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Post by the Scribe on Nov 28, 2011 17:57:04 GMT -5
 * 1980 HBO Concert from Los Angeles:
"I Can't Let Go"
"Party Girl"
"It's So Easy"
"Willin'"
"I Can't Help It If I'm Sill In Love With You"
"Just One Look"
"Look Out For My Love"
"Mad Love"
"Cost Of Love"
"Blue Bayou"
"Lies"
"Faithless Love"
"Hurts So Bad"
"Silver Threads And Golden Needles"
"Poor Poor Pitiful Me"
"You're No Good"
"How Do I Make You"
"Back In The USA"
"Heatwave"
"Desperado"  |
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Post by profstadt on Nov 29, 2011 1:14:28 GMT -5
Just wonderful! Thanks....
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Post by wdcats on Nov 29, 2011 3:09:24 GMT -5
Nice to have this all laid out in one spot! Thanks!
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Post by erik on Nov 29, 2011 9:47:45 GMT -5
This was one of the many, many high points of Linda's career, in my opinion. And even though television wasn't her favorite medium to show her talents, she still took up the challenge and unleashed everything about her that has made her so revered among her peers and her fans.
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Post by fabtastique on Nov 29, 2011 14:51:54 GMT -5
Yes. A definite career highlight. Everyone I have shown this to loves it.
Party Girl is spectacular!
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Post by Dianna on Nov 29, 2011 21:18:19 GMT -5
These are great. Thank you!
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Post by erik on Nov 29, 2011 21:40:06 GMT -5
And I think the whole thing of it is that a lot of fans who never had the opportunity (let alone the money) to actually see Linda live, where she was at her frequent best and even now could blow most of today's pop tarts out of the toaster, really got one of her best performances from this special.
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Post by Dianna on Nov 30, 2011 11:54:26 GMT -5
Silver Threads, Linda sounds very polished. I love this version. This concert was from her Mad Love tour, promoting mostly new wave songs and Linda's other greatest hits, which include some of my favorite country songs. I notice Linda was very ahead of her time, fashion wise, back in the 70's and early 80's you didn't see women C&W artists on stage dressed like Pat Benatar. lol. They dressed more like Laura Ingalls, Today, it's more common (Jennifer Nettles) so yes, Linda was ahead of her time
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Post by erik on Nov 30, 2011 14:15:55 GMT -5
Quote by dianna:
I think she was even further ahead of her time in 1969, when she went on the Johnny Cash Show barefoot, in a very hippie-ish dress, and (until Johnny's wife June interceded) braless as well, which rattled practically everybody there in Nashville, except for Mr. Cash, who was always known for being outspoken and open-minded. Linda was just being who she really was, which was a West Coast hippie with a penchant for doing left-of-center C&W.
I will say, though, that Linda isn't exactly fond of what country music radio stations play nowadays. While she has expressed admiration for Trisha Yearwood (her spiritual protege) and the Dixie Chicks, for the most part she feels that country radio no longer welcomes either the traditional sounds she loved as a youngster in Arizona or the progressive styles she espoused. Indeed, she has been pretty derisive of it, calling it "mall crawler music"; and on that point, I think she is dead right.
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Post by jerry on Jul 8, 2013 18:02:44 GMT -5
What is the true taping date for this show, it can't be April 24th, 1980 as she was in Kansas City that night.
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Post by revin2go on Jul 8, 2013 18:23:24 GMT -5
I have seen the Mad Love tour several times and she always opened the show with "Mad Love" followed by "Cost of Love" and then "It's So Easy." I wonder why HBO switched it up and edited it to have "I Can't Let Go" run first. Maybe it was her current single at the time and they wanted some extra promotion for it?
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 8, 2013 20:01:18 GMT -5
Doggone it! The links are bad again. I will have to wait for a repost to youtube. One would think after 33 years copyright infringement would be nil. The best advertising Linda has for herself is on youtube but greed has no bounds. Even the founding fathers wanted no more than a few years allowed on patents.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2013 20:03:56 GMT -5
Doggone it! The links are bad again. I will have to wait for a repost to youtube. One would think after 33 years copyright infringement would be nil. The best advertising Linda has for herself is on youtube but greed has no bounds. Even the founding fathers wanted no more than a few years allowed on patents. That is bizarre and annoying; whose money are they protecting at this point? |
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Post by musicaamator on Jul 8, 2013 20:24:32 GMT -5
(Mad) Love, love this show! Linda was on fire as well as the band that night, and boy, what a great setlist--featuring tons of tunes form my favourite album Mad Love! They really rock out on How Do I Make You especially when Peter Asher starts banging the cowbell.
When I was just getting into Linda late last year, aside from purchasing the CD's, Itunes of her songs, this was the first dvd I got of her for I just had to have a copy and see her perform live. And boy did she knock my boots off! What a great dvd to start off my Linda visual fascination!
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 9, 2013 12:01:47 GMT -5
Too bad Talking In The Dark was left off as it's a great song albeit Costello and NOT to mention Justine which is a real standout. Such a great album! Linda has managed to have so many great classic albums unlike most acts, especially women.
I recall when this came out I was living and working in a Residence Hall and our maintenance man (a much older gentleman) stopped by my office and said how impressed he was with Linda as it was the first time he ever saw or heard of her outside of the posters in my possession. He was born in the 20's.
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Post by Aussie on Jul 9, 2013 22:07:09 GMT -5
I remember seeing 3 photos taken at the taping of the HBO show for sale on Ebay about 18 months ago.
I believe the seller noted the date of the taping was 5 May 1980.
This date follows known tour and is before her trip to London.
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Post by revin2go on Jul 9, 2013 23:30:00 GMT -5
Did she do the MAD LOVE tour in Europe or was she in London for the taping of the Muppets Show?
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Post by 70smusicfan on Jul 10, 2013 8:51:11 GMT -5
What is the true taping date for this show, it can't be April 24th, 1980 as she was in Kansas City that night. There is a list of concerts and TV appearances on Linda Ronstadt Fan Discussion Forum on the Live Show Trading? thread that lists the date as: 45. 24 August 1980 Los Angeles CA HBO show Standing Room Only Thus, it might appear that someone misread Aug as Apr on one of the first bootlegs, that has perpetuated to this day. Read more: www.ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/517/live-show-trading#ixzz2YeMwmej2 |
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Post by revin2go on Jul 10, 2013 10:13:47 GMT -5
I believe 24 August was when the show aired on HBO. I remember watching it at a friend's house in the summertime. It was probably taped in late April in Los Angeles. You'll note that Linda's punk haircut was growing out and Mark Goldenberg was replaced by Danny Kortchmar on lead guitar. I first saw the show in Detroit in March 1980 and Linda's haircut was still somewhat short and Goldenberg was on lead guitar, however Kortchmar and his band opened the show.
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Post by jerry on Jul 10, 2013 18:26:28 GMT -5
I saw the 3 pics listed on ebay in the last 4-5 months, cost for one was high like $29.00
so I passed but didn't need the date then so I didn't catch it. I was at the KC concert and remember the HBO special aried after I saw her, but not sure how long after. I also wonder if tickets were sold for this show as some tv shows are free to get in for tv tapings. I can't even find pics of any tickets for this show.
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Post by Aussie on Aug 5, 2013 7:03:46 GMT -5
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Post by ausfan2 on Aug 11, 2013 4:56:29 GMT -5
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Post by MokyWI on Aug 11, 2013 21:29:54 GMT -5
It aired on HBO in August of 1980. We lived in Belfast Maine at that time, which was when I was completely possessed by her as a young teen. HBO aired in Belfast Maine for the first time that month, and my loving parents ordered it just so I could see the concert. I remember my mother being taken by her. Before the Mad Love concert that she watched with a friend and myself at our house she was dismissive of her talent. Once the concert was over my mother was sold. I even caught her watching it after that first airing in the middle of the night when I got up to go to the bathroom. I remember shopping for school and being too excited to care about cloths/supplies, which said everything about my infatuation of Ronstadt. I looked forward to school shopping every year, but that day before the concert aired I couldn't of cared less.. I wanted to be home waiting for the HBO special instead of out and away from the TV so there would be no possible chance of missing it. I was the same way when the Nelson Riddle concert aired. At that point we lived in New Hampshire out in the woods. No chance for HBO much less cable. My oldest sister had married. Once of their wedding gifts was a VCR. She also had cable AND HBO...we taped it and brought it home and couldn't get the damn thing to work in our VCR. You can be sure I didn't give up though and we got the Riddle/Ronstadt concert recorded in that first months run of the concert.
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 5, 2021 0:33:14 GMT -5
Press photo from the HBO broadcast, with the August 24 date.  |
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Post by Ray on May 20, 2023 2:27:46 GMT -5
I was there at the taping in Hollywood...you had to have a Button to get in, it was given out at the LA Forum show..I still have this button(it had a Photo of Linda from Mad Love and just the number "80" on it)....while we were waiting, Sylvester Stallone showed up by himself in a red sports car and signed autographs for the crowd. Amazing show.
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Post by alyn on May 20, 2023 5:03:41 GMT -5
I was there at the taping in Hollywood...you had to have a Button to get in, it was given out at the LA Forum show..I still have this button(it had a Photo of Linda from Mad Love and just the number "80" on it)....while we were waiting, Sylvester Stallone showed up by himself in a red sports car and signed autographs for the crowd. Amazing show. Great memories shared :-) I was listening to the show this morning and wondered if Linda ever did a better version of Desperado than this performance, it is just so perfect. And actually it's my favourite set opener as well, I Can't Let Go... to listen to and to watch, from striding on stage and singing with that smile across her face, this was the fresh new hugely confident Linda. And so much to love within the set too...
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Post by eddiejinnj on May 20, 2023 8:50:51 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum, Ray!!! It is beyond cool that you were at the HBO concert. Thanks for sharing your experience. Can you possibly take a pic of button and post it? Thanks Hey, alyn, how you been? Long time no see. Hope you are well!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by alyn on May 21, 2023 12:00:52 GMT -5
Oh, all well here in the Old Country Eduardo... hope you are well too.
Some Little Feat Special Editions due out next month which I'm looking forward to, Dixie Chicken & Sailin' Shoes. The 'extras' aren't that wonderfully exciting and Sailin' Shoes is my least favourite Feat album, but, I won't be able to resist, although my birthday is in July so I shall be requesting both and won't be too impatient to wait a few weeks after release before I have them :-)
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Post by Ray on May 31, 2023 0:42:34 GMT -5
Here's the Button from the Show...it's a 2-1/2 inch button you had to have in order to get into the HBO Special Taping  |
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Post by smart86 on May 31, 2023 0:52:53 GMT -5
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