Format: 1 CDR, 19 tracks, ~ 80min
Label: Zone
51 Prod 901.01
Disc :
1-Introductions
2-Sweet Home Chicago
3-Slow Blues
4-Blues Shuffle
5-Talk
6-Shotgun
7-Midnight Hour
8-Sittin' On The Dock Of
The Bay
9-Talk
10-Sweet Soul Music
11-Aerosmith Introduction
12-Toys In The Attic
13-Train Kept A Rollin'
14-Talk
15-Milk Cow Blues
16-Talk
17-All Your Love (Fades
In)
18-Talk
19-Blues Jam
Recorded live at:
The tennis rock jam for the special
olympics
Tennis rock expo.pier’84.new york
city.ny
Usa.july23th.1983
Comments
WHILE they may make more money than most
rock stars, guitar-toting tennis pros still
cannot lure hordes of teen-agers to a concert, even
a benefit for
a worthy cause. As hosts of an evening
of ''tennis rock'' at Pier 84 on Saturday, John
McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis drew one of the
lightest turnouts of the season in an event whose proceeds
will benefit the Special Olympics.
The concert opened strongly with the
ubiquitous Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan
leading his trio Double Trouble through a workmanlike set
of blues and boogie-woogie. Mr. Vaughan was
shortly joined by his fellow blues guitarist Buddy Guy,
who sang ''Stormy Monday.'' It was followed by the first of several impromptu
jasessions, which grew increasingly shapeless as the evening wore on.
While Eddie Van Halen didn't appear in
person, one of his guitars did and was donated as a door prize. Finally, Mr.
McEnroe and Mr. Gerulaitis straggled onto the stage along with an ''all-star''
band that included Bruce Brody from Patti Smith's group, Billy Squier's drummer
Bobby Choumard, the guitarist Alex Lifeson of the rock trio Rush and the
bassist Kenny Passerelli for a desultory blues jam that focused on Buddy Guy.
While the two tennis pros, both of them on guitar, spent most of the set
awaiting serve, they managed to keep time as well as to land a few scattered
musical chop shots.
Bruce Springsteen's saxophonist Clarence
Clemons and his band followed with a sluggish set of 60's soul standards. By
the time Aerosmith, the final act on the bill, arrived, the group had time for
only three numbers. Understandably irate, Aerosmith's lead singer Steven Tyler
halfheartedly suggested that the crowd stage a riot. Wielding the mike stand as
a hobby horse, a baton and a bludgeon, Mr. Tyler yelped and whined and strutted
in a doomed effort to work the crowd into a lather. But as the evening limped
to a close with a final all-star jam, the mood was as cool and serene as the
night air.
