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Lita Ford – 1984 – Live at the Country Club, Los Angeles, CA  [FM]

Lita Ford – 1984 – Live at the Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA  [FM]

In 1975, at age 16, Lita Ford was recruited to join the all-female rock band that was being formed called The Runaways. The band soon secured a recording contract and released their first album in 1976.  In 1977, internal conflicts were erupting within The Runaways.  Lead singer Cherie Currie, and bassist Jackie Fox, as well as  vocalist/guitarist Joan Jett wanted the band to shift to a more Ramones-influenced punk rock sound, while Lita Ford and drummer Sandy West wanted to continue playing the hard rock-oriented songs the band had become known for.  Compromise wasn’t on the table and in the cards, so The Runaways broke up in April 1979.  Following the breakup of The Runaways, Lita Ford set about launching a solo career. Her debut solo album, entitled Out for Blood,  was released in 1983 and was a commercial disappointment to say the least.  Her next release, Dancin’ on the Edge (1984) achieved moderate success and Lita Ford’s popularity began to rise.  That is when we find her in the first of two FM broadcasts.  Live at the Country Club in Los Angeles, 1884.  After Lita signed with RCA records, she re-emerged with a more radio-friendly pop-metal sound. In 1988, she released her most commercially successful album, the self-produced Lita.She followed up the success of Lita with the album Stiletto (1990).  However, the album failed to match the success of her previous release. Ford’s next release was Dangerous Curves (1991), which featured her last charting single to date, “Shot of Poison“. Ford’s final album prior to a lengthy recording hiatus was Black on a German label.   This second FM broadcast, finds Lita Live at the Coach House in San Juan, Capistrano, CA in 1992.  By the mid-1990s, Ford placed a reduced priority on her music career as she turned her attention towards raising her two young sons. Following the release of Black in 1995, Ford did not release new material until the Wicked Wonderland album almost fifteen years later. 2009’s nu metal–inspired Wicked Wonderland, was too much of a collective project with her ex-husband, so she promised to release a ‘real’ comeback album and that she did with the 2012 release, Living Like a Runaway.  She continues to record and perform, so go buy her latest CD.  For now, check out this great clip and podcast.  😉

Wishbone Ash – 1981.06.02 – Hammersmith Odeon BBC  [FM]

Wishbone Ash is a British rock band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s. They were one of the first bands to use twin lead guitars.  Wishbone Ash is considered to be one of the major innovators of the harmony twin lead guitar format.  Formed in Torquay, Devon, in 1969, out of the ashes of trio The Empty Vessels (originally known as The Torinoes, later briefly being renamed Tanglewood in 1969), which had been formed by Wishbone Ash’s founding member Martin Turner (bass & vocals) in 1963 and complemented by Steve Upton (drums and percussion) in 1966. The original Wishbone Ash line-up was completed by guitarists/vocalists Andy Powell and Ted Turner.  Rumor has it that they couldn’t decide between Powell and Turner, so decided to recruit both of them to see how it sounded…  Differing from the twin lead guitar sound of The Allman Brothers Band, Wishbone Ash included strong elements of progressive rock, and also of folk and classical music. After the band members wrote several suggested band names on two sheets of paper, Martin Turner picked one word from each list…  ‘Wishbone’ and ‘Ash’.

Three (3) – 1988.04.15 – The Paradise Theater, Boston, MA WBCN  [FM]

3 (sometimes referred to as Emerson, Berry & Palmer) were a short-lived progressive rock band formed by former Emerson, Lake & Palmer members Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer and American multi-instrumentalist Robert Berry in 1988.  3 performed at live venues to support their only album, released in 1988, To The Power Of Three. The three studio musicians were sometimes augmented by Paul Keller on guitar and Jennifer Steele on backing vocals.  They were yet another ‘transition band’ that was after Emerson, Lake and Palmer broke up in 1979, and before they reformed in 1991.  The previous ‘transition band’ born out of the ashes of ELP was another short-lived band, Emerson, Lake, and Powell.  ELPowell or ELP2, were an English progressive rock band, an offshoot or variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official studio album in 1986.  I’m certain that we shall hear some ELP as well as ELP2 on upcoming broadcasts.  Kieth Emerson, unfortunately passed away earlier in 2016 and Cozy Powell  passed in 1998. This 3 bootleg FM broadcast, finds them in The Paradise Theater in Boston, MA, and was broadcast on WBCN-FM.