London, Wembley, Empire Pool October 31, 1979 (BBC Broadcast Completed) FLAC
Complete b'cast and show, longer & superior to "Hellowe'en Headlines" bootleg CD/CD-R.
Comes with full-colour cover (jpg).
Lineage #1 (CD 1, tracks 2-9, CD 2, tracks 1-5): BBC radio b’cast (“Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It”>(x analog copies)>”Hellowe’en Headlines” silver or CD-R>EAC>digitally EQ’ed>CD-R>EAC>FLAC (level 8) Dime>You!
Lineage #2 (CD 1, track 1; CD 2, tracks 6 & 7): BBC FM b’cast (“You Mother Wouldn’t Like It”>(x analog copies)>CD-R (in trade)>EAC>digital EQ’ing & speed correction>CD-R>EAC>FLAC (level 8)
CD 1:
Nicky Horn Intro
Blind Eye ~
Lady Whiskey
The King Will Come
Warrior
Throw Down The Sword
Front Page News
Sometime World
Goodbye Baby, Hello Friend
CD 2:
Runaway
Come In From The Rain
Phoenix
Jail Bait
Blowin’ Free
No Easy Road
Bad Weather Blues
OU: NOT FOR SALE - Trade & sharing only.
DO NOT spread a version of this upload if you fumbled on it (i.e. if you did more "remastering“, doctoring, tinkering…), and DO NOT spread this show in lossy formats, either, OK? OK????
OU: I hope my donation causes a few serious Wishbone collectors to follow suit and to climb up to their attics, dig into their shoe or whatever boxes,and maybe share another uncirculated Wishbone heyday show of old (70's, that is). Wishbone ahoy!
I've long thought of uploading my version of this beautiful show, but discovering how many of my low gen. and rarely circulated shows I have donated during the last year have turned up as commercial bootlegs has really pissed me off big time and kept me from sharing more gems of my collection.
Each time I receive a show from [this site], it reminds me that joy is about the only thing that doubles if you share it.
After Wishbone's bomeback in style with their raw, "live-in-the-studio" 1976 "New England" album, the band obviously gave another shot at finally making it on the US market with their rather Americanized "studio-produced" sounding "Front Page News" album. IIRC, it was Martin Turner who once stated that it was difficult for the band and in some cases even impossible to transfer some of this album's tracks to the stage. It seems that in order to counterbalance the somewhat more-Pop-than-Rock nature of the album they chose to undig a few numbers that they hadn't played in a few years - the first time in their career they's do that. For what it's worth, it's exactly those numbers that make their 1977 tour so interesting (IMHO): Blind Eye (not played since 1972), Lady Whiskey (not played since 1973/74), Throw Down the Sword (not played since early 1975), Sometime World (not played since 1974), Phoenix (not done since 1975), and No Easy Road (not played since 1973).
Wishone embarked on a pretty sucessful UK tour, but the album didn't do much neither in Punk-stricken Blighty nor on the US market which they were obviously aiming at in the first place. This show here was set as the "grande finale" of their UK tour, and turned out to be their only ever headlining Wembley Empire Pool show. Never before or after would they play this prestigious 8,000 seater, most likely their largest UK indoor audience as headliners ever (as far as I know).
Underlining this show's status was the Beeb's b'cast within their famous (or infamous?) "Your Mother Wouldn't Like It" series. Alas, on this occasion the band cut down their set and dropped "You Rescue Me" which they had previously done along the tour. It may be though that was necessary to comply with the b'cast time limitations.
Alas, there doesn't seem to be a low. gen. or even pre-FM copy in circulation. All there is among collectors' circles is a bootleg CD titled "Helloween Headlines" on one Crafty Cat Records label that appeared sometime in the early 2000's. Don't know if this ever was a real silver or just another CD-R "release". Anyway, this thingy was made from a not-really-low gen. copy of the b'cast which suffers from a significantly "flat" image and a slight what seems like a mid-wave b'cast tone. Not too bad, but it caused my good friend and long-time trading & collecting mate Hans-Guether to take care of this show and apply his significant digital EQ'ing skills. Along with my CD, I also sent him the last two tracks (No Easy Road and Bad Weather Blues plus Nicky Horn's intro) which are not included on the boot CD, and thus are only rarely circulated. As a pretty good guitarist himself he of course easily detected that these two tracks ran fast and he easily adjusted them to the correct speed of the remainder of the show.
In case you give a sh*t, my favourites on this show are the rarely played "Sometime World" with Laurie's oh-so-tender quiet guitar part, and "Throw Down the Sword" with some of the most beautiful tone sequences in Andy's solo I know of.
Hence, if you downlod this show, you shall get a
1) completed,
2) heavily sound-improved,
3) speed corrected, and
4) never circulated as such
version of this memorable show - not to mention my labour-of-love cover depicting contemporary tour memorabilia (tell me what you think of it, OK?).
rar files packed with a (winrar) recovery record -
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