Thursday Night In San Francisco (Albert King Live At The Fillmore 1968) - Albert King

Advantages: excellent music, history recorded, Dylan at war with the audience, unique expirence
Disadvantages: addictive, NONE!

...Series Vol.4 - Bob Dylan Live 1966." Subtitle: "The 'Royal Albert Hall' Concert" Venue: Manchester Free Trade Hall, May 1966 ...Background... Bob Dylan had shot to fame for taking Folk music to the front of international consciousness. From the early unique styled Folk album 'Bob Dylan' Dylan had in fact constantly been shifting his direction. He became the most respected protest songwriter of the time and his songs became anthems for the peace and love movement. With the socially conscious, politically motivating messages Bob Dylan had won the respect of not just society as a whole but also of the intellectual elite. Come 1966 however and something was different. Bob Dylan was a different Bob Dylan to the one who had won over all that respect. He had become a modern day prophet, there were people hanging to his words as if... Read review

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Advantages: ok recording quality of an ok gig
Disadvantages: better to watch the dvd, but it's not Iggy at his best.

...It's cheap and cheerful, but frankly not very good. Iggy Pop was not, let's be honest, in the best of shape in 1981. This album was recorded at the end of a long bout of touring in support of one of his least loved albums - Party. Now Iggy is usually worth seeing in concert and this album is actually the soundtrack of a home video / DVD which is still available. The film shows a rather inebriated Iggy giving a half-hearted performance with only flashes of his usual brilliance. The fact that he's wearing suspenders and stockings adds to the uneasiness. But at least it makes the film worth seeing. The CD, on the other hand, just come across as half-cocked. The band aren't bad, but aren't especially impressive either (despite the presence of Bowi'e guitar player Carlos Alomar) and iggy's half mumbled half shouted vocals just sound bad... Read review

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Advantages: Gorgeous music, played with much passion
Disadvantages: None really

...Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and many others. He regularly appears at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall and in addition to his solo engagements also enjoys a thriving chamber music career. Alban has a very cool website at http://www.albangerhardt.com/ Extracts from this CD can be found on his site at: http://www.albangerhardt.com/frames.pl?path=http://www.albangerhardt.com/en glish/audio.html Conductor Carlos Kalmar is Music Director of the Oregon Symphony in the USA and principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago - there is a useful website at www.grantparkmusicfestival.com which has a fuller biography of Mr Kalmar. He has conducted many major orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, to name just a few and like Alban... Read review

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