Zappa talked about You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore as a 10-LP set before CDs took over and it became a 12-CD set.Originally Posted by zravkapt
Zappa talked about You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore as a 10-LP set before CDs took over and it became a 12-CD set.
I remember that, when he was featured in Keyboard magazine around the time of Jazz From Hell, he was apparently in the initial planning stages of YCDTOSA. He was asked if by making it a 10 LP set it would be "twice as good" as the Springsteen set (which had come out a few months earlier and everyone was all excited about). He said something like "Oh, I think it's going to be ten times better than Springsteen's!"
Yeah, I think of that more as an "archival" thing, similar to the Grateful Dead's Dick's Picks and Road Trips releases. To me, a "live album" that more or less comes out in a reasonably timely fashion after it was recorded and represents some kind of representation of what the band or artist sounds onstage "right now", as it were.
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This takes 3 fully packed CD's and though it's an archival release, it's one full concert. I have to say, I could do without the opening-tape.
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Remaster is a huge improvement over the original in the SQ department IMO.
The sound quality never really bothered me, since the music was just to strong.
Whoops, my bad, never mind.
I had Skynyrd's One More from the Road back in the day, before I realized that most live albums were from various dates. I didn't understand why RVZ said on side 4 that he was starting to work up a sweat.
Live ones:
Michael Hedges--Live on the Double Planet
Allman Brother-- Live At Filemore East
Miles Davis--Live/Evil
Zappa--Roxy and Elsewhere
Gentle Giant--Playing the Fool
Magma--Live
Camel--Never Let Go
Tangerine Dream--Encore
sure was. all their live stuff is now.
One doesn't realize how many great double live albums came out in the 70's until you look at a thread like this. Does anyone know what was considered the first successful one released was? Maybe the most successful was Frampton but that wasn't the first. Seems like the record companies jumped on the bandwagon and had every major act release one then.
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Both the Allmans' At Fillmore East and Purple's Made In Japan sold well and seemed to have started the trend. That trend however, was only for big selling artists. For example, Genesis wanted their first live album to be a double but their record company refused.
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Kansas : Two For The Show
Allmans: Fillmore East
Gov't Mule : The Deepest End
Referring to Pentangle - Basket of Light --- Don't know what I was thinking of then????
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^ but what a lovely live disc it is though!
You do know that Zappa himself, was a guest star on Miami Vice, right?
Magma - Live/Hhaï
Yes - Yes Shows
ELP - Welcome Back
GG - Playing the Fool
Hillage - Live Herald
Renaissance - Carnegie Hall
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Live in Paris
Weather Report - Live
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
The Velvet Underground - 1969
Todd Rundgren - Back To The Bars
Be Bop Deluxe - Live In The Air Age
Yeah, and so were Ted Nugent and Miles Davis. So what?!
^The fact that you slammed Phil for doing it, I'd guess.
No mentions of the only two live albums David Bowie actually released in the 70s, David Live and Stage. I'm not familiar with either in their original state but I do have the expanded remastered versions.
David Live is the start of his 'soul man' phase and has also some radical cabaret-style reinterpretations of other tracks...it's not to all tastes but I quite like it, same as I like some of Bob Dylan's live reinventions. Stage is from the 1978 tour, and in its remastered form presents a more-or-less complete typical set-list in the right order, as opposed to the chopped-up order of the original. Imagine opening a set with 'Warszawa', amazing, and it's a tremendous version too.
One I wish was a double is Viva Roxy Music, it was a 'farewell' album of sorts at the time (they ultimately reformed in 1979 though). They are much heavier than on the studio albums, there's some really tremendous performances but I wish things like 'Ladytron' and more of their 'hits' had been on here- it isn't as definitive as it could/should be. It certainly should have been expanded for CD.
This show might help satisfy what you are looking for, very well recorded, great performance:
http://www.concertvault.com/roxy-mus...r-28-1974.html
Also, I saw the Bowie 1978 tour (Oakland), and I agree with you that the original double album rearranging was ill conceived -- the set list that night was a little different from the Stage CD too -- included Rock And Roll Suicide, Rebel Rebel, Jean Genie, Suffragette City (No Alabama Song)
^Thanks.
The reason those songs were excluded was presumably because all four had been on David Live...not really much of a reason, though. Different arrangements, different band.
Bowie released very, very few live albums at his peak. A few more appeared on CD such as Santa Monica '72 and Nassau Coliseum '76.
I've never heard either. I always heard Earl Slick (on David Live At The Tower Theater) and Adrian Belew (on Stage) played some great guitar licks on those records, but I've never really investigated them.
I have only heard parts of it, but yes, Bowie had a sharp band for the 1978 tour heard on Stage.
Great mention of Be Bop although they should have included the Modern Music suite. What a great band!
Well,t hat's a given. Bowie always had top flight bands. I guess what I was trying to get at is, whether Belew's playing is as up front as one would like it to be. I remember reading an article where Belew said that there were only a couple songs (Heroes was one of them, I think Rebel Rebel was the other) where he tried to replicate the guitar parts from the studio versions, the rest of time he was "just wailing".
What I'd like to hear is a recording from the Sound And Vision tour from the late 80's, which Bowie claimed at the time would be the last time he played his old songs, with the apparent intention of retiring them and only playing "new music" on subsequent tours.
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