Elton John - 1976-08-15 - New York City, NY (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Louder Than Concorde (but not quite as pretty!)

Source: Audience Recording

Lineage: ?>CDR>WAV>FLAC8

Elton John- Piano/Vocals
Davey Johnstone- Guitar/ Vocals
Ray Cooper- Percussion
Caleb Quaye- Guitars
James Newton Howard- Keyboards
Roger Pope- Drums
Backing Vocals:
Cindy Bullins (Guitar on "Love Song")
John Joyce
Ken Gold

CD1
01 - Grow Some Funk of Your Own
02 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
03 - Island Girl
04 - Rocket Man
05 - Hercules
06 - Bennie and the Jets
07 - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

CD2
01 - Love Song
02 - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
03 - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
04 - Empty Sky
05 - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
06 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
07 - I Got the Music In Me
08 - Philadelphia Freedom

CD3
01 - We All Fall In Love Sometimes
02 - Curtains
03 - Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
04 - Band Introductions
05 - Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
06 - Your Song
07 - Pinball Wizard

note
This is a pretty good audience recording, considering it was taped in 1976. Very few recordings have surfaced from this period of Elton John's career, and with this band in particular. The Earl's Court DVD I uploaded recently was from May of this same year, and is the best recording I have found, but is only partial. This is the entire show, and includes Kiki Dee as a special guest (Bernie Taupin and Billie Jean King as well). She appears on the current single, at the time, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", and her own hit "I Got the Music in Me". This show also includes the rarely played song "Empty Sky", as that album had just been released in the United States, six years after its initial release in England. This may be as good as we get from this period, until they start to empty EJ's vaults. Play this loud and imagine you are in the cheap seats at
MSG!