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Honolulu, HI (1983-01-04)
     

1h20m27s

Disc one (68:43)
1. Back in the saddle
2. Mama kin
3. Big ten inch record
4. Three mile smile
5. Reefer head woman
6. Rock in a hard place
7. Lord of the thighs/Birthday song
8. Lick and a promise
9. Sweet emotion
10. Dream on
11. Lightning strikes/Walk this way/Milk cow blues

Disc two (11:44)
1. Toys in the attic
2. Train kept a rollin'

Moderate soundboard recording or FM broadcast. Strangely the composer of this bootleg didn't divide all the songs into separate tracks. The performance itself is outstanding, with Steven's voice not being raw at all. However, the performance sounds a bit poor. Maybe it was originally recorded in mono. During Back in the Saddle, Steven continuously sings 'We're back in the saddle again.' That's strange: he did the same thing when the 'old' Aerosmith regrouped, about a year later.
Before Big Ten Inch Record, there's a verse of Pink Floyd's 'Oh well.' As an introduction to Three Mile Smile, Steven tells the audience 'We wanna apologise for being away for so long.' Appearantly, they haven't been on Hawaii for quite some time - like they haven't been to Europe and the rest of the world (except for America) for a long time now (2003).
The separation of Three Mile Smile and Reefer Head Woman has not been done too well by the composer of this bootleg: it is too late - so part of Reefer Head Woman is attached to the track called Three Mile Smile. Steven calls Jimmy Crespo 'mister Jimmy.'
Together with 'San Antonio, TX' these are the only bootlegs to carry a live version of Rock in a Hard Place. (it's the only one from '83, too!) Appearantly, somebody throws a firecracker on stage during Lord of the Thighs. Steven tells the audience: 'One of you motherf#ckers out there is an asshole this big. [..] I'm glad that didn't go off. [..] The next one who throws a firecracker up here is ... shit, we ain't gonna do anything, we ain't violent! But the persons around you are gonna eat your face out and we're gonna trade that for cocaine or someting [..]!'
After the incident, the audience has to sing Happy Birthday with Steven, because it is Tom's birthday - according to Steven. That's strange: this show is dated January 4th, 1983 and Tom's birthday is December 31st! The performance of Lick and a Promise does suck a bit - it just seems a bit slower than the original version and maybe it is!
It seems that there has been some editing after Lick and a Promise: there's complete silence and then you hear Steven ask the audience: 'Did somebody make you people sit down?,' followed by the last part of Sweet Emotion (about 2 minutes). I wonder if the first part is really omitted from the recording or if it wasn't played at all. I suggest the first.
There's a problem with the audience again during Milk Cow Blues. Don't know what's on now, but Steven says: 'That's gonna cost you another 2500 dollars [...] You people don't understand, we don't want to hurt nobody. [..] Of course, there's always motherf#ckers that want to do something to the monitors. [..]'
Milk Cow Blues is a very rare and lenghty version. At the end of disc one, you already hear part of a drumsolo. On disc two, it appears that this actually belongs to Milk Cow Blues too (bad edit again).

   

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