Ian Hunter - Berkeley Community Theatre Berkeley, California, USA July 7, 1979 (KSAN-FM) - Master

Ian Hunter
Berkeley Community Theatre
Berkeley, California, USA
July 7, 1979
KSAN-FM Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Sourced from a later rebroadcast - most likely in October 1980

Lineage: Master Copy: TDK-SA90 > Audacity > wav > flac

01 FBI
02 Don Wehr's Music City commercial
03 Once Bitten, Twice Shy
04 Life After Death
05 Laugh At Me
06 Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack
07 Just Another Night
08 Angeline
09 Standing In My Light
10 Bastard
11 Cleveland Rocks (12 second patch from Cleveland 6/18/79 )

Draftervoi's Notes:
The July 7, 1979 Ian Hunter show from the Berkeley Community Theatre circulated widely on the “Drunk On Wine And Wisdom" bootleg. For many years, that was one of the only Ian Hunter bootlegs available.

But if you have that bootleg....check this out. I digitized this in July 2011 from an uncirculated master cassette.

The cassette is of a later rebroadcast of the July 1979 show that I believe to be from October of 1980. The deejay refers to the show as a “Rock-tober Special” which gives us a month, and the Don Wehr Music City commercial references the start of the Iran - Iraq War (“while Iran and Iraq are cutting each other in half, we’re cutting prices in half….”) which started in late September of 1980….so that gives us October of 1980.

I left the Don Wehr commercial in;  I used to buy guitar equipment there (as did most of San Francisco's famous bands, and they also rented gear to many touring bands playing the Fillmore and Winterland...)   Plus, its tasteless, topical and references vintage effect pedals ("even the Ayatollah could use a Crybaby Wah-wah pedal about now...").  It gives you a feel for the era when a LOCAL guitar emporium was running ads on a LOCAL radio station.  While I enjoy Guitar Center as much as the next guy, it's not the same!

There is a long tape flip at the start of “Cleveland Rocks,” so I used a patch from the 6/18/79 Cleveland show to make the gap less jarring. (Yeah, I patched "Cleveland Rocks" with a patch FROM Cleveland.....) The last three songs had increasingly worse radio static and distortion issues, but I spent many hours minimizing the problems with Audacity.

So....it's still not perfect (there must be a copy without a tape flip....), but most of this is better than any copy you've heard before, if you owned the bootleg LP. The first three quarters of this sound incredible, for a thirty year old tape.

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