Re: Whats your top-Live album?---Not only the STONES-ONES--nO BOOTS!
Date: July 31, 2005 23:23
Derek & the Dominos, "In Concert" is very good (except the drum solo), & the 90s comp from the Fillmore shows has some nice additions. Interesting contrast is "Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert" which is SO 1973 - if the Dominos are fleet, w/ inspired EC & sweaty, casual grooves, ECRC is EC lost in a dope haze & post-60s languor, propped up by all-star friends who manage to swim away from the undertow and create some dense, loose, sometimes confused music that is fascinating and captures the era the way "Berlin", "Goats Head", "Shootout At The Fantasy Factory" "Joe Cocker" ('72) and "Time Fades Away" do. Townshend, Ron Wood, Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Ric Gretch, Reebop, & who-the-hell-is Jimmy Karstein. I like the murky sounding original WAY more than Jon Astley's ludicrous clean-up/revisionist job for the 90s cd - talk about Live Licks' 'Rocks Off', Astley drastically edited nearly every track (except the 3:29 'Badge') from the original album ('Roll It Over' cut from 7 minutes down to 4, etc) & made it all sound antiseptic.
I also like the live Delaney & Bonnie & Friends w/ EC, & "EC Was Here", w/ the 461 Ocean Blvd band.