Customer Reviews

Live & Rare

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It was great hearing Lets Get Crazy, Run For Cover and especially Gonna Have A Riot live from back in '83/'84. The demo's were pretty good as well. I gave this release four stars instead of five because each track has a stop gap of one second in between them and since most of the tracks are live, it sounds like a bootleg splice/chop job in between tracks. My understanding is that the band has already acknowledged this as a mistake on the labels behalf and future pressings of the cd will not have the annoying stop gaps between tracks.

This live album is good. It's entertaining and is excellent to bang your head to (no pun intended). The only problem is the few seconds at the end of each song. The music just stops. It dosen't flow. Very good otherwise.

Quiet Riot's Live and Rare Volume 1 is full of good music, live stuff from the Condition Critical tour as well as three demos. The sound quality of the live material leaves a lot to be desired, like another reviewer stated it sounds about like a bootleg. The three demos are of good sound quality. If you're looking for some live Quiet Riot go with the Extended Versions cd.

I admit i'm not a huge QR fan, but I love the songs Metal Health and Come On Feel The Noise. From the moment I pressed play it had this terrible sound that seemed like an unrealistic live sound, the guitar wasnt trebled enough, the drum sounded flat like the treble was all the way down and the bass is hardly hearable at all. The singing however is OK.

The producation on the songs really make it hard to stand out as a recignisable live album. I thought the first few songs where just boring me but then when the ones started that I knew I could hear the low quality of them, and the editing and panning sounds rotating around is just annoying. The drum solo probably would sound ok if it didnt sound trapped behind a concrete wall. I've heard better live recordings from this band then this... if youre a die hard QR fan and wanna hear some old live recordings and a few demo tracks of early songs then this album is a must but to the casual fan, skip it and go for something else by them.

I'm not really a kid, I just use the kid review so I don't have to get an Amazon account. Anyway, this CD sucks. I bought it with a giftcard so wasn't as mad as I would have been if it had been with my own hard-earned cash. These live songs are terrible. Its sounds like the original recordings just with shortened notes and lots of extra ambient cheeing. I think it was recorded at one of the nudist colonies that Quiet Riot likes to play at becasue on Let's Get Crazy, Kevin DuBrow starts chanting about taking all your clothes off. Also, the bonus tracks are terrible. The only bonus track that I've listened to more than once is Thunderbird, and theres a much better version on Mental Health. People, these unlreleased tracks are unreleased for a reason. So if you're smart, stick with Mental Health.