Für mich nach wie vor eines der genialsten Live-Alben aller Zeiten. Natürlich hätte es noch länger sein können und klar, Supper's Ready hätte mich auch gefreut, aber ich finde es in seiner Kompaktheit und Dynamik einfach unübertroffen.
Tolle Versionen, für die Spielzeit eine gute Setlist, finde ich und auch die Abmischung ist klasse!
Und mit Watcher (ich find das Lied mittlerweile großartig ) hat es auch den geilsten Opener, den es gibt
Noch was: Das Cover zieht mich bei jedem Hingucken in seinen Bann
____________________ They call our studio the hospital Making money from the sick We let people be themselves There is no other trick
Extract from 'The Barry Williams Show' by Peter Gabriel
____________________ They call our studio the hospital Making money from the sick We let people be themselves There is no other trick
Extract from 'The Barry Williams Show' by Peter Gabriel
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Superscheibe...echt genialer Sound....
hier spielen sie auch mit...better than ever!
Eines DER (!!!) Livealben:
Allaboutjazz(!!!)schreibt:
" ....the Best Live Rock Recording is Waiting for Columbus."
A Change in the Pecking Order...
It was almost two years ago that I completed my survey of the Ten Best Live Rock Recordings . At the time, I stated that the order of the recordings really depended on what day I was asked. Today, I return to reconsider the top of that Top Ten List. I previously ranked The Allman Brothers Band's The Fillmore Concert as Number One and Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus as Number Two. I did this because I did not consider Columbus to be the best of the best due to a weak fourth-LP side. I always felt that the final side of the two-LP set was not up to the same superb level defined by the remainder of the collection. For all of the guitar noodling on the longer pieces from the live Allmans, the Fillmore shows were a uniformly stronger set from start to finish.
On the flipside and on a personal note, after 30 years of music listening, Little Feat's 1978 masterpiece Waiting for Columbus remains my favorite recording...period.
Rhino Records, in cooperation with Warner Brothers, has released Waiting for Columbus in a deluxe edition that restores all of the music performed during the 1977 tour. This includes the three live pieces on Hoy Hoy! plus seven previously unissued outtakes. All of this music now inhabits two compact discs. The set sports vastly expanded liner notes that illuminate the personal conflict in the band surrounding the tour that ended in the triumph of this recording. The new music heard within is of a quality to nudge Little Feat ahead of the Allman Brothers Band in the list of The top Ten Best Live Rock Recordings in the estimation of this humble writer.
Where do we start? This new release is assembled in a compelling way. The entire original concert is provided on the first disc. The second disc begins with the encore, which includes Willin', Don't Bogart That Joint, A Political Blues, Sailin' Shoes, and Feats Don't Fail Me Now. This effectively restores Don't Bogart That Joint and A Political Blues which were excluded from the original release of Waiting for Columbus and were included on the CD release of The Last Record Album. I always considered these encore pieces as inferior to the rest of the vinyl release. In retrospect, I suspect that was a bit unfair. As an ostensible concert closer this encore collection was very effective and has aged well. Mick Taylor's inclusion on A Political Blues is still very cool.
The previously released and unreleased outtakes restored here were not outtakes because of inferior performance, but rather were excluded because the playing time did not exist in the previous LP format. These performances are every bit as powerful as the pieces included and more powerful than the weaker songs on the originally released live album (I cite the encore collection). These outtakes include a potent One Love Stand that far outstrips the studio version and perfectly segues into a ferocious Rock and Roll Doctor. There is an unreleased Skin It Back (and its reprise from Hoy Hoy! Red Streamliner and Teenage Nervous Breakdown were also included from Hoy Hoy! ). The superb early On Your Way Down (played with a slower, lava momentum), a bright Walking All Night, and the consistent Cold, Cold, Cold, augmented with the Tower of Power horn section, juxtapose perfectly with a jazzy, extended A Day At The Dog Races from Time Loves A Hero.
Several of these songs appeared live earlier this year on Pilot Record's release Late Night Truck Stop (2002). Recorded in 1973 in Ebbetsfield Colorado, Truck Stop displayed a much different Little Feat than the one performing on Columbus. Apolitical Blues, Walkin' All Night, On Your Way Down, Dixie Chicken and Fat Man in the Bathtub all still had the new whiff of the studio rising from them. As early as 1973, Little Feat had already combined Dixie Chicken and Tripe Face Boogie but it was to take four more years and tensions in the band reaching critical mass for these songs to be transformed into the dynamos they ultimately proved to be on Columbus.
The majority of syllables I have read penned about the new Waiting for Columbus mention two other live recordings in the same breath, the aforementioned Allman Brothers and The Band's Rock of Ages. These three recordings already occupy the top of The Top Ten Best Live Recordings list. With recordings of this caliber, which recording should be considered Number One probably depends on which disc one happens to be listening to at the time.
Considering these three recordings separately, they each have their separate strong points. The Allman Brothers band favored an improvisational direction in their live shows that was characterized by coherent, though lengthy jams (Mountain Jam, Whipping Post). The Band was unique in having three exceptional and important vocalists in Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, and Rick Danko. Additionally, the sepia-toned stories woven by Robbie Robertson (the Night they Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek) have no peer in recorded Rock music. Finally, Little Feat, better than any other band, demonstrated that live music could be better than its studio counterpart. Little Feat's power on stage what almost overwhelming (compare the studio and live versions of Fat Man In The Bathtub or Dixie Chicken).
Considering these bands collectively, they share several common characteristics. Where The Band had the uniquely rustic vocals and drumming of Arkansan Levon Helm, Little Feat had the otherworldly beat of Richie Hayward and dense tenor vocals of Lowell George. Where the Allman Brother's band had an unmistakable twin-drummer drive and the most perfect electric blues slide guitar, Little Feat had the unmistakable and idiosyncratic slide style of Lowell George (which was to influence Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, David Lindley, and Paul Barrere) and the funky percussion of Sam Clayton. Where Robbie Robertson pleaded:
...Get up Jake. Ain't no need in lying, you tell me that you're dying but I know that's not true...
Lowell George opined:
...I did my time in your rodeo, fool that I am; I'd do it all over again...
Where this is a critical comparison of these three discs, isn't it good to know that we have all three to hear? But for today, while I listen to the introductory Join the Band, the Best Live Rock Recording is Waiting for Columbus.
Track listing: Disc 1: Join The Band; Fat Man In The Bathtub; All That You Dream; Oh, Atlanta; Old Folks Boogie; Dixie Chicken; Tripe Face Boogie; Rocket In My Pocket; Time Loves A Hero; Day Or Night; Mercenary Territory; Spanish Moon (Total Time: 73:04). Disc 2: Willin'; Don't Bogart That Joint; A Political Blues; Sailin' Shoes; Feats Don't Fail Me Now One Love Stand; Rock And Roll Doctor; Skin It Back; On Your Way Down; Walking All Night; Cold, Cold, Cold; Day At The Dog Races; Skin It Back; Red Streamliner; Teenage Nervous Breakdown. (Total Time: 69:05).
Personnel: Lowell George: Vocals, Slide Guitar; Paul Barrere: Guitar, Vocals; Kenny Gradney: Bass, Vocals; Bill Payne: Keyboards, Vocals; Sam Clayton: Percussion, Vocals; Richie Hayward: Drums. "
Re: Albenempfehlungen
Eine aufregende Reise durch verschiedene Stimmungen und Musikrichtungen:
____________________ SCHINDLERIA PRAEMATURUS
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Großartige Jazzfusion:
Al di Meola - Casino
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Da kann diese hier mithalten Eclipse :
Gleich 3 hervorragende Gitarristen, dazu noch ein toller Bassist und ein guter Drummer. Für den Yes-fan ist auch gesorgt - eine geniale Instrumental-Version von "Heart Of The Sunrise".
) hat es auch den geilsten Opener, den es gibt 
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