written by John Fitzgerald, August 24th, 2004
An intriguing Green/Spencer/Kirwan era live tape (which, apart from a few volume problems early on, has better sound quality than one may think) from an earlier period than one usually hears from this line up. While it's more restrained than some of the more excitingly adventurous recordings that were to take place later in the year to come, there's still some bravo performances present. "Tune up" is exactly just that, it's not actually a song but fun licks to listen to in anticipation. New kid on the block Danny Kirwan impresses all with a great live rendition of his slow blues "Something inside of me" which really cries during the six string breaks. Jeremy does his best version (released to date) of "My baby's sweet" here and rocks the house with "Great balls of fire" to close the show. We are left to ponder the greatness of seven Peter Green wonders. Most notably is a song not heard elsewhere by the Mac entitled "Lemon squeezer", a slow harp led blues tune with double entendre lyrics is a real nugget which must not go unnoticed. This is most colorful stuff as Peter mixes some earlier blues triumphs such as "If you be my baby", "Rollin' man" (which extends nicely as does) "Need your love so bad" with more modern (at the time) musical experimentation such as "Albatross" & "Before the beginning". I find this a good companion piece to the wonderful "English rose" compilation album but I'm sure fans of that era will like this very good live set regardless. |
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