Live at the Agora Ballroom 1979 [Import, Live]

Molly Hatchet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Wheezy Multimedia
• ASIN: B00004TTFL
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,658 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bounty Hunter

2. Let the Good Times Roll

3. Gator Country

4. The Creeper

5. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)

6. Big Apple

7. Dreams I'll Never See

8. Trust Your Old Friend

9. The Harp Jam

10. One Man's Pleasure

11. Crossroads

12. Boogie No More

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Live Album from the classic line up., July 17, 2000

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John Kenneth Smith (Durham, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Agora Ballroom 1979 (Audio CD)

Recorded 4 months befor the band played the famous Reading Festival in England, here is a chance to hear the classic Molly Hatchet line up as you've always wanted, Live and Loud. Although the sound comes over a bit muddy on the opener "Bounty Hunter" things soon settle down as the band turn up the heat. Very much the same set list they played in England (The BBC have broadcast the set) this recording has some real gems for the long time fan in 3 previously unavaiable covers, Jimmy Rodgers' "T for Texas", Robert Johnsons' "Crossroads", done Cream style and a live favourite that never made it to album, the meet the band "The Harp Jam". At over 70 Minutes long this album is a fine testement to the original Molly Hatchet Band and the fine music they have made over the last 20 years.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Snapshot of a Raw and Hungry Band, June 28, 2004

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This review is from: Live at the Agora Ballroom 1979 (Audio CD)

While this does not have the polished mastering of a studio record, this is a great live album. Yes, the vocals are a little subdued at first, but they are not inaudible. Whoever mixed the recording realized after the first song the vocals were buried, so they turned 'em up a little. Keep in mind this record was mastered from TAPES of a LIVE recording that was never intended to be released to the general public. Throughout, however, the mixing is clean and balanced, the vocals are in front, as they should be, the bass and drums are present but not overpowering. The cymbals are crisp as are the guitar licks, however they are not clipping (exceeding the maximum volume input, causing square waves, basically fuzzy noise). Halfway through the album, the band is on fire, tight and firing on all cylinders. Hell, it DOES sound like a studio recording at points.

There are shades of the Allman brothers in certain passages and echoes of Skynyrd in the slide guitar. And, yes, that good ol' Northeastern Florida accent that we are all accustomed to hearing live from Donnie Van Zant, brother of Synyrd frontman and part-time frontman himself, from the band .38 Special. Also in common with frontman Don Barnes of .38 Special, Molly Hatchet doesn't have the crowd in the palm of their hand, they have their arm around the shoulder of the crowd, like an old drinkin' buddie.

As a performing and recording musician myself, a son of the South and a lover of the raw, blues-influenced spirit of Southern Rock bands, I would highly recommend this record to Molly Hatchet fans. It's also a great embarcation point for you younguns who are out there cuttin' your teeth in the smoky bars and keepin' it real.

Enjoy, and have fun.

~R

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rednecks from Hell, October 28, 2000

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Craig Pinson (Scottsdale Az) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Agora Ballroom 1979 (Audio CD)

After listening to this live set of the original Molly Hatchet, I half expected a bar fight. This CD thunders from the git-go. With it`s 3 guitar attack laying waste to the country side, you can pretty much cause any annoying neighbors to beg for mercy. The opening shot, Bounty Hunter roars along with all the style of a freight train, T for Texas swings out of control, and their version of Crossroads would scare the devil hisself. It is not for the faint of heart, this is the epitomy of Southern Boogie.

Put this in the player, push back the tables, put up the chicken wire, and burn down the roadhouse. The 4 stars is only because the sound at first is rough, but kudos to Phoenix Gems for this piece of hell raising.