ALCATRAZZ – The Official Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2 (1983-1984) (2022)
Cherry Red / Hear No Evil are releasing “ALCATRAZZ ; The Official Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2 (1983-1984)“, the second box of unreleased live recordings by the band featuring Graham Bonnet & Yngwie Malmsteen.
Kicking off at the Golden Bear in Huntingdon Beach, California, in December 1983, Disc 1 features a healthy selection of songs from Alcatrazz’s debut. A Japanese tour was booked for early 1984, from which the Osaka date on 24th January 1984 was recorded at the Festival Hall, included here on Disc 2.
Disc 3 features a set recorded at Graham Central Station in Albuquerque in New Mexico. Highlights are ‘Too Young To Die… Too Drunk To Live’.
The Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio, had long been an important mid-west venue for touring rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s, so the band were guaranteed a warm welcome for their show there on 23rd May 1984, reproduced here on Disc 4.
This collection concludes with Disc 5’s gig on 8th June 1984 at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. As an extra bonus, CD5 finishes with an interview originally released as a single promo B-Side, a Public Service Announcement from Graham, warning against drunk driving, plus three instrumental demo tracks.
This 1983-84 period documents Alcatrazz at their peak, with a Malmsteen showcasing how rapid he developed guitar virtuosity, a time when he was already recording his first solo album.
Highly Recommended
CD ONE – HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA: 21st DEC 1983
1 Incubus
2 Too Young To Die…Too Drunk To Live
3 Hiroshima Mon Amour
4 Desert Song
5 Kree Nakoorie
6 Island In The Sun
7 Big Foot
8 Evil Eye
9 Guitar Solo
10 Since You Been Gone
11 Jet To Jet
12 All Night Long
13 Lost In Hollywood
CD 2 – OSAKA, JAPAN: 24th JAN 1984
1 Night Games Intro
2 Incubus
3 Too Young To Die…To Drunk To Live
4 Hiroshima Mon Amour
5 Desert Song
6 Night Games
7 Big Foot
8 Island In The Sun
9 Kree Nakoorie
10 Guitar Solo
11 Since You Been Gone
12 Suffer Me
13 Jet To Jet
14 Evil Eye
15 Lost In Hollywood
16 All Night Long
CD 3 – ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: 19th FEB 1984
1 Too Young To Die… Too Drunk To Live
2 Hiroshima Mon Amour
3 Big Foot
4 Island In The Sun
5 Kree Nakoorie
6 Since You Been Gone
7 Suffer Me
8 Desert Song
9 Jet To Jet
10 Evil Eye
11 All Night Long
12 Lost In Hollywood
13 Something Else
CD 4 – AGORA BALLROOM, OHIO: 23rd MAY 1984
1 Intro
2 Too Young To Die…Too Drunk To Live
3 Jet To Jet
4 Night Games
5 Island In The Sun
6 Desert Song
7 Kree Nakoorie
8 Guitar Solo: Coming Bach
9 Band Introduction
10 Since You Been Gone
11 Black Star Intro-Suffer Me
12 Hiroshima Mon Amour
13 Lost In Hollywood
CD 5 – JACKSON, NEW JERSEY: 8th JUNE 1984
1 Too Drunk To Live…Too Young To Die
2 Island In The Sun
3 Hiroshima Mon Amour
4 Night Games
5 Kree Nakoorie
6 Guitar Solo
7 Since You Been Gone
Bonus Tracks
8 Interview 1983 (B-Side Of ‘Island In The Sun’ Promo 12inch)
9 PSA – Against Drunk Driving
10 Instrumental 1 (Take 1 Jimmy And Danny Demo)
11 Instrumental 1 (Take 2 Jimmy And Danny Demo)
12 Instrumental 2
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