Live at the Whisky a-Go-Go 1969 [Live]

Alice Cooper | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Edsel (UK)
• ASIN: B0000011XP
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #650,131 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Early Alice fan..., December 7, 2000

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Eugene Pomeroy (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Whisky a-Go-Go 1969 (Audio CD)

This is a very good recording of one particularly "far out" performance, including tracks from their first album. You can almost hear the audience walking out of the room! Great liner notes and photo's. This blows away the "Live in Toronto 1969" recording that's much easier to find (I think it's still in print as "Ladies Man" and other titles). These particular live tracks are unavailable in the box set and are definitely some of my favorites. The boys were trying really hard to emulate Zappa and they got it wrong, but in doing it wrong they sure as hell got something else very right. Fans of Zappa, Sun Ra and Beefheart will probably dig this. It's not nearly as cerebral - not cerebral at all in fact, but highly irritaining.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind Blowing, December 11, 2007

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Arlo Vortex (Third Stone) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Whisky a-Go-Go 1969 (Audio CD)

This is a great live recording. The sound quality is excellent and the band is in top form. The lyrics to Fields of Regret are completely different than the studio release of Easy Action. The Alice Cooper Group were way out there musically as well as visually. Can you imagine seeing them in 1969? Who could have come close to that ? Grateful Dead in 68? Frank Zappa? The arrangements are very complicated with off timings and 3/4 time signatures. At first listen, they don't sound like they have any talent, but they sure know what they are doing I think you should get this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Alice Cooper - 'Live At The Whiskey A Go-Go' (Edsel), October 5, 2005

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Whisky a-Go-Go 1969 (Audio CD)

Just a mite similar to that of the umteen-something times released 'Live In Toronto 1969' or 'Slack Alice'(see my review),but better.Appears to have a different track listing as well for the most part.Tunes I was only too thrilled to fully experience within this vintage live recording were "Levity Ball"(sure wish he'd play this track while out on tour sometime),"Swing Low,Sweet Cheerio" and "Changing Arranging".A should-have for all Cooper fans.