Stevie Nicks
Westwood One Superstar Concert Series
Show CO 90-18 for broadcast the weekend of July 28-29, 1990
Disc label: CO 90-18.
Cue sheet: Show #90-30.
Run out grooves: CO • 90-38-1, 2, 3...(etc.) with a 1 scratched over the 3
01 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Intro
02 Commercial - Miller Lite
03 Commercial - Discover Card
04 Outside The Rain > Dreams
05 Rooms On Fire
06 Commercial - Marriott
07 Commercial - Kmart
08 Commercial - Miller Lite
09 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Break
10 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Break
11 Gold Dust Woman
12 Stand Back
13 Commercial - Discover Card
14 Commercial - Miller Lite
15 Commercial - Trident Gum (Al Franken)
16 Alice
17 No Spoken Word
18 Commercial - Kmart
19 Commercial - Greyhound
20 Commercial - Miller Lite
21 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Break
22 Beauty and the Beast
23 Whole Lotta Trouble
24 Commercial - Marriott
25 Commercial - Miller Lite
26 Commercial - Beef Industry
27 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Break
28 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Break
29 Two Kinds of Love
30 Edge of Seventeen
31 Commercial - Kmart
32 Commercial - Miller Lite
33 Commercial - Marriott
34 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Break
35 Has Anybody Written Anything For You
36 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Outro
37 Commercial - Miller Lite
38 Phil Hendrie - Superstar Concert Series CO90-18 Promo
Comes with: 300 DPI scans of all six disc labels! Not just one, like those other blogs! The box cover, in both a 300 dpi scan and a smaller file-weight version for file tagging! The cue sheet! Yes, the cue sheet, both sides of it! A collection of backstage passes from the tour found on Ebay! And a ticket....a ticket from a show (not this show...) that calls into question everything we know about space and time!
https://mega.nz/file/OVpV0B5Y#_uqw0ZqK7hfZ_pdbRtCA3um_VQju8MKdHCp_ztOXWkc
NOTE: The vinyl on this was not up to my usual standards, so you can hear the "groove wear" in some of the quiet spots.
Today's rock n' roll archeological expedition finds the Voodoo Wagon Gang exploring the ruins of a mysterious 1990 Westwood One Superstar Concert Series show featuring Stevie Nicks on her 1989 tour. Sifting through the ruins, we discover Phil Hendrie in the role of host. Sharp-eyed pop cultural observers that we are, we note Phil's career lasts through to the present day. When last seen Mr. Hendrie played the voice of Principal Gene Vagina on the Cartoon Network's "Rick and Morty" animated science fiction show.
Once again, we find ourselves in the "Henley-Doobie Discontinuity," that anomalous stratigraphical layer where Westwood One's numbering split into two parallel lines for the months of July, August and September in 1990. Just keep in mind that this show is both 90-18 and 90-30, depending on your source, and your source may know know about the Discontinuity. More on this is listed below, but as it's cut n' paste that you've probably read before, let's skip it for now and get to this week's mystery!
Which is, "What is the actual date of the recording of this Stevie Nicks concert?"
Phil Hendrie says "We're off to Texas...." which gives us a state, but he does not mention the city or venue.
So I check the Stevie Nicks Info website, which lists three shows in Texas during the 1989 The Other Side Of The Mirror Tour:
October 6, 1989 Starplex Amphitheater, Dallas
October 8, 1989 The Summit, Houston
October 9, 1989 Frank Erwin Center, Austin
Stevie Nicks Info also mentions that "on October 8, 1989, during the Houston show, Stevie filmed the music video for “Whole Lotta Trouble,” the second U.S. single from The Other Side of the Mirror."
The next thing to check is existing bootlegs / grey market releases. While these are notoriously unreliable for carbon-dating shows and venues, they're worth checking out. However, as our last expedition led us back to Guitars 101...this time I start there, and immediately discover Guitars 101 disagrees with Stevie Nicks Info.
There's a 2014 post of an FM show which claims the Houston show as "1989-10-06," and an audience tape which matches the Stevie Nicks Info date of Oct. 8. The FM set list is the same as the version I digitized, so it appears to be an "off the air" recording of one of the Westwood One broadcasts of the Texas material.
The audience tape post says "This show is from audience and is the same show from the "Semi-Uffìcial" (sic) radioshow Westwood One bootleg. After the show there's the recording of "Whole lotta Trouble" videoclip,where Stevie's sing the song 3 times and in more perform Talk to me and Two kind of love 2 times.Stevie was extraordinary fun during this extra."
So both of those claim the Westwood One show is from the Summit, in Houston. (Note: as this set was broadcast several times, one of the other syndications may have identified the venue or city).
The audience tape post also mentions the author has 47 shows from the 1989 tour, including the Dallas and Austin dates. They would be able to identify if the show was sourced from the two other Texas venues, so I'm inclined to take his word for it and accept the October 8 date as correct and October 6 as a mistake. And yes, that's argumentum ab auctoritate, so let's examine the contradictory evidence.
After checking Guitars 101, I look at the grey-market "semi-bootlegs" of this show. Discogs shows the following:
2015 The Summit, Houston, Texas, October 6 1989 Air Cuts – ACCD7006l that says October 6, 1989
2017 Transmission Impossible Eat To The Beat – ETTB079 says October 6.
2021 Live At The Summit 1989 - Live Radio Broadcast Cult Legends – CL84886 Best of Stevie Nicks live at The Summit, Houston, TX, USA, October 6, 1989
While all three bootlegs claim October 6 as the date, the 1986 Stevie Nicks grey market releases led straight back to the Guitars 101 posting, and I suspect these do, too. All of them were pressed AFTER the Guitars 101 post. It is likely the bootleggers download the Guitars 101 show, or that one did and the later shows copied the first bootleg's date of Oct. 6.
Making things even more complex, I found a ticket dated October 8, 1989 for the Starplex Amphitheater....in Dallas. I have included that scan in the Artwork folder. This ticket contradicts ALL of the sources. Where was Nicks on October 8? In Dallas, or in Houston? I was unable to find a ticket, poster, or newspaper reference from the Houston or Dallas shows to confirm the dates.
For now, I am listing this as being sourced from Houston, on October 8, 1989, as I am going with the "expert" opinion of the guy with the 47 Stevie Nicks tapes. I am choosing to ignore the contradictory evidence of that ticket!
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The ticket that contradicts everything we know about Space and Time, or "How Can Stevie Nicks Be In Two Places At Once?" |
This concert previously broadcast as Superstar Concert Series Show # 89-32 the weekend of December 8-10, 1989.
The very groovy info on the run out grooves:
CO • 90-38-1 with a 1 scratched over the 3 MDC KM or MOC KM
CO • 90-38-2 with a 1 scratched over the 3 MDC KM or MOC KM
CO • 90-38-3 with a 1 scratched over the 3 MDC KM or MOC KM
CO • 90-38-4 with a 1 scratched over the 3 MDC KM or MOC KM
CO • 90-38-5 with a 1 scratched over the 3 MDC KM or MOC KM
CO • 90-38-6 with a 1 scratched over the 3 MDC KM or MOC KM
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Copypasta of what I wrote a few weeks back:
The Great 1990 Superstar Concert Labeling Screw-Up,
or as I call it,
the "Henley-Doobie Discontinuity."
Starting with the Don Henley 90-15 show, the numbers on Westwood One's cue sheets did not match the numbers on the disc labels. The cue sheet was 12 digits higher than the disc number.
1990 was rolling along just fine for Westwood One...
Rod Stewart disc and cue 90-11
The Who disc and cue 90-12
Moody Blues disc and cue 90-13
Neil Young disc and cue 90-14
...and then...things went sideways for several months. Starting with Don Henley, the disc number no longer matched the cue sheet number. And it wasn't a one-time mistake, it was repeated for the next twelve shows:
Don Henley 90-15 (discs) / 90-27 (cue sheet)
Allman Brothers 90-16 (discs) / 90-28 (cue sheet)
Bruce Hornsby 90-17 (discs) / 90-29 (cue sheet)
Stevie Nicks 90-18 (discs) / 90-30 (cue sheet)
Guns and Roses 90-19 (discs) / 90-31 (cue sheet)
Guns and Roses 90-20 (discs) / 90-32 (cue sheet)
Steve Miller 90-21 (discs) 90-33 (cue sheet)
Tom Petty 90-22 (discs)/90-34 (cue sheet)
Eric Clapton 90-23 (discs)/ 90-35 (cue sheet)
Stevie Ray Vaughan 90-24 (discs) / 90-36 (cue sheet)
Little Feat 90-25 (discs) / 90-37 (cue sheet)
Elton John 90-26 (discs)/90-38 (cue sheet)
Doobie Brothers 90-27 (discs) / 90-39 (cue sheet)
By the end of the year things got back in sync. I haven't found any shows that overlap with these numbers except for 90-32, which was a Jackson Browne/Eddie Money show that appears to have the discs and cue back in alignment...and conflicts with the number of the second of the Guns and Roses shows. It would makes sense that there must be more shows from 90-27 to 90-39 that overlap with duplicated numbers, but I have yet to find any.