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Meeting With the G-Man: Live at Paradiso Amsterdam

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"Meeting With The G-Man" is volume 4 in the G-Men live bootleg series. Some of the songs on this disk were originally released as part of the "Let's Go To Work" boxed set. The concert was recorded 12-20-1993 at the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam, Holland. Rory was in fine form and the setlist features some interesting songs. Besides supercharged versions of songs like "Continental Op", "Moonchild", "Ghost Blues" and "Messin' With The Kid", rarities like a great cover of Muddy Waters' "Mean Disposition" and a surprising but effective cover of "La Bamba" are included. Sonny Boy Williamson's "Don't Start Me Talkin'" includes a snippet of the Beatles "Revolution" interpolated into the song. This concert included a long acoustic interlude with a number of rare songs. The highlight of the acoustic set is an inspired cover of Son House's "Walking Blues". The sound quality is good considering this set was supposedly taken from a bootleg. Rory Gallagher never fails to amaze whether playing electric, acoustic or slide guitar and this new release is no exception. I can't wait for the next installment in the "G-Man Bootleg Series".

The sound quality on this disc was very poor. It sounded like what it is - a bootleg. It's a shame since the song selection is killer! Check out "Live At The BBC", "Live In Europe" or best of all "Irish Tour" to hear MUCH better live recordings. I felt it was a waste of $15.00.

The set shown in this CD is really great and displays all the extraordinary capability of Rory Gallagher as a live performer. Unfortunately the sound quality is really poor: I expected a quality at least equal to that of the three previous CD of the G.Man bootleg series. I hope there will be the opportunity in the future to listen to a good Gallagher's recording of the period between 1990 and 1994.

Rory Gallagher is a great, under-recognized talent that deserves state of the art recordings, but instead what we have here is a lousy, third-rate recording of some his finest pieces. There is really little else to say, other than that this is quite a disappointing recording indeed. Listeners and fans should seek out his studio recordings instead, or perhaps his live BBC CD.

This is a great performance by Rory, and I'm glad I got to hear it. However, those of you expecting it to sound as good as a typical commercial live album are going to be disappointed. While I have no problem with his record company releasing an audience recording (I have the original G-Men box set), they should have put some effort into fixing the glaring balance problems which occur during the final two songs. In particular, the really strong performance of "Messing With The Kid" is nearly ruined by the sound ping-ponging from the left channel to the right and back again. If they're going to put this out as one of Rory's official releases, they need to do some quality control before it hits the shelves.

Some reviewers complains about the poor sound quality of the recordings, but what they don't seem to hear is the pure artist. Rory is playing very well here. The atmosphere he creates is great. A true live performance. He plays a selection of his finest songs.

Listening to the record you wished to be there in Paradiso Amsterdam. The recordings are made 2 years before his tragic and silly dead in 1995 (a bactery killed him in a London hospital).

He sounded as if he could play for another 30 years!

By the way, maybe this recording is not a starter for them who have never heard of Rory at all, but the fans who have yet al his other studio and live stuff, can't miss this one!!