Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA June 21, 2001

A rare show I just got today!!! Since it had no artwork, I made my own. Thanks to Andy for the cover pic. This was from the 8101 tour, which was the 20th anniversary of the Don't Say No album.

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Hammersmith Odeon , London England , May 29 ,1981

Pretty nice audience recording from back in the day.Needed speed correcting, as the tape seemed to drag a little, so after correcting, I made new artwork.

Billy Squier - The Stroke - 1981

Definately some lip sync going on here, guessing it was part of some radio promo, but I've never seen it before until now.

LIVE in the Dark 11/20/81 - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

NBC Rock 'N' Roll Tonite Perkins Palace Pasadena, Ca March 9, 1983

Cobo Hall Detroit Michigan March 23, 1983

Someone Finally posted the Cobo Hall Concert from Detroit on Youtube!! This is a decent version that has floated around the net for awhile now. It was only released in Japan on laserdisc. This one isn't quite as clear as the laserdisc, but still a good watch for those that have never seen it. It still to this day drives me nuts that people misspell his name ( one example below ), back in the day, Billy's contract had a clause that if they misspelled his name on the venue or the advertisements, he got paid extra.

Reading Rock Festival Reading UK 8-29-81

FM broadcast of Billys performance at the festival.

01 In The Dark
02 Rich Kid
03 My Kind Of Lover
04 Lonely Is The Night
05 The Stroke

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Borders Rochester Hills,Detroit,Michigan 11/3/98

Short and sweet set from a Borders bookstore while promoting his new album "Happy Blue". There is also a video of this show circulating around. Sound quality is pretty nice, video not so much....front cover below was made from a screen capture of the video.

01 Everybody wants you
02 More Than Words Can Say
03 Grasping For Oblivian
04 Long Way To Fall
05 Inferno (Everybody Cries Sometimes)
06 Stroke Me Blues

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Flyer from the same tour.

Salt Palace Salt Lake City Utah October 4 1984

This show was broadcast over the Westwood One Radio network as the Superstars Rock Concert Series SS-85. Excellent soundboard quality.

01 Announcer Introduction    :23
02 All Night Long  5:04
03 In The Dark  4:09               
04 Whadda Ya Want From Me?  4:16  
05 Reach For The Sky  5:55
06 My Kinda Lover  7:22                   
07 Keep Me Satisfied  3:57   
08 Learn How To Live  4:40   
09 She's A Runner  4:18
10 Hand-Me-Downs 4:59   
11 The Stroke  4:25
12 Take A Look Behind Ya  5:11
13 Everybody Wants You  4:00
14 (Another) 1984  5:34          
15 Rock Me Tonite (with band introductions) 6:56       

Billy Squier: lead vocals and guitar
Jeff Golub: guitar
Allan St. John: synthesizer, keyboards, backing vocals
Doug Lubahn: bass
Bobby Chouinard: drums

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3 Clans Ballroom ,Oneida Casino Green Bay, WI 7/23/2009

Total Playing Time (107:06)

Disc 1

01) Opening
02) Lonely Is The Night
03) Strange Fire
04) My Kinda Lover
05) More ThanWords Can Say Intro
06) More Than Words Can Say >
07) She's A Runner
08) Little Miss Intent
09) Drum Solo
10) G.O.D.
11) Love Is The Hero
12) (L-O-V-E) Four Letter Word
13) Don't Say You Love Me
14) The Stroke
15) Rock Me Tonight (w/ band introductions)
16)  <encore break>

Disc 2 (the encore)

17) Cally Oh
18) The Girl's All Right
19) Everybody Wants You

Billy Squier: Guitar
Mark Clarke: Bass
Alan St.Jon: Keys
Nir Z: Drums
Marc Copely: Guitar

Wow!! check out that ticket price !!

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Great South Bay Music Festival Patchogue, NY July 19 , 2013

An acoustic solo set. Audience recording isn't bad. This different take on the music is really cool, but I must admit I prefer the rock and roll Billy Squier. It is short and sweet with only 5 songs performed.

01 In The Dark
02 She's A Runner
03 The Pursuit Of Happiness
04 Everybody Wants You / Too Daze Gone
05 The Stroke



After walking away from the music business in 1993, I barely touched a guitar for three years. Aside from working on the Reach For The Sky anthology, I really didn’t want anything to do with that scene anymore. Two events then occurred that presented me with an unexpected and welcome musical challenge.

Towards the end of ’96, I slipped back into creative mode to write a poem for my two-year old godson’s birthday. When I showed it to his mother, she suggested that I put it to music. This was interesting because the verse was somewhat free-form, so I had to figure out a way to create a song-structure that would accommodate the lyric rhythms I’d already put in place. When it was done, I threw it down on a cassette-recorder I had lying around the house, made a copy for Harrison, and forgot about it.

In ’97, I was contacted by VH1 and asked to be part of a special they were doing on 80's artists. When they told me they’d like me to do a couple of songs  live for the show, I replied without hesitation—that I would do so only on the condition that I perform without a band (solo). They agreed and I panicked. How was I going to do The Stroke naked ? The answer came to me while running on the beach several weeks later: I suddenly realized that, once you stripped away all the bombast and production tricks, The Stroke was a blues song. I went home and began messing around with some open tuning variations and voila.

Now that I had two acoustic songs, the idea of doing an unadorned CD of like-minded material presented itself. I was pretty irritated by what I perceived was happening in music at the time, what with everybody slapping samples together and pretending to be musicians whether they could play an instrument or not. I thought it would be a challenge to write and perform songs that would rely solely on my abilities as a songwriter, singer and guitar-player…without the cover of production gimmicks or bloated arrangements. I began by looking for acoustic guitars that inspired me with their natural  voices,  and I employed special tunings in response to each one’s characteristics.

This took me well out of my comfort-zone it’s not unlike learning a new language but led to many musical discoveries and new song directions.  Happy Blue is the product of six different guitars that I collected for the purpose of making this CD. It is a  live album, although it wasn’t recorded in front of a live audience. I put some very basic recording equipment in my NYC apartment and did about half of the tracks there, using one mic for both vocal and guitar. For the VH1 sessions which included Inferno. I chose to record at IIWII Studios in Weehawken, NJ. I really liked the vibe at this place, and ended up doing a bunch of other songs there as well. Two remains in its original demo form.

All in all, a very satisfying project.

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The Ritz, New York City, New York - November 28, 1989

Set List:

Disc 1: 74:52 Minutes.

1.Introduction - Don't Say You Love Me 5:27
2.Lonely is the Night 6:52
3.Billy Speaks - Calley Oh 6:06
4.Shot O'Love 4:08
5.The Work Song 4:04
6.Stronger 5:17
7.Too Daze Gone 6:37
8.Learn How to Live 5:35
9.The Stroke (Tease) - Rock Out - Punch Somebody - Tied Up 8:43
10.Break the Silence 5:48
11.Band Intros - Don't Let Me Go 6:31
12.In the Dark 3:31
13.Everybody Wants You 6:08

Disc 2: 24:20 Minutes.

1.Sweet Release 6:06
2.Rock Me Tonight 4:53
3.Guitar Intro (Tease) - The Stroke 5:33
4.Keep Me Satisfied 7:46

99:12 Minutes.

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Toyota Park Burbank, Illinois 7/3/2009

An Audience recording from the All Nite Long Tour of 2009. As usual, lots of favorites, and a few surprises. Recorded by marksound. Quality A-


Disc 1
101 - Intro
102 - Lonely is the Night
103 - Strange Fire
104 - My Kinda Lover
105 - More than Words Can Say
106 - Little Miss Intent
107 - Mini Drum Solo
108 - G.O.D.
109 - L-O-V-E Four Letter Word
110 - Don't Say You Love Me

Disc 2
201 - The Stroke
202 - Rock Me Tonight
203 - Cally Oh
204 - The Girls Alright
205 - Everybody Wants You

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Cobo Arena Detroit MI March 28 1983

For anyone that remembers the MTV days, the video "She's a Runner" was very popular. The concert where it was filmed is this show. There was also a Japan Only release of the show on laserdisc, which is also a rare find. Lots of copies of it on the internet of the laserdisc , but very poor quality.



01 Everybody Wants You
02 Whadda Ya Want From Me
03 I Need You
04 Catch 22
05 Learn How To Live
06 My Kinda Lover
07 Too Daze Gone
08 She's A Runner
09 Emotions In Motion
10 Listen To The Heartbeat
11 Lonely Is The Night
12 In The Dark
13 The Stroke
14 Band Intro
15 Keep Me Satisfied
16 Rip This Joint

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Nippon Budokan (Tokyo, Japan) Aug 13, 1983

This one has to be one of my favorites. I looked for many years trying to find this show. Best version ever of Everybody Wants You.

01 Everybody Wants You  4:54
02 Whadda You Want From Me  4:18
03 I Need You - Catch 22  9:14
04 Learn How To Live  4:32
05 My Kind Of Lover  4:32
06 Too Daze Gone  8:32
07 She's A Runner  4:25
08 Emotions In Motion  7:47
09 Lonely Is The Night  12:15
10 In The Dark  4:25
11 The Stroke  5:42
12 Keep Me Satisfied  9:18
13 Rip This Joint  4:00


Billy Squier - lead vocals, guitar
Jeff Golub - guitar
Alan St. Jon - keyboards, vocals
Doug Lubahn- bass, vocals
Bobby Chouinard - drums

Captured live at Japan's famous 15,000-seat arena, Budokan, this exceptional recording captures Billy Squier at the pinnacle moment of his career. For many, Squier personified early 1980s arena rock, and his 1981 album, Don't Say No, along with its 1982 follow-up, Emotions In Motion, have become defining rock albums of the era. Seasoning his brand of hard rock with a touch of pop melodicism, Squier's arena rock anthems and power ballads would shoot right up the charts and remain there for two solid years. Thanks in part to his photogenic nature, Squier would also become a fixture of MTV, which would eventually prove to be both a blessing and a curse.

This concert was recorded when Squier was still out on the road promoting Emotions In Motion, his biggest commercial success and the album that took him from reliable support act to bona fide arena headliner. This performance not only contains all of his biggest hits, but focuses exclusively on material from the pair of albums that remain his most popular, 1981's Don't Say No and the aforementioned followup. All of his biggest hits are included here, including "Everybody Wants You," "I Need You," "My Kinda Lover," "Listen To The Heartbeat," "In The Dark," "The Stroke," and a highly expanded version of "Lonely Is The Night." Lesser known numbers like the boogie-woogie concert staple "Keep Me Satisfied," also in highly expanded form here, the moodier "Learn How To Live" and the Stones-influenced "Catch 22," also surface and never sounded better. Squier even caps things off with a roaring rendition of The Stones' Exile On Main Street classic, "Rip This Joint," to conclude this consistently strong performance.

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The Coach House San Juan Capristano Ca 9-25-1991

Originally aired the week of January 6, 1992, show #92-02 on the Westwood OneConcert Series. This show was recorded from a "Toys for Tots" charity drive.Familiar favorites, songs from the new album Creatures of Habit, and even a Bruce Springsteen song "Badlands". Top quality soundboard recording. Below is a review that was published about the show.


01 You Should Be High Love  4:43
02 Lonely Is The Night  5:51
03 Everybody Wants You  7:00
04 She Goes Down  5:05
05 Learn How To Live  4:40
06 Don't Say You Love Me  4:52
07 In The Dark  4:15
08 Lover  5:52
09 The Stroke  5:23
10 Too Daze Gone  7:11
11 Badlands  4:59
12 Don't Say No  11:06

POP MUSIC REVIEWS : Squier Is Still Fans' Kinda Star
September 25, 1991 JEAN ROSENBLUTH

LOS ANGELES — If there's any truth to the maxim that you can never put your past behind you until you confront it, Billy Squier should have opened his show Monday at the Palace with a rendition of the Buggles' underground hit "Video Killed the Radio Star."

Squier was riding a string of top-selling albums in 1984 when, for reasons only his primarily adolescent male audience knows for sure, his dancing in the "Rock Me Tonite" video alienated his core fans and sent his shooting star rocketing down the charts. After that, Squier was never able to recapture the spotlight he had spent more than a decade finding.

Although "Video Killed the Radio Star" was nowhere to be heard at the Palace, Squier, who plays at the Coach House tonight, nonetheless managed to lay to rest any doubts about his talent. His sexy slur of a voice, second only to Robert Plant's for sheer rock authority, has lost none of its potency, and most of the material from his recent "Creatures of Habit" album held up to such older gems as "My Kinda Lover" and "Everybody Wants You," full of hooks and snappy choruses and propulsive guitar. Squier, a Boston native, writes and performs "power pop" in the truest sense of the words.

Squier and lanky fellow guitarist Larry Mitchell played off each other well, driving "In the Dark" and "Rock Me Tonite" (during which Squier started to replicate the hip-swinging moves in the video before quickly catching himself) into frenzied finishes.

The sparse crowd was enthusiastic enough for one twice its size. The fans called Squier and his band back to the stage for two extended encores that were largely anticlimactic because they consisted almost exclusively of less-familiar material from his latest album. A straightforward, surprisingly tender version of Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands" brought some who were on their way out back into the hall.

The audience's eagerness seemed to bear some relation to its age: Many of those screaming the loudest must still have been in grade school when the infamous video originally aired on MTV. In another few years, the teen generation won't even be able to remember back that far, and Squier should be able to make his remarkable music without the pall of a silly video hanging over his head. Until then, a blistering version of "Video Killed the Radio Star" might do the trick.

* Billy Squier plays tonight at 8 at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano.

 Source : http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-25/entertainment/ca-2462_1_billy-squier

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Syria Mosque Pittsburgh, Pa. November 24, 1989

FM radio broadcast from the Hear & Now Tour. This one is a soundboard recording, with lots of favorites, as well as songs from the new album.

01 Intro  :54

02 Don't Say You Love Me  6:21

03 Lonely Is The Night  6:29

04 Calley Oh  5:03

05 Stronger  4:56

06 Learn How To Live  5:09

07 Rock Out- Punch Somebody  4:11

08 Tied Up  4:34

09 Band Introductions  :44

10 Don't Let Me Go  5:21

11 In The Dark  3:41

12 Everybody Wants You  6:09

13 Encore Break  :32

14 Sweet Release  6:29

15 Rock Me Tonight  5:06

16 Encore Break 2  1:17

17 The Stroke  5:36

Billy Squier: lead vocals and guitar

Jimmy Crespo: guitar

Alan St. Jon: synthesizer, keyboards, backing vocals

Mark Clarke: bass

Bobby Chouinard: drums

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