June 18, 2008

Shakin Street - San Francisco 1979

Shakin' Street was a French band who had on guitar Ross the Boss (ex-Dictators and future Manowar) and Fabienne Shine as vocalist. They only recorded two studio albums, the last one being produced by Sandy Pearlman(B.O.C.).
This recording has songs from both albums and was made at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco for a broadcast on KALX from Berkeley.
Unfortunately the vocals most of the time reach distortion but if you can handle that it will be enjoyable.


Sound Quality: 9

Source: FM Broadcast

Track List:
01 - KALX Intro
02 - Solid As A Rock
03 - Soul Stealer
04 - Generation X
05 - Where Are You Babe
06 - Blues Is The Same
07 - Scarlet
08 - Every Man, Every Woman Is a Star
09 - Susie Wong
10 - No Time to Lose
11 - Box You
12 - No Compromise
13 - Now I Wanna Be Your Dog
14 - Vampire Rock

Files:
MP3
FLAC pt1
FLAC pt2

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks AR,
looking forward to hearing this, even with distorted vocals. I imagine this could well be the only live recording of the original band.
Titus

AtticRock said...

Hi Titus
They have 2 live albums as I found out on this page:
http://shakinstreet.maxximum.org/
I guess they should be extremely hard to find though.

Anonymous said...

I'll look for them. To be honest I don't even have the second album! At the moment I am desperately searching for anything by David Roter. Do you know him? I've only got the 1998 Cellsum Night bootleg.
Titus

AtticRock said...

Never heard of David Roter but I just read he was one of the co-writers of "Joan Crawford", a great song.
So what's his music like?
Next week I'll send you an email with links to 2 Shakin Street albums that I just found on my HD :)

Anonymous said...

Hello AR
David Roter also wrote 'Unknown Tongue'. I've read that he could well have been more involved in BOC but his lyrics were often unsettling. He has been compared to Zappa in this way. Only heard the short set from 1998's Cellsum Night Showcase, but I like what I hear. His albums are hard to find. David died a few years ago after a bone marrow transplant. He had a type a leukaemia.
BTW Have you heard the Buck Dharma demos?
Titus

Anonymous said...

This isn't the original band. It has Ross The Boss on guitar. You can buy one of their live albums from www.cdbaby.com
Thanks for the share. It sounds much better than I thought it would. What's with the crowd though? I saw these guys live and they were very high energy. I can't imagine people standing around as quiet as they are.
Waldo

AtticRock said...

I haven't heard any Buck Dharma demos, it has something to do with his old solo album?
Thanks for the info Waldo, this being a Broadcast recording they probably didn't put much gain to the audience micro...

Anonymous said...

You can hear how the band sounds today at www.myspace.com/shakinstreet1.
New CD to be released in November.
Check out the filming of their concert at the Sweden Rock Festival there as well.

Anders

AtticRock said...

Thanks for the news Anders.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the concert posting AR. BTW the Buck Dharma demos covers his years with BÖC as well.

Anders

Anonymous said...

The new album of SHAKIN STREET "21st century love channel" will be available thru BERNETT RECORDS by January 2009. Check out our website at http://www.bernett-records.com or our Myspace @ http://www.myspace.com/bernettrecords

Freebird said...

Hi, could you update the post with new links, they are dead. I am dying to get this recording!!!!!!! Thanks so much in advance! :)

rdnzl said...

thanks miles