Live at the Roseland Ballroom
New York City
April 19th, 1982
"Meso America" Tour on
Recording Quality: A+ (soundboard)
00:00 - Party Out Of Bounds
05:10 - Give Me Back My Man
11:11 - Big Bird
15:24 - Cake
21:10 - Lava
25:11 - Loveland
29:37 - Mesopotamia
33:26 - Planet Claire
37:45 - 6060-842
40:32 - Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can
44:31 - Dance This Mess Around
48:45 - 52 Girls
51:24 - Nip It In The Bud
54:40 - Rock Lobster
xx:xx - Private Idaho (performed, but missing from my source)
Notes :
After four years searching for this bootleg, I finally got to put my hands on it. Well, here we are folks, the famous "extra good sounding B-52's live bootleg from the 1982 era everyone was searching for". For some odd reasons, I've always thought that the bootleg I was searching was the Boston Orpheum one, but last night, I found this NYC one. And damn, it sounds friggin gorgeous !
The B-52's performed a few "Mesopotamia" songs they never performed after this tour, so this is a kind of a rarity, with an extra good & crispy sound quality for rare songs such as "Loveland", "Cake" and "Nip It In The Bud" ! And they played mostly all of their classics in the "Party Mix" way, with horn and trumpets from Dave Buck and Ralph Carney ! Anyway, a very good concert, maybe my favourite in the B-52's "unofficial live discography" (if I may say so).
Sit back, relax and enjoy !
Picture by Adrian Boot
The B-52's 1982 are :
Kate Pierson - vocals, keyboards
Fred Schneider - vocals, percussions
Keith Strickland - drums
Cindy Wilson - vocals, percussions
Ricky Wilson - guitar
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David Buck - trumpet
Ralph Carney - saxophone