25.03.1978
Germany, Berlin, Eissporthalle
Rockpop in Concert 1978
very good Broadcast

Disc 1: [46:49]
01. Eisberg [11:38]
02. Zeit [6:35]
03. Introduction Christian Simon [1:02]
04. Sturmvogel [6:00]
05. Mephisto [4:59]
06. Mephisto Part 2 [2:17]
07. Steine [5:40]
08. Rock'n'Roll - Potpourri [4:56]
09. Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde [3:39]

Disc 1:
Track 01 - 02: WIR (East-German band playing some Kraut-prog.)
Lineup:
Wolfgang Ziegler - keyboards, vocals / Doris Martin - voclas / Ingolf Zwick - guitar / Rainer Bloß - bass / Hans Joachim Kluge - drums                                        
 
Track 03 - 09: PUHDYS (Famous East-German band with German lyrics.)
Lineup:
Dieter Birr - vocals / Dieter Hertrampf - guitar, vocals / Gunther Wosylus - drums / Harry Jeske - bass / Peter Meyer - keyboards, saxophon  
                                            
Disc 2: [51:22]                             
01. Introduction Christian Simon [2:30]
02. Defroster [4:42]
03. Delphin *cut off [1:23]
04. Schneewittchen *Cut in [8:12]
05. Living for the City [3:35]
06. Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt [2:36]
07. Meine erste Liebe [6:46]
08. Rockin' and Rollin' [10:51]
09. Boogie Woogie Mädchen [5:14]
10. Honky Tonky Show [5:28]

Disc 2:
Track 01 - 03: 
SNOWBALL (British Jazz-Rock-Fusion.)
Lineup:
Curt Cress - drums / Roye Albrighton - guitar, vocals / Dave King - bass / Kristian Schultze - keyboards    

Track 04 - 10: 
UDO LINDENBERG:
Famous German legend. In the early seventies - after playing as a jazz-drummer - he made it possible for the first time to write songs in the German language without getting ridiculous. His music is sort of R&B, Blues, Ballades, and R´n´R with very cool and extraordinary lyrics. This concert is pur R&B, R´n`R and Blues in a high power performance. One of his best concerts before ballades made his music mellow and mediocre. Recommended. Sorry for you English speaking guys, because you ain´t got the pleasure of his lyrics.
  
Lineup:
Udo Lindenberg - vocals / Jean-Jacques Cravetz - keyboards / Thomas Kretschmer - guitars / Paul Vincent - guitars / Steffi Stephan - bass / Bertram Engel - drums /
Gebhard Gloning - saxophon / Ingeborg Thomson - vocals                                     
                                            
Recording-info:
After doing some investigation on the www I came to know what I have done at Saturday evening 18th November 1978: I was sitting in front of a (mono) TV-set and recorded the very first ROCKPOP IN CONCERT broadcast. Having been infected and got addicted the year before with the legendary live-in-concert-idea of ROCKPALAST I expected something similar with this new broadcast. The only sorry was, that - with the exception of SNOWBALL - only West-German bands and some East-German bands -which were almost unknown to the West-German audience- were featuring the festval lineup. But they were very hot and the performances of UDO LINDENBERG, WIR and the PUHDYS impressed me very very much for a long time. My recording-gear was a ITT-Schaub-Lorenz cassette-recorder with a mono external microphone. So the recording is mono but pretty good. In the quieter passages you can hear the humming of the TV-set, but that´s it. Enjoy and check samples for sound-quality. JUTTA WEINHOLD and RUMPELSTILZ were unknown to me then, so I decided not to record them. NOVALIS would have been a treat, but at that time I didn´t like their music. I was curious to listen to SNOWBALL because Roye Albrighton from NEKTAR was part of the lineup. Maybe I expected to hear something similar to NEKTAR, but I was a bit disappointed of their fusion-jazz-rock, so I decided to stop the recording after a while. Even the bands I recorded I didn´t record them in their entirety. Sorry for that. I regret it now. But all in all of what you have, it is a very rare documentary of music history. All further information of setlists und lineups and so on was found in the www.
                                         
Comments would be very nice and are appreciated. Keep sticking on together. Enjoy. Rendel                                       

Date of festival: 25 March 1978 
Date of TV-broadcast in channel 2 (ZDF): 18 November 1978 
Total time: appr. 210 minutes 

Announcer: Christian Simon 

Festival lineup: 
1. JUTTA WEINHOLD BAND (West-Germany) >>> NOT RECORDED 
2. WIR (East-Germany)* 
3. UDO LINDENBERG (West-Germany) 
4. NOVALIS (West-Germany) >>> NOT RECORDED 
5. PUHDYS (East-Germany)* 
6. SNOWBALL (UK)* 
7. RUMPELSTILZ (West-Germany) >>> NOT RECORDED 

* RECORDED only partially

Dimeadozen.org: Torrent 495728 (by rendel)