STEVE MILLER BAND : WERCHTER 1982

1. Swingtown
2. gangster of love
3. living in the U.S.A.
4. fly like an eagle
5. wild mountain honey
6. the joker
7. give it up
8. heart like a wheel
9. macho city
10. jungle love
11. jet airliner
12. abracadabra
13. rock'n me

Label : no label

Time : 65:00

Venue : Werchter Festival, Werchter, Belgium

Date : July 4th, 1982

Quality : Pre-FM Recording (A+)

Review : This is another great tape of Hans Devente. At the big outdoor festival of Werchter 1982 in Belgium recordings were made for radio broadcast. This is a pre-FM copy Hans made from the desk while the radio recording was running. It is 65 minutes, the complete Steve Miller Band concert. You can hear Miller expressing regrets that he does not have time to play longer, but other acts were waiting. Sound quality is rather amazing, especially considering that the tapes is 30 years old. The Steve Miller Band wasn't on the bill in 1982. The band replaced The Pretenders because one of the band-members (guitarplayer James Honeymann-Scott) was found dead in his appartment. Maybe that explains the sloppy performance (although it sounds great).