Lightnin' in a Bottle: The Official Live Album Georgia Satellites

• 1 Whole Lotta Shakin' (Live) 03:12
• 2 Down and Down (Live) 03:47
• 3 Run Run Rudolph (Live) 03:37
• 4 Open All Night (Live) 02:59
• 5 Don't Pass Me By (Live) 05:24
• 6 Nights of Mystery (Live) 06:55
• 7 Battleship Chains (Live) 03:22
• 8 Mon Cheri (Live) 04:22
• 9 White Lightnin' (Live) 02:59
• 10 I Go to Pieces (Live) 04:12
• 11 Shake Your Hips (Live) 06:31
• 12 Games People Play (Live) 03:37
• 13 Can't Stand the Pain (Live) 04:03
• 14 Keep Your Hands to Yourself / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (Live) 05:45
• 15 Sheila (Live) 04:22
• 16 Hippy Hippy Shake (Live) 02:14
• 17 Railroad Steel (Live) 08:20
• 18 I Wanna Be Sedated / Shake Rattle & Roll (Live) 06:29
• 19 Shake Rattle & Roll (Live) 04:02
• Total Runtime 01:26:12

Info for Lightnin' in a Bottle: The Official Live Album

1988 kamen die Georgia Satellites nach Cleveland, Ohio, um an einem Montagabend in der örtlichen Kneipe Peabody's, der ehemaligen Punk-Hochburg Pirates Cove, ein fulminantes Konzert zu geben. Mit Open All Night hatte die Band ein zweites Album in der Tasche, auf dem sie ihren rauen, offenen Chuck Berry-Riff'n'Roll mit vollem Schwung vortrug - egal, ob sie den "Hippy Hippy Shake" der Swinging Blue Jeans aus dem Tom Cruise-Film "Cocktail", Joe Souths ausschweifendes "Games People Play", George Jones' "White Lightnin'" oder Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin'" neu interpretierten.

Genauso wichtig ist, dass Gitarrist/Leadsänger Dan Baird und der mitreißende Lead-Gitarrist Rick Richards den stampfenden Groove von Schlagzeuger Mauro Magellan und Bassist Rick Price in Flammen aufgehen lassen. Die Satellites lieferten eine 18-Song-Meisterklasse in Sachen Roots, Rock und Schärfe ab und verbrannten nicht nur "Battleship Chains", "Railroad Steel" und "Can't Stand The Pain", sondern führten das jenseits des SRO befindliche Publikum auch durch einen Shout-Along von "Keep Your Hands To Yourself", der mit einem dreisten Stripper-Grind auf "It's Only Rock & Roll" von den Rolling Stones verbunden war.

Georgia Satellites

Georgia Satellites
In 1980, Dan Baird (formerly guitarist for the Atlanta band the Nasty Bucks), along with lead guitarist Rick Richards, bassist Keith Christopher (formerly of The Brains), and drummer David Michaelson formed a band named Keith and the Satellites in Atlanta, Georgia. After performing in local Southern bars, the band's line-up changed. With a new bassist, Dave Hewitt, and a new drummer, Randy DeLay, they recorded a six-track demo at Axis Studios in Atlanta. During this time, the band changed their name to Georgia Satellites and played every Monday at Hedgen's, a beer-stained bar in the otherwise tony Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead.

Jeff Glixman, who had produced, mixed and remastered artists such as Paul Stanley, Kansas, Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen and Black Sabbath, was enlisted for production. However, soon after the demo was recorded, the band broke up in the summer of 1984. DeLay later performed with the Tony Sarno Band and the Hell Hounds around the Atlanta music circuit, before dying of cancer in 1993.

Although the band felt they were not making any progress on their musical path and had disbanded, their English manager, Kevin Jennings, took the demo to a small Yorkshire record label, Making Waves, who liked the material and released the demo as the Keep the Faith EP in 1985. The press response to the EP was positive and prompted the band to regroup in the United States. Baird had been playing with the Woodpeckers in North Carolina. Richards remained in Atlanta with the Hell Hounds, which included both Mauro Magellan (drums) and Rick Price (bass, who had replaced Keith Christopher in The Brains). With Baird essentially joining the Hell Hounds, the Georgia Satellites were reborn and American record labels started taking notice of the band.

In 1986, the group signed with Elektra Records and reunited with Glixman to record their debut full-length album at Cheshire Sound Studios in Atlanta. The album, Georgia Satellites, was their most successful LP; featuring the track "Keep Your Hands to Yourself". The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped only by Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer". It went into heavy rotation on MTV. Other lesser-known songs included "Battleship Chains" (#86), written by Terry Anderson and "Can't Stand the Pain", but the Georgia Satellites never had another Top 40 hit. That same year the MTV Video Music Awards came into being. Mary Deacon won for Best Art Director on the music video "Keep Your Hands to Yourself".

In 1988, the band recorded a cover of The Swinging Blue Jeans' 1964 hit "Hippy Hippy Shake" for the movie Cocktail. Released as a single, the song reached No. 45 on the Billboard chart. During that year, the band released their second album, Open All Night; which included a cover of the Ringo Starr-written Beatles song "Don't Pass Me By", although the album was not as successful as their debut. A single, "Open All Night" backed with "Dunk 'n' Dine", failed to chart.

A third studio album, In the Land of Salvation and Sin, was released in 1989, which included re-recordings of "Six Years Gone" and "Crazy" from the 1985 EP. Although the album received very positive reviews, it too failed to do well commercially, and Baird left the band in 1990 to pursue a solo career.

The band's 1993 compilation Let It Rock: The Best of the Georgia Satellites included a selection of the best tracks from the three studio albums and bonus material that had been released on the Another Chance EP (1989): "Saddle Up", "That Woman", and "I'm Waiting for the Man". Also included was a live version of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock".

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