Krokus - Uptown Theater: Kansas City, Missouri, USA May 10, 1981 (FM)

Krokus
Uptown Theater
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
May 10, 1981
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 8
No Cover Art

Lineage: unknown > Maxell UL 60 > Yamaha KX-670 (Dolby Off, Play Trim +0) > ESI U24 XL > Adobe Audition 2020 (ASIO 2.0) > WAV (44100 Hz, 2 Channels, 32-bit) > Amplitude +7 db > Splitting Tracks (Audacity WAV) > FLAC (Level 8, 44100 Hz, 2 Channels, 16-bit)

01 Come On
02 No Way
03 Burning Bones
04 Rock City
05 Winning Man
06 Bedside Radio
07 Easy Rocker
-- Tape Flip
08 Heatstrokes
09 Bye Bye Baby
10 Guitar Solo
11 Mad Racket
12 Mr. 69

Marc Storace - vocals
Tommy Kiefer - lead guitar
Fernando Von Arb - guitar
Chris Von Rohr - bass
Freddy Steady - drums

Known Faults:
- "Heatstrokes" has a short cut at the end
- "Mad Racket" fades in
- "Mr. 69" is cut and the last 1 min has worse quality (2 Source Composite to patch cuts)

Oh Yeah! Krokus on tour to promote Hardware. The first Krokus album I bought was One Vice At A Time. I heard "Long Stick Goes Boom" on the radio, on the late night program. The late night program on WRIF-FM was different than the Day shift. Late night you might get whole albums played. They were a little looser with what they would play. When The Plasmatics Beyond The Valley Of 1984 was released they played it in it's entirety. When The Clash released London Calling they did the same. Some nights just what ever the DJ wanted to play and requests. I got them to play Black Sabbath's "Spiral Architect" when the only Black Sabbath you heard on the radio was "Paranoid", "Iron Man" and "Heaven And Hell". Hell I got them to play ELP's "Tarkus" dude on the phone sounded as high as I was...am

So my first chance to see Krokus came when they opened for Def Leppard at Joe Louis Arena. I think the Krokus set might have been broadcast. I read an interview with Marc Storace where he was quoted saying "We were kicked off the Def Leppard tour. They were jealous because we got a better reaction every night." Now Krokus kicked ass, mind you it's a foggy memory, but I remember Def Leppard being just as good. The second time I saw them was at The Fox Theater in Detroit. They were on a tour with W.A.S.P., Metallica and some other band that I can not remember. Metallica was still underground on tour to promote Ride The Lightning. You couldn't walk out of The Fox that night without some kind of impression of Metallica. They were in the middle of the show, louder and so much heavier than the rest. I had already been a fan since Kill' Em All. Already playing Thrash myself. There were a lot of people that, unlike me and a few others, had never heard Metallica. That was my last Krokus show, my band started getting regular shows in the 1980s, I caught some shows missed a lot....

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