Rod Stewart 1993-11-26 Alamo Dome San Antonio, TX(SBD)

 

Rod Stewart
Alamo Dome
San Antonio, Texas
1993-11-26
Title: In The Spotlight

Soundboard Recording (hardware unknown, radio show) -> CD (first generation) ->
Exact Audio Copy -> FLAC Front End (level 8)

SET LIST

cd1

Hot Legs
Cut Across Shorty
Reason To Believe
Handbags and Gladrags
You Wear It Well
Every Picture Tells A Story
Tonight's The Night
Maggie May
Havin' A Party
You're In My Heart
Forever Young
Downtown Train
Infatuation

cd2

Some Guys Have All The Luck
The First Cut Is The Deepest
Baby Please Don't Go
Stay With Me
Sweet Little Rock n' Roller/My Girl
People Get Ready
Have I Told You Lately
This Old Heart Of Mine
The Motown Song
encore:
Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?/Twistin' The Night Away/Chain Gang

EXCELLENT soundboard recording!! Broadcast live from the Alamo Dome in
Texas during the 1993/1994 Unplugged...And Seated tour.
 
Lots to say about this show and tour. First, this tour included
an EXCELLENT backing band - Ian McLagan from the Faces on piano
throughout the entire tour! As well as Jeff Golub on
guitar (some think he is/was Rod's best guitarist since Beck and
Woody - I'm inclined to agree), as well as Jim Cregan on guitar
from the Rod Stewart Band of the late 70's and early 80's (a very
close second to Golub IMHO). As well as the excellent backing band,
every night Rod had a local orchestra on stage for the show to take
part in songs during the show!
The shows opened with Hot Legs unplugged! Kind of a honky tonk bar-room
version of the song. The show was mostly In The Round, or Center Stage,
and when the curtains were raised there was Rod sitting on a bar stool
spinning around to face the audience in all directions singing Hot Legs!
Cut Across Shorty hadn't been played live since the Faces days. Reason To
Believe, until this tour, had been played as a super slow ballad, and only
part of the song was played. But this tour Rod went back to the accoustic
sing along the he recorded. Handbags and Gladrags - fans had been waiting
YEARS (24 infact) to hear this gem live! It's now a relative standard in
his live shows. You Wear It Well kinda mixes accoustic and electric and
gets the show going, and Every Picture Tells A Story has a new opening
in this tour that starts out with a mess of guitars going at full
speed, leaving the "unplugged" stuff behind and going full throttle!
In fact, it was hard to follow the rest of the show after those first
6 songs!
HOWEVER - Forever Young, which I had grown tired of in concert, is
revived with an accoustic guitar joining the electric ones, also a
thumping drum beat really makes this a favortie of mine in this show.
Downtown Train is lovely, but one of the highlights of the show for me
was the bridge between that song and Infatuation - a slow outro for
Downtown Train that builds up into a grinding Infatuation - Rod had
disappeared to change clothes and now he reappears in the center stage
dressed in leopard print shirt and jacket. Saw him 3 times during this
tour and this was always my favorite part of the show.
This was the tour during which Rod was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall
Of Fame, and when I saw him he said "I guess that means I can sing whatever
I want now". Like the shows I saw, he then plays Van Morrison's Baby Please
Don't Go - a nice bluesy number. Next was a second highlight - Rod introduced
Ian McLagan from the Faces as his piano player and told the audience that Ian
was "the master of the boogie woogie". We then get 2 Faces classics with
Ian on piano - Stay With Me and Sweet Little Rock n Roller - the later giving
Ian an extended piano solo. What a thrill - not just seeing Rod and a Faces member
together on video of some show - but LIVE IN FRONT OF ME 3 TIMES performing
Faces numbers...if you saw this tour, you know what I mean!!!!
Wrapping this up - the encore started as Sexy, where as Rod would usually say
something like "fuck it - we have better songs to do than this" and the band
would break into Twistin' and Chain Gang.
PHEW!!!!
Anyways, this show is a MUST - PLEASE PLEASE enjoy it!!!

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