Cheap Trick - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-26-2015

Here's another concert recording from an April 2026 leak of dozens of concerts that took place at the Capitol Theatre, in Port Chester, New York. Like all the others from that leak, this is an excellent soundboard bootleg, though the sound is in mono. This concerts features the band Cheap Trick. 

This recording hasn't been publicly available before, at least not in this curated form. It was available in the raw form of the original leak, but those files have mostly disappeared from the Internet by now, as far as I can tell.

Cheap Trick had their commercial heyday in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But they've kept going, and are still going today, as I write this in 2026. Unlike a lot of bands that have been around a very long time, they haven't turned only into an oldies act. In fact some of their better rated albums (judging by the crowd-sourced rateyourmusic.com) are some later ones, such as "Rockford," released in 2006. 

This concert features a mix of older and newer (for 2015) songs, plus two covers, "The 'In' Crowd" and "I'm Waiting for the Man."

By the way, I took stock of how things are going with the posting of these Port Chester soundboard concerts. At first, a couple dozen, at least, were posted by others, saving me most of the work. But it seems those efforts have stopped. So I'm going to try to post the rest. I count about 30 more that interest me. It'll be a while though, since I have to chop single sound files into individual mp3s for most of these, just like I did for this one. 

This album is an hour and 32 minutes long.

01 Intro (Cheap Trick)
02 Hello There (Cheap Trick)
03 Come On, Come On (Cheap Trick)
04 Big Eyes (Cheap Trick)
05 talk (Cheap Trick)
06 Lookout (Cheap Trick)
07 California Man (Cheap Trick)
08 talk (Cheap Trick)
09 Tonight It's You (Cheap Trick)
10 talk (Cheap Trick)
11 If You Want My Love (Cheap Trick)
12 On Top of the World (Cheap Trick)
13 talk (Cheap Trick)
14 Borderline (Cheap Trick)
15 Baby Loves to Rock (Cheap Trick)
16 Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School (Cheap Trick)
17 talk (Cheap Trick)
18 The 'In' Crowd (Cheap Trick)
19 I'm Waiting for the Man - Heroin (Cheap Trick)
20 talk (Cheap Trick)
21 The Flame (Cheap Trick)
22 I Want You to Want Me (Cheap Trick)
23 Dream Police (Cheap Trick)
24 talk (Cheap Trick)
25 Long Time No See Ya (Cheap Trick)
26 Surrender (Cheap Trick with Jesse Malin)
27 talk (Cheap Trick)
28 Goodnight (Cheap Trick)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SSRjYRZZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/NnBM2eHNwNPDj0k/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Elvis: The Tribute, Pyramid Arena, Memphis, TN, 10-8-1994

Here's another interesting tribute concert, with loads of big stars. All of the songs performed were made famous by Elvis Presley. 

This concert seems to have mostly disappeared down the memory hole. An album of highlights from the concert was released, called "It's Now Or Never: The Tribute To Elvis." However, it's only 45 minutes long, containing just 15 songs. But the full two plus hour long concert was broadcast on TV at the time, so excellent sounding video footage of it exists.

This concert took place in 1994 despite the lack of any big anniversary or other important timely reason for it. Instead, the Elvis Presley estate decided that Presley's music was being forgotten by younger generations, so the concert was meant to help bring his music back into the spotlight.

As you can see from the album cover or the song list, a great many music stars performed in this concert. A few more - Jon Bon Jovi, Jeff Beck, and Cher, at least - backed out at the last minute. I found that mentioned in a newspaper article, though it didn't give a reason why. 

I used two versions of the video files of this concert, converted them to audio format, and broke them into mp3s. During that process, I cut out some material. There were several sections of a few minutes each that consisted of short films highlight different aspects of Presley's life. I removed all of those, plus their intros, since they were meant mainly to be seen, not heard. I also edited out some more talk by the announcers. However, I kept all the intros relevant to the songs. Plus, of course, I kept all the music.

The concert was mostly hosted by Karen Duffy, an MTV DJ, and singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson. But actor John Stamos introduced a few acts, and TV host Phil Donohue introduced one, and sometimes one act introduced the next one.

Occasionally, I had a little trouble with the edits at the starts and ends of songs. For instance, there were quick cuts to or away from TV commercials, as well as the short films I mentioned above. I tried my best to smooth things out, but occasionally the transitions between tracks is abrupt.

Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, James Burton, and the Jordanaires didn't have any performances on their own. However, all of them were key backing musicians or singers for Presley. From time to time, they backed up some of the other music acts. 

All of the performances were live from the concert, with two exceptions. I think "Too Much" by NRBQ actually took place before the TV broadcast began. But I slotted it into a logical spot in the concert. And U2 didn't show up for the concert, but sent video footage of their performance to be broadcast instead.

By the way, if you want to know more about the concert, I found a New York Times article of it from the time. Here's the link (I think you have to click on Option 2 to see it):

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This album is two hours and three minutes long.

01 talk (Karen Duffy)
02 Good Rockin' Tonight (Sammy Hagar)
03 Too Much (NRBQ)
04 Baby, Let's Play House (Michael Hutchence & NRBQ)
05 talk (Kris Kristofferson & Karen Duffy)
06 talk (Chet Atkins)
07 How's the World Treating You (Chet Atkins)
08 talk (Karen Duffy)
09 Mystery Train (Dwight Yoakam)
10 talk (Kris Kristofferson)
11 Don't Be Cruel (Marty Stuart with the Jordanaires)
12 talk (Marty Stuart)
13 All Shook Up (Cheap Trick)
14 talk (John Stamos)
15 That's Alright Mama (Kris Kristofferson)
16 talk (Kris Kristofferson)
17 One Night (Billy Ray Cyrus with the Jordanaires)
18 talk (Karen Duffy)
19 Lawdy Miss Claudy (Travis Tritt)
20 talk (Karen Duffy)
21 Blue Moon [Edit] (Chris Isaak with Scotty Moore & D.J. Fontana)
22 Love Me (Mavericks)
23 talk (John Stamos)
24 talk (Carl Perkins)
25 Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins with Scotty Moore & D.J. Fontana)
26 talk (Carl Perkins)
27 Rip It Up (Iggy Pop)
28 Memories (Mac Davis)
29 talk (Mac Davis)
30 talk (Bryan Adams)
31 Hound Dog (Bryan Adams with Scotty Moore & D.J. Fontana)
32 talk (Kris Kristofferson)
33 Always on My Mind (Sam Moore)
34 talk (Karen Duffy)
35 Heartbreak Hotel (John Cale)
36 talk (Karen Duffy)
37 I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Ann Wilson)
38 talk (Karen Duffy)
39 Teddy Bear (Tanya Tucker)
40 talk (Kris Kristofferson)
41 Trouble (Paul Rodgers)
42 talk (Phil Donahue)
43 [Marie's the Name] His Latest Flame (Scorpions)
44 Can't Help Falling in Love (U2)
45 talk (Kris Kristofferson & Karen Duffy)
46 It's Now or Never (Wet Wet Wet)
47 talk (Mac Davis)
48 Love Me Tender (Tony Bennett)
49 talk (Mac Davis)
50 Young and Beautiful (Aaron Neville)
51 talk (Mac Davis)
52 Jailhouse Rock (Michael Bolton with Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana & Carl Perkins)
53 talk (Karen Duffy)
54 Tryin' to Get to You (Faith Hill)
55 talk (John Stamos)
56 See See Rider (Jerry Lee Lewis with James Burton & NRBQ)
57 Kentucky Rain - Suspicious Minds (Eddie Rabbitt & Mavis Staples)
58 talk (Karen Duffy)
59 Burning Love (Melissa Etheridge)
60 talk (John Stamos)
61 Amazing Grace (Billy Ray Cyrus & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GWnJSkKo

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/cqa2ziePj3VTmo8/file 

The cover image is a pretty weird one for this concert, but bear with me for the explanation. It depicts Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley (the daughter of Elvis Presley). They had recently gotten married at the time of this concert. (Their marriage only lasted from 1994 to 1996). The weird thing is that neither of them performed at this concert. However, they did attend it. At one point near the end, you can hear the announcer mention their names, along with those of Janet Jackson (Michael Jackson's sister) and Priscilla Presley (Lisa Marie Presley's mother). All four of them briefly stood up and waved to the crowd. 

The main reason I chose them for the cover is because this was the only decent photo from the concert that I could find. The mere fact they were at the concert made news, especially due to the fact that they had just been recently married. I think the image shows the two of them backstage before or after the concert. Even this picture was rather low-res and rough, but I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality. 

Cheap Trick - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-5-1980

The more I dig for BBC material, the more I find. I didn't expect to find any BBC concerts for the American band Cheap Trick, but I actually found two. The first one is from 1979 and is rather short, with only okay sound. It also has basically the same songs as "Live at Bukokan," only fewer. So I've skipped that one. But this one from 1980 is more interesting. There's no official live album from around that time. So here it is for you.

At the time of this concert, Cheap Trick had just released their fifth studio album, "All Shook Up," a week or so earlier. So naturally there are a bunch of songs from that. 

This concert is officially unreleased. The sound quality was surprisingly below par, considering it's a BBC concert. I've noticed a great many live albums have the vocals too low in the mix, but that was at least doubly so for this one. But I fixed that, as usual, using the UVR5 audio editing program.

I was very disappointed to find that this concert didn't include the song "Dream Police." It was one of the band's biggest hits, from a year earlier, and it's one of my favorites by them. I checked their 1980 setlists at setlist.fm, and they played that song in every concert, usually as the final encore as part of a medley with "Goodnight." No doubt this was a longer concert, edited down by the BBC. So I found another soundboard bootleg from 1980, and added in those two songs at the end. (Details are in the mp3 tags.) Those songs also had the vocals too long, so I fixed that for them as well.

This album is an hour and three minutes long. Without the two extra songs at the end, it's 57 minutes.

01 Hello There (Cheap Trick)
02 Clock Strikes Ten (Cheap Trick)
03 talk (Cheap Trick)
04 I'll Be with You Tonight (Cheap Trick)
05 Southern Girls (Cheap Trick)
06 California Man (Cheap Trick)
07 talk (Cheap Trick)
08 Stop This Game (Cheap Trick)
09 Baby Loves to Rock (Cheap Trick)
10 talk (Cheap Trick)
11 I Love You Honey but I Hate Your Friends (Cheap Trick)
12 Day Tripper (Cheap Trick)
13 talk (Cheap Trick)
14 Gonna Raise Hell (Cheap Trick)
15 Big Eyes (Cheap Trick)
16 I Want You to Want Me (Cheap Trick)
17 Surrender (Cheap Trick)
18 Dream Police (Cheap Trick)
19 Goodnight (Cheap Trick)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/o4aSDKwF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/8M22hsHJHBTd22n/file

The cover photo shows three members of Cheap Trick at the American Music Awards, in January 1980.