''Where the Beat Meets the Street'' is the second studio album by Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir and his side-project, Bobby and the Midnites. The album reached number 166 on the Billboard 200.

Track listing

#"(I Want to Live in) America" (

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, Bobby Cochran, Bob Weir) #"Where the Beat Meets the Street" (

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, Steve Glen) #"She's Gonna Win Your Heart" (

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" ( Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson,

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) #"Lifeguard" (

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) #"Rock in the 80's" (Cochran) #"Lifeline" (Frederiksen, Haselden, Medica, Roddy) #"Falling" (Barlow,

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, Weir) #"Thunder & Lightning" (Cochran, Weir) #"Gloria Monday" (Barlow, Baxter, Weir)

Credits

Musicians

*Bob Weir –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

– guitar, synthesizer *Paulette Brown – vocals *

Billy Cobham William Emanuel Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. He was inducted into the ''Mode ...

– drums *

Bobby Cochran Bobby Cochran (born 1950) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has worked with many bands, including Steppenwolf, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Leon Russell, and Bob Weir's band Bobby and the Midnites. He was in ...

– guitar, vocals * Steve Cropper – guitar * Paulinho Da Costa –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

*Chuck Domenico –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Jim Ehinger – keyboards *

– bass, vocals * Alphonso Johnson – bass * Sherlie Matthews – vocals *

Brian Setzer Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with ...

– guitar

Production

*Producer – Jeff Baxter *Production coordinators – Marylata Elton and David Richman *Engineer – Larold Rebhun *Assistant engineers – John Bogosian, David Ferguson and Mark Wilczak *Mastering – Elliot Federman *Design & redesign – David Richman *Photography – Glenn Wexler *Art direction – Joel Zimmerman *Coordination – Doug Wygal and Jamie Reamer

References

{{Authority control Bobby and the Midnites albums 1984 albums Columbia Records albums