Bricklin
Empire Rock Club
Philadelphia, PA
WMMR-FM
September 19, 1986
Empire Rock Club
Philadelphia, PA
WMMR-FM
September 19, 1986
01 Joe Bonadonna - WMMR-FM Intro
02 Bricklin - Life Is Fine
03 Bricklin - All I Know
04 Bricklin - For Her Love
05 Bricklin - Love Without Pain
06 Bricklin - The Sleeping Dream
07 Bricklin - All You Own
08 Bricklin - Even When You're Done With Me
09 Bricklin - (cuts in) Fear of Life
10 Bricklin - I Am The Walrus
11 Joe Bonadonna & Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Outro
One more tape from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection, and once again he's mailed me a band I've never heard of. Or to be precise, a band that I heard once on the soundtrack of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" when I watched it on television in the mid-90s.
It's a fine set from Philadelphia's Bricklin, live on WMMR-FM. If you don't know them (like me...), they're melodic pop-rock, radio-friendly, with great harmonies, and nice two-guitar interplay. The mix on this is noteworthy, too, with good stereo separation.
Drawn mainly from their lone major label release on A&M, they open with the unreleased (as of yet...) song, "Life Is Fine," and then work their way through that first album
The sound is clear, no hiss; it sounds great for a tape that's 37 years old. There was one spot where the volume dropped for a second, but I evened that out. The start of the last song is cut where the tape was flipped, but other than that, it's nearly perfect.
As I mentioned, I don't know diddly about Philadelphia, but I'm learning. And the first thing I found about Bricklin was there Facebook page, where they just announced they are releasing an 8-CD/DVD boxed set:
BRICKLIN - Anthology - The Complete Story (1979-1999)
This was announced yesterday on the Bricklin Facebook page. "The set is limited to strictly 500 units worldwide."
With 8 CDs of songs by a band that released one album, you'd think you had literally all the songs they ever did, but here on this tape you'll find their unreleased cover of the Beatle's "I Am The Walrus."
And lucky for us, they're not releasing this radio broadcast (if they were, I wouldn't post this...). So if you like this, well...go buy the boxed set.
Other trivia: the night after this show, Bricklin opened for Emerson, Lake, & Powell at Madison Square Garden.
