Advantages: Authentic live feel Disadvantages: Won't appeal to everyone
...you away on albums but live they're dead wood. Dire Straits for instance. Watching them was like putting a cd on in a huge hall and watching the telly from 50 yards away. I've got loads of albums by people I've never seen. Some I'd never want to see. Conversely, there are acts you've heard on disk maybe, been unimpressed and then been staggered at how good they are live. Rarely does one come across one who can do both, produce studio albums of great ... ...it on stage. Then the live album gets released which again manages to combine those qualities and bring that stage presence right into your living room.
Rory Gallagher was one of those musicians. An Irish showband guitarist who came to England in the mid-60s after forming Taste to try and break out of the musically stultifying showband circuit, went solo and became an influence on artists ranging from Adam Clayton and The Edge, Slash and Stuart ...
The-Operator 20.06.2002 (15.12.2002)
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