2 comments about We Want Moore!.

1. Moore is one of the truely great guitar players out there. He has his own unique sound, and when you here it you know it's him. This cd captures that sound in it's full, clear raw power. Not only does he "ROCK", but he does it with taste. Those of you who have heard Moore know what I'm talking about, and those of you who haven't should definitly take a listen.



2. Recorded in 1984 throughout the world We Want Moore captures Gary at his peak while in his hard rocking days. Opening with three solid rockers "murder in the Skies', 'Shapes of Things', and 'Victims of the Future' Moore lays to waste the audience with incredible picking and an unbelievable sound captured nicely with Moore handling production with Tony Platt. This is no bulldozer heavy metal sound, but a vintage Marshall Stack turned up to 11 blaze. A nice vintage hard rock sound that really crunches. Of course no Moore live album would be complete without 'Empty Rooms' a song I can't imagine how didn't make the charts amist all the crap heavy metal ballads of the 80's, it is truly a song with emotion, and of course suits Gary's style of playing. All in all a choice pick for real 80's hard rock, that is, hard rock befor Metallica got huge and ruined it for everyone. Moore is one of the finest heavy guitarist of the era, bar none.

5 comments about Made in Japan.

1. This is arguably the best live album ever made containing the best of Deep Purple in their prime. It has great track selection and plays like a greatest hits album on steroids. I remember this was one of the first vinyl albums I purchased as a kid and I practically wore it out. Now digitally remastered my daughter and I love listening to this one in the car or at home. Higly recommended as one of the greatest albums of all time.



2. It was hard for me to rate this cd recording. I really don't like it. It is live performances I guess from Japan. I don't consider it the best of Deep Purple. That is my fault for not listening to the tracks before I bought it. So I am not sure how to rate it. Will be buying a different best of Deep Purple cd though.



3. Yes everyone this is the real Deep Purple! This is the true LIVE Purple Album. Once you hear this there is no turning back. Talent, quality, professionalism, power, etc...its all here. This is the album that shows the abilty of Ritchie Blackmore/Jon Lord/Ian Paice/Ian Gillian /Roger Glover. I first got his album when it originally came out, now I needed to get it again for my music library. It is a MUST!



4. Deep Purple is the best band of all times...Why Made in Japan is considered the best live album ever made? Because The Purples are the Best, the best Zep or Sabbath song's haven't the level of this tracks...
   Ritchie, John, Roger and Ians are the maximum....



5. With Deep Purple, the LOUDER the better. Had it in vynyl. Now in cd format. Great from start to finish.
   
   
   
   
   
   Just when You thought it was safe to go back in the water..........

5 comments about Frampton Comes Alive II.

1. Peter Frampton is mainly known for two things : his "Frampton comes alive" album (I believe the biggest seller of live recordings in music history), and the not less famous "Do you feel like we do?", from that same live act.
   
   Besides that, he has an impressive collection of fine songs, and two more live recordings (the latest being "In Detroit"). Let me tell you that this "II" is just amazing, but you need to get the double cd edition. The story most people don't seem to know is that there are actually two versions of the Frampton comes alive II; for some incomprehensible reason (marginal cost for the record company between a 1 cd and a 2 cd release is peanuts), the more common release is the 1 cd one.
   
   One of the reviewers seemed to say there was something missing in this album. And he is right since he apparently got the 1 cd edition. On cd 2, totaling 39 minutes of music, you will find these four songs :
   - Show me the way
   - Nassau/Baby I love your way
   - Lines on my face
   - Do you feel like we do ?
   
   Any of these four songs are a true delight. Since they are also live, they are not a carbon copy of the performance of 1976. "Do you feel like we do" is a classic, and the power generated from this performance is just blowing...The line up is the same as FCA I except for drums (John Siomos is replaced by J.R. Robinson).
   
   As for the rest of the album (CD1), I just cannot find any really weak track. Frampton was also promoting his self-titled album on this tour, and you can find 5 songs from that cd, with the little edge of the live performance, which is always nice, plus a couple of songs that have that "unplugged" sound ("Talk to me" and "Hang on to a dream").
   
   Peter Frampton still is today one of the finest guitarists of the the rock scene, and a fun musician to watch/listen to during his concerts. True that he also has weaker albums ("Premonition" wasn't that great, "The art of control" was more the art of releasing a flat album), but that is true for most artists, when they last (a lot just don't, have you thought about that too?). Has he changed ? Sure. He doesn't have that seventies/beach surfer/Leif Garrett look. He has lost a lot of hair. But who cares ? Larry Carlton also has. James Taylor too. As for Donald Fagen, lots of gray hair too. But they are still there, a reference in their own style of music, and their songs will be everlasting.
   
   In short, get the three live recordings, get "Peter Frampton", get one of his studio recordings pre "Comes alive", or take the short cut and get the "Shine on collection". If you don't, you'll be missing something. Then, get is latest, "fingerprints". Any of those albums I mentioned are power plays.



2. Regardless of what the other reviewers are saying...this is a pretty good concert...You wouldn't expect Frampton to do any repeats of songs he did on the classic Frampton Comes Alive...Why should he??? He has nothing to prove..That album still holds the record as being the largest selling live album in history...how can you improve on a flawless performance that has been remastered to HDCD standards? But then...why would you??
   
   Frampton himself always expressed that he lived for the stage and the rush of the live performace....he never felt the recording studio did his music justice...as it lacked the audience vibe.
   
   I attended the 1976 tour and witnessed the full impact of his stage prowess from a center position not 75 feet from the stage....best location to get the best sound.
   
   I have been a consistent fan since his early days with Humble Pie...and altho I was never really impressed with his post 1976 albums..I feel this live set features his later material in their most beneficial and natural setting....the live concert...
   Try and forget the studio versions of these songs and give them a fresh listen....as I did....If you liked Peter Frampton back when he rode the wave of fame in the mid 70's....you wont be disappointed. He pulls out the talk box and uses it sparingly....just to treat you to a bit of nostalgia.....so you can say.....WOW...it really is him.....he might not have the long curly locks anymore...but he still knows how to wield a mean guitar...Whether it's his famed black beauty or any from his sizeable arsenal...there's no mistaking mister Framptons dynamically powerful playing. Bob Mayo is as supportive as ever...John Regan on bass and JR Robinson on drums are a very tight and solid rythym section..The chops are as strong as anything from 1976's classic.
   
   I always wondered if there was more of the post 1976 material to this concert that wasn't included here...Might be nice if they release this CD set in a 2cd deluxe version in HDCD format.



3. "Live In Detroit" is better, "Frampton Comes Alive" is the best. Ironically, Peter frampton is alway better live than in the studio yet in this case, the studio album that this tour was promoting ("Peter Frampton") was better than this performance.
   
   If you can still find a copy of the video that was released simultaneously with this album you'll know why. This was not one of Peter Frampton's better tours (this work was compiled from the San Francisco and Ventura, California shows). This project was poorly conceived and executed. Further, while all excellant musicians, the band was just a bit too loose -- at times downright silly -- to justify putting this event on wax and releasing it to the public.
   
   Oh well, what's done is done.
   
   However, despite my prior comments I still have hope that they will come to rerelease this concert on DVD along with some special features (such as the in-flight interview with Peter Frampton that persuaded me to buy to buy it in the first place). That's because there are some great covers of individual songs (as has been mentioned in other reviews, "I'm In You" comes to mind as does "Lying" and "Off The Hook") There were also eight (8) additional songs* on the video that did not make it to CD.
   
   If you're looking for some truly great Frampton live projects I would steer you toward the 25th Anniversary Special Edition of "Frampton Comes Alive" or "Live In Detroit" instead of this CD. However, if my "wishlist" DVD version of this concert ever becomes available I will buy it since there was no visual record of the original concerts (there were actually five cities and several shows) that "Frampton Comes Alive" came from. If that makes me an unobjective devoted Peter Frampton fan then I suppose it's, "Guilty as charged!" I like this guy, his band, and his music.
   
   * The eight missing songs are as follows: 1) "Sunrise" (actually an extended J.R. Robinson drum solo); 2) "Lines On My Face"; 3) "Show Me The Way"; 4) "All I Wanna Be (Is By Your Side); 5) "Penny For Your Thoughts"; 6) "Nassau/Baby I Love Your Way"; 7) "I Wanna Go To The Sun"; 8) "Do You Feel Like We Do?"



4. This could be looked at as a sincere attempt to release totally new music in a live setting. Or it could be seen as a shameless attempt to cash in on phenomenon that happened twenty years earlier. Since he didn't throw "Show Me the Way" on this one, I'll give the benefit of the doubt that it's mostly the former, with a little bit of the latter thrown in for marketing purposes.

   So on the good side, we have a group of veteran rockers putting on a well-played set. As said before, he didn't duplicate stuff from "Frampton Comes Alive", unless you want to count the part where he "talks" through his guitar. And some of the numbers do rock quite well.

   The problem is not enough really good songs. I never liked "I'm in You", which I thought WAS a marketing attempt to sell his picture with his curly locks to the ladies, so if this is the hit, it's disapointing. Also, there are too many other songs in this vein that aren't even as good as that.

   Not bad, but not something I'd keep coming back to for more.




5. If you're a Frampton fan, this is a must.
   The song, "Most of all", should have made
   the top ten in the pop charts. "I'm in you"
   played live, is much better than the studio version.

No comments about Extended Versions.

1 comments about Live At Woodstock (200 Gram Vinyl).

1. Jimi Hendrix live at Woodstock was an incredible occurence, and all as I can say is I wish I was there NOW! From 'Hear My Train A Coming' to 'Star Spangled Banner', his power and majesty blast through his Marshall amps like the cry of the heavens. And if you look closely in the night sky, between the constellations of Taurus and Apollo , you can connect a string of bright blue stars to see a guitar, and a star-studded headband. This is Jimi Hendrix, forevermore...

5 comments about Live: You Get What You Play For.

1. I am a big fan of REO SPEEDWAGON starting back from 1971 all the way to ...well Id say 1990. Cant say Ive enjoyed their last 2 albums; Burning the Bridge(1996) and Find your Own Way Home(2007)...thats neither here nor there because we are taking a trip back in time to 1977...the year of the LIVE album...the year of the speedwagon picking up speed. Kevin's back in the band for a second time and the new songs on COW(1976), while not surprisingly successful, are already brandished with hints of the AOR sound of REO in the 80's. The band has been laboring for 5 or 6 years polishing a solid fast rockabilly act and its evident EVERYWHERE on this album...let the good times roll. Listening to the album, you can almost feel the band on the cusp of fame and fortune. A band this good live deserves some recognition. "157 Riverside Avenue", "Lay Me Down", "Ridin the Storm Out","Keep Pushin", "Golden Country", "Music Man"... GREAT solid songs.Gary Richrath still reigns supreme as a good hard rocking guitarist (remember this is pre VAN HALEN) with "The Flying Turkey Trot" and his awesome guitar solo. This live album payed off for the band and they would score a million sales the following year(1978) with the "TUNA" studio album. The 80's is another story so for now check out the 1977 REO LIVE album; a time when the band didnt have the huge hits or the huge fanbase YET and is dishing up some good ol' rock n roll. Enjoy!



2. because it truly is awesome.
   
   and put little queenie back on there!!



3. I have been a BIG Reo fan since the mid 70s,and love the early stuff! I dont have time to B-S you with TRASH...WATCH-OUT for sellers who are selling the OLD EPIC release as the 2008 edition. Many of them are! Some think the price is so cheap,that you wont return it! Mail the seller first,and ask if they will make sure it is NOT the old EPIC edition....YOU WANT THE ADVERTISED PRODUCT! Then buy it.



4. It has been years since I've listened to an R.E.O. album. Recently bought the CD (had the LP since it first came out, but haven't listened to in ages.) This album reminded me of why I liked R.E.O. They were a great concert band - at least back in the 70's. This is R.E.O. in their prime.



5. I have owned this album since 1977 when I first bought it on 8 track. It's in the same league with other classic 70's live albums such as Frampton Comes Alive, Skynyrds - One More From The Road, The Outlaws - Bring it Back Alive, UFO's Strangers in the Night and Bob Seger's Live Bullet. I love this album but never really liked the CD version because they removed Little Queeenie and Gary's Guitar Solo to fit the record on one disk. The track listing on this 2008 release lists Little Queenie but NOT Gary's Guitar Solo, and lists Golden Country twice. So my question is....Could this be a 100% restoration of the original release complete with Gary's Guitar Solo (with an erroneous track listing) or some other weird assembly of the original (with Little Queenie restored and a "rare bonus track" version of Golden Country added? Is there any remastering? Doubt it for less then 5 dollars. I am going to buy it and see....you cant miss with this one...if you dont own it, and like 70's rock...get it now....it will be a bonus if it is the original

2 comments about Born to Be Wild in the USA 2000.

1. I bought this on an impulse 'cause I wanted to give ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE a shot, but this was a wrong move on my part. What we have here is a bootleg-quality recording of one of their lives shows in the US. The sound is just awful, and is a pretty crappy representation of the band, so this is one only for collector's or someone who was at the show.
   
   Basically, don't do what I did. Start with something that's well-liked by fans like IAO CHANT FROM THE COSMIC INFERNO.



2. Thought this live CD would be worth purchasing for me,specially because I got to see the Acid Mothers fairly recent.As a live release,it's not bad.Only problem is I could've SWORN I had seen a bio of this disc that noted it ran over 75 in length.Fact is it's only forty minutes long.Still,it sounds really good,plus I'll assume maybe they were support for another band.Total of five tracks here,"Acid Tokion 2000"(7:41),the way-out there "La Novia"(13:38),the familiar sounding "Pink Lady Lemonade"(8:06),the noisy "Speed Guru"(9:52)and "God Bless Acid Mothers Temple"(1:20).ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE freakin' RULES!!Space rockers,you have a wake-up call.YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!

5 comments about Live at the Monterey Festival.

1. Well, it only took forty years and a few months for this performance to be available to a mass audience. Gosh. Maybe Matthew Katz had a hand in this travesty. Who knows for sure? What is for sure is that this is a true blue classic-regardless of the less-than-perfect analog engineering; Owsley and the Dead's crew can probably take credit for that-and most-if not all- of the electric ambience at Monterey. This performance allowed the masses outside of the City to experience what only the tribes and wannabe tribal members had the fortunate luck to see on a week end after weekend basis: the triple Scorpio intensity of Gracie, Casady and Kaukonen and Dryden fusing professional musicianship with early psychedelic improv, the voice of Marty Balin-and that other guy, Paul Kantner. A cast of real characters: charismatic, intense, creative, unafraid, striking, LOUD. What's really nice is that there was still in existence, at this time, a palpable rapport between the Airplane and the audience best characterised by the expression, from either perspective that is, "My God Martha, these folks are having a real good time; look at that over there!" 1967: the acid age peaked and folk rock became transformed. This record reflects that shift as paradigmatically as you can get. Personally, it's nice to know that except for Spencer Dryden, all the principals are actively pursuing their muses. And that's what makes it a real special classic...in the beginning...



2. Think maybe I've seen this hard-to-find import CD twice in independent music stores, before. This somewhat historic archive performance was recorded live at the second most famed major '60's music festival-Woodstock of course, being the first on June 17, 1967. Thought the sound mix was great, specially for a real 'live album' nut, like myself. Several of these old cuts I don't seem to remember that well. But tunes I was really getting heavily into were "Somebody To Love", "Other Side Of Life", "White Rabbit", "She Has Funny Cars" and the eleven-minute "Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil", a true psychedelic folk-rock classic in every sense of the word. I never knew they played THIS lengthy a version of this song during a live concert before. A must-have.



3. This was taken from the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. It is about 38 minutes long.
   
   The sound quality is fair to poor (although it is better than some of the other recordings from Monterey Pop). It is taken off of the tapes done for a TV special.
   
   DON'T BELIEVE THAT CRAP THAT THE SOUND QUALITY IS GOOD FOR THE ERA. GREAT SOUND QUALITY RECORDINGS OF LIVE MUSIC HAVE BEEN MADE FOR DECADES BEFORE THIS. The sound quality is poor because the recording was never meant for an album release. It was recorded for a TV special.
   
   This CD was released as a result of Ryoko unearthing the Monterey tapes and putting together a Monterey boxset, to capture flavor of that groundbreaking festival. About half of the music on this CD is also on the Monterey boxset.
   
   The performance of the band is interesting, but not their best. However, I think the poor mix makes the band sound more out of sync than they really were. It is an interesting snapshot of the band, but I think there are better live albums out there. what is nice is that there are some songs done here that aren't on any other live albums.



4. I strongly disagree with the two reviews already posted here. This superb record is 'bona fide'Jefferson Airplane in full flight, not only playing ferocious live versions of classic's like "Somebody to Love", "White Rabbit" and "She Has Funny Cars", but also delivering an electric storm of scorching, freakin' psychedelic mayhems: an overwhelming, madly fierce cover of Fred Neil's "Other Side of This Life" and, mainly, a thunderous, earth-shattering live rendition of "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil",that is, for my money, simply the BEST single live track ever issued by the Airplane, full of feedback-drenched acid guitar assaults (Jorma Kaukonen), menacing bass explosions (Jack Casady), pounding drum beats (Spencer Dryden) and spaced-out, eerie howls by the Almighty Grace Slick!!!



5. I partially agree with the first reviewer of this CD here that purchasing JA at Monterey would be lower on the priority list for the casual or new fan of JA and late 60's era San Francisco based music in general, but as a deeper fan this is certainly a worthy addition, something I wish I had a copy of back in 68.

   This recording was not readily available during that era, and release material only consisted of 5 albums and few singles (other than Somebody To Love). A new listener to JA would want to start with one of those first (especially Baxters and/or Bless It's pointed Little Head).

   What makes this recording important is 1) a maturing of Jorma's guitar stylings from Surrealistic Pillow, 2) the only other recorded version of "Young Girl Sunday Blues" (that I know of), which they pull off quite well, 3) great rhythm playing by Kantner (I think) on "Other Side" and elsewhere, showing that he was an integral part in the collective improvisation that took place, 4)the historical significance of this performance. There are places where one would wince (Grace's vocals on Rabbit, though she was never in tune on this one live anyway, I think), and JA live performances were not always error free, but overall, this CD fills an important gap in JA's history, between Pillow and Baxter's.

   As the other other reviewer pointed out, the recording is not the greatest, but this alone should not deter one from purchasing this CD. Given the technology of the day, this recording is not THAT bad. Certainly the recording compares with that of the recordings of Hendrix, Otis Redding, and whoever else has released recordings from Monterey (obviously all recorded on the same equipment). Generally, all that you need to hear is there, with decent balance and tone, and the performance comes thru; for a recording of that era this was pretty good.

   Actually it was console mix during the performance that was the problem in two places (Balin not heard in the first half of "Other Side", two seconds of monitor feedback somewhere else), but heck, stuff happens, plus I don't think the sound techs considered (or dreamed of..., well maybe they were) the high sonic demands that this recording would be judged against in the coming digital age 20+ years hence.

   In closing, the casual JA fan could pass on this one, otherwise this is good to have.

No comments about Live Series.

1 comments about Rockin' Every Night (Live in Japan).

1. This album has some strong points and a few weak points. When I first saw it and read who the performers were, I thought this will be great. But for all the talent assembled here, the album's material just doesn't seem to come together. Gary Moore shows off his impressive guitar technique on several numbers. "Rockin' Every Night" is one hot number. And Ian Paice of Deep Purple fame demonstrates that he is still one of the best rock drummers around. He has incredible technique and taste in his playing.

   But except for a couple of tunes, the material just doesn't do much for me. If you could have had this band playing some of Moore's later material from his blues based disks, this would have been a better album.