The Pretenders - 1980-09-08, Riviera Theater, Chicago, IL US (FM Master - Reseed) The Mystery Achievement Girl Would So Love Your So Unreal Company

I'll be up onstage, you'll find me, I love pretendin'

- This Mystery Achievement Girl blast from the past was last seen on DIME three years passed -

The Pretenders
Riviera Theater
Chicago, Illinois
September 8, 1980, Monday

Lineage: WLUP-FM => cassette => HHB CDR830/CD-R/W => EAC => Nero Wave Editor (splits, edits and fades) => FLAC frontend level 6 (align on sector boundaries)

[Originally uploaded to DIME by taper tmat44]

Banner/cover image incl

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Setlist:
01. Precious
02. The Adultress
03. Kid
04. Talk Of The Town
05. Space Invader
06. Cuban Slide
07. I Go To Sleep
08. Private Life
09. Brass In Pocket
10. The Wait
11. Stop Your Sobbing
12. Louie Louie
/(tape flip)/
13. Porcelain
14. Tattooed Love Boys
15. Band Introduction
16. Up The Neck
17. Mystery Achievement
18. What You Gonna Do About It
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Notes:
Surprisingly, this one doesn't seem to be in circulation and I'm not sure why. It was an FM broadcast that apparently went out across the nation (DJ makes reference to this). Yet, I've never seen it in the Pretenders bootlegs web pages and it rarely shows up in traders pages as well.

So here it is, and it's a very good show. I took this straight from the cassette and did no processing at all, other than to remove the unctuous Sky Daniels wherever possible from this. This was during the height of when WLUP-FM (The Loop) was a Chicago rock powerhouse. Black "Loop 97.9" T-shirts could be seen everywhere in Chicago and elsewhere, and this was just about a year after the infamous Disco Demolition stunt at Comiskey Park. To me, Sky Daniels represented everything wrong with rock radio and rock DJs at the time, and so he has been excised. But there is enough of him left if you want a taste.

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