The Romantics - W4 Homegrown Show Live ~ Bookies Club: Detroit, Michigan January 6, 1979 (FM) - Unknown Gen Cassette

The Romantics
W4 Homegrown Show Live
Bookies Club
Detroit, Michigan
January 6, 1979
WWWW-106-FM Broadcast Recording - Unknown Gen Cassette
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From The Collection Of JustDave

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Lineage: Unknown Gen Cassette > Nakamichi RX-505 Cassette Deck (EX1-EQ120) - Azimuth Adjusted > Sony TA-AV561 AV Control Integrated Amplifier > Line In (4ft cables w/gold plated tips) > HP Envy 700 Series > BEATS Audio Realtek High Definition Soundcard > Goldwave v6.83 (recording, editing) > Wave 24bit/96khz > Goldwave v6.83 (LAME) > Flac Level 8 24bit/96khz

01 W4 Homegrown Show Intro
02 The Romantics - First In Line
03 The Romantics - Running Away
04 The Romantics - She Knows Me
05 The Romantics - Gimme One More Chance
06 The Romantics - Tell It To Carrie
07 The Romantics - Take Me Out Of The Rain
08 The Romantics - Stone Pony
09 The Romantics - What I Like About You
10 The Romantics - Comin' Back Home
11 The Romantics - The Last Time (Fades Out)
12 W4 Homegrown Show Wrap Up

Total Playing Time: 34mn 11sc

Wally Palmar – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
Mike Skill – lead guitar, backing vocals
Rich Cole – bass guitar, backing vocals
Jimmy Marinos – drums, percussion, lead vocals

JustDave's Notes:
- Thank you to my fellow members of The Collective Of Live Music.
- Thank you to Danibus for letting me copy his cassette of this show.
- Thank you WWWW-FM Detroit and your staff for being a big part of my teenage years and for programing and promoting Homegrown Michigan Rock & Roll.

Known Faults:
- The original recording was made on a red labeled Kmart 90 minute cassette tape on a Kmart stereo system cassette recorder with non-adjustable recording levels and no dolby settings.
- Tape does show some age and limitations of the original tape recorder.
- There is some sound phasing and drop outs in spots from the original cassette.

Recording Notes:
- This concert was broadcast on WWWW-FM Detroit's Homegrown Show that featured Michigan bands studio recordings and live concerts.
- Tape was amongst a large group of tapes in a box in my basement some with no labels, cases or j-cards that I rediscovered after a large move.

Editing Notes:
- Recording and editing done in 24bit/96khz.
- I created fades at the beginning and ending of the show.
- No noise reduction, EQ or sound tampering was done tape was encoded warts and all other than above stated fades.

Other Notes:
- This is a very early show for the Romantics, their first LP hadn't been released yet, just the single "Tell It To Carrie".
- The single was first released on The W4 Homegrown Show LP, an album released by the radio station to promote it's local music program.
- WWWW, or W4 as we Detroiters called it, was one of 3 FM Album Rock stations in Detroit. WRIF, WABX, & WWWW. WLLZ would come later.
- W4 was the radio station in the movie Private Parts, where Howard Stern was known as Hopalong Howie. That was after the station had went country
- W4 also was one of the first radio stations in the country to broadcast in quadraphonic.
- The Michigan Punk/New Wave scene would explode with talent around this time, The Romantics were a spark of that explosion.
- "Running Away", "She Knows Me", and "Comin' Back Home" have not been released.

Encoded By JustDave For The Collective Of Live Music

Project Started: April 30, 2026          Project Finished: April 30, 2026

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