Alive As Yesterday: 1984 Concerts

Out Of Control Tour

The Clash

London, UK

At this point in time there were major changes in the band's lineup.  Nick Shepard and Vince White were recruited as the Clash’s new guitarists. The reconstituted band played its first shows in January 1984 with a batch of new material and launched into a self-financed Out of Control tour.

 

Clarence Carter

Show & Band

Brim's Warehouse

Hammond, LA

 

The Born in the U.S.A. Tour was the supporting concert tour of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. album. It was his longest and most successful tour to date. It featured a physically transformed Springsteen; after two years of bodybuilding, the singer had bulked up considerably. The tour was the first since the 1974 portions of the Born to Run tours without guitarist Steven Van Zandt, who decided to go solo after recording the album with the group. Van Zandt, who was replaced by Nils Lofgren, would appear a few times throughout the tour and in some of the music videos to promote the album. It was also the first tour to feature Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa. 

The tour started in June 1984 and went through the United States and to Canada. In March 1985 the tour went to Australia, Japan and Europe. It then headed back for a second leg of the U.S. tour in which Springsteen and the E Street Band played to sold-out professional football stadiums. The tour finished in October 1985 in Los Angeles.

The Born In The USA Tour grossed $80–90 million overall. Of that, $34 million came from Springsteen's summer 1985 stadium dates in North America.[1] The Born in the U.S.A. album was inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 during the entire tour. Springsteen also was enjoying a hit single from the album (there were seven in total) during any moment of the tour. The album along with Springsteen's previous album, Nebraska, which he did not tour to promote, were performed in their entirety throughout the tour. Total attendance was 3.9 million.

 

Out Of Control Tour

The Clash

SET LIST

Sex Mad Roar 

Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin cover) 

Should I Stay or Should I Go 

I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. 

This Is Radio Clash 

Janie Jones 

Police on My Back (The Equals cover) 

Clampdown 

I Fought the Law (The Crickets cover) 

White Riot 

Tommy Gun 

Safe European Home 

We Are the Clash 

The Guns of Brixton 

Brand New Cadillac

 

Malcolm McLaren

Los Lobos

Long Beach Arena

Long Beach, CA

 

Out Of Control Tour

The Clash

Warnor's Theatre

Fresno, CA

 

An Evening With Frank Zappa

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Portland, OR

"... a considerable augmentation of percussion and brass, filled the pit and overflowed onto the sides of the stage. The crowd was in a state of excited anticipation, and I glanced through the printed program with the same kind of feelings. I was there to see and hear the U.S. or world premieres of Zappa's Bob in Dacron/Sad Jane, Mo 'n Herb's Vacation, Sinister Footwear, and Pedro's Dowry... 

Conductor Kent Nagano has collaborated with Zappa in several previous eruptions, and he proved himself a fine leader in this program of frolics for dancers and life-size puppets...Just before the first number, out came Zappa, himself, to deliver an admonition: 'This stuff is entertainment, nothing more'. 

There was definitely a lot of entertaining work by the orchestra and by the people on the stage. The several pieces on the bill featured some hilarious satires on various human foibles, and there were plenty of laughs." (Scott Beach)

 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Electric Ballroom

London, UK

 

 

 

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul

Frankfurt, Germany

 

 

 

The Purple Rain Tour

Prince and The Revolution

 

The Purple Rain Tour marked the live debut of the band now named The Revolution as Wendy Melvoin made her appearance as the new guitarist in Prince's band, taking over for the departed Dez Dickerson, completing the iconic line-up of the band. 

In addition to Prince and The Revolution, they were joined on tour by Apollonia 6, and Sheila E. and her band. Despite gaining fame from their appearance in the film and releasing a third album, The Time were not invited to tour, as by 1985 the group had been depleted, with many of its remaining key members quitting to embark on personal careers

Also, The Purple Rain Tour was the first Prince tour to open with brand new material. In this case, it was with the album opener, Let's Go Crazy. A triple dose from the 1999 album followed: Delirious, 1999 and Little Red Corvette. An instrumental interlude of Yankee Doodle usually introduced another 1999 song, Free. The B-side God was often played, followed by a usual sequence of Computer Blue, Darling Nikki, The Beautiful Ones and When Doves Cry (featuring a mirror setup onstage to mimic the video of the song). As encores, the remaining Purple Rain songs closed the concert, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm a Star and Purple Rain. The three songs were extended, often taking 30 minutes to perform. Take Me with U was often worked in, completing all the album tracks.

 

 

Ramones

D.O.A.

University of Oregon

E.M.U. Ballroom

Eugene, OR

 

 

 

Crucifucs

Human Switchboard

dB's

The Replacements

Dump Truck

Instant Kunk

NRBQ

The Ben Vaughn Combo

Kayawah & The Momement Band

Bricks Motar

Flipper

City Gardens

Trenton, NJ

 

Black Flag

Meat Puppets

Perkins Palace

Pasadena, CA

 

 

 

 

R.E.M.

Art in the Dark

The Nightporters

The Mad Hatter

Athens, GA

 

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

The Ritz

NYC

 

 

 

Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble

Rhode Island College

Donovan Center

Providence, RI

 

 

 

 

 

Prime Time Tour '84

Go Gos

I.U. Auditorium

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

 

The Minutemen

The Jockey Club

Newport, KY

 

R.E.M.

Love Tractor

Guadalcanal Diary

Atlanta Civic Center

Atlanta, GA

 

Sparks

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Greek Theatre

Los Angeles, CA

 

Monster Of Rock Tour 1984

Van Halen

Stockholm, Sweden

SET LIST

Unchained 

Hot for Teacher 

Drum Solo 

On Fire 

Runnin' With the Devil 

Little Guitars 

House of Pain 

Bass Solo 

I'll Wait 

Everybody Wants Some!! 

Oh, Pretty Woman 

1984 

Jump 

Guitar Solo 

Panama

ENCORE

You Really Got Me 

Happy Trails

 

 

 

Synchronicity World Tour

The Police

Australian Crawl

Bryan Adams

Coconut Rough

Western Springs, Australia

 

 

The Unforgettable Fire Tour

U2

Hamburg, Germany

The second leg of The Unforgettable Fire Tour consisted of 21 shows in halls and arenas in Western Europe, and ran during October and November 1984. Following the largely War Tour setlist and presentation of the first leg, the band adapted the shows to the dreamy nature of the new album, and transformed the visual nature of the show. Pursuing a more subtle stage presentation, the band relied more on the moods transcending from the music and lighting as opposed to Bono's active stage antics of previous tours. When The Unforgettable Fire song was played, for example, slides with Japanese writings and lithographs from the exhibit from which the song takes its name were projected onto a white backdrop. During New Years Day, long white banners were lowered from the ceiling, and during Pride, a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. was projected. While illustrating the songs, the images were intended to bridge the gap between the audience rather than having Bono run around the stage.

The second leg of the tour was initially meant to start in Rotterdam on 1 October, the day of the album's release, but concerts between 1 and 17 October were postponed until 1985 or cancelled to allow U2 more time to rehearse the new songs. Translating the complex layered atmospheric textures of the new studio-recorded tracks to live performance proved a serious challenge. One solution was programmed sequencers, which the band until then had been reluctant to use, on sonically elaborate new songs such as The Unforgettable Fire and Bad. Since then sequencers are now used on the majority of U2 songs in performance. Songs criticized as being unfinished', fuzzy and unfocused on the album, made more sense on stage. Rolling Stone magazine, for example, critical of the album version of "Bad", described its live performance as a 'show stopper.

 

Van Halen

The Velcros

Cow Palace

Daly City, CA

 

 

 

The Cramps

Eldorado Club

Paris, France

 

 

 


 

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