6/1/1983: The Alarm, Civic Auditorium, San Fran., CA
Summary
The first date of U2’s US “War” tour. The Alarm would play 18 dates on the tour.
Press Release
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Discography-old
The Alarm: 7 “, ‘Strength’ cat #:IRS ES 1089, country: Australia
Description: b/w Majority Tracks Strength (single edit) Majority Notes:
Blogs
Blog: Mike Peters ‘Under Attack’ Recording Diary Entry #54
Day Fifty Four : Thursday 28th July 2005 George and Martin have run the vocal comp through to the morning. We are all getting tired now and everything is taking longer. George wants to mix the track during the afternoon. His initial thought that it would be an easy mix is not how it turned out. George and Martin got into the mix big time and even had Steve re-record [read more]
Songs
‘Mercenary Skank (itpf bond)’ [??:??] (Mike Peters), The Alarm
‘Mercenary Skank (itpf bond)’ [??:??] (Mike Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: Hit the town, hit the town We’re going out, we’re going to hit the town The light are bright, the lights are bright We’re going out all the lights are bright We’re going to have some fun We’re going to have some fun Northern soul boys and skinhead girls Suedeheads dancing on the fighting floor Purple hearts, dexy’s, blues [read more]