The return of CRAB Radio Live went exceptionally well.  Four years after the Saturday Night

Trifecta pulled it’s plug, Happy Hour rode back into town, bringing you the very best in bootleg concerts.  A few people might be interested in the software/plugins used, like Dave Ball of RadioDave.  Unfortunately, RadioDave has ceased operations, but I may try to convince him to take a run as a guest DJ at some point, if he’s agreeable to that.

The download links are at the bottom of this post for registered users ONLY……

Voicemail for the request line is:  646-222-8198

The first segment of the broadcast was Golden Earring 75 Live Switch.  This concert was recorded in Winterland, San Francisco, California, right on the heels of their successful 1973 hit, Radar Love, from their Moontan album.

Golden Earring is a Dutch band, founded in 1961 by 13 and 15 year-old neighbors, George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen, respectively.  They had originally called the band The Tornadoes.  The band changed the name to The Golden Earrings when they discovered the other name was being used.  Finally, they adopted the present name in 1969.

The present lineup has been the band’s lineup since 1970, however, other musicians have come and gone.  After they hit the US charts with Radar Love in 1973, they didn’t really resurface until 1982 with Twilight Zone.  The Golden Earring of the eighties was a band worth listening to, and I shall try to do a concert from that era sometime in the future.

The second segment of the broadcast was a 1998 bootleg album, Bon Scott Rarities……  Bon Scott (9 Jul 1946 – 19 Feb 1980) formed his first band, The Spektors, in 1964.  He was the drummer, and occasionally the lead vocalist.  Before replacing Dave Evans in 1974 as the lead singer of ACDC, he also performed in The Valentines and Fraternity.  He originally auditioned for the spot of drummer with ACDC, but was turned down because he was so small, only being 5’8″ or so.  His time with ACDC was rather short (only six years), but he helped rocket the band to worldwide stardom.

After his passing in early 1980, the band actually considered disbanding, but found Brian Johnson in the british glam rock band, Geordie.  The album, Back in Black was released a short five months after Scott’s death, and was touted as a tribute to Bon Scott.  In 2004, Classic Rock rated him as the number 1 in a list of the ‘100 Greatest Frontmen Of All Time’.  This bootleg contains rare Bon Scott ACDC tracks, from Australian-only releases, and early singles.

The third segment of the broadcast was Krokus 1984 Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan…..  Krokus was forment in 1975 and was initially a prog rock band.  It was the late seventies, when they heard ACDC live in concert, and decided to change their style to more closely match Bon Scott and ACDC.  Krokus’ first hit, Metal Rendez-vous was recorded and released in 1980 and was followed closely by the 1981 release, Hardware.  These two albums were both hits and provided the fuel with which the group launched into worldwide popularity which was about to happen.

1982’s release of One Vice at a Time managed to do what the other two albums set the stage for.  Chris Von Rohr, originally their drummer, and then their vocalist through the late seventies, described this album as “the album ACDC never made”.  The Cobo Hall concert bootleg is right on the heels of this success, and contains Long Stick Goes Boom,  American Woman as well as several of their other hits.

Next week’s broadcast, 10 Jan 2015 will air starting at 8 PM Eastern time, and will include:

Alice Cooper – 1980 – Supergroups in Concert FM – El Paso, TX

Bon Scott Forever Volume 1 [of 9] (Continuing on with the Bon Scott theme)

Bachman Turner Overdrive – 1984 Harpo’s – Detroit, MI