801 Live [Live]

Phil Manzanera, 801 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: E.G. Records
• ASIN: B000003S0W
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,403 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lagrima

2. T. N. K. (Tomorrow Never Knows)

3. East of Asteroid

4. Rongwrong

5. Sombre Reptiles

6. Baby's on Fire

7. Diamond Head

8. Miss Shapiro

9. You Really Got Me

10. Third Uncle

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great summary of 70's Eno and Manzanera, January 21, 2004

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stuartm "stuartm" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 801 Live (Audio CD)

For a one CD collection of the best work that Eno and Manzanera did during the 70's, look no further. Some of their best tracks are here and given a dynamite live performance. Add to that brilliant bass playing by Bill McCormick (who nearly steals the show from the "stars") and able side play from Monkman and Philips and you have one of the great, obscure albums of all time. The quality of musicianship on display here is fantastic and all I could wish is that there was more of it.

For folks who think prog rock was just about 20 minute psuedo-symphonies, 801 is a pleasant surprise. The songs are short to medium in length with great melodies and a real punch in their delivery here. But there are also avant moments whether it be Eno's foreshadowing of New Wave in Miss Shapiro or the atmosherics of Sombre Reptile. There is even a kind of funky jazz feel to many tracks with Monkmans Fender Rhodes and McCormick's bass giving a little swing to things.

One of the best ever. Buy it, listen to it, enjoy!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars History for listening to., June 13, 2007

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Max Garner "Sound Designer" (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 801 Live (Audio CD)

"801 Live" is simply the most important piece of vinyl ever offered on this planet. I won't go into Brian Eno and his early-to-mid-70s rockstyle work (he called it his 'idiot music'), all of which I admittedly love, I'll just say that this album, recorded live in a hall that seated about 6000 people, is the best engineered live rock-oriented album of all time; and that is damning it with faint praise, since it ignores the genius of the performances! I was about 14 when I first heard it and soon afterward discovered The Beatles -- who'd've thought that a British group that had broken up in 1970 had somehow 'covered' a Brian Eno song? Seriously, to this day I hear "Tomorrow Never Knows" the way I heard it first -- on this LP. Ditto the Kinks cover. And "Rongwrong" is surely the closest Brain One will ever come to doing his own version of "My Way". I want them to play it at my funeral.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars being there was better, but then you'd be as old as me, January 2, 2007

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wrecklessnewt (illinois, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 801 Live (Audio CD)

bill macCormick (bass)& simon phillips (drums) won't be the reason you purchase this disc, but they might be the reason you stay. this concert was held in a classical music hall and the acoustics were the best i have ever heard live. (trivia: i'm pretty sure elton john was in the audience.) some reviewers above have complained about eno, but he was clearly the driving force in this outfit, at least this night. mazanera once ran up the fretboard in a blazing solo, only to have it go through eno's modulators which inverted the solo (phil raised his eyebrows). and tnk IS worth the price of the cd (beatles? wrote good songs, but these folks could play!). third uncle was the encore (with you really got me?), uncle introduced by eno noting the next was the fastest song ever written (and an audience member yelled out third uncle, getting a smile from eno--lord, if i only remembered relationships like that night). so the only real question is: 801 live or june 1, 1974, which is better?

i'll admit to still listening to my vinyl version. and therein lies the rub. i don't remember the set list, but wasn't there more than is here on cd? anyone have the tapes?