San Antonio doesn’t all the time get its honest due as a music city, however there’s a deep and interesting rabbit-hole of stay albums recorded right here by main artists. From Motley Crue and Ted Nugent to Elvis Presley and Frank Zappa, no scarcity of artists rolled tape whereas performing in entrance of Alamo Metropolis followers.
Among the most attention-grabbing recordings can be found as bootlegs from Japan, Russia and elsewhere. Let’s check out 30 of essentially the most fascinating and collectible data that have been captured stay in San Antonio, in response to record-collecting website Discogs.com.
1. Dire Straits — King Biscuit Flower Hour: Reside In San Antonio Half One. Basic-rock act Dire Straits was captured on the peak of its powers for the ABC Radio Community’s King Biscuit Flower Hour, present, which was later launched on vinyl. The recording additionally appeared, minus radio interruptions, as Dire Straits: San Antonio 85.
2. Black Sabbath — Reside in San Antonio, Texas, 1978. As befitting the heavy metallic capital of the world, Sabbath was captured a number of instances on tape, together with on this tour — its final, till subsequent reunions, with its authentic lineup, together with singer Ozzy Osbourne. It was launched as a bootleg from New Zealand, of all locations.
3. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult — Reside in San Antonio. This industrial powerhouse captured a completely ferocious stay efficiency on cassette within the Alamo Metropolis, and for a lot of followers, this stays a spotlight of the group’s whole discography.
4. Motley Crue — San Antonio 1983. Motley Crue discovered a welcome house in SA for its hard-driving glam metallic. The San Antonio 1983 bootleg captured the captured the rowdies at Hemisfair Enviornment as a part of the Shout on the Satan tour. Additionally of observe: The expanded version of Crue’s first album, Too Quick for Love, additionally options San Antonio stay cuts from the group’s first U.S. tour.
5. Rainbow — Lengthy Reside Rock-N-Roll in San-Antonio. Though identify of this 10-inch vinyl launch echoes that of the band’s third LP with Ronnie James Dio on the mic, it captures a efficiency right here that includes later alternative Joe Lynn Turner.
6. Budgie — Life in San Antonio. Welsh proto-metal trio Budgie gained a U.S. foothold nearly solely because of DJ Joe Anthony enjoying the band on KISS/KMAC. Certainly, the group reformed particularly to carry out what was initially to be a one-off-gig in San Antonio. This blistering stay set, launched within the UK, is from a 2002 present at Sunken Backyard Theater.
7. Boots and His Buddies — San Antonio Jazz. Within the early twentieth century, jazz dominated, and San Antonio was a hub for the rising style. This Swedish bootleg that includes Boots Douglas as bandleaders reveals of dance-ready large band jazz at its most interesting.
8. Kiss — Off the Soundboard. Recorded at Hemisfair Enviornment in 1985, this official launch discovered Kiss, freshly freed from the make-up, diving into a few of its ’70s classics with a brand new lineup minus Ace Frehley.
9. Pearl Jam — San Antonio, TX – April fifth 2003. Pearl Jam famously bought official bootlegs of a lot of its stay reveals. This double-CD set befell on the Verizon Amphitheater in Selma, the place the grunge stalwarts performed classics from throughout its catalog and a canopy of the Who’s “Baba O’Reilly.”
10. Pantera — San Antonio 1994. North Texas metallic act Pantera introduced the crunch to San Antonio throughout its ’90s heyday with this assortment of stay tracks drawn from seminal albums Cowboys from Hell and Vulgar Show of Energy.
11. The Joyful Jazz Band — Jazz From The San Antonio River. Bandleader Jim Cullum Sr. was an essential determine in early jazz, enjoying clarinet with giants together with Jack Teagarden and Jimmy Dorsey. Afterward, he fashioned the Joyful Jazz Band with son Jim Cullum Jr., who performed cornet. They recorded a stay album in 1964. The youthful Cullum went on to broadcast performances nationwide from his membership the Touchdown, a River Stroll nightspot sorely missed by music lovers.
12. Judas Priest — Saint or Sinner. Very similar to Budgie, Judas Priest acquired an early increase from heavy airplay on KISS/KMAC. This double-LP bootleg collects stay recordings from the legendary metallic band throughout 1982 and 1983, when it had ascended into superstardom. The live shows went down at Hemisfair Enviornment and one other undisclosed location.
13. Jimmie Rodgers — Camden – Atlanta – New York – Dallas – Hollywood – San Antonio – Louisville 1927-1933 — Jimmie Rodgers, one of many originators of nation music, did recording periods on the San Antonio’s Texas Resort and Bluebonnet Resort, which characteristic on this double-CD assortment. Close to the tip of his life, he constructed an elaborate mansion in Kerrville earlier than relocating to Alamo Heights.
14. Bob Dylan — San Antonio 76. This Japanese bootleg recorded at Municipal Auditorium in 1976 captures Dylan’s classing Rolling Thunder Assessment tour. Although the bootleg seems to be banned from Discogs, the recording will be discovered on YouTube.
15. Intercourse Pistols — Taking Texas By Storm. This bootleg LP chronicles the legendary present at San Antonio venue Randy’s Rodeo that jumpstarted Texas’ punk rock scene. It’s additionally the present the place Sid Vicious clonked an obnoxious fan over the top together with his bass.
16. GG Allin and the Homicide Junkies — Savage South Tour. This 2005 DVD captures infamous shock rocker GG Allin’s efficiency at San Antonio’s now-defunct all-ages punk membership the DMZ. The video’s liner notes declare the tour was some of the violent in historical past, solely ending when Allin was dragged again to Michigan to complete a jail sentence.
17. Elvis Presley — Reside 1972 and Goodbye San Antonio. Elvis Presley’s Reside 1972 album, launched by RCA, featured recordings from Hemisfair Enviornment. A later bootleg, Good Bye San Antonio, captures one of many King’s final performances earlier than his 1977 loss of life.
18. John F. Kennedy — His Final 24 Hours. Felled by an murderer’s bullet in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy spent his closing days in Texas. This fascinating recording from the day earlier than that fateful occasion captures a stirring speech at Brooks Air Power Base, detailing the younger president’s visions for the the nation’s house program.
18. Frank Zappa — Guitar. Avant garde rocker FrankZappa’s 1988 album Guitar was his bid at coming into the pantheon of guitar greats of that shred-obsessed decade. His live-in-the-Alamo Metropolis track from that assortment was titled “Have been We Ever Actually Protected in San Antonio?” Primarily based on the quantity of fretboard harm he unleashed, the reply is/was no.
20. Robert Earl Eager — No. 2 Reside Dinner. A San Antonio stay album listing wouldn’t be full with out this banger. If Americana is nation music with a school diploma, Texas troubadour Robert Earl Eager delivered a grasp class with this album.
21. Ted Nugent — Double Reside Gonzo. Earlier than the Ted Nugent began embarrassing himself by inserting his obnoxious model of politics into every thing he did, he was a bonafide rock god. This album, recorded at Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum, is what broke him via to famous person standing. Pay attention exhausting to the tip of “Child, Please Don’t Go,” the place repeatedly yells “San Antonio” and somebody within the crowd shouts again “Suck my bone-io.”
22. Butthole Surfers — Reside PCPPEP.This chaotic 12-inch EP captures an early Butthole Surfers lineup from their San Antonio days, offering a foundational second of their early catalog. Recorded stay on the now defunct Membership Meridian Austin Freeway, this will likely embody the definitive model of the frequent Surfers present nearer “The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey’s Grave.”
23. De La Soul, Blackalicious — Livewire Occasion: San Antonio: Could sixteenth, 2003. This 2003 bootleg recorded at Sundown Station — the open-air venue since renamed The Espe — captures two of the all-time greats of hip-hop. RIP Trugoy.
24. The Cult — MMX San Antonio Sep. twenty ninth 2010. Eighties rock superstars The Cult’s star fell with the appearance of grunge, however the music holds up remarkably nicely. Through the group’s 2010 tour, it launched USB sticks of stay performances instantly after each present. This one at Backstage Reside captures the band operating via all of the hits, from “Fireplace Lady” to “She Sells Sanctuary.”
25. Slayer – Reside at Villa Fontana 1984. This recording paperwork the legendary Slayer vs. Slayer present on the much-missed Villa Fontana, which featured the LA-based thrashers performing with the Alamo Metropolis’s SA Slayer. Although the precise bootleg is difficult to search out, the audio recordsdata are floating throughout message boards and, in fact, YouTube.
26. Selena — Reside: A Night time to Keep in mind. Launched in 1991, this DVD options Selena in a stay efficiency at Market Sq.. Although it doesn’t her later hits, the efficiency shows the late Tejano famous person’s sensible charisma and her unbreakable maintain on an viewers.
27. Tejanos for Starvation — Somos Hermanos. This charming time capsule was San Antonio’s entry into the mid-’80s “We Are The World” phenomenon: collect large stars into one room and have them sing for a charitable trigger. Regardless of being a traditional too-many-cooks state of affairs, this recording is pretty memorable, because of being a Who’s Who of San Antonio Tejano and conjunto greats: from Patsy Torres to Sunny Ozuna to Flaco Jimenez to the San Antonio Symphony. Hell, it even featured then-Mayor Henry Cisneros on piano.
28. Lyle Lovett — Reside in Texas. Texas singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett drew important raves for this 2006 stay album recorded in San Antonio and Austin that showcases an brisk set by his Massive Band and a powerful sampling of his best-loved tunes.
29. The Carter Household — Don’t Neglect this Tune. Thought of the “first household of nation music,” the Carters moved to San Antonio later of their profession. This album — and an accompanying e-book — paperwork them stay in San Antonio storage of Don and Dode Baxter, the place they recorded their weekly radio present for the border radio station XET.
30. Ozzy Osbourne – Revelations of Mr. Crowley. If the duvet date will be believed, this 1982 soundboard recording was made the identical day because the notorious intent the place Ozzy Osbourne peed on the Alamo. There’s some on-line controversy whether or not this recording is definitely from the 2-1-0, however, hey, it’s printed proper there on the duvet. The actual star right here is Osbourne’s shit-hot band that includes Randy Rhoads on guitar.
