For today’s “on this day in history” post, here is a band that I was totally mistaken about when I was a headbanging teenager. Metal was huge in my world when the Go-Go’s hit the big time, so I wrote them off as “lame new wave” and never gave them a chance. Fast forward about 13 years and Rodney on the Roq plays their new single “The World has Lost its Head” and I was floored. It was only then that I learned of their punk rock roots and dove into their old stuff with the release of the “in the valley” 2-CD set. Then they put out God Bless the Go Go’s which was amazing, and I became a late but lifelong fan.
This session is a great representation of the band’s fun interpersonal dynamic and how killer those harmonies are even in a live radio studio setting.
Photo from the Go Go’s instagram, from around the same time frame a week before this session.

Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card