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

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In 1988, the Georgia Satellites rolled into Cleveland, Ohio for a blistering Monday night at local watering hole Peabody’s, formerly the punk haven Pirates Cove. With Open All Night giving the band a second album to draw on, their salty, wide-open Chuck Berry riff’n’roll was full swagger – whether drawing on their reprise of the Swinging Blue Jeans’ “Hippy Hippy Shake” from the Tom Cruise film “Cocktail,”Joe South’s swerving “Games People Play,” George Jones’ “White Lightnin’”or Jerry Lee Lewis’ all-out “Whole Lotta Shakin’.” Just as importantly, gap-toothed guitarist/lead singer Dan Baird and combustive lead guitarist Rick Richards set the pummeling groove of drummer Mauro Magellan and bassist Rick Price ablaze.

Delivering an 18-song masterclass in roots, rock and raunch, the Satellites not only incinerated “Battleship Chains,” “Railroad Steel” and “Can’t Stand The Pain,” they led the beyond SRO crowd through a shout-along of “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” threaded with a brazen stripper grind on the Rolling Stones’ “It’s Only Rock & Roll.” Fans of reverb, thrashing drums, the rush of rock & roll momentum and all manners of electric guitars giving it over to basic 3 chord rock & roll, Lightin’ in a Bottle retires the jersey. As the southern equivalent of the Replacements, the Ramones hillbilly (redneck) little brothers, no band delivered as much balls as the Satellites, who’ve never had an official live record. For a band who leaves it all onstage, that seems wrong. Leave it to Cleveland International to unearth this blistering recording, wipe off the sweat and somehow figure out how to get it all in one double disc package captured in the Rock & Roll Capital of the World.

Dan Baird recalled that night most vividly and graphically, “It was my birthday [December 12] and I had some nasty ass cold. Shiverin’ and moaning, but as they say, the show must go on.’” He continued, “Now the club had a really unique monitor system and it had real tube amps powering the tweeters — this is really a big deal, so warm and lovely — and Robert, our monitor man, informed me I’d really be able to hear myself sing, even through the cold. We sound checked, and it sounded just great. Me? Not so much, but still, a lot of weight off right there. I’d told C Rick (A Rick was guitar, B Rick on bass, therefore C Rick) our light man to hit me pretty hard with the old school 500-watt pars and MAYBE I could melt the total congestion quick. Show starts and I do my best, but it’s a struggle to sing when drowning from the inside. I think that lasted a song and a half or so, because of the heat from the lights. I mouth-birthed a fist-sized wad, turned my head to the side and let it loose. Yes disgusting, but I knew I was gonna make it through the show. Thanked C Rick for the nasal and sinus car wash and, boy howdy, was EVERYONE in the crew relieved.”

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