Y & T : Open Fire

JUST WANNA WATCH

THE GIRLS,

GOIN BY

IT'S LIKE POETRY IN MOTION

AGAINST THE SUMMER SKY

 Open Fire 

is the first live album 

released by American

hard rock/heavy metal band

Y & T 

released in 1985

 by A&M Records, 

produced by

 Scott Boorey 

and the band.

The live material 

on the album 

was recorded at

 various venues in

 Greater London

 in early 1985, 

and during 

April 5–6, 1985, 

at the Keystone club

 in Palo Alto, California.

 The Keystone songs 

 "Go For the Throat" 

and 

"Open Fire"

  were recorded by

 Guy Charbonneau

 in Le Mobile, 

a mobile recording studio. 

All of the live tracks

 were remixed at

 A&M Studios.

The song

 "Summertime Girls"

 is a studio recording, 

produced and engineered

 separately by 

Kevin Beamish 

at Sound City Studios

in Van Nuys.

Reception

 Open Fire 

would prove to be a success, 

spending 17 weeks

 on the Billboard 200,

 and peaking at 

Number 70 

The album introduced the song 

"Summertime Girls"

 which would go on to

 become the band's 

biggest hit, 

peaking at Number 16 

 on the 

Billboard Mainstream 

Rock Chart.

The song also appeared on

 the band's next proper 

studio album, 

Down for the Count, 

which was released in

 November 1985.

Despite this,

Open Fire 

would go on to become

 on the hardest albums 

to find by the band

 until Hip-O Records

(a subsidiary of Universal that

 specializes in reissuing 

previously

 out-of-print albums 

and themed 

music compilations) 

reissued it with

  bonus tracks

 in 2005.

The bonus material consisted of 

live renditions of

 "Black Tiger"

 (which was previously unreleased)

 and 

"Summertime Girls."

 The live version of

 "Summertime Girls" 

also appeared as the

 B-side of the studio cut 

when it was released

 as a single. 

In the same year, 

Majestic Rock Records

 also released the album 

on CD using the

 track list of

 the vinyl release. 

It featured a different 

front cover, 

but the back cover 

was the same

 as the original 

A&M release, 

as well as the 

Hip-O reissue.

TRACKLIST

Open Fire

 (Live)

Go For The Throat

 (Live)

25 Hours A Day 

(Live)

Rescue Me 

(Live)

Summertime Girls  

[Studio Version]

Forever 

(Live)

Barroom Boogie

(Live)

I Believe In You 

(Live)

Mean Streak

 (Live) [*]

Earth Shaker 

(Live) [*]

Black Tiger

 (Live) [*]

Winds of Change 

(Live) [*]

Summertime Girls

 (Live/1985) [*]

Go For The Throat

 [Studio Version]

NEW LINK