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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Blondie
Old Waldorf
1977
Late set at
Old Waldorf, San Franciso, September 21, 1977
Leave it to Patti Smith to explain it best why we need to remember 1975
when punk first broke. At the closing of CBGB's on Monday night [Oct 16],
she sang the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter again making a bridge to the
past. She explained:
"We are still who we are. I did my duty to the club. But my band -- we
still have our own identity. And that's what we do. We were doing the
same thing in 1974. Our message then was, rock & roll was losing its power.
We have to take it over again. But it was not a message for myself. It
was a message for new generations, the people after us. I considered us
a bridge. You could walk over us and get to the other side.
"I guess it's just the kind of person I am and how I see my duty. I still
feel the same way. I'm going to be sixty this year. I've seen a lot of
stuff, gone through a lot of things. But I'm still here. I've got new
ideas, and I have some things to impart.
"One thing I feel about our present condition is, I'm the same age as
George Bush. So I'm not looking at my generation to save the world. The
hope is in the future. I can't speak with intense pride about how my generation
is conducting itself in this world. I have to look to the new generations
to do better than we did."
But Patti also explained the spirit of enterprise isn't the ownership
of Americans. She said, "[w]hen our band went to London and Brussels and
Denmark, kids even then were so intimidated about CBGB. I said, 'Screw
CBGB. It's nothing. What makes it is the people and their collective energy.
The people make CBGB. You can all start your own.' That was always part
of our philosophy." Don't try this in $ingapore kids. First you'd need
a pair.
This week's ROIO is Blondie before they became a pop band, big in England.
Here they are as part of the nowave scene in New York. Just check out
Debbie Harry's rendition of The Doors' Moonlight Mile. She's never returned
to do this cover. Back then it wasn't about being a celebrity, it was
about carrying the responsibility of an artist, the power to create and
transform.
The Old Waldorf in
San Francisco might be close and intimate but it had a great sound so
much so that KSAN-FM felt encouraged to broadcast the shows. This is what
cream-puff-war, who now resides on the internet, posted: "On many nights
I went there to see excellent artists perform such as Blondie (1977),
U2, X, XTC, John Cale, John Cipolllina... a soundboard tape would be played
over the PA - the tapes sounded superb, recorded from concurrent shows
by artists who played at the Old Waldorf (say the week before), such as
Elvis Costello, Squeeze, so forth and so on."
So it should not
come as a surprise that this in-your-face set sounds terrific. Even though
Blondie were formed in 1974, by 1977 the group was a well-tuned outfit.
While some see them as the house band at New York's CBGB, they had toured
with Iggy Pop earlier that year; played with Joan Jett and even did a
UK tour in May supporting Television.
Blondie had released
their self-titled debut album in 1976 while their second album, Plastic
Letters, was released in March 1977. As can be expected, the set consisted
of tracks from both albums and, as a special treat, they even covered
the Yardbirds' Heart Full Of Soul and the Doors' Moonlight Drive, with
Debbie Harry in blistering form.
Overall, an eclectic
mix of punk and new wave, even if it is a relatively short set, Blondie
do come across as refreshingly energetic, no doubt buoyed by what sounded
like a partisan crowd.
Thanks to arcorman
for sharing the tracks. In his notes, arcorman also thanked metrosdepot
and musigny23 for their efforts in sharing the music.
Click on the highlighted
tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample
rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never
been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
X-Offender |
| Track
02 |
Youth
Nabbed As Sniper |
| Track
03 |
Fan
Mail |
| Track
04 |
Cautious
Lip |
| Track
05 |
I'm
On E |
| Track
06 |
Detroit
442 |
| Track
07 |
I
Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No |
| Track
08 |
Bermuda
Trianle Blues (Flight 45) |
| Track
09 |
(I'm
Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear |
| Track
10 |
Contact
In Red Square |
| Track
11 |
A
Shark In Jet's Clothing |
| Track
12 |
In
The Sun |
| Track
13 |
Heart
Full Of Soul (Yardbirds) |
| Track
14 |
Playing
With Fire |
| Track
15 |
Moonlight
Drive (Doors) |
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