with a bonus track from 11/22/76 Detroit AUD
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Lou Reed Albury 01 November 1977 soundboard recording

"...somebody threw something so we're not playing......"

(liberated from the "Banging On My Drums" bootleg CD)

Regent Theatre
Albury
01 November 1977

track 01: Sweet Jane 7.31
track 02: Rock And Roll Heart 2.58
track 03: I Wanna Be Black 8.25 (cut short when somebody throws something onto the stage)
track 04: Rock And Roll/You Keep Me Hanging On 10.52
track 05: Walk On The Wild Side 9.56
track 06: Shooting Star 4.02
track 07: Satellite Of Love 11.16
track 08: Coney Island Baby 7.30
track 09: Banging On My Drum 3.54

track 10: Lisa Says 7.27 (audience recording, Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, 22 November 1976)

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Stuart Heinrich: guitar
Michael Fonfara: keyboards
Bruce Yaw: bass
Richard Fliegler: guitar
Michael Suchorsky: drums
Joanne Kamorin: backing vocals

lineage: Midnight Beat silver CD MB CD132 - EAC - wav - flac (level 8) - you

(track 10 lineage: trade cassette - (Wavepad) - wav - flac (level 8) - you

uploaded to Dime April 2008 by lurid_uk

1977 Australian Tour: "The Return Of The Rock' N' Roll Animal"

Tour presented and promoted by: Evans Gudinsky & Associates and Paradine Entertainments

26 October: Brisbane
28 October: Newcastle
29 October: Sydney
31 October: Canberra
01 November: Albury
02 November: Melbourne
05 November: Adelaide
07 November: Perth

This show is documented as "Aubrey, Canada, Jan 11th 1977" on the cover of the bootleg CD but that date seems self-evidently incorrect. All the evidence points to the 01 November show in Albury, with the error a result of confusion over the different US/European approaches to written dates.

Apart from the omission of "Leave Me Alone", this show has the same setlist as the Sydney concert a couple of days previously. The existence of this soundboard recording implies that the other shows might also have been recorded, but if they were, copies have not circulated to my knowledge. While the recording quality isn't quite in the same league as the Stockholm 74 show it's still an excellent recording, and vastly better than the audience recording from Sydney.

I think this is (another) great concert. Lou's vocals sound slurred and "detached", but I think that only enhances the "wasted but still coming" ambience which is typical of these 1977 shows. The addition of a backup vocalist is a sign of things to come for the "Street Hassle" 1978 shows - I particularly like this arrangement of "Coney Island Baby", with a nice intimate vocal from Lou.

Included with torrent files: scan of 1977 Australian Tour Programme. I could be wrong, but I think that's Rachel who can be seen just behind Lou on page 10. The afficionados out there will also recognise the name of one of the promoters - Ron Blackmore. This is presumably the same Ron Blackmore who previously had to face the local press when Lou abandoned his 1975 Australasian tour.....

To the best of my knowledge, Australia was the only country to produce a programme for the 1977 tour - in fact Australia produced nice programmes for each of Lou's "down under" tours. I wish other coutries had done the same.

Distribute widely but do not sell!

Give copies to all your friends!

SBD

data disk # 615