Billy Squier / Triumph - Supergroups In Concert #SGC 12 (Pre-FM) - Draftervoi Encoding

Billy Squier / Triumph
Supergroups In Concert #SGC 12
Billy Squier - The Warfield, San Francisco, CA - November 22, 1981
Triumph - Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Casselberry, FL ("Orlando") - March 3, 1982
Tampa Jai Alai Fronton, Tampa, FL ("St. Petersburg") - March 4, 1982
For Broadcast July 10, 1982
Pre-FM Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cue Sheet, Label Scans & Extras Included

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Sides A, B, and C - Billy Squier:

00 NO ARTIST - 1 kc Tone
01 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Intro
02 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 1
03 Billy Squier - In The Dark
04 Billy Squier - Rich Kid
05 Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
06 Billy Squier - Whadda You Want From Me
07 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
08 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 2
09 Billy Squier - Lonely Is The Night
10 Billy Squier - Young Girls
11 Billy Squier - I Need You
12 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
13 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It
14 Billy Squier - The Stroke
15 Billy Squier - You Should Be High Love 2
16 Billy Squier - The Big Beat
17 Billy Squier - Band Introduction
18 Billy Squier - You Know What I Like
19 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
20 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 1

Sides D, E, and F - Triumph:

01 Triumph - Tear The Roof Off
02 Triumph - Allied Forces
03 Triumph - Fight The Good Fight
04 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
05 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 3
06 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Segment intro
07 Triumph - Blinding Light Show
08 Triumph - Lay It On The Line
09 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
10 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 2
11 Triumph - Rock & Roll Machine
12 Triumph - Magic Power
13 Triumph - Hot Time (In This City Tonight)
14 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Break
15 Commercial - Coca-Cola Coke Is It 1
16 Pat St. John - Super Groups In Concert SGC-12 Outro

Alright the one thing everyone who visits this blog should know is that if it's a Draftrevoi then it's a quality encoding. This is a Draftervoi so therefore a quality encoding. It's also a great pairing and example of 1980's Hard Rock Radio. Early on we got the sanitized version of the Hard Rock / Heavy Metal scene. I'm not kicking sand at either band here. Triumph is a great Hard Rock Traditional Heavy Metal band. They were an awesome live band or I wouldn't have paid to see them 4 times. Billy Squire had a good Hard Rock band backing him and he wrote some great hooks. Almost every song on his second album Don't Say Know was an FM Radio Hit. There are 3 tracks from that album I don't remember hearing on the radio. The thing is that a lot heavier bands were releasing great albums. Black Sabbath is a great example because you would hear "Paranoid", "War Pigs", "Iron Man" and "Heaven And Hell". That's the ones deemed tolerable for radio. I have a DJ Copy of Alice Cooper's "I'll Never Cry". Next to the title is the word tolerable. When they first started playing Metallica, it was their slowest track "Fade To Black". You do need this great Hard Rock / Heavy Metal show...I mean it's Live versions of "Blinding Light Show" and "Rock And Roll Machine"!!!

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Triumph - Sports Arena: Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. March 8, 1985 (FM)

Triumph
Sports Arena
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
March 8, 1985
FM Simulcast/Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Small Front Cover Included

01 Intro
02 Interview
03 Show Start
04 When The Lights Go Down
05 Magic Power
06 Never Surrender
07 Allied Forces
08 Lay It On The Line
09 Midsummer’s Daydream
10 Time Goes By
11 World Of Fantasy
12 Drum Solo
13 Rock & Roll Machine
14 Guitar Solo
15 Spellbound
16 Encore Intro
17 Fight The Good Fight

Rik Emmett – guitars, lead and backing vocals
Gil Moore – drums, percussion, lead and backing vocals
Mike Levine – bass, keyboards, backing vocals

This is a great simulcast show from Triumph on tour for my favorite Triumph album Thunder Seven. I like Thunder Seven because it really combines the dual personalities of Triumph's song writers perfectly. Gil Moore always had more of the Hard Rockers while Rick Emmett had more of the Melodic Rockers. Thunder Seven combined their talents the best in my opinion. It just has a better feel to me. Like "Rock & Roll Machine" and "Magic Power" if you play the studio versions to some one who doesn't know Triumph they may not think it's the same band. However if you play "Spellbound" and "Rock Out Roll On" they fit together better, they flow. I love every album the original line-up released but my go to is Thunder Seven. As for Edge Of Excess, I have it on vinyl, I bought it used along with Surveillance to complete my collection.

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Triumph - Studio Jam ~ Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 08-19-1979 (Pre-FM)

Triumph
Studio Jam
Aragon Ballroom
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
August 19, 1979
Pre-FM Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
No Cue Sheet Or Label Scans

01 American Girls
02 Street Fighter
03 Hold On
04 Lay It On The Line
05 Blinding Light Show
06 24 Hours A Day
07 Takes Time

Rik Emmett – guitar, lead and backing vocals, synthesizer
Mike Levine – bass, keyboards, synthesizer
Gil Moore – drums, percussion, lead and backing vocals

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Triumph - Allied Forces Across America (FM)

Triumph
Allied Forces Across America
Dallas, TX - April 10, 1984
Detroit, MI - 1987
Soundboard Recordings
Front Cover Only
Flac & MP3 320kps

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01 Too Much Thinking
02 Never Surrender
03 Magic Power
04 A World Of Fantasy
05 When The Lights Go Down
06 Tears In The Rain
07 Somebody's Out There
08 Allied Forces
09 Lay It On The Line
10 Midsummer's Daydream
11 Follow Your Heart
12 Take A Stand
13 Fight The Good Fight

Tracks 1 - 5 From Dallas, TX - April 10, 1984
Tracks 6 - 11 Detroit, MI - 1987

Rick Emmett guitar, lead, harmony & backing vocals
Gil Moore drums, lead, harmony & backing vocals
Mike Levine bass, keyboards, harmony & backing vocals
Rick Santers – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals tracks 6-11

A nice recording from Triumph's heyday. A great set with all the fan favorites of the time period. A great performance as well, except I do question the decision to put the drum solo in A World Of Fantasy. I think it would have fit better in one of their heavier numbers. Rick and Gil are in fine voice, and the band is very tight. I'm not quite sure but I think the Detroit gig was at Joe Louis Arena.

In 1984 Triumph released what fans and critics both agree was the high water mark of their songwriting prowess Thunder Seven. Triumph was always more of a two headed beast when it came to their music. Drummer Gil Moore wrote AOR/Hard Rock anthems while guitarist Rick Emmett wrote more melodic introspective songs. Combined efforts on Thunder Seven brought the best of both styles into each song. The album sales were marred however by the record company's decision to release the album only on CD at a time when CD players were still unaffordable but to relativly few people. Sales were lacluster even though the band had two hit singles, "Follow Your Heart" & "Spellbound", forcing MCA to press vinyl and cassette copies to try and recoup sales losses.

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Triumph - The Precious Metal Show (FM)

Triumph
The Precious Metal Show
Chicago IL. July 20, 1979;
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada January 2, 1982
Soundboard/FM Broadcast Recordings
Front Cover Only
Flac & MP3 320kps

01 American Girls
02 Street Fighting Man
03 Hold On
04 Lay It On The Line
05 Blinding Light Show
06 Rock & Roll Machine
07 Finale
08 Tear The Roof Off Tonight
09 Lay It On The Line
10 Allied Forces
11 Fight The Good Fight
12 Rock & Roll Machine
13 Magic Power
14 Finale

Tracks 1-7 are from the July 20, 1979 Chicago, IL concert
Tracks 8-14 are from the January 2, 1982 Ottawa, Ontario concert

Rick Emmett guitar, lead, harmony & backing vocals
Gil Moore drums, lead, harmony & backing vocals
Mike Levine bass, keyboards, harmony & backing vocals

Another great CD combining two short Triumph radio shows. Although there are a couple repeated tracks, I doubt most Triumph fans are going to complain about two versions of "Lay It On The Line" or "Rock And Roll Machine". This boot catches the band on tour for their Just A Game & Allied Forces releases.

Released in 1979 Just A Game is the album that brought Triumph to the forefront in the world of Hard Rock. The two hits "Hold On" & "Lay It On The Line" garnered the band plenty of air time on Album-Oriented Rock Radio which in turn brought bigger audiences to the shows. The album also delivered them to the world market. The follow up album Allied Forces increased the bands status even further with the hits "Magic Power" & "Fight The Good Fight". Triumph was now headlining arenas the world over, and influencing a new generation of Melodic Hard Rockers to come.

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Triumph - Civic Center, Baltimore, MD 02-23-1982 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Triumph
Civic Center
Baltimore, MD
February 23, 1982
Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kps
No Cover Art

01 Tear The Roof Off
02 American Girls
03 Lay It On The Line
04 Allied Forces
05 Fight The Good Fight
06 Rock & Roll Machine / Petite Etude / Guitar Solo
07 Nature’s Child / Drum Solo
08 Magic Power
09 Allied Forces (Reprise)
10 Hot Time (In This City Tonight)

Rik Emmett guitar, lead & backing vocals
Mike Levine bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Gil Moore drums, lead & backing vocals

This decent sounding, show ripped from my bootleg DVD, was an MTV concert broadcast back when MTV actually played music. The channel was new and played anything music that was shot on video. This was great news to a lot of bands who's careers were made by heavy rotation of their videos. Triumph's star was already on the rise from some radio friendly hits, MTV gave them a push over the top to super stardom.

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