As a follow-up for their Live feat. Annie Golden Brooklyn's power pop meets New Wave band The Shirts look back at their first act again with another rambunctious in concert release. Live At Paradise 1979. The show was recorded for a radio broadcast by local station WBCN at Boston's Paradise Rock Club on August 27, 1979, shortly after their second album Street Light Shine. The tapes were digitized by Wout de Kruif (Dutch Tape Transfers) and demixed/remastered by retired sound engineer Prof Stoned.
It was a weird time for the band. Lead singer Annie Golden had a part in the movie adaptation of Hair and was under pressure to leave the band and become a full-time actress. She turned it down, but in hindsight this period was the high mark of the band's popularity in the States. In 1980 their label would fuck things up promoting the next album, Inner Sleeve, and the band folded soon afterwards.
All that was still in the distant future when they hit the stage in Boston for a joyous run through of their catalogue up to that point. Most of it was played fast, but it never falls apart. The six musicians were a well-oiled machine and the sheer joy of connecting with an appreciative audience supplied them with enough adrenalin to burn up the stage. The CD had a bit of space left, which is taken by two bonus tracks recorded at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on August 15, 1979 - the Dutch had embraced the band from the get-go. Hopefully the full set from that show will surface too.
The Shirts:
Annie Golden: lead vocals
Arthur Lamonica: guitar, keyboards, vocals
Ron Ardito: guitar, vocals
John Piccolo: keyboards, vocals
Robert Racioppo: bass, vocals
John Criscione: drums, percussion, vocals
Live At Paradise 1979 is released via Think Like A Key (CD, digital). Release date: May 15.
Tracks:- Intro
- Starts With A Handshake
- Love Is A Fiction
- Tell Me Your Plans
- One Last Chance
- Empty Ever After
- Teenage Crutch
- I Feel So Nervous
- Can't Cry Anymore
- I Wanna Be A Rocker
- Laugh And Walk Away
- They Say The Sun Shines
- Outside The Cathedral Door
- Poe
- Wrong, Wrong, Right
- Lonely Android
- Reduced To A Whisper
- Don't Get Me Wrong (Punk Rocker)
- I've Had It
- Laura's In The Lion's Den
HCTF review of Live feat. Annie Golden
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