NBC The Source 83-20 Berlin / Robert Hazard

Berlin / Robert Hazard
NBC The Source 83-20
broadcast dates May 20, 21, 22, 1983
Berlin recorded in Cleveland, OH, unknown date
Robert Hazard recorded at New Paradise, Boston, MA on February 20, 1983

Terri, before exposure to dangerous
synthpop radiation mutated her hair.

Berlin:
01 Rona Elliot - Intro
02 Commercial - Honda
03 Commercial - Budweiser
04 Berlin - Masquerade
05 Berlin - The Metro
06 Berlin - World of Smiles
07 Berlin - Now It's My Turn
08 Berlin - Touch & Go
09 Rona Elliot - Break
10 Commercial - Jensen
11 Commercial - U.S. Army Reserve
12 Commercial - Honda
13 Rona Elliot - Segment Intro
14 Berlin - Pleasure Victim
15 Berlin - Rumor Of Love
16 Berlin - Tell Me Why
17 Berlin - Sex (I'm A...)
18 Rona Elliot - Break
19 Commercial - Budweiser (Joe Jackson)
20 Commercial - U.S Army Reserve

Robert Hazard
01 Robert Hazard - Hard Hearted
02 Robert Hazard - Dance A Tron
03 Rona Elliot - Break
04 Commercial - Honda
05 Commercial - Jensen
06 Rona Elliot - Segment Intro
07 Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
08 Robert Hazard - Out of the Blue
09 Robert Hazard - Change Reaction
10 Robert Hazard - Say Yo
11 Rona Elliot - Outro

Our pal Sam Elliot's Mustache has a cache of shows on CD-R that he digitized several years ago.  The files were chaptered, but the commercials were grouped together instead of individually chaptered. The files weren't declicked, and he didn't scan the disc labels.

He's sent me a stack of these CD-Rs, and I'm going to re-chapter them, and clean up the clicks n' pops, and they'll be appearing here every few weeks.

As Sam's from Philadelphia, and we had a great response from our recent run of shows with Philadelphia bands, I'm leading off with a Berlin/Robert Hazard show.  

So..you get flac files of wavs and the cue sheet. 

I found a review of the Hazard concert.  I couldn't find anything about the Berlin show. 
I did find an ad for Terri Nunn's third-billed role in "Georgia Peaches," one of those flicks released in the wake of Smokey & the the Bandit. Nunn was paired with "singing star Tanya Tucker" as the Peach Sisters, "mixed up with moonshine and money."  The movie was a pilot for a possible television series.  Had it been more successful, we might not have had this Berlin show.

On the Berlin show, "Touch & Go" is unreleased.

On the Hazard show, "Escalator of Life," "Out of the Blue," and "Change Reaction" are from his self-released 1982 EP. "Say Yo" was the b-side to "Escalator of Life" (RCA PB-3449).  "Hard Hearted" was on his RCA LP, Wing of Fire. "Dance A Tron" appears to be unreleased.

https://mega.nz/file/mNZQHByB#ldzhOdfpjxJHmhOPawSMvrg2Gy8-qLdxkgOEmKEPoAE

Robert Hazard / Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA Nov. 26, 1986 WMMR-FM

Robert Hazard
Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA
November 26, 1986
WMMR-FM

01 Pierre Robert & Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Intro
02 Robert Hazard - Hollywood
03 Robert Hazard - Hard Hearted
04 Robert Hazard - Fire On Fire
05 Robert Hazard - You'll Be My Girl
06 Robert Hazard - All My Kisses
07 Robert Hazard - Darling
08 Robert Hazard - Hip Pocket
09 Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life
10 Robert Hazard - Change Reaction
11 Robert Hazard - (I Just Want To) Hang Around with You
12 Pierre Robert - Applause & encore break
13 Robert Hazard - Out of the Blue

Flac files of .wavs.  Digitized May 2023 from a Maxell XL-II 60.

Once more, we dip into the Sam Elliot's Mustache collection.  Our friend was gracious enough to ship a box of cassettes from the 1980s across the country, and we're sharing them here.  

This show features Philadelphia favorite Robert Hazard.  I've included a newspaper article from the Nov. 22, 1986 The Morning Call, which mentions that "Hazard was the Delaware Valley's favorite rocker.  He routinely sold out clubs, commanded lots of airplay for his independently released EP, "Escalator of Life," which sold 50,000 copies in his hometown..."

One of the great things about the Sam Elliot's Mustache collection is regionally popular acts from the Philadelphia area such as Mr. Hazard.  As we've discussed before, bands are constrained by the vast distances in the U.S.A.  Without a label supporting a band on a national tour, they're stuck in a van, limited to a circle around their home city of five or six hundred miles.

Hazard put out a self-released EP in 1984 on RHA Records ("Escalator of Life") which made it to #58 on the Billboard Hot 100.  This was enough for RCA to back him for 1984's "Wing of Fire" LP, but by the time of this tape, he was pushing another RHA Records release. While I'd heard of him, I was unfamiliar except as the writer of Cyndi Lauper's mega-smash-o-rama "Girls Just Want To Have Fun."   I don't know if he made it out here to the West Coast.  

There's not a lot of live Robert Hazard out there.  Discogs shows a BBC Rock Hour show, split with Paul Barrere, and a King Biscuit Flower Hour, similarly split with Dave Edmunds.  Concert Vault has streaming audio of two shows from 1983.  Guitars101 has dead links for several shows:

1981-12-02 London Victory Club, Philadelphia, PA
1983-02-17 Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA  (on Concert Vault....)
1983-03-02 Ripley's Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA (on Concert Vault....)
1984 Empire Rock Club, Philadelphia, PA

None of 'em, though, have (or had...) this particular 1986 Trocadero show, so this is something that's not well-circulated.

https://mega.nz/file/XJYk0RjK#Br-5NDkWYDziooTD-XZ1oHXRjU-2db11XFjo9PhzGYc

Also...if any of Our Beloved Audience has a copy of any other live Robert Hazard, please leave a comment.