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Live at Expo '70

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There are some great moments of Sergio's virtuoso piano playing and jams with the band, but I really wanted to hear Lani Hall & Karen Phillip singing live. They are all over the place!! None of those perfect streamlined harmonies of the studio albums. It's like they were on different stages at different times. Now I have to beleive their television appearances back then were lip-synched. There is a Live At The Hollywood Bowl album with Brasil '77 & different singers that is much better.

Having seen this group live in 1968 or 1969(on tour behind the album "Fool on The Hill"). I knew what to expect. This is a stripped-down approximation of the records, without the horns, strings, electric piano & other embelishments present on the studio recordings. The instrumental backing is acoustic piano,bass,drums & percussion.
It should be remembered that 38 years ago, live concerts didn't have the sophisticated on-stage monitoring systems that musicians have today, and with vocalists Lani Hall & Karen Phillip at opposite ends of the stage, it is inevitable that they would occasionally go out of synchronization. Still,it's quite impressive how matched in timbre the two ladies are.
This was probably a typical Brasil '66 show. No doubt there were better shows, but this one is the only one known to have been recorded. The album grows on you, and the recording quality is good. The one thing that grates on my nerves is several sour piano notes(tuning problems?) from Sergio's piano on "The Fool On The Hill".

There are some great moments of Sergio's piano playing with the band.