KSAN's Rising Stars show
Romeo Void
Fun Addicts
SVT
The Stone
San Francisco, CA
August 24, 1980
KSAN-FM
01 Kate Hayes - Intro
02 Romeo Void - Unknown 1
03 Romeo Void - Unknown 2
04 Romeo Void - Myself to Myself
05 Romeo Void - White Sweater
06 Romeo Void - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
07 Kate Hayes - Intro
08 Fun Addicts - Crazy
09 Fun Addicts - You Don't Care
10 Fun Addicts - What Is Real Fun
11 Fun Addicts - Rock Around The World
12 Fun Addicts - How Come It Hurts
13 SVT - No Regrets
14 SVT - Always Come Back For More
15 SVT - All About You
16 SVT - Bleeding Hearts
17 SVT - All I Want
18 SVT - Red Blue Jeans
Flac files of wavs. Includes the newspaper print ad for the show.
Here's the second of the KSAN Rising Stars shows that I recorded.
Romeo Void went on to release an LP in July of 1981...and hit the Mainstream Rock charts in December of 1981 with "Never Say Never."
There is a recent release of a show recorded across the street from the Stone at the Mabuhay Gardens two months later, so if you like this early incarnation of the band, go find "Live From The Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980" over on Amazon.
Fun Addicts have a website up at: http://rickclare.homedns.org:8080/times5/funaddicts.html
They've got this very show available as a free download in what (to my ears) sounds better than my old cassette, so if you like this set, go to their website and download it. It sounds like they've remastered it, and it sounds great!
And...of course...SVT. Jack Casady...of the Jefferson Airplane, and Hot Tuna...cut off his hippie hair, and went back down into the City's grimy night clubs with his punchy punkish bar band, SVT. They were the headliner this night.
Here ya go...'n happy Turkeyday Eve to you....
Ah yes......Romeo Void and "Never Say Never'. Loved the song but really loved the opening riff. Dated a girl WAY back in the day that played this song over again. This and that gawd awful 'Tainted Love' she played constantly.
ReplyDeleteI want to know that the billing on this put Romeo Void LAST, with the irony being they were the most commercially successful of the three bands on the bill. And yes, I know Casady had the biggest career, but the band SVT never really had any Billboard Hot 100 action.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this KSAN Rising Stars recording. These recordings were part of KSAN's last gasp and the last great commercial radio station in San Francisco. Sorry foggers and quakers, but KFOG and The Quake just weren't of the same caliber or impact.
ReplyDeleteHi, Unknown! Yeah, KSAN was helped form my taste from '70 to '80 (ages 14 to 24). The earlier years had incredible variety, there was no discernable playlist. Things slowly tightened up by the time of this tape... but this show demonstrates they were still taking chances. SVT had a contract with 415 Records and had put out an EP a month earlier in July, but the other two bands weren't signed. It's pretty wonderful to see a station give an hour of evening airtime to unknowns.
ReplyDeleteWhile I dearly loved KFOG and all their live shows, the shows were from acts signed to major labels. Now...KITS-FM had a live show for a short while from New George's that had unsigned bands...but it didn't last more than a few months.
Thanks for this and the previous Rising Stars of SF share, draftervoi! It looks like Terry Hammer (who recorded a lot of these FM broadcasts from the Mab, Old Waldorf, etc) signed a deal with a label called Liberation Hall, so there's a LOT of recordings on that label (Mutants, No Alternative, Lloyds, SVT, Offs, Times 5, Sudden Fun, and the Romeo Void gig, which is quite good).
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Have you read W.W.York's book yet (Who Cares Anyway: Post Punk San Francisco)? Great read!
Hiya, Jonder! No, I have not read it, but I will track down a copy. They were wild years, that's for sure. I've had a few Facebook exchanges with Hammer over the years; he's a nice guy!). I'm pretty sure he'd stopped doing the sound at the Mab when my little rockabilly band played there, but it's been forty years and I may have forgotten the details. I had a lot of what Letterman called "brushes with greatness" - although I didn't know it at the time. If I'd known they were going to be famous maybe I wouldn't have been such a **** to them. :) Ah, well, live and learn...
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