BOBBY & THE MIDNITES
''WHERE THE BEAT MEETS THE STREET''
AUGUST 1984
37:57
1 (I Want To Live In) America (John Perry Barlow, Gerrit Graham, Bobby Cochran, Bob Weir) 03:20
2 Where The Beat Meets The Street (Nicky Chin, Steve Glen) 03:30
3 She's Gonna Win Your Heart(Billy Burnette, Mentor Williams) 03:56
4 Ain't That Peculiar (Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Marvin Tarplin) 03:46
5 Lifeguard (Peter Beckett, Dennis Lambert) 03:50
6 Rock In The 80's (Cochran) 03:10
7 Lifeline (Frederiksen, Haselden, Medica, Roddy) 04:21
8 Falling (Barlow, Jeff Baxter, Kenny Gradney, Weir) 04:21
9 Thunder & Lightning (Cochran, Weir) 03:33
10 Gloria Monday (Barlow, Baxter, Weir) 04:07
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
Jeff Baxter – guitar, synthesizer
Paulette Brown – vocals
Billy Cobham – drums
Bobby Cochran – guitar, vocals
Steve Cropper – guitar
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
Chuck Domenico – bass guitar
Jim Ehinger – keyboards
Kenny Gradney – bass, vocals
Alphonso Johnson – bass
Sherlie Matthews – vocals
Brian Setzer – guitar
REVIEW/AMG
by William Ruhlmann
**/*****
Where The Beat Meets The Street, The Midnites' second and final album, saw the group going for mid-'80s radio acceptance with a vengeance. As he had in his '70s group, Kingfish, Bob Weir began to take a backseat in his own band, leaving most of the singing up to Bobby Cochran and bringing in a host of outside songwriters. What you got was, as one song put it, "Rock In The '80s," a set of frisky toe-tappers that concerned themselves mostly with the magical world of rock & roll. What can Deadheads have made of this? Actually, probably only a few of them (or anyone else) got to hear this album, which sank without a trace after four weeks at the bottom of the charts, followed by the demise of the group itself.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by William Ruhlmann
Bobby and the Midnites was a Grateful Dead spin-off group led by the Dead's guitarist/singer Bob Weir during the first half of the '80s. Their initial lineup, in addition to Weir, was: Bobby Cochran (guitar, vocals), the Dead's Brent Mydland (keyboards, vocals), Tim Bogert (bass), noted jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham, and Matt Kelly (harmonica, guitar, congas), who had been in Weir's '70s spin-off group, Kingfish. This sextet played their first gig at Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, CA, on June 30, 1980. Bobby and the Midnites signed to the Dead's label, Arista Records, and released their self-titled debut album in November 1981, by which time Alphonso Johnson had replaced Bogert on bass. The album charted for a couple of months, but was not a big seller. The band, having dropped Kelly and replaced Mydland with keyboard player Dave Garland, toured extensively in 1982, 1983, and 1984. In March 1983, Ken Gradney replaced Johnson on bass. In August 1984, Columbia Records released Bobby and the Midnites' second album, Where the Beat Meets the Street, which again was not commercially successful, though it charted briefly. Bobby and the Midnites played their final show on September 30, 1984, at Rio in Valley Stream, NY, after which Weir, while continuing with the Grateful Dead, rejoined Kingfish and did solo performances. He later performed with such groups as Nightfood and Go Ahead, and starting in 1988, began to tour regularly in a duo with bassist Rob Wasserman.
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''WHERE THE BEAT MEETS THE STREET''
AUGUST 1984
37:57
1 (I Want To Live In) America (John Perry Barlow, Gerrit Graham, Bobby Cochran, Bob Weir) 03:20
2 Where The Beat Meets The Street (Nicky Chin, Steve Glen) 03:30
3 She's Gonna Win Your Heart(Billy Burnette, Mentor Williams) 03:56
4 Ain't That Peculiar (Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Marvin Tarplin) 03:46
5 Lifeguard (Peter Beckett, Dennis Lambert) 03:50
6 Rock In The 80's (Cochran) 03:10
7 Lifeline (Frederiksen, Haselden, Medica, Roddy) 04:21
8 Falling (Barlow, Jeff Baxter, Kenny Gradney, Weir) 04:21
9 Thunder & Lightning (Cochran, Weir) 03:33
10 Gloria Monday (Barlow, Baxter, Weir) 04:07
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
Jeff Baxter – guitar, synthesizer
Paulette Brown – vocals
Billy Cobham – drums
Bobby Cochran – guitar, vocals
Steve Cropper – guitar
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
Chuck Domenico – bass guitar
Jim Ehinger – keyboards
Kenny Gradney – bass, vocals
Alphonso Johnson – bass
Sherlie Matthews – vocals
Brian Setzer – guitar
REVIEW/AMG
by William Ruhlmann
**/*****
Where The Beat Meets The Street, The Midnites' second and final album, saw the group going for mid-'80s radio acceptance with a vengeance. As he had in his '70s group, Kingfish, Bob Weir began to take a backseat in his own band, leaving most of the singing up to Bobby Cochran and bringing in a host of outside songwriters. What you got was, as one song put it, "Rock In The '80s," a set of frisky toe-tappers that concerned themselves mostly with the magical world of rock & roll. What can Deadheads have made of this? Actually, probably only a few of them (or anyone else) got to hear this album, which sank without a trace after four weeks at the bottom of the charts, followed by the demise of the group itself.
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by William Ruhlmann
Bobby and the Midnites was a Grateful Dead spin-off group led by the Dead's guitarist/singer Bob Weir during the first half of the '80s. Their initial lineup, in addition to Weir, was: Bobby Cochran (guitar, vocals), the Dead's Brent Mydland (keyboards, vocals), Tim Bogert (bass), noted jazz fusion drummer Billy Cobham, and Matt Kelly (harmonica, guitar, congas), who had been in Weir's '70s spin-off group, Kingfish. This sextet played their first gig at Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, CA, on June 30, 1980. Bobby and the Midnites signed to the Dead's label, Arista Records, and released their self-titled debut album in November 1981, by which time Alphonso Johnson had replaced Bogert on bass. The album charted for a couple of months, but was not a big seller. The band, having dropped Kelly and replaced Mydland with keyboard player Dave Garland, toured extensively in 1982, 1983, and 1984. In March 1983, Ken Gradney replaced Johnson on bass. In August 1984, Columbia Records released Bobby and the Midnites' second album, Where the Beat Meets the Street, which again was not commercially successful, though it charted briefly. Bobby and the Midnites played their final show on September 30, 1984, at Rio in Valley Stream, NY, after which Weir, while continuing with the Grateful Dead, rejoined Kingfish and did solo performances. He later performed with such groups as Nightfood and Go Ahead, and starting in 1988, began to tour regularly in a duo with bassist Rob Wasserman.
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