Lightnin' in a Bottle: The Official Live Album Georgia Satellites

• 1Whole Lotta Shakin' (Live)03:12
• 2Down and Down (Live)03:47
• 3Run Run Rudolph (Live)03:37
• 4Open All Night (Live)02:59
• 5Don't Pass Me By (Live)05:24
• 6Nights of Mystery (Live)06:55
• 7Battleship Chains (Live)03:22
• 8Mon Cheri (Live)04:22
• 9White Lightnin' (Live)02:59
• 10I Go to Pieces (Live)04:12
• 11Shake Your Hips (Live)06:31
• 12Games People Play (Live)03:37
• 13Can't Stand the Pain (Live)04:03
• 14Keep Your Hands to Yourself / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (Live)05:45
• 15Sheila (Live)04:22
• 16Hippy Hippy Shake (Live)02:14
• 17Railroad Steel (Live)08:20
• 18I Wanna Be Sedated / Shake Rattle & Roll (Live)06:29
• 19Shake Rattle & Roll (Live)04:02
• Total Runtime01:26:12

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In 1988, the Georgia Satellites rolled into Cleveland, Ohio for a blistering Monday night at local watering hole Peabody’s, formerly the punk haven Pirates Cove. With Open All Night giving the band a second album to draw on, their salty, wide-open Chuck Berry riff’n’roll was full swagger – whether drawing on their reprise of the Swinging Blue Jeans’ “Hippy Hippy Shake” from the Tom Cruise film “Cocktail,”Joe South’s swerving “Games People Play,” George Jones’ “White Lightnin’”or Jerry Lee Lewis’ all-out “Whole Lotta Shakin’.” Just as importantly, gap-toothed guitarist/lead singer Dan Baird and combustive lead guitarist Rick Richards set the pummeling groove of drummer Mauro Magellan and bassist Rick Price ablaze.

Delivering an 18-song masterclass in roots, rock and raunch, the Satellites not only incinerated “Battleship Chains,” “Railroad Steel” and “Can’t Stand The Pain,” they led the beyond SRO crowd through a shout-along of “Keep Your Hands To Yourself” threaded with a brazen stripper grind on the Rolling Stones’ “It’s Only Rock & Roll.” Fans of reverb, thrashing drums, the rush of rock & roll momentum and all manners of electric guitars giving it over to basic 3 chord rock & roll, Lightin’ in a Bottle retires the jersey. As the southern equivalent of the Replacements, the Ramones hillbilly (redneck) little brothers, no band delivered as much balls as the Satellites, who’ve never had an official live record. For a band who leaves it all onstage, that seems wrong. Leave it to Cleveland International to unearth this blistering recording, wipe off the sweat and somehow figure out how to get it all in one double disc package captured in the Rock & Roll Capital of the World.

Dan Baird recalled that night most vividly and graphically, “It was my birthday [December 12] and I had some nasty ass cold. Shiverin’ and moaning, but as they say, the show must go on.’” He continued, “Now the club had a really unique monitor system and it had real tube amps powering the tweeters — this is really a big deal, so warm and lovely — and Robert, our monitor man, informed me I’d really be able to hear myself sing, even through the cold. We sound checked, and it sounded just great. Me? Not so much, but still, a lot of weight off right there. I’d told C Rick (A Rick was guitar, B Rick on bass, therefore C Rick) our light man to hit me pretty hard with the old school 500-watt pars and MAYBE I could melt the total congestion quick. Show starts and I do my best, but it’s a struggle to sing when drowning from the inside. I think that lasted a song and a half or so, because of the heat from the lights. I mouth-birthed a fist-sized wad, turned my head to the side and let it loose. Yes disgusting, but I knew I was gonna make it through the show. Thanked C Rick for the nasal and sinus car wash and, boy howdy, was EVERYONE in the crew relieved.”

Georgia Satellites

Georgia Satellites
In 1980, Dan Baird (formerly guitarist for the Atlanta band the Nasty Bucks), along with lead guitarist Rick Richards, bassist Keith Christopher (formerly of The Brains), and drummer David Michaelson formed a band named Keith and the Satellites in Atlanta, Georgia. After performing in local Southern bars, the band's line-up changed. With a new bassist, Dave Hewitt, and a new drummer, Randy DeLay, they recorded a six-track demo at Axis Studios in Atlanta. During this time, the band changed their name to Georgia Satellites and played every Monday at Hedgen's, a beer-stained bar in the otherwise tony Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead.

Jeff Glixman, who had produced, mixed and remastered artists such as Paul Stanley, Kansas, Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen and Black Sabbath, was enlisted for production. However, soon after the demo was recorded, the band broke up in the summer of 1984. DeLay later performed with the Tony Sarno Band and the Hell Hounds around the Atlanta music circuit, before dying of cancer in 1993.

Although the band felt they were not making any progress on their musical path and had disbanded, their English manager, Kevin Jennings, took the demo to a small Yorkshire record label, Making Waves, who liked the material and released the demo as the Keep the Faith EP in 1985. The press response to the EP was positive and prompted the band to regroup in the United States. Baird had been playing with the Woodpeckers in North Carolina. Richards remained in Atlanta with the Hell Hounds, which included both Mauro Magellan (drums) and Rick Price (bass, who had replaced Keith Christopher in The Brains). With Baird essentially joining the Hell Hounds, the Georgia Satellites were reborn and American record labels started taking notice of the band.

In 1986, the group signed with Elektra Records and reunited with Glixman to record their debut full-length album at Cheshire Sound Studios in Atlanta. The album, Georgia Satellites, was their most successful LP; featuring the track "Keep Your Hands to Yourself". The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped only by Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer". It went into heavy rotation on MTV. Other lesser-known songs included "Battleship Chains" (#86), written by Terry Anderson and "Can't Stand the Pain", but the Georgia Satellites never had another Top 40 hit. That same year the MTV Video Music Awards came into being. Mary Deacon won for Best Art Director on the music video "Keep Your Hands to Yourself".

In 1988, the band recorded a cover of The Swinging Blue Jeans' 1964 hit "Hippy Hippy Shake" for the movie Cocktail. Released as a single, the song reached No. 45 on the Billboard chart. During that year, the band released their second album, Open All Night; which included a cover of the Ringo Starr-written Beatles song "Don't Pass Me By", although the album was not as successful as their debut. A single, "Open All Night" backed with "Dunk 'n' Dine", failed to chart.

A third studio album, In the Land of Salvation and Sin, was released in 1989, which included re-recordings of "Six Years Gone" and "Crazy" from the 1985 EP. Although the album received very positive reviews, it too failed to do well commercially, and Baird left the band in 1990 to pursue a solo career.

The band's 1993 compilation Let It Rock: The Best of the Georgia Satellites included a selection of the best tracks from the three studio albums and bonus material that had been released on the Another Chance EP (1989): "Saddle Up", "That Woman", and "I'm Waiting for the Man". Also included was a live version of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock".

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