1 comments about '73-Live at the Reading Festival.

1. If you like Rory Gallagher and Greenslade, you'll be drawn to this CD, but beware. The CD is basically transferred from the LP, so one only gets 47 minutes of music from eight artists - no one gets much coverage. Rory's is "Hands Off," clocking in at 8 minutes, and is quite good. Greenslade's track is "Feathered Friends" and is really interesting, but seems to have something clipped off at the end, running to 5 minutes. The other find on the album is two tracks by Tim Hardin, whom I know nothing about. Otherwise, the rest is throwaway, with the possible exception of the last Faces concert, represented here by a 7 minute version of "Losing You" - a great tune, though Rod's voice seems strained. Caveat emptor overall - with all the remastered Rory coming out, this disc is an expensive addition for the completist fan. Does anyone know if the full performances from Reading '73 are available? PS: the liner notes are extensive and quite interesting.

5 comments about Live at Myrtle Beach.

1. WIDESPREAD PANIC HAS CHANGED AND THIS ALBUM IS DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS LIVE RELEASES.
   
   The is a 2 CD album that contains the second and third set plus encore from a concert in 2005. (The first set, which is acoustic is on Uber Cobra). The first CD is 52 minutes long and the second CD is 62 minutes. The sound quality is very good. An added plus is that most of the between song chat as been edited out and the audience noise is kept to a minimum.
   
   Widespread Panic has changed since Mike Howser died in 2002. This album is different than previous live releases in style and song selection.
   
   Mike Howser had a unique guitar style that drove the sound of the band. He has been replaced by George McConnell who has a more traditional southern jam style of playing. He isn't as good as Howser, but in some respects, the band has gotten better due to the change.
   
   Previously, Widespread Panic had a very muddled sound, featuring Howser's screaming guitar. With McConnell, the sound is brighter and clearer and the individual members of the band are easier to hear.
   
   Previously, Widespread Panic would play up to 20 songs in a concert. They would blend one song into the next so sometimes the individual songs were indistinguishable. Although they were constantly jamming, song length would typically be 5 to 10 minutes. The jamming mainly ocurred during the segues between songs. But, solos were usually shorter and between songs.
   
   Now, Widespread Panic is not combining songs and each song is distinct. Songs can now be much longer, with long, drawn out jams in the middle.
   
   The band has also begun to experiment a little more and branch out from the original sound. For instance, there is a little space jam in Dirty Business and some vocalizing during Chilly Water. It isn't a lot of innovation, but it is a start.
   
   What is good about this CD is that most of the material has not been available on other live CD's. Half the songs are covers of other groups or traditional blues numbers.
   
   The group still suffers from some horrible piano solos. John Herrman makes some interesting rhythm contributions, but is really not a great soloist. The band should take a clue from groups like the Grateful Dead, who kept the keyboards in the background and the solos simple when they had Keith Godcheax.
   
   While this is not a great album, it is a good addition to Widespread Panic's library of live CD's. It is certainly different than the previous releases.
   
   My favorite Panic live CD is Classic City.



2. DO not be put off by any of the luke warm reviews of this cd... This is a very solid effort and even though it was recorded in late 2003 just before their year off in 2004 the guys are in fine form. Some highlights are Don't Wanna Lose You which features great guitar work by long time producer John Keane, great Henry Parson's Died and Postcard on disk 2... Also having just seen Panic in concert this summer I'm here to tell you this cd is great to pick up if you've seen them this year as it captures their sound just as they are in concert these days and if you're like me you'll enjoy listening and remembering your concert as you look forward to the next show..



3. I have a tendency to compare all live WSP releases to "Light Fuse, Get Away", which I think is clearly their best live release to date. Even though this release is from the same set of shows as "Uber Cobra" and "Night of Joy", there is a tightness and comfort to these songs which seems oddly absent from the others. Maybe because Uber Cobra is an acoustic set, and the flaws are easier to pick out, I'm not sure. George seems to be coming into his own with the band and I hear it more here. If you don't own any live Panic, start with "L.F.G.A." and then pick this or "Live in the Classic City" next. Either way you can't go wrong with a great live set of music.



4. This latest installmenet from the Myrtle Beach show is typical Panic. Easily proving it worth. I might give Light Fuse and Get Away the edge as my favorite live release. But Live at Myrtle Beach certainly gets the job done, as a fresh new batch to jam on, while we all start getting juiced for the tour. No Phish, Dead, ...and over a year off. Prepare for the hottest, hungryest tour on the jam scene in yrs. And definately take this disc with you to the shows!



5. This is pretty good. One thing of note is that if you couple this with the Uber Cobra CD, you get Panic's full 11/8/03 show
   in its entirety. Cobra being the first set. Disc 1 here being the second set. Disc 2 being the 3rd set plus encore.
   
   Enjoy.

5 comments about Santa Monica '72.

1. This is one of my all time favorite recordings. I have this CD version, and a vinyl 2 disc set I got in the 70s. The variable audio quality and audience chatter are part of its charm. I love the ebullient intimacy and irreverance of "Space Oddity", the exhausted Bowie flubbing the lines to "Suffragette City" while the band roars on. Mike Garson's piano sounds unfortunately awful, but Trevor Bolder's bass parts are nimble and the magnificent Mick Ronson's wrecking ball guitar may damage your speakers. Consider yourself warned.



2. The greatest strength of this recording is the fact that it is LIVE. One night. One continuous take. It's a testament to just how good this artist was (and is)and how his talent takes over the stage without resorting to recording tricks or artifice. It's easy to think of Bowie as an image maker, and easy to forget that he's a music maker. The Spiders prove themselves to be a white-hot, smokin' band too. This recording gives me pleasure every time I listen, and I always find something new.



3. I have this on vinyl bootleg I acquired in the 1980's. If youngsters question why their elders claim Bowie is so influential they only have to listen to this. Apart from the duff take-off special effects noise bowie tries to conjure up in Space Oddity and the flat chorus on Five Years, this album blows away any other Bowie concert CD. The sound is incredible on the vinyl - I can't say for the CD edition as I have never heard it. I had the privelege of seeing Bowie on his STAGE tour in Sydney and was very disappointed by the concert album they released of that tour. I'm happy this 1972 performance has finally officially been released - but inexplicably it seems to have failed to make much of an impact- even with Bowie fans. Being there in 1972 must have been an incredible experience . As far as I'm concerned its the only Bowie album anyone needs to own!



4. An absolute must-have for every true Bowie fan.I finally got to see David play live nearly a year ago and one thing I'll say about a David Bowie concert,the man simply takes you into his own world for over two hours.A must-be there event!The shindig on this disc took place on October 20,1972.Total of eighteen cuts and a duration of 76:39.Thank goodness for the invention of compact discs,no doubt.I remember years ago when the only source of an early '70's Bowie concert was some pricey lousy sounding bootleg put on 2-lp vinyl.Now,the fan gets the entire show one shiny disc.Great matching art work to go with it.Tunes I couldn't get enough of were "Ziggy Stardust","The Superman","Space Oddity","John,I'm Only Dancing","Jene Genie","Suffragette City" and "Rock&Roll Suicide".One of the better archive concerts EVER to be released,period!



5. OK folks-- remember this is 1972-- this is a live radio broadcast-- they are mixing on the fly
   A stunning representation of the Bowie experience
   Sure the levels are off from time to time i.e. Jean Genie, but look at it as a whole entity, warts and all. He flubs lyrics in Suffragette City (which he did again just recently in Cleveland 2004), the mix can be questionable from time to time BUT IT'S 1972!! A stunning collection of songs and better than the original version of the Ziggy Sardust movie S/T. Mick Ronson proved he was the next guitar god. Crank it up!

1 comments about Live.

1. Was wondering if there were any good live discs from the great one.
   Found this and although I think it is repackaged it is excellent.

No comments about Pat Benatar - Greatest Hits Live.

5 comments about Santa Monica '72.

1. This is one of my all time favorite recordings. I have this CD version, and a vinyl 2 disc set I got in the 70s. The variable audio quality and audience chatter are part of its charm. I love the ebullient intimacy and irreverance of "Space Oddity", the exhausted Bowie flubbing the lines to "Suffragette City" while the band roars on. Mike Garson's piano sounds unfortunately awful, but Trevor Bolder's bass parts are nimble and the magnificent Mick Ronson's wrecking ball guitar may damage your speakers. Consider yourself warned.



2. The greatest strength of this recording is the fact that it is LIVE. One night. One continuous take. It's a testament to just how good this artist was (and is)and how his talent takes over the stage without resorting to recording tricks or artifice. It's easy to think of Bowie as an image maker, and easy to forget that he's a music maker. The Spiders prove themselves to be a white-hot, smokin' band too. This recording gives me pleasure every time I listen, and I always find something new.



3. I have this on vinyl bootleg I acquired in the 1980's. If youngsters question why their elders claim Bowie is so influential they only have to listen to this. Apart from the duff take-off special effects noise bowie tries to conjure up in Space Oddity and the flat chorus on Five Years, this album blows away any other Bowie concert CD. The sound is incredible on the vinyl - I can't say for the CD edition as I have never heard it. I had the privelege of seeing Bowie on his STAGE tour in Sydney and was very disappointed by the concert album they released of that tour. I'm happy this 1972 performance has finally officially been released - but inexplicably it seems to have failed to make much of an impact- even with Bowie fans. Being there in 1972 must have been an incredible experience . As far as I'm concerned its the only Bowie album anyone needs to own!



4. An absolute must-have for every true Bowie fan.I finally got to see David play live nearly a year ago and one thing I'll say about a David Bowie concert,the man simply takes you into his own world for over two hours.A must-be there event!The shindig on this disc took place on October 20,1972.Total of eighteen cuts and a duration of 76:39.Thank goodness for the invention of compact discs,no doubt.I remember years ago when the only source of an early '70's Bowie concert was some pricey lousy sounding bootleg put on 2-lp vinyl.Now,the fan gets the entire show one shiny disc.Great matching art work to go with it.Tunes I couldn't get enough of were "Ziggy Stardust","The Superman","Space Oddity","John,I'm Only Dancing","Jene Genie","Suffragette City" and "Rock&Roll Suicide".One of the better archive concerts EVER to be released,period!



5. OK folks-- remember this is 1972-- this is a live radio broadcast-- they are mixing on the fly
   A stunning representation of the Bowie experience
   Sure the levels are off from time to time i.e. Jean Genie, but look at it as a whole entity, warts and all. He flubs lyrics in Suffragette City (which he did again just recently in Cleveland 2004), the mix can be questionable from time to time BUT IT'S 1972!! A stunning collection of songs and better than the original version of the Ziggy Sardust movie S/T. Mick Ronson proved he was the next guitar god. Crank it up!

5 comments about Classics Live!.

1. read the title.
   1 train kept a rollin=woo!!!great!!!
   2 kings and qweens=pretty kool
   3 sweet emotion=one of the best aerosmith songs ever
   4 dream on=best flippin song ever written!!!!!!!
   5 mama kin=great!
   6 3mile/reefer head=sweeeet....
   7 lord thighs=ok,not great
   8 major barbra=sucks.no good.pooy.



2. This CD features Aerosmith at their most slick-sounding and consistently rhythmic; the opening "Train Kept A Rollin'" is their most moving version of this song (it's also featured on Get Your Wings and Live Bootleg among others) and the next song "Kings and Queens" - along with #4 "Dream On" - is melodic and melancholly. "Sweet Emotion" is superbly performed, perhaps not any more so than any of their other versions (from Toys In The Attic or Live Bootleg or a half dozen other albums...) but, as said before, it's the most slick sounding version in their career back catalogue. The "side 2" (as is on the cassette version - which was the 1st type I bought...) isn't quite as good, and if you've listened to this CD a few times already, you might find tracks 5-8 pretty boring actually. But it's good kickin' noise to have in the background if you can't stand the oh so terrible silence (whatever!)...; in my opinion "Major Barbara" falls short of the expectations prompted from the lyrics...unless you have a photographic memory, you might go back to that song thinking it's gonna be a tragic-weepytype song, but you'll be disappointed (if you have any taste, that is...). I agree with one or more reviewer(s), that CL#2 is quite better...I'll review that another time.



3. Well the first time I bought classics live was on cassette in 1979. It was the first year I drove a car and put in my first car stereo with a cassette deck. I first saw Aerosmith at Day on the Green in the summer of 1978. I remember how Steven Tyler and Joe Perry seemed to dominate the stage and reach out to the Audience. The closing was Dream On and I don't think Steven Tyler was all together in his mind, I think the reefer smoke from the audience had gone to his head. I really enjoyed the other bands who opened the show, but by the time Aerosmith got through their first set, fans were ready to go home after being in the sun all day.



4. Yes this album does only have 8 tracks (7 of them live), the quality of the performance and the production is pretty poor, but it does include some interesting tunes, namely "Three Mile Smile" and "Train Kept a Rollin'" that fans wouldn't expect them to put on the record. That still isn't enough to make a potential listener want to buy, much less create a new Aerosmith fan. In essence, your money is much better spent on "Bootleg" which is a more complete performance and collection of songs (but still only rates 5 out of 10). They need to go through old master tapes of performances and make a killer two disc live set from the 70's a la Zeppelin's "How the West Was Won."

   The real attraction is the definitive recording of "Major Barbara." It's better than the recording used on the "Pandora Box Set." That still doesn't make it worth your 10 dollars. "Classics Live 2" is better, but not by much.

   Overall: 4 out of 10.




5. Though it may not sound the best and though the band may not be as tight as they could and should be Classics Live! is still a pretty good live album. It has all the elements it takes to make a good live album, its live and not fixed up in the studio, its got all classic songs by Americas greatest rock and roll band and not to mention greatest riff machine! Steven doesnt sound his best by any means. Trust me he can sound a 1000% better! Its not that he sounds bad but you can tell this was recorded when the drugs were taking their toll on him and the whole band really. In some places the band sounds off time, like they just are not clicking with each other at all. I dont like classics Live! as much as I like part 2 because Joe Perry and Brad Whitford dont play on all the songs here, Jimmy Craspo and Rick Dufay do most the guitar playing, because Joe and Brad hadnt come back to Aerosmith yet when this was recorded. And I am a firm beliver that no one should ever play Joe and Brads licks unlesss its the boys themselvs. One cool thing is 'Major Barbra' which is not a live track but a studio track that was ment for Get Your Wings but never made it onto the album. Its really a great song though. If Joe and Brad were on all the songs and Steven sounded better and the band was tighter then this would be a five star live album but thats what holds it down I mean the two other guitar players dont even play the right guitar solo on 'Kings And Queens!' But if you wanna hear classic live Aerosmith then get one of their other live albums because this is for die hards like myself only!

5 comments about Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!.

1. Fantastic live album - all the tracks show the Stones at their rocky/bluesy best. Total value for money.



2. I am astounded by those so called "experts" reviewing this masterpiece who claim to have some sort of preternatural insight into its recording. OK, maybe a vocal or two was/were overdubbed. Big deal. The inportant thing to remember is that THE GREATEST LIVE GUITAR SOLO(s) existant, the alchemy of Keef and Mick T on "Sympathy For The Devil" is just as it was heard by those at MSG. Somewhere down the list here, several "reviewers" comment that the Oakland boot, "Liver Than You'll Ever Be" is superior to "Ya Yas." It ain't (I OWN "Liver"), and mayber "liver" is the operative term there. You know how this album/CD stands up next to "Still Borne" or "Stripped," and I'm not going to make a pun about that last one typifying R Woods' ineptitude. This CD is all you'll ever really need, to know how the Stones once were...



3. I was fortunate enough to have seen The Stones on the 69 tour. Saw them @ The Inglewood Forum in LA. They were two hours late for the show but did they ever make up for it. Get Your Ya Ya's Out is a perfect history of the tour and of the era. The boys were definitely in great form and were playing like there was no tomorrow. The guitar solo in Sympathy For The Devil is one of the all time great solo's by anyone. Every time I get a new car, the first song I play is Sympathy from Get Your Ya Ya's out. I also have Liver Than You'll Ever Be and it is good. Especially Gimme Shelter (Waitin on you) and I'm Free. I only wish it was availabe on CD and cleaned up a little. The movie is great but not enough music. This is the album to have and to hold till death us do part.



4. Oh Lord, I would have loved to have been in Madison Square Garden when this record was recorded. To see the way the guitars of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor danced together, that really would have been something. However, I missed the tour, probably because I hadn't been born yet, but still I can dream, can't I? And that's just what I try to do when I put this record on. I sit back, close my eyes and let the blistering "Jumpin' Jack Flash" wash over me. I always intend to listen to it this way, straight through, but by the second chorus of the song, I'm up and jumping around, just like Jack Flash. Is this record inferior to the bootleg? No, I don't think so. "LiveR Than You'll Ever Be" was recorded at the beginning of the tour. The record is great, the band is great, but by the time they got to New York, they were really, really on. I enjoy listening to the difference. And that difference is really pronounced in Chuck Berry's "Carol." You can hear how raw they are in Oakland and how polished in New York. The records are different, to be sure, but one is not better than the other, they are both five star live records and both belong in any serious record collection. The Stones Live, nobody ever has been or is now as great as they were and are. Did you see them at the Super Bowl, just frightening how good this band is, even still.



5. Like my friends, I have to agree, the bootleg "LiveR than You'll Ever Be," is a diamond, while "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out" is a lump of coal. That said, "Ya-Yas" is still a pretty good live record, it's just not great. If I were the Stones, I'd pull this record and do what my friend Tiffany Ann from Black Diamond Bay suggested and put out the Bootleg for real. Come on boys, why don't you do that?

1 comments about Extended Versions.

1. This CD is basically a rehash of the Live At Sturgis album, minus a few good songs. It does have some of the bigger hits, but you would be better off paying a few extra bucks and get the full Live At Sturgis CD. Buy this only if you are strapped for cash.

4 comments about Live at the Whisky A Go-Go '69.

1. For sure, when this was recorded in 1969, this was a group still trying to find a direction. They weren't yet the live powerhouse they would become a couple of years later. However, the talent within the group, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton and Greg Ridley shines out throughout this charming live recording.
   
   Hallelujah I Love Her So and I Walk on Gilded Splinters are embryonic. Shakey Jake was a wonderful early single, while For Your Love and Shakin' All Over are clever creative cover versions.
   
   Great music, great sound quality. transport yourself back to 1969



2. I bought this CD reminiscing about when live music was more dangerous and less predictable than the arena orientated music we experience now, where we were accustomed to musicians taking risks in their performances.
   Alas this CD is an object lesson in self-centredness. From the first track where Stevie Marriot tells the audience to 'shut up' to the final agonising minutes of the long, foggy jam that is 'Walk on Gilded Splinters' , it appears the assembled talent have disappeared up their own collective jacksy.
   This particular set predicts the interminable delivery of 'progressive rock' that became familiar in the 70's whose only saving grace was that it resulted in the reactive rise of punk and other celebrations of the short sharp song.
   Humble Pie were never very big in the UK and I think this demonstrates why.



3. Humble Pie is a band with lots of musical talent basically three lead singers and there three part harmonies are wonderful. Steve Marriott had to have one of the coolest bluesy voices in rock history and with Peter Frampton along side on Guitar and Vocal's and the hot rhythm section of Greg Ridley on Bass and Vocals and Jerry Shirley on Drums. This band would slow it down and folk it up and go to a heavy mental thunder in no time. The First song is a very very cool acoustic "For Your Love," I love there version, I could listen to it all day, its so infectious. The second song is a hard rockin version of "Shakin' All Over," this shows the direction that the Pie would move in, toward Heavy rock. Nice Harmonica work. On to the third song "Hallelujah I Love Her So" which became a mainstay for Humble Pie for a long time, shows all the talent of the band, a great rocker, from the old blues traditn, it just rocks, very nice guitar work and shared vocals. Then comes song number four "The Sad Bag Of Shakey Jake" (the bands first written song on this Disk By Steve Marriott) this song is based in the folk tradition, and is a story telling song, The rhythm section is just fantastic in this one, which gives the song a very heavy quality, its like folk meets Heavy 70s metal. Also wonderful shared Vocals and great harmonies. And lastly "I Walk On Gilded Splinters," a slow heavy blues based bombastic rocker" The CD comes with a cool fold out of the concert Poster from the Whisky a GO GO, and has a nice writ up (liner notes) and some cool pictures. The sound quality is very good, there is a little tape hiss from the original recording but not bad at all. I love this live set, its 50 minutes from 1969 that will last forever, a must have for any Humble Pie Fan.



4. Slow, terrific, controlled jams, with lots of tension and space between the notes. This is the best live Humble Pie I've ever heard; it beats the bombastic, post-Frampton hard-rock Pie, which I've always had a soft spot for. Later, the band would be plenty fun, loud, over-the-top, faux-soulful, etc. -- but here they're low-key, seriously groovy, unpretentious -- for my money, at the height of their powers.

   The take of "Shakey Jake" is a little limp and leaden (my favorite version is the one on "BBC Sessions"), but the four other looooong jams are fantastic, particularly the 21-minute "I Walk on Gilded Splinters." I'm not a big fan of "jammy" music to begin with -- that's why I was first attracted to the tight, arena-rock Pie -- but this music doesn't try to be "authentically" and studiously bluesy, jazzy, etc. (like so many more famous and respected artists of the day) -- yawn! Instead, it's just truly great rock and roll, intense and relaxed at the same time.