The B-52's
Live at Us Festival, Devore, San Bernardino, CA
09/03/1982
Recording quality : A (audience)
/!\ Beware of the bass /!\
Tracklist :
00:00 - Party Out Of Bounds
05:14 - Give Me Back My Man
11:02 - Planet Claire
15:05 - Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can
19:18 - Lava
23:14 - Mesopotamia
27:17 - 6060-842
30:05 - Big Bird
34:36 - 52 Girls
37:44 - Dance This Mess Around
42:11 - Private Idaho
45:57 - Rock Lobster
50:48 - Strobe Light
Notes :
A strong festival show from The B's during their famous Meso-America Tour. They didn't headline the US Festival, but it was their biggest crowd since Heatwave Festival two years prior.
The setlist is filled with classic song played "a la Party Mix", with horns section, bongos and better bass. The highlights of this show are the "Mesopotamia" era songs, and one of the only performance known (recorded at least) of "Strobe Light" during this tour, with strong horns arrangements !
There is some footage from this show on the internet (a few extracts are here on YT), but it's bad quality, although the sound
is so-so. Maybe someone will be brave enough to sync this pretty good sounding bootleg to the footage ?
Thanks to the taper (and my friend Mike who gave me this bootleg).
Line up :
Kate Pierson : vocals, keyboard
Fred Schneider : vocals, percussions
Keith Strickland : drums
Cindy Wilson : vocals, bongos
Ricky Wilson : guitar
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David Buck : trumpet
Ralph Carney : sax
This is the third and final upload about the '82 US Festival. Hope you liked it.
Keep in tune next sunday for one of the best bootleg from the "Cosmic Thing" era...
