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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
2nd best Live Performer of All Time, May 18, 2004
Bette Midler's Live at Last live album is a great achievment for the divine miss M! It was recorded in Clevland as part of the tour that stretched from her Clams on the Half Shell blockbuster broadway show. It features many of the same songs, and acts from the show and even has the mechanical "King Kong" from the original broadway production. Starting with her trademark opening song, Friends she goes in to full force. After proclaiming an audience member looks like s**t she goes right into the dynamic Bang, Your Dead. Neil Young's Birds is a soft ballad going into the hilarious comic relief where we find out she's sleeping with Jack Kennedy and is set to film the sequal to Jaws in which a shark is attacked by a great white woman. Shiver Me Timbers is a heartbreaking track that was actually the only single released from the album. The Vicki Eydie Show segment is a pre Deloris Delago lounge singer sketch. The second disc includes highlights Do You wanna Dance, Hello In There, and the phenomanal Delta Dawn. Bette Midlers live performance of Delta Dawn should have won a grammy. Ofcourse you hear some dirty Sophie Tucker Jokes and she ends with a energetic medley of Up the Ladder, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, and Friends. Granted Bette's live performances now are more entertaing, the sheer ferocity and raw emotion of her 70's live act is yet to be matched. I recommend to this to everybody.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb!, October 10, 2003
First of all, let me say that I have a weird thing about live albums. For some reason, I seem to shy away from them, I don't tend to like them quite as much as studio albums. I should have known better with Bette. The woman was born to be in front of a live audience, she's so in her element. I already owned the DVD and CD soundtrack of "Divine Madness" and still didn't purchase this CD until after I saw Bette live in person myself on her Divine Miss Millennium tour in 1999. I finally realized I was going to have to land myself a copy of this album. After kicking myself for a while for waiting for so long to purchase it, I spent a lot of time listening and wishing so much that I'd been able to attend this concert in person (of course, I was only 6 years old, but I digress). It's just one of those performances where you can only wish you'd been there and count yourself lucky if you were. A phenomenal performance captured (thankfully) for all time that should be in every Bette fan's collection.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It Must Have Been A Heck of a Night in the Theatre..., December 6, 2001
...because this record of a mid-70s concert in Cleveland is one of the best things Midler has ever done. An audience galvanizes her, and for much of this two-disc set she's on fire. Whether breaking your heart with a slow song ("did I sing the ballad yet? Was it wonderful?") or roaring through her trademark campfest-versions of forties classics, Bette is the consummate live performer. The only shame is that she's never done studio versions of some of the numbers -- "Bang You're Dead" in particular has a killer arrangement (and the band throughout is amazingly good). A must for the fan or an excellent introduction...
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