Fire Up Plus

Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fantasy
• ASIN: B000000XDE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,696 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Name says it all!!!!!!, May 27, 1999

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This review is from: Fire Up Plus (Audio CD)

Fire Up is my favorite of the Jerr/Merl collaborations. "Welcome to the Basement" has some funky grooves as do most of the songs on this album. "After Midnight" is a scorching cover of the tune Clapton made famous. "Benedict Rides" and "System" are Merl at his funky/cheezy best with Jerry helping out with the chops and solos. Lonely Avenue, recorded live, tops of this fantasic record. Buy it. You won't be disappointed.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden Jewel, November 23, 2001

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John C. Maxwell "maxll" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Up Plus (Audio CD)

Jerry and Merl at at there best playing live.This is a overlooked hidden jewel recorded in 1973 with John Kahn, Tom Fogerty and Ron Tutt.. Any fan of Jerry Garcia/Deadhead or blues afficianado will love this album. Their rendition of "Lonely Avenue" is the best since Ray Charles. "After Midnight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" are classics. This is as close to a money back guarantee rating as you can get for those who like blues/funk.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lonely Avenue, September 25, 2010

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Dark Star-The Other One (The Bus To Never Ever Land) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Up Plus (Audio CD)

This disc collects most of Merl's first two solo albums with Jerry Garcia, Tom Forgerty, John Kahn and Bill Vitt on one disc (both Charisma and Chock-Lite Puddin' from Fire Up are missing). It's a shame that they didn't use an 80 minute disc as then they could've put on one of the two missing songs. The disc opens with the first album, Heavy Turbulence with Merl's My Problems Got Problems and is followed by a nice The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Save Mother Earth is a very good song and is followed by an instrumental version of Imagine. Welcome To The Basement and Man-Child are nice and end the album in fine fashion. After Midnight starts Fire Up and IS FIRED UP! Expressway (To Your Heart) is next and is an okay version but I've heard others do more impressive versions of it over the years. Soul Roach, Benedict Rides and The System are fine but the Lonely Avenue that ends the record is one of the most impressive performaces I've ever heard from Jerry outside of the Grateful Dead, It's a live track (with an additonal keyboard part added later and the Hawkins providing backing vocals) from a KSAN broadcast at Pacific High (Alembic) Studios with Bill Kreutamann on drums.