Re. the PA breakdown, I remember seeing Rory at the Manchester Apollo, UK, about 1978. Part way through a song they lost all sound from the stage. Rory coolly walked to the back of the stage, picked up the acoustic and played the acoustic part of the gig completely unamplified to an audience of 2,500 who kept completely silent during the songs so ...

Maybe this was why it was faded out: ''Then they asked me to come down - they were playing Winterland. I sat in with them on the encore and everything that could've gone wrong went wrong. I mean, I broke a string. I hardly ever break strings. And the PA went out, and one of the amplifiers blew, I think. And it was really cool, because the ...

More Man please! Re the faded out last-track with John Cippolina, to my ears this sounds like one of the Manband's extended improvised intros to Spunk Rock - tempo and beat are just right and I find I'm waiting for the classic twin guitar riff, and the it fades out - aarrgghh!!  

Great site - fantastic concerts! Any chance of some Brinsley Schwarz? Their only official live release is on the recent Greasy Truckers CD but the mixing is awful. Please can we have an alternative recording (or two) showing the band at their peak. Cheers!