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The Main Act

Lynn, MA
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11/15/1979
Jefferson Starship
Set 1The girl with the hungry eyes
Jane
(Unknown maybe part of just the same?)
Just the same
Dance with the dragon
Wooden ships
Stranger
Fading lady light
Somebody to love
Lightning rose
Awakening
have you seen the saucers
here we go round the world
Light the sky on fire
Rock music
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03/19/1980
Muddy Waters
Set 1Instrumental
Instrumental
Instrumental
Chicken Shack > Muddy intro
Mean Mistreater
Baby, Please Don't Go
Nine Below Zero
They Call Me Muddy Waters
Champagne & Reefer
Hoochie Coochie Man
Everything Gonna Be Allright
Baby, Don't Say That No More
Kansas City
Mannish Boy
Sweet Home Chicago
CommentMUDDY WATERS, guitar & vocals
PINETOP PERKINS, piano
JERRY PORTNOY, harmonica
LUTHER 'Guitar Jr.' JOHNSON, guitar
BOB MARGOLIN, guitar
CALVIN JONES, bass
WILLIE 'Big Eyes' SMITH, drums
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03/24/1980
Jack Bruce & Friends
Set 1White Room
Jet Set Jewel
Postwar
Born Under A Bad Sign
Politician
?
Quadrant 4 (Billy Cobham)
?
Theme From An Imaginary Western
Drum Solo And Jam
N.S.U.
Sunshine Of Your Love
CommentJack Bruce and Friends

David Sanctious- keyboards and guitar
Clem Clempson- guitar
Jack Bruce- bass and lead vocals
Billy Cobham- drums
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07/27/1980
Pere Ubu
Set 1Navvy
The Modern Dance
Small Was Fast
Misery Goat
Go
Real World
Horses
Rhapsody in Pink
All the Dogs Are Barking
Caligari's Mirror
Codex
(Pa)Ubu Dance Party
Birdies
Street Waves
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07/29/1980
Pere Ubu
Set 1Navvy
The Modern Dance
Small Was Fast
Misery Goats
Go
Real World
Horses
Rhapsody In Pink
Goodbye
Caligari's Mirror
Codex
Ubu Dance Party
Birdies

e: Street Waves
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08/10/1980
Magazine
Set 1Intro > Feed The Enemy
Stuck
Philadelphia
Permafrost
The Light Pours Out Of Me
Because You're Frightened
You Never Know
Thank You (Sly And Family Stone)
Shot By Both Sides
I Want To Burn Again
A Song From Under The Floorboards
Model Worker

Encore #1:
Twenty Years Ago > Definitive Gaze

Encore #2:
Give Me Everything
Comment this is the complete set from Magazine, one of just a few shows at
the Main Act during a far too short existence. (it lasted less time
than this band did!). I happen to have 3 shows from there that I saw,
all good ones. (Pere Ubu and Jack Bruce with Cobham are the others.)
Only one tape flip, it was between songs. Nothing missing here, the
recording came out clearly and without any flaws that I noticed. 1980
was one of my best years in terms of getting good audience recordings,
not entirely sure why that is, but the Realistic twinhead has done well
in many shows including this one. I know very little about this group,
but it was a fun show, the crowd and the band enjoyed it. I don't see
much from this band, maybe nobody likes them anymore, but I have seen
a couple from them here on the dime, so in case anyone else still likes
them, or hasn't heard them in concert and wants to, here you go. This
recording has not been circulated much, if at all. Magazine played Boston
in 1979, but this was their only New England area appearance on this tour.
I thought they were pretty good. They were the headliner, 2 other acts,
John Otway and Richard Strange opened this show. I recorded them too,
but have never listened to either. their music didn't do much for me
at the time, but I enjoyed this show both then and still now.
I liked to use the XLI (normal bias/eq setting) for shows when
brightness helps, and it helped here, the fidelity is not bad at all
here for a 1980 audience tape. The only quality variation is from people
passing in front of the mikes. I was going to do a CD extraction with this,
and even though the files weren't clipped, it didn't sound right to me
so I did a fresh transfer from the master cassette and now it sounds
better than ever before. I did some ICPVR (individual clap peak volume
reduction) for some loud claps but other than that and balancing the
levels out a little bit, this is an unaltered and unedited recording.
It's missing a couple of seconds of the recorded walkon intro music,
everything after that is here uninterrupted and no further editing is needed.
I don't know their songs well at all except their big 1979 hit
Definitive Gaze (last song before encore in this show) and they do a
version of Thank You (by Sly & F.S.). The crowd enjoyed it, the band
enjoyed it, now you can hear a magazine while you read another. they're
a pretty good live band.

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