Joe Perry Project - Royal Oak Music, Theatre Royal, Oak, MI, 04-23-1980 (FM)

Joe Perry Project
Royal Oak Music Theatre
Royal Oak, MI
April 23, 1980
WRIF 101 FM Radio Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kps
Art Work Included

01 Radio Intro
02 Same Old Song & Dance
03 Get The Lead Out
04 Pills
05 Discount Dogs
06 Reefer Headed Woman
07 Ready On The Firing Line
08 Bone To Bone (Instrumental)
09 Heartbreak Hotel
10 Shooting Star
11 The Mist Is Rising
12 Talk Talk
13 Break Song
14 Rockin' Train
15 Life At A Glance
16 Let The Music Do The Talking

Joe Perry lead guitar, backing & lead vocals
Ronnie Stewart drums
David Hull bass
Ralph Morman lead vocals

This recording comes before Ralph Morman was sacked and replaced with Joey Mala. Mala would finish the tour only to be replaced with singer guitarist Charlie Farren. The bands line up would remain fluid until the end, most likely due to Joe Perry's increasing drug problems. The band folded due to label pressure to reunite with Aerosmith.

The show itself was real good speaking as someone who was there, in retrospect it was rather telling that Perry didn't let singer Morman speak to the audience. The set included Joe Perry Project and Aerosmith tracks most notably "Reefer Headed Woman" & "Bone To Bone". Both tracks were featured on the Night In The Ruts album that was as Joe puts it .."out by some friends of mine".

The recording I would give a B maybe a B-. there is a drop out at about 3min 35sec into track 13 it lasts for maybe a second. Also it sounds as if the tape used was an old one or could have been played a lot. Overall a very enjoyable listen though. The files were full of sector boundary errors and blank spaces at both ends of each track. I decoded the files and used Goldwave to trim the blank ends. The files were then encoded using Traders Little Helper aligning all sector boundaries. No remastering was done.

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