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1.0 out of 5 stars
A "B" class bootleg CD. Shame on you Mr. Manzanera!, January 14, 2001
This review is from: 801 Live at Hull (Audio CD)
In a dry season of pop music, and especially rock music, it's nice to go back in time to the good prog. music from the 70's. Some companies, like "King Biscuit" do wonderful job when publishing some old live recordings, that have never been on records or CDs before. But when they do such a thing, you know, that the CD sounds as good as new, or at least - almost. This is not the case here. Nothing is mentioned about the date of the performance, so you can think, like i did, that it was in the year 2000, when Manzanera decided to play his old music. Sounds nice, does'nt it? Now i'm almost sure, that it was taken somewhere around 1978-9. The band is good and includes Manzanera friends from Roxy Music (Eddy Jobson, Paul Thompson and David Skinner that joined later) plus Bass guitarist and vocalist Bill McCormick, from the original 801, and guitarist Simon Ainely. The material is taken from the first 801 live album, from "Listen now" and from Manzanera's solos "Diamond head" and "K-scope" (also you can find Roxy's "Out of the blue"). Till now - perfect. BUT.... when you put it on your stereo, what you hear is nothing more than a B class bootleg album. Terrible. I have some bootlegs that sound much better. I feel like being cheated by Mr. Manzanera (they wrote, that it's belong to his archieves). Every honest man can get the conclusion, that you can't sell such a thing without a warning. They did'nt do it, so i warn you instead. DO NOT BUY THAT CD!!! Go back to the great live album from 1976!!!
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