Deep Purple - Made in Japan (Alternative Album UK 1972)

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Made in Japan is a double live album by English rock band Deep Purple, recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. It was originally released in December 1972, with a US release in April 1973, and became a commercial and critical success.

The band were well known for their strong stage act, and had privately recorded several shows, or broadcast them on radio, but were unenthusiastic about recording a live album until their Japanese record company decided it would be good for publicity. They insisted on supervising the live production, including using Martin Birch, who had previously collaborated with the band, as engineer, and were not particularly interested in the album's release, even after recording. The tour was successful, with strong media interest and a positive response from fans.

The album was an immediate commercial success, particularly in the US, where it was accompanied by the top five hit "Smoke on the Water", and became a steady seller throughout the 1970s. 

Deep Purple "Mk II" formed in July 1969 when founding members, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, organist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice recruited singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover to progress from their earlier pop and psychedelic rock sound towards hard rock. They began touring extensively, becoming a well received live band, and had recorded several shows either to broadcast on the radio or listen to privately. However, they had rejected the idea of releasing a live album commercially as they believed it would be impossible to reproduce the quality and experience of their stage act on an LP.

Consequently, there was a demand for bootleg recordings of the band. The most notorious of these was an LP entitled H Bomb, recorded at Aachen on 11 July 1970, which led to a subsequent court case when Virgin Records' Richard Branson was prosecuted for selling it. An article in Melody Maker that examined the bootleg phenomenon claimed that H Bomb was the best selling one at that time. This success, along with albums from other artists such as the Who's Live at Leeds and the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out convinced the band that an official live album would be commercially successful. At the time, Glover told Sounds magazine that "there are so many bootlegs of us going around, if we put out our own live set, it should kill their market."

By 1972, Deep Purple had achieved considerable commercial success in Japan, including several hit singles, so it made sense to tour there. Three dates were booked; the Festival Hall, Osaka on 11 and 12 May, and the Budokan, Tokyo on 16 August, though these were later changed to the 15 and 16 August, and 17 August respectively due to an earlier US tour being rescheduled. The dates sold out almost immediately, and consequently the Japanese arm of the band's label, Warner Bros. Records, wanted to record the tour for a live album to be released in the country. The band eventually agreed to the idea, but insisted if it was going to be released, they wanted it to be done properly. Gillan recalled, "we said we would have to OK the equipment, we wanted to use our own engineer and we would have the last say on whether the tapes were released". The band enlisted producer Martin Birch, who had worked on previous studio albums, to record the shows onto an 8-track recorder so they could subsequently be mixed.

The band's live setlist had been revamped at the start of the year, immediately after recording the album Machine Head, and that album made up a substantial proportion of new material. Although the setlist remained the same for most of the year, opening with "Highway Star" and closing with "Lazy" and "Space Truckin'", the band's musical skill and structure meant there was sufficient improvisation within the songs to keep things fresh. The original intention was the stage act would be used for about a year before being dropped, but Gillan and Glover both resigned from the band in June 1973. When this line-up reformed in 1984, the 1972 setlist made up a significant amount of material performed in concert.

The band arrived in Japan on 9 August, a week before the tour started, to a strong reception, and were greeted with gifts and flowers. Birch was not confident that the recording quality would be satisfactory, since the equipment supplied by Warner Bros. did not have any balance control and that the recorder's size did not appear big enough on sight to capture a commercial quality recording. The band were uninterested in the end result, concentrating on simply being able to deliver a good show. Lord later noticed however that he felt this attitude meant the spontaneity of the performances and interplay between the band members was captured well.

The second gig in Osaka was considered to be the stronger of the two, and indeed this show made up the bulk of the released LP. Only one song, "Smoke on the Water" from 15 August show was used, and this may simply have been because it was the only gig that Blackmore played the song's opening riff as per the studio album.

The band considered the gig at Tokyo on 17 August to be the best of the tour. Glover remembered "twelve or thirteen thousand Japanese kids were singing along to 'Child in Time'" and considered it a career highlight, as did Gillan. At the venue, a row of bodyguards manned the front of the stage. When Blackmore smashed his guitar during the end of "Space Truckin'" and threw it into the audience, several of them clambered past fans to try and retrieve it. Blackmore was annoyed, but the rest of the band found the incident amusing. The gig was not as well recorded as the Osaka shows, though "The Mule" and "Lazy" were considered of sufficient quality to make the final release.

There were no overdubs on the album. Lord claimed once in a magazine interview that a line from "Strange Kind of Woman" had to be redubbed from a different show after Gillan had tripped over his microphone cable, but no direct evidence of this was found when the multitrack tapes were examined. According to Lord, the total budget for the recording was only $3,000 (equivalent to £35,696 in 2015).

"That double album ... wasn't meant to be released outside of Japan. They wound up putting it out anyway and it went platinum in about two weeks."

Jon Lord
The band did not consider the album to be important and only Glover and Paice showed up to mix it. According to Birch, Gillan and Blackmore have never heard the finished album. The band did not want the album to be released outside Japan and wanted full rights to the tapes, but it was released worldwide anyway.

The album was released in the UK in December 1972, with a special offer price of £3.10, the same as a typical single LP from that period. It reached number 16 in the charts. The cover was designed by Glover and featured a colour photo of the band on the front and rear covers, and black and white photos in the inside gatefold. The release in the US was delayed until April 1973, because Warner Bros. wanted to release Who Do We Think We Are first. They were motivated into releasing it due to a steady flow of UK imports being purchased, and it was an immediate commercial success, reaching number 6 in the charts. Warner Brothers also released "Smoke on the Water" as a single, coupling the live recording on Made in Japan with the studio version on Machine Head, and it reached number 4 in the Billboard charts. A recording of "Black Night" from the Tokyo gig, one of the encores that was not on the album, was released as the B-side to the single "Woman from Tokyo" in Europe, and as a single in its own right in Japan.

The Japanese release was titled Live in Japan and featured a unique sleeve design, with an overhead stage shot of the band, a selection of photographs from a gig at the Rainbow Theatre in London, and an insert with lyrics and a hand-written message from each band member. The first pressing came with a 35mm film negative with photos of the band which buyers could develop into their own prints. The sleeve notes claimed that the recording only contained the Tokyo gig, though in fact it was musically identical to the version released in the rest of the world. Phil Collen, later to play in Def Leppard, was in the audience for the Rainbow gig as captured on the sleeve.

In Uruguay, the album was released in 1974 as a single LP (with just the first two sides) on Odeon Records. It used a simplistic sleeve design unlike any other release, with a rising sun on the cover.

The band as a whole had mixed feelings about the album. Gillan was critical of his own performance, yet was still impressed with the quality of the live recording. Paice gave a very positive impression, suggesting that the shows were some of the best the group had performed, and the album captured the spirit of them well.[16] Lord listed it as his favourite Deep Purple album, saying, "The band was at the height of its powers. That album was the epitome of what we stood for in those days."

The response from critics was favourable. Rolling Stone's Jon Tiven wrote that "Made in Japan is Purple's definitive metal monster, a spark-filled execution ... Deep Purple can still cut the mustard in concert". Subsequently, a readers' poll in the magazine declared the album to be the sixth best live album of all time, adding the band have performed "countless shows since in countless permutations, but they've never sounded quite this perfect."

Recent reviews have been equally positive. Allmusic's William Ruhlmann considered the album to be "a definitive treatment of the band's catalog and its most impressive album". Rock author Daniel Bukszpan claimed the album is "widely acknowledged as one of the greatest live albums of all time". Goldmine magazine said the album "defined Deep Purple even as it redefined the concept of the live album." Deep Purple author Dave Thompson wrote "the standing of Deep Purple's first (and finest) live album had scarcely diminished in the quarter-century since its release".

Personnel
♫♪ Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
♫♪ Ian Gillan - vocals, harmonica, percussion
♫♪ Roger Glover - Bass, backing vocals
♫♪ Jon Lord - keyboards backing vocals
♫♪ Ian Paice – drums, percussion

01. Highway Star - 08.01 [Tokyo 17 August 1972]
02. Child in Time - 12.33 [Tokyo 17 August 1972]
03. Smoke on The Water - 07.28 [Osaka 16 August 1972]
04. Strange Kind of Woman - 11.03 [Tokyo 17 August 1972] 
05. Lazy - 10.11 [Osaka 16 August 1972]
06. Space Truckin' - 20.08 [Osaka 16 August 1972]
07. Speed King - 08.28 [Osaka 15 August 1972]
08. Black Night - 08.01 [Tokyo 17 August 1972] 
09. Lucille - 09.03 [Osaka 16 August 1972]

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Evensong - Selftitled (Great Folkrock UK 1973)

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The first official re-release of this album, with sound taken from the original master tapes and adding six bonus tracks. Evensong's self-titled album nowadays is a high-prized UK folk-pop artefact, originally released in 1973 to critical acclaim and strong sales. The duo's fragile, harmony-drenched songs are given instrumental muscle by seasoned session players Clem Cattini, B.J. Cole and Herbie Flowers, and ornate string arrangements courtesy of former Spencer Davis Group guitarist Ray Fenwick.

Evensong were a British Folk Baroque duo with a psychedelic edge, similar to Heron. They toured for three months in America after they recorded their only album. 

Evensong is a similar to the likes of Magna Carta or Strawbs mixed with American and Australian duo songwriter folk in a more British way and with more solo lead vocals, with one Christian song and with one theme inspiration on country folk. This is harmonious folk-pop for which their name Evensong, -which is an Anglican expression for evening prayer-, should describe the aspect of a pastoral softness in their music. One of the two musicians, the British born Michael Lawson had a first life in American rock'n roll touring and playing support acts for American bands and singers in Birmingham, like with a band called The Grasshoppers. After having played with few more bands like The Shanes, The D'Fenders, The N'Betweens and Varsity Rag when the last band split, Evensong was formed as a new inspiration and direction.

The first track immediately sets the tone strongly with a warm voice, acoustic pickings and a full orchestral lush sweetness (strings and clarinet arrangements) benefiting the song, not forgetting the harmony vocal accents finishing touch. This is the track closest to folk-pop acts Magna Carta and the likes. The uptempo humtump electric “I was her cowboy” shows the American interest, and is somewhat out of its place against the other tracks, it does places the songwriter with his logical step in the other direction. The slightly melancholic but strongly focused next song, “Store of Time” is accompanied by nothing else but acoustic guitar but has also a few electric slide accents. “Story Of Time” sounds more psychedelic with its tam tam percussion, its melancholic flute theme with triangle arrangements added to the dual vocals with guitar. 

The next beauty, “Smallest man in the world”, has again more orchestral harmonies, comparable to the opener, with the inclusion of some flute. The next Christian song has a beautiful Bert Jansch-like guitar arrangement, congas and some electric guitar. 

The singing reminds me a bit of Cat Stevens here. With more drumming and electric guitar this has similar pop/rock strength too, again with well focused songwriting. “Borderline” is again a strong song, with all the right musical harmonies and arrangements to make this work perfectly. With strong drumming accents and very classical baroque orchestrations this is just wonderful and need to be heard. “Rum Rummer” has a little more up tempo and strong harmony vocals and more orchestrations. The last track is a melancholic guitar led song.

Surprisingly six bonus tracks were added of which 3 were recorded in the studios around the same time, and two came from their off-LP 1973 single. “Home Made Wine” for instance is with similar harmony vocals and acoustic/electric guitars but is rockier. Also here the American influence and accent is more dominant. These tracks still fit, but direct often towards a more (American) East Coast feeling.

In the mid 60s Mike Lawson played in Rock & Roll bands in Birmingham (The Shanes, The D'Fenders, The N'Betweens, Varsity Rag), supporting American bands and singers on tour. Tony Hulme worked as a ballad singer in the Manchester club circuit (named "Mr. Manchester") due to his stage show. Tony Hulme died in 2010.

01. Dodos and Dinosaurs - 03.50
02. I Was Her Cowboy - 03.18
03. Store of Time - 03.35 
04. Gypsy - 02.38
05. Smallest Man in the World - 03.38
06. Take Your Son to Church Mother - 04.47
07. Borderline - 03.02
08. Firefly - 02.40
09. Rum Runner - 03.50
10. Sweetbriar Road - 04.02

Bonus Tracks
11. Homemade Wine  [Unreleased CBS Studios 1971] - 02.59
12. Reaching Out for Someone  [Unreleased CBS Studios 1971] - 02.52
13. Wooden Wheels  [Unreleased CBS Studios 1971] - 04.32
14. Tell Me a Story  [Unreleased CBS Studios 1971] - 2.22
15. Dance Dance Dance [Phillips Single 1973] - 02.46
16. Romeo [Phillips Single 1973] - 03.41

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Tamam Shud - Evolution (Great Aussie Psychedelic Rock 1969)

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In the late '60s, director Paul Witzig traveled the globe, 16mm camera in tow, shooting silent footage of some of Australia's top surfers on the shores of North Africa, Puerto Rico, France and Portugal, as well as in locations all over their homeland. The end result was Evolution, and though the IMDb doesn't list any Witzig works outside of being a camera operator on Bruce Brown's classic surf documentary The Endless Summer, enthusiasts of the sport tell a remarkably different tale.

Evolution is thought of by aficionados as one of the crucial surf films for a few reasons chief among them the lack of dialogue, and how Witzig allowed the skill of his subjects and the depth of its soundtrack to guide the narrative. As one of the bands contracted for its soundtrack, Tamam Shud created an album's worth of material, composed to projections of the raw footage Witzig collected on his shoots. It's not a film Ive seen, nor is it readily available outside of VHS bootlegs, but if the music here is any indication, I'm sold.

Tamam Shud (meaning 'the end' in Persian, so claims their liner notes) existed in an earlier incarnation as the Sunsets, and frontman Lindsay Bjerre had been commissioned to write original music for Witzig's previous surf doc, The Hot Generation. The nature of this working relationship must have been a trusting one, as it's hard to imagine a whole film playing out to hard psych this undeniably cool. Bjerre's band (Zac Zytnik on guitar, Peter Barron on bass, and drummer Dannie Davidson) were joined in the studio by Peter Lockwood and Michael Carlos of the band Tully, whose group's music also appeared in Evolution. Though their music sounds a bit out of the moment for its 1969 studio date, its blues structures and full, lively arrangements survive any sort of serious aging for all but the most detail-oriented collector.

Chunks of Australia's underground rock history are only now becoming known to world audiences, with Aztec's dynamite reissue series, and long-rumored compilations by early Lobby Loyde groups like the Wild Cherries coming to the fore. That said, there doesn't seem to be much historical mention of Tamam Shud, even in the collectors' niches of record, and no earlier reissues barring a Radioactive label offering of dubious legality. Evolution should do well to right that wrong. This is an astounding, wild, free sounding album, steeped in the Beatles and Hendrix in just the right ways, much as it is with inspiration from the sun, surf and sand & the sand especially, as the organic and gritty production of Evolution gives the feeling of granular, between-the-toes crunch. The big, rounded, feedback-studded fuzz on the guitars here is astounding, with a hollow-body or possibly acoustic origin that works its way into the composition of slow, evocative minuets like 'I'm No One' and 'Jesus Guide Me, & and billows throughout the heart and veins of the harder tracks that surround them.

There are plenty of mistakes in the playing, but somehow they only add to the character of these tracks, which flow out of the performers as easily as breath. Songs sound as if they'd just been written, as melodies climb the scales with trepidation before locking into bass runs and expressive, lyric soloing. Bjerre's clear, high tenor, which counts off most of the songs here, fits impressively alongside the guitar tones, with a bit of a yodeling quality in spots that puts him in the class of belters like Family's Roger Chapman, but with a more palatable, less manic range. 

He's still able to break off a scream or two, but that's not where he's heading, so when it does happen, it makes the moment that much more righteous. Moreover, he knows when to hold back and let the guitars do the talking, as graceful lines open their parachute into tastefully wild psychedelic scatter. As a group, their album plays out as effortless, beatific rock, a successful and non-excessive jam session with incredible character and one-of-a-kind surge, even going as far as to imbue surf guitar with more modern, even progressive, influences, as the tension created in album closer 'Too Many Life' suggests.

This Japanese papersleeve reissue of Evolution, part of EM Records' surf soundtrack series, includes 1971s Bali Waters EP, three cleaner songs with the progressive tack reaching to the fore. Bjerre sounds as strong as he did on the album, but the band is a little more reined in, with a polish that still evokes a surfborne spirit. These three tracks are fine, but not as gloriously blasted out as the album, as if the group was waiting for their career to foment. Still, it's not a bad way to finish off such a satisfying album, a true surprise in a time where hundreds of psych reissues of almost random quality surface at ridiculous prices. It's nice to roll with a winner now and again.

Line-up Musicians
♦ Dannie Davidson - drums
♦ Zac Zytnic - guitars
♦ Lindsay Bjerre - guitars, vocals
♦ Peter Barron - bass

01. Music Train (03:52)
02. Evolution (02:45)
03. I'm No One (02:08)
04. Mr. Strange (02:34)
05. Lady Sunshine (04:39)
06. Falling Up (02:48)
07. Feel Free (03:12)
08. It's a Beautiful Day (02:53)
09. Jesus Guide Me (03:53)
10. Rock on Top (02:49)
11. Slow One and the Fast One (06:58)
12. Too Many Life (03:04)

Bonus Tracks "Bali Waters EP (1972)
13. Bali Waters [Bali Waters EP 1972] (06:14)
14. Got a Feeling [Bali Waters EP 1972] (02.37)
15. My Father Told Me [Bali Waters EP 1972] (03:47)

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Chuck Berry - After School Session (Classic 1st Album US 1957) & Chuck Berry - One Dozen Berrys (Classic 2nd Album US 1958)

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Chuck Berry - After School Session US 1957

Chuck Berry's first album boasts a picture of him lifted from his appearance in the 1956-vintage rock & roll movie Rock, Rock, Rock — it's a daring pose if you look closely, the singer/guitarist/songwriter captured at his most animated, in what was a pretty bold pose for a black artist in an interracial movie, strutting and duck-walking across the screen with his guitar at full...exposure. That said, bold as the movie appearance was and the pose that was reflected in its cover, After School Session came out fairly late, given that his first hit, "Maybellene," dated from the summer of 1955. 

This was partly owing to the sheer novelty of rock & roll LPs — during that period, only a relative handful reached the public, and a significant portion of those were the work of Elvis Presley or Bill Haley, whose associations with the gigantic RCA Victor and Decca labels, respectively, put them in virtually a separate universe from everyone else in the field, especially Berry, recording for the tiny independent Chess label. Chess Records hadn't even issued its first LP until the end of 1956, and that album, the soundtrack LP Rock, Rock, Rock, had included "Maybellene." 

After School Session was only the label's second-ever long-player, and its timing was predicated on the fact that, after "Maybellene," the rock & roll legend hadn't charted another major pop hit in almost two years (though he had generated some serious R&B hits, which are included here, among them the blues "Wee Wee Hours" — which was what Berry originally purported to represent as his sound — and the more rhythm-oriented "No Money Down" and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man").

It was the release and hit status of "School Day" in the early spring of 1957 that yielded this album, which is a brilliant compendium of the range, depth, and breadth of Berry's music across his first two years as a recording artist. The sounds ranged from the pounding, jargon-laden teen-oriented beat of "School Day" through those R&B and blues classics to the moody instrumental "Deep Feeling"; the Latin-flavored, Calypso-influenced "Havana Moon"; the slow, romantic ballad "Together (We'll Always Be)," which 
showed Berry working in a '40s R&B-pop mode similar to the music of the Ink

Spots, and attempting a Nat King Cole style of soft singing; his more successful effort in that ballad vein, "Drifting Heart"; and the mysterious, ominous, darkly shimmering "Down Bound Train," which could almost have been Berry's (and black music's) answer to "Ghost Riders in the Sky." 

The 2004 reissue of After School Session includes three bonus tracks that greatly extend the range of the original album — the driving rocker "You Can't Catch Me" (whose lyrics would greatly complicate John Lennon's life when he cribbed them for the opening of "Come Together" late in the Beatles' history); the even more pounding "Thirty Days"; and his debut hit, "Maybellene." 

All of it (including the rest of the original album's contents) shows off a glorious remastered sound that lets you hear the room ambience at Chess Studios and make out the exact spatial relationship between Berry and his backup singers on "Thirty Days." It puts the original CD to shame sonically, and boasts superior historical notes as well.

01. School Days, Berry  02:56
02. Deep Feeling, Berry  03:04
03. Too Much Monkey Business, Berry  02:51
04. Wee Wee Hours, Berry  02:20
05. Roly Poly, Berry  02:42
06. No Money Down, Berry  02:59
07. Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Berry  02:18
08. Berry Pickin', Berry  03:09
09. Together (We'll Always Be), Berry  02:32
10. Havana Moon, Berry 02:47
11. Down Bound Train  02:50
12. Drifting Heart  02:49

Bonus Tracks:
13. You Can't Catch Me  02:44
14. I've Changed  03:06
15. Untitled Instrumental  02:23
16. Maybellene (Live)  02:05
17. Roll Over Beethoven (Live)  02:44
18. Rock And Roll Music (Demo)  02:40
19. Thirteen Question Method (Early Version)  02:40
20. Sweet Little Sixteen (Demo)  03:09
21. Sweet Little Sixteen (Take 3)  03:14
22. Night Beat (Take 3) (Instrumental)  02:55
23. Time Was (Slow Version) (Take 4)  02:37
24. Time Was (Slow Version)  02:02
25. Reelin' And Rockin' (Take 1)  03:38
26. Merry Christmas Baby  03:13

Chuck Berry - One Dozen Berrys US 1958

Chuck Berry's second album is ever so slightly more sophisticated than its predecessor. Although One Dozen Berrys is hooked around a pair of hit singles, "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Rock & Roll Music," most of what's here doesn't really sound too much like either of those songs — rather, the other ten tracks each constitute a close-up look at some individual component of the types of music that goes into brewing up the Chuck Berry sound. 

Thus, the slow instrumental "Blue Feeling" is a look at the blues sound that Berry initially proposed to bring to Chess Records; "How You've Changed" presents him in a slow ballad, singing in a manner closer to Nat "King" Cole than to any rock & roller of the era; and "Lajaunda" shows off his love of Latin music. "Rocking at the Philharmonic" is a rippling guitar/piano workout, a compendium of the sounds that lay beneath those hit singles, and a killer showcase not only for Berry, but also for Lafayette Leake at the ivories, and also a decent showcase for Willie Dixon's bass playing. 

"Oh Baby Doll" is a return to the beat of "Maybellene," this time carrying a lyric that's more sensual (in a bluesy sense) than rollicking fun, though it comes out that way amid the pounding beat and Berry's crunchy, angular guitar solo. "Guitar Boogie" is yet another guitar instrumental, one of four on this album, leading one to wonder if he was running short of first-rate lyrics in mid-1957, amid his frantic pace of recording and touring — no matter, for the piece is a killer track, a pumping, soaring working out for Berry's guitar that had some of the most impressive pyrotechnics that one was likely to hear in 1957; what's more, the track was good enough to form the template for Jeff Beck's more ornate adaptation, "Jeff's Boogie," from the 1966 album Roger the Engineer (aka The Yardbirds aka Over Under Sideways Down). 

The best of the album's tracks is easily "Reelin' & Rockin'," which is also just about the dirtiest song that Berry released in all of the 1950s (and for many years after that), essentially a blues-boogie recasting, on a more overt level, of the extended feats of sexual intercourse alluded to in Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock." 

The one totally weird track here is "Low Feeling," which is nothing but "Blue Feeling" doctored in the studio by Leonard and Phil Chess, slowed down to half speed and edited to create a 12th track — doing that to the original was bad enough, but sticking it on the same LP with the original was downright bizarre. And the album's closer, "It Don't Take But a Few Minutes," is a reminder of just how much Berry owed to country music for his sound, and explains, to anyone coming in late, how he could have been mistaken for a white hillbilly in those early days, based on the sound of this song and "Maybelline."

01. Sweet Little Sixteen  03:01
02. Blue Feeling  02:58
03. La Jaunda (Espanol)  03:08
04. Rock At The Philarmonic  03:21
05. Oh, Baby Doll  02:35
06. Guitar Boogie  02:20
07. Reelin' And Rockin  03:15
08. In-Go  02:28
09. Rock & Roll Music  02:30
10. How You'Ve Changed  02:47
11. Low Feeling  03:04
12. It Don't Take But A Few Minutes  02:30

Bonus Tracks: 
13. Rock and Roll Music (alternate)  02:26
14. Sweet Little Sixteen (Take 11)  03:09
15. Sweet Little Sixteen (Original Master)  03:46
16. Reelin And Rockin (Take 7/8)  03:46
17. Johnny - · B. Goode (Alternate Take 2/3)  03:21
18. Around And Around (Take 2 Overdub) 02:49
19. Around And Around (Take 3 Overdub) 02:43
20. Ingoe (Take 3 Overdub)  02:57
21. Lila de Beautiful (Alternate Take 15/16)  02:32
22. Lila de Beautiful (Take 6) 02:10
23. 21 Blues  02:11
24. 21  02:27
25. 21 (Take 14)  02:38
26. Vacation Time  02:53

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Black Sabbath - Live at Montreux Casino, August 1970 and in Brussels 1970

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“No questions asked of ultra-name board”. The end.
…… No, no, I will explain properly. This work, latest remastered of “MONTREUX 1970,” which caused a whirlwind in 2010. Is this “remastered” is or was a point, but first from the basic description. If you know the existing airport, … a while now wait.

LED ZEPPELIN, DEEP PURPLE and sequence, BLACK SABBATH to represent the ’70s UK HR. However, when compared to both bands that identify and organize the live sound source progresses, it is not said that blessed unfortunately. Among such, Speaking of record who are recognized as “no questions asked great” from, “1970 Brussels (video, which has been referred to as the conventional” Paris 70 “),” “1975 Asbury Park”, and of this work “Montreux 1970” Big 3. The three, not official “LIVE AT LAST” “NEVER SAY DIE” even a problem, I just top in top.

※ Note: top version of the 1970 Brussels “THE ULTIMATE OZZY OSBOOURNE YEARS”, the top version of the 1975 Asbury Park is already in stock as “LIVE LONGEST … DIE AT LAST”. If those of non-experience (although I think …… not Irasshara), it all means.

Well, responsible for the corner of the sound source Big 3 “MONTREUX 1970” is, in 2010 to suddenly to transcendence sound board recording that has been excavated. Its contents, is the last day, Montreux performances August 31, 1970 debut album “BLACK SABBATH” tour, which celebrated its 45th anniversary this year. Its appearance and the other was a fuss. After all, five years ago did not know even that there was a live in “August 31, 1970”. And yet, because I’ve been jumped suddenly ultra-ultra-high quality sound board. The Ya its sound serving, well by far among the sound source Big 3, mono “Brussels 1970 (formerly Paris 1970)” What stage do you also referred to as the above …… than the video, even beyond the level of the live recording, studio album Beams Sound of. Moreover, initial BLACK SABBATH that has been recorded in the super sound quality, was “just now, in repainting the history”. Since recording of ultra-name board “PARANOID” is June 16 to 21, 1970, that two months later. It anymore, best of … (snip) in superb in superb in superb’s a British rock of …

Only tremendous so far, but the storm also compressed file on the net from the moment of appearance was raging, that was released as “original master itself” in such circumstances was a press album “MONTREUX 1970”. First press, sold out to it what “between say was with”. Unabated momentum in shades of Jacquet is different only in the second edition, it was I have also sold out.

This impact was also beyond the sea. According to the officials, how to obtain a press board of Tony Iommi and Giza? Butler himself “MONTREUX 1970” (the “LIVE LONGEST … DIE AT LAST”). It is said that much to Ai聴 (By the way, Ozzy Osbourne is so it was the end in “Hmm”: laughs). Question your identity our hearts even it’s a shock operation of shock Sakuchu that had to eagle Zukami!

5 years from the appearance was so of the incident, this time super-name board of “this I say with BLACK SABBATH” is, is why was revived in the latest remastered this time! Although I have become to long long prelude, finally main issue. Identity What is the of this work Meiutsu “DEFINITIVE”. It is “official sense remastered”. In fact, even when appeared incident five years ago, “it has been officially recorded, discovered during research for the bonus sound source of Deluxe Edition, eventually became the unpublished” it had been said. In fact, it also has is why it was clear of convincing, “Well, I had been really official release, kana?” Remains raw “far” and was also the a sound that seems also. Perhaps by performing a digital remastered, it …… or not it was to listen alongside the original album.

This time, to deliver “DEFINITIVE MONTREUX 1970”, has been remastered the “really I had been the official release?” Motif. Intact original ultra-clear sound, modern force, the dynamism has been dusted plenty. When you be honest, sound source with the In “meaning the weight of the” original as it is of “MONTREUX 1970” is by far great. Well another, Metchakucha great (So, please do not let go of the person who you have absolutely!). Did on affirmed up there, if you Ai聴 from the usual, I recommend this work. After all, it is familiar way of also excellent when I heard sprinkled with studio albums remastered CD. Sharpness sharp edges Standing, thundering bass of plump sounds comfortably. Is irresistible, really.

Also Iommi also always “debut album, was only live album of there are no spectators” Ozzy but says, Sashizume this work What “the stage version”. Was created a super-name board “BLACK SABBATH” “PARANOID”, “1970”. To special year in special just two, had even joined one.

Although it is your embarrassing story, Ever since then to hand this work, the recording order “because tour last day 1st album → this work → 2nd and Kana will listen in the order of the album” “Today in 1st album → 2nd album → this work as such will kana “try to repeat every day settlement. Subsequently you listened to as the “Iron Man and though why that after recording War Pigs is provisional lyrics that do wonder? … No way, do not remember yet!?”, etc., etc., as jumped almost 70 years. This fun, the real thrill to warp to ’45 before. Come, please experience you also in the press album.

Live at Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland 31st August 1970

01. Intro - 01.22 
02. Paranoid - 02.59
03. N.I.B. - 05.45
04. Behind The Wall Of Sleep - 06.03
05. Iron Man - 06.23
06. War Pigs - 07.43
07. Fairies Wear Boots - 08.42
08. Hand Of Doom - 08.30


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Along with their 1974 performance at the California Jam and the glorious 1975 Asbury Park show, Black Sabbath‘s December, 1970, performance in Paris, France is among the group’s most famous bootlegs. Various snippets have made the rounds over the years — mostly video — but the soundboard audio from the show, coupled with the fact that it’s the original lineup in their Paranoid-era, was too good for me to pass up on eBay recently. Maybe it was posting the “N.I.B.” video last week that did it. Maybe it was the wine. Could go either way.

Whatever the case, it was one of those shows I had downloaded forever ago, but definitely of a quality worth owning physically. Even as Ozzy butchers the lyrics to nearly every song — “War Pigs” and “Hand of Doom” are especially brutal — the energy with which he does so practically punches you in the face through the speakers, and Bill Ward holds down “Black Sabbath” like I haven’t heard in any other era of the band. All the material was fresh, immediate, and fortunately, the sound on the War Pigs bootleg is good enough to capture that.

I’m pretty sure it’s a home-print job, inkjet, burner, whatnot, but it’s a silver-backed disc and I paid less than $20 for it, and in this age of sabboots, each of those is rare enough on its own that to have them both at the same time feels like getting away with something. If you’re into Sabbath bootlegs, you probably already have this show one way or another — I’ve never had much interest in collecting bootleg videos, but I know plenty of people who do — but if you don’t, it’s an essential piece to the catalog.

Interestingly (or maybe not), the track list on the back of the CD is wrong, and “Black Sabbath” is not the closer of the show, “Fairies Wear Boots” is. “Black Sabbath” comes after “Iron Man” — written as one word on the CD — though it kicks enough ass it could have just as easily ended the set. “Behind the Wall of Sleep” is another highlight, for Tony Iommi‘s hypnotic solo if not Geezer Butler‘s running bass, which is low on “War Pigs” to the point of needing to be adjusted on the EQ, but well worth the minimal effort of doing so.

There are plenty of other copies out there, and even if it’s a cheap inkjet knockoff that you’re getting, the War Pigs bootleg captures young Sabbath at their most vital and as they never would be again. If you see it, get it.

Live in Brussels 1970

01. Paranoid
02. Hand Of Doom
03. Rat Salad
04. Iron Man
05. Black Sabbath
06. N.I.B.
07. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
08. War Pigs
09. Fairies Wear Boots 

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Part 2: Sabbath 2
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