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Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Oxford Ale House, New Haven, Ct Spring 1979

Track listing:
  1. Love Comes In Spurts 2:47
  2. Don't Die 3:22
  3. You Gotta Lose 3:51
  4. Going Going Gone 3:56
  5. The Kid With The Replaceable Head 2:34
  6. Liars Beware 3:11
  7. Lowest Common Dominator 3:24
  8. Another World 6:06
  9. Funhunt 4:07
  10. Walking On The Water 3:06
  11. Crack Of Dawn 2:53
  12. Ignore That Door 3:37
  13. The Kid With The Replaceable Head 3:23
  14. New Pleasure 2:57
  15. Crack Of Dawn 2:22
  16. Staring In Her Eyes 4:43
  17. I Live My Life 3:06
  18. Ventilator Blues 4:24
  19. Time 3:34
  20. Ignore That Door 3:30
  21. Love Comes In Spurts 2:25
  22. Crosstown Traffic 3:07

Notes

Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Live at the Oxford Ale House
New Haven, CT
Spring, 1979

The Alex Butterfield Archive No. ABA-008-A

Lineage: 1st generation cassette recorded through Sony mono cassette deck>recording studio mixing board>EQ>output to CD-R>ripped in iTunes>FLAC conversion in xAct

Set 1
01 Love Comes In Spurts 2:47
02 Don't Die 3:22
03 You Gotta Lose 3:51
04 Going Going Gone (Dylan) 3:56
05 The Kid With The Replaceable Head 2:34
06 Liars Beware 3:11
07 Lowest Common Dominator 3:24
08 Another World 6:06
09 Funhunt 4:07
10 Walking On The Water (John Fogerty) 3:06
11 Crack Of Dawn 2:53
12 Ignore That Door 3:37

Set 2
13 The Kid With The Replaceable Head 3:23
14 New Pleasure 2:57
15 Crack Of Dawn 2:22
16 Staring In Her Eyes 4:43
17 I Live My Life (Fats Domino) 3:06
18 Ventilator Blues (Jagger-Richards) 4:24
19 Time 3:34
20 Ignore That Door 3:30
21 Love Comes In Spurts 2:25
22 Crosstown Traffic (Jimi Hendrix) 3:07

Total time: 76:38

Artwork included.

This was recorded early in my taping career and I only marked the cassette as being from "Spring 1979." I checked Richard Hell's site and didn't find any gigs listing so any help on the exact date would be appreciated. This is basically the band that recorded the great "The Kid With The Replaceable Head" 45 (produced by Nick Lowe). "X Sessive" (John Xavier) was on bass, freeing Hell to just sing. On guitars were the great Robert Quine and Ivan Julian; Frank Mauro played drums.

Of interest might be the song "Crack of Dawn," played by the band in both sets. In the notes to the Matador CD "Time," Hell says of the demo included therein, "'Crack Of Dawn' (which as far as I know exists in no other recording-I don't think we ever did it live)." Well, they did play it live, and you can hear it here! (They didn't, though, play "Blank Generation" at this show.)

A note on the sound: I think this is quite listenable. However, the deck I was using at the time had a tendency to sometimes "woof" out on low tom hits or some bass notes. It happens now and then.

I recorded the band again at the same venue on Nov. 5, 1979 and will post that soon.