Roger McGuinn’s Thunderbyrd – Rockpalast Festival 1977

Still pausing but this one is a request:

Roger McGuinn’s Thunderbyrd – Rockpalast Festival 1977

Grugahalle, Essen, Germany (July 24^th, 1977)

Roger McGuinn (guitar, vocals)

Rick Vito (guitar, vocals)

Charlie Harrison (bass)

Greg Thomas (drums)

 

Sam Clayton (from Little Feat) (percussion on tracks 9 to 15)

What you have here is the complete performance, as recorded by me after hooking my reel-to-reel tape recorder to my TV set in 1977, later burned to a CDR with my stand-alone CD recorder and even later ripped and saved to my computer.

It was later released on DVD and CD on the German Bear Family label. Track 11 was wrongly titled “Shoot Him” instead of “Shoot ‘em” on these latter releases.

I made artwork for my CDR (included). Later, I had my artwork signed by Rick Vito and Charlie Harrison after a Rick Vito concert while having a (long) drink with them and drummer Rick Reed.

Funnily, the illustrating picture of Charlie Harrison on his Discogs page, although not uploaded by me, is one I took; he’s showing my artwork that he had just signed:

https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/563258-Charlie-Harrison

Incredibly, the same picture is used to illustrate Charlie Harrison’s page on the official Poco website:

https://pocoband.com/scrapbook/the-band/previous-members/charlie-harrison

Charlie Harrison was the bass player for Poco from 1978 to 1984 and as such appears on 6 LPs.

As to Rick Vito and Greg Thomas, googling their names will show you their incredibly prolific careers.

 

1. Intro + Lover Of The Bayou (7:14)
2. American Girl (4:51)
3. Mr. Spaceman (3:06)
4. Why Baby Why - Tiffany Queen (5:20)
5. Golden Loom (4:31)
6. Juice Head (3:53)
7. Chestnut Mare (5:36)
8. Midnight Dew (6:07)
9. Dixie Highway (4:39)
10. We Can Do It All Over Again (4:11)
11. Shoot 'em (The Victor Song) (5:37)
12. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better (2:44)
13. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (4:59)
14. Mr. Tambourine Man (2:28)
15. Eight Miles High (6:46)

Homemade Artwork Included (front, back, CDr)