8-15-80

Performer: Pat Benatar
Engineer: Biff Dawes
Producer: Neil Giraldo
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Pat Benatar (vocals); Neil Giraldo (vocals, guitar, piano); Scott Sheets (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Roger Capps (vocals, bass); Myron Grombacher (drums). Recorded live at the Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California on August 15, 1980 & at the Bottom Line, New York, New York, on November 13, 1979. Personnel: Pat Benatar (vocals); Neil Giraldo (vocals, guitar, piano); Scott St. Clair Sheets (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Roger Capps (vocals); Myron Grombacher (drums). Audio Mixers: Jeff Worrell; Neil Giraldo. Recording information: Bottom Line, New York, NY (11/13/1979/08/15/1980); Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA (11/13/1979/08/15/1980). Pat Benatar's 1998 live set, 8-15-80 (named after the date of the recording), captures the singer just as her career was taking off. Recorded in San Francisco shortly after her breakthrough album, CRIMES OF PASSION, was issued, the set is inspired and nothing short of spectacular. Benatar is in fine voice, while her backing band rocks with the best of them (especially Pat's future husband, guitarist Neil Geraldo). Name an early Benatar favorite, and chances are it's here in all its electrified glory--a cover of John Mellencamp's "I Need A Lover," as well as "Treat Me Right," "You Better Run," "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," and "Heartbreaker." 8-15-80 is a must-hear for Pat Benatar fans old and new.

The siren-voiced Pat Benatar leapt onto the music scene in the late '70s, when hard rock was still pretty much a boys' club. She made a strong impression. On in-your-face hits like "Heartbreaker" and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," Benatar issued challenges to bad-boy lovers, and her tough-gal image was bolstered through dramatic videos on MTV for a string of hits including "We Belong" and the powerful "Love is a Battlefield." But Benatar was always much more than an image, as the many strong compositions in her songbook attest.

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