rock; it would look great on a bootleg of a New Romantic band but here it's just filling up space.

But it's the music where this 2-lp set really falls apart, ranging from an interesting-but-low-fidelity session to a dire unlistenable audience tape, with a short detour through some FM recordings you can get elsewhere in better quality.

The first side and half the second side have Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds running through a stack of covers, including the four by the Everly Brothers that turned up on the "Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing the Everly Brothers" EP that was included as bonus with the "Seconds Of Pleasure" LP.   These may be the same takes; it matters not because the tape is hissy and the arrangements identical, so if you've got that EP you don't need 'em again.

The other four songs are fun, but low-fidelity.  You can hear a television playing in the background at various points.  If you really liked Nick 'n Dave's take on the Everly Brothers, you'll enjoy these as long as you can stand the hiss.

After that, you get four songs from a New York club appearance which sound okay, the source is probably an FM broadcast.  Probably the Bottom Line show, but I didn't compare 'em.

The next two sides are sourced from a terrible audience tape attributed to Santa Monica Civic in May of 1978.  If you want some Rockpile from that tour, go track down the KSAN Winterland broadcast from a week later.  It's three songs shorter but you'll listen to it more than once.  This sounds like it was recorded with the microphone stuffed under a pillow in the back of the auditorium.   If you make through to the end, you have more patience than I do.

Whoever "Edinburgh Records" were, I'll bet they didn't really have offices at that address.  I looked it up on Google Maps and that looks like a very nice building in the heart of London.

https://mega.nz/#!fMRVgD5S!C08OiOm-vcNF1zHpxggCTIZfVvkLdfheQkZ_3yq0074

FLAC FILES OF WAVS, so you can experience this in all of it's muffled glory.   I've included 300 dpi scans of the covers and record labels, too.

Here's what Discogs.com has to say about it:

Nick Lowe & Dave Edmonds* With Rockpile – Down Down Down
Label: Edinburgh Records – 2R-65
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release
Country: UK
Released: 1980
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Rock & Roll, Classic Rock

A1 Problems
A2 Crying In The Rain
A3 Poor Jenny
A4 When Will I Be Loved
A5 What Would Look The Best
A6 I Knew The Bride
B1 Blue Moon Of Kentucky
B2 Heartaches
B3 Deborah (New York 1978)
B4 Breaking Glass (New York 1978)
B5 Let It Rock (New York 1978)
B6 Heart Of The City (New York 1978)
C1 So It Goes
C2 I've Been A Fool Too Long
C3 I Knew The Bride
C4 Breaking Glass
C5 Down Down Down
D1 She's So Fine
D2 They Called It Rock
D3 Fallin' In Love Again
D4 Heart Of The City

Produced By Jeffrey Dyer.
Engineered By Edwaerd Potter.
Cover Concept By Graphix Street.
Thanks to the personnel of Stark Studios, Hanover.

Side A + B1/B2: London Studio August 1979.
Side C/D: Santa Monica Civic May 1978.

Edinburgh Records, Ltd. Offices: 32 Bedford Street, Hanover, London.

Nick Lowe & Rockpile, June 7, 1978 - KSAN-FM

In the spring of ’78, Rockpile barnstormed across America as the opening act of a tour with Elvis Costello and Mink DeVille. They roared into San Francisco’s Winterland ballroom for the last night of the tour, primed and ready to blast out a tight, smokin’ hot half-hour of rock and roll. The band cranks the energy up to the infamous “eleven” right from the get-go, barely breaking the flow to introduce the band.

Collector’s Note: A special orange vinyl 12” promotional single was pressed to promote the tour. It was an unusual “dual label” release, with a red Columbia label for the Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe sides, and a purple Capitol label on the Mink DeVille side.

This version is digitized from a master copy of a KSAN-FM broadcast recorded by my friend GWH. The sound quality is excellent. On a personal note, I was at this show, right down in front about ten feet in front of the stage (and I think GWH was with me….). At the end of the show, the deejay identifies it as being from “Nick Lowe, recorded live at Winterland, June 1978,” so I believe this is from a later re-broadcast of the show.

I’ve listed this as “Nick Lowe & Rockpile” as that was the billing that night. Rockpile was a bit of a contractual mess, with Nick Lowe signed to Columbia and Dave Edmunds signed to Swan Song. As such, they toured with either Nick or Dave’s name featured. Lowe takes the lead vocal on five songs, Dave Edmunds on the remaining three.

Nick Lowe & Rockpile

Winterland San Francisco, CA

June 7, 1978

KSAN-FM

Master TDK SA-C90 > Audacity > wav > flac

(Digitized July 16, 2011 from GWH's tape)

01. KSAN I.D. & Concert Intro

02. So It Goes

03. Fool Too Long

04. Band Intros

05. I Knew The Bride

06. (I Love The Sound Of) Breaking Glass

07. Down, Down, Down

08. They Called It Rock

09. Juju Man

10. Heart Of The City

https://mega.nz/#!LZYU3DrJ!FYP-4CbMFKqzHcc96IteCMzn7mh_p7csVBDhxi5B1Ow