Greg Kihn Band - Full
Concert
Recorded Live: 12/31/
1976 -
Winterland (
San Francisco, CA)
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Setlist:
0:00:00 -
Madison Avenue Man
0:03:31 -
Sorry
0:06:58 -
Real Big Man
0:13:14 -
Love's Made
A Fool of You
0:16:36 -
Satisfied
0:24:22 - Any Other
Woman
0:28:27 -
All the Right Reasons
Personnel:
Greg Kihn - vocals, guitar
Dave Carpender - guitar, vocals
Steve Wright - bass
Larry Lynch - drums
Summary:
This rare and excellent recording of the earliest Greg Kihn Band line-up comes from a show the band performed at Winterland in
San Francisco on
New Year's Eve, 1976. Kihn, an aspiring singer-songwriter who had migrated from his native
Baltimore, Maryland, to San Francisco in
1974, had spent time as a disc jockey while developing his own musical chops. Shortly after landing in the
Bay Area, Kihn became one of the first artists signed to
Matthew Kaufman's fledgling indie label,
Beserkley Records.
Beserkley had had some initial success with such artists as
Jonathan Richman and
The Modern Lovers and
Earth Quake, but it would be Kihn, with his keen sense of radio-friendly melodies, who would go on to be Beserkley's best-selling artist. After a slot on a popular Beserkley compilation, Kihn formed the first version of the Greg Kihn Band with
Ronnie Dunbar on guitar and backing vocals, Steve Wright on bass, and Larry Lynch on drums.
This show was taken from the band's early performing days. Being hometown heroes, it is clear that the audience was completely pumped to be there.
Featuring mostly material from the debut Greg Kihn
album, the group gives energetic performances of tracks like "Madison Avenue," "Love's Made a
Fool of You," and a medley that combines "Any Other Woman" and "
All The Right Reasons."
Kihn would stay with Beserkley for a decade, and the success of his later hit
singles, "
The Break Up Song," and "
Jeopardy," would secure a major label distribution deal for the cutting edge record company from the late
1970s onward. By
1985, Kihn's popularity began to wane and he started working with smaller labels such as
Clean Cuts, out of his native
Baltimore. He returned to the Bay Area to work as a morning DJ, and kept touring sporadically through the
1990s. He launched a third career
as a successful novelist and author in
1996. His first book,
Horror Show, was nominated for the
Bram Stoker Award.
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