Customer Reviews

Alive in America: Concert Classics, Vol. 3

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I have been an avid fan for twenty years and with my records worn out, I really wanted some Aces on CD. I ordered this and must say that the quality puts this CD among the worst I have ever come across. Why not release "Too Stuffed to jump" on CD?

After looking for 20 years for an Aces recording. I must say I was a little disappointed in the sound quality. I agree with many other fans. Re-release "Too Stuffed to Jump"- you'd be millionaires....

I LOVE the Amazing Rythum Aces music and all of the songs on this cd are great songs on the original albums...however this CD SUCKS! Give us the old albums on reissue!!!!!

When it come to the Aces, "the WORST I ever had was wonderful". I have all their LPs, except the live one, so was pleased to find this release. The performance is great, just as Aces' live performances are, but the CD really sounds as though it was made from an old recording that was cleaned up with filters. Clearly, someone wanted to capitalize on the lack of Aces' material on CD. Absolute fans will want it, but others, probably not. Get "Out of the Blue" and "Ride Again" instead. Out of the Blue is one of the finest LPs I have purchased in the last few years.

Great to hear their music on CD, finally,but the recording is not very good. Please release their albums on CD and let us true fans decide which to buy.

Maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder and the ears less sharp but I like it. The different approach that I liked all those years ago remains the same. I hadn't been able to listen to the Aces in the ten years since my vinyl and I parted ways and now I can. Yahoo!! Just one other thing though, since my hair is silver now I gotta figure it's time for silver anniversary re-release of " Stacked Deck ". Come on now, let's be fair, we've been patient.

I was thrilled when they came out with "Ride Again". It was the Aces from the old days. And "Out Of The Blue" gave us some good new material. But this one was a real disappointment. I should have guess by the title that it was a live album - recorded in concert, and it sounds like it. Not only does the music sound dead, and sometimes muffled, but the group sounds tired. I was way excited about hearing some of my old favorites in CD quality, but no such luck. Come on guys, do another "Ride Again". You can do so much better than this.

...but like others, some Aces are better than no Aces. Make this your last choice. Poor quality and it sounded like Russell Smith was eager to go somewhere else. The whole CD just chugs along without any enthusiasm. Too Stuffed...and Stacked Deck are my favorite Aces CD's

Covers most of the Aces standards, albeit with the stepped up energy their live shows generally display. The recording quality suffers a bit, but as an avid Aces fan starving for digital renditions of their music, this offering is welcomed and appreciated.

It could have been a lot better. Live recordings are o.k., but anyone listening to this CD may not listen to another Aces album and that would be very sad.