BOYS AND THE DUKES ( muskegon 1985)

        Format : 1 CDR. 14 tracks ~ 71 min

Label : Zone 51 prod 422.01

 

Disc 1 : 40.40

01. press conference

02. intro

03. rats in the cellar

04. Bone to Bone  

05. Big Ten Inch Record

06. Three Mile Smile

07. Reefer Head Woman

08. Lord of the Thighs

09. movin’ out

10. last child

11. back in the saddle

12. lightning strikes

13. same old song and dance

14. milk cow blues

 

   Recorded live :

At the lc walker arena

Muskegon .MI.USA

January 14^th.1985

 

Comments :

   Audience recording

Aerosmith here on its

"Back In The Saddle" tour. The bandreunited in 1984 and went out on tour

without a record.  The recording openswith a pre-gig press conference that was

recorded at the LC Walker Arena by localradio station WLAV, which is broadcasted

it after the fact in segments in thefollowing weeks. Someone did a nice job

of recording the segments and puttingthem together.

Separately we have an audiencerecording of the gig itself, which starts

off well enough. Before "Three Mile Smile"Tyler quizes a band member (Perry?)

about which album the tune is from, and he gets the wrong answer

the first one."  The sound is decent through halfway through "Lord of the Thighs" kinda loud, rattley and in your face like the band should be recorded. But  then the batteries seem to lose power and the tape begins to speed up and warble. From here out the show is a rough ride as the speed and sound fluctuates, but the tunes are still recognizable.  An interesting artifact of the band, albeit flawed. A little bit of rock and roll history from Michigan!