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Live at Austin City Limits

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Not many performers, sound good live, let alone redoing their own songs and make them sound good but Roy pulls it off quite well. The sound quality on this recording is first rate and the live versions of these classics are the next best thing to the orginal studio versions. You can tell Roy really enjoyed himself in this Austin City Limits concert and it shows and the warm crowd makes Roy feel at home as 2 songs are "encores. Most live recordings the crowd drowns out the performer when he sings but not this one. This might be the best live recording I have ever heard. Quality recording for a Quality Artist!!!!!!

One of the best live performances available of Roy, next to Black and White Night live. I live in Australia and paid less than $10 (inc. international postage)for this CD, which turned up in a few days from USA and brand new in wrapper with a bonus CD. The sound quality is excellent, if you are a fan of the big O you won't be disapointed with Live at Austin City Limits!

How preposterous, billing the 'O' as support for the Rolling Stones. There he was at The Palaise, Melbourne ca 1964, an impressively immobile, lone figure seemingly summoning the celestial gods before Jagger and co. raised the planks from the underworld. His absolute stasis served to drill attention to the essence of his act. No amount of rhythmic grind and thrust could dissipate Roy's presence. His notes still riffed around the rafters. Certainly he made his debut, which he plays for us in this concert, as an aspirant rocker. 'Pretty Woman' not withstanding, Orbison rocking out? It never really fits. Not, at least along side the signature operatic pop ballads, where, to put it coyly, he found his voice and metre. Like many artists with auspicious early 60s careers, Orbisons' seemed to stand as still through the 70s as his demeanour at the microphone. This Austin City concert marked his re-emmergence after a lengthy reclusion. It is exactly what fans desired - a total recapitualtion of stellar moments, superbly arranged and timed, the voice in full throttle. 'Leah' and,'Working for the Man' are often missed on collected hits. I've loved these as much as the paranoid driven majesty of,'It's Over', 'Cryin', 'and 'Running Scared', the last two which are graced with reprise treatment. While,'In Dreams' acknowledges the source of his imagery he never evoked it as poignantly as on,'Leah' where we plunge the depths with the helpless diver for pearls. (Flo and Eddie/Turtles lightly invoked the song with, 'Nikki Nikki Hoy' on their self-titled disc). Needless to say, Roy presented us with the pearls despite the perils of his searching. This concert must have been a sublime occasion. There was probably no inkling of the second-wind cameo with The Wilberrys, of the incandescent,'Black and White Night' or the curtain call,'Mystery Girl' in the remainder of the decade. So this may be considered as a re-affirmation of a unique gift and confirmation for the artist that high-octane fuel was on tap. May he orbit amongst the most luminous constellations long after this record orbits in my player.

I've been waiting for an Austin City Limits cd and video for the longest time. This was truly an excellent show by the Big O. You should also buy the new documentary video off of ... (the website). It had so many great interviews. There is one with Bono that sends shivers down your spine.

Awsome, Awsome, Awsome!!!

If you like the Big "o", you'll never find a better concert. Saw the same show at Rockefeller's in Houston. Outstanding!

Sometimes, do you have to wonder if it is worth getting a cd, or a tape/dvd of a show with a singer that had passed away, I mean most of the time, it is the same song, expect for in different track numbers or even spots of a cd or a live concert. Which is once again, we see Roy Orbison pefroming his hits and during the chours lines, since his backupds singers are weak in the show, you can't hear them as well, once again you hear him sing Only, the Lonely, Leah, Mean Woman Blues, In Dreams, but he also has a few songs that you might not have heard much before this show, like Lana, Working for the Man, and Hound Dog Man. Can you ever remember hearing this song on a netiher cd, dvd, vhs tape other then Roy Orbison live at Austin City Limits? And don't you have to wonder if Roy Orbison ever got tired of singing the same songs over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again? But that is why they are called hits, when a singer recoreds a song, that people like and want to hear sung. Some songs that he musth ave done in the 70's and 80's, might not have been popluar to his fans then, Candy Man, Ooby Dooby, Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), It's Over. Crying, and Running Scared. But on this show, you hear a repise of both Crying and Running Scared. But also he peforms Blue Angel and That' Lovin' you Fellin' Again. But as long as the fans like the songs, then it works, but it is also nice to hear a new song for the first time ever.