Alex Chilton
Variety Arts Center
Los Angeles, CA
October 30, 1987

SET LIST:
CD 1 trackls 1-11 45:10
CD 2 tracks 12-19 39:25

01 Tee Na Ni Nee Noo/Tip On In (Slim Harpo) 3:30
02 September Gurls 2:39
03 Thing For You 3:17
04 B-A-B-Y (Carla Thomas) 4:02
05 Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) (Domenico Modugno) 3:09
06 Bangkok 2:37
07 Sick and Tired (Chris Kenner, Fats Domino) 4:53
08 Disco Lady (Johnny Taylor) 5:04
09 the Things That I Used To Do (Guitar Slim) 3:46
10 Make a Little Love 4:53
11 New Orleans jam instr. 7:14
12 Save Your Love For Me (Buddy Johnson and His Orch.) 6:03
13 No Sex 4:09
14 Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey) 5:19
15 Thank You John (Willie Tee) 3:36
16 Band intro Take It Off (Joe ‘Groundhog’ Richardson) 4:02
17 Come By Here 4:18
18 Little GTO (Ronny and the Daytonas) 3:06
Encore
19 Dalai Lama (one channel has just static for most of it) 8:44

Alex Chilton-Vocals, Guitar
Ron Easley-Bass
Doug Garrison-Drums

tracks #7-19 have a horn section

Master Audience recording made by Haircut
Aud 1st Gen Master Cassette > CD-R > Wav > TLH Flac 8

From the taper:

So here’s an interesting one. Alex Chilton on his High Priest tour in 1987. The theater at the Variety Arts Center must have had a capacity of 1000+ people but there couldn’t have been 100 at this show. I literally was able to place my cassette recorder on the edge of the stage at the start of the set. Problem with that was it picked some pounding on the stage as well as quite a bit of drunken chatter (including the occasional show narration from someone who apparently lost their job that day). It was the night before Halloween and everyone was well lubricated.

At the end of the show, I was able to walk on stage, into the wings and chat with Alex. An atttactive young lady came into view and Alex cocks an eyebrow and says “Thanks for coming, I have to take care of some business.”

OK audience recording and Alex’s band is really good…a full horn section joins a few songs in. Enjoyable listen if you’re a fan.

Warning: at minute 5 of Dalai Lama there is tape damage that lasts for several minutes until the end of the song.
Enjoy!

westcoastpaeb
January 6, 2016 at 1:28 am Edit

Matt
Thanks a lot for the re-up.
Here’s the set, with 2 corrected song titles
#7 and 9, the artists who originally recorded the songs and the times for each of the songs

Alex Chilton

Variety Arts Center Los Angeles, CA October 30, 1987
VG audience recording