The Runaways Live

Track list:

1. Rock And Roll
2. Thunder
3. American Nights
4. Wild Thing [cut]
5. Secrets

Description:

This recording was floating around the community for decades, and every time I saw it listed in some trading list, it was dated to a different concert. Some collectors had it listed as Whisky A Go Go - August 25th, 1975, but no evidence of such a concert has been found yet. Some other collectors have been trading this recording labeled as the famous first-ever Runaways performance that happened at Phast Phreddie's parents' house on August 12th, 1975. The recording is surely from the Micki Steele era of the band (August - October 1975), but the exact date or venue remain unknown.

It's a pretty decent audience recording, although it's incomplete. There are cuts between all songs, and the first few seconds of Wild Thing are missing.

Track list:

1. You Drive Me Wild
2. Let's Party Tonight
3. Born To Be Bad
4. Rock And Roll
5. Thunder [cut]
6. Blackmail
7. California Paradise

Description:

Another unidentified recording from the Micki Steele era of the band (August - October 1975) that came to me along with the Whisky A Go Go recording from September 28th, 1975. The sound quality is very similar to the “Whisky recording”, so there is a possibility that both recordings were recorded by the same person and maybe at the same venue.

The recording captures an incomplete concert, as the beginning of the show is missing, and there is also a cut at the end of Thunder.

Track list:

1. Queens Of Noise
2. California Paradise

Description:

The first two opening songs from an unidentified audience recording were added to the end of another European recording during the editing/transferring process. These two songs are in great sound quality, and they are just a snippet of the original, more complete recording, which is surely in circulation among collectors.

Both songs are sung by Joan, so this recording is definitely from the Waitin' For The Night era. Before the band entered the stage, the girls were introduced with the following words: “Ladies and gentlemen, without any further delay, let's welcome just (?) on a world tour... Just completed their third album... The queens of noise! The Runaways!”. This introduction and the fact that these two songs opened shows only on the first US concerts promoting the Waitin' For The Night album indicate that it's a recording from one of the August 1977 concerts in California, USA. Can anybody shed some light on this?

Screenshots:

Description:

Short snippets of an amateur 8 mm footage filmed during the European “School Days” tour in 1977 can be seen in the Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways documentary. It's known that this film, along with other recordings from Sweden, were supplied to Vicki Blue for the documentary by local fan club members but never returned back to them.

Some sources close to the fan club claimed that it was filmed in Malmö, but comparing the footage to the photos from the actual show, the stage looks different (mainly the speakers and amplifiers beside Vicki). Another possibility is the Göta Lejon show, as it was the only other concert performed in Sweden in 1977...