Re: New boot review

["Ian Clarke" <gai67@dial.pipex.com>]

Paul

What was "Cry Blue Murder"?

BTW, remember where we were this time (well tomorrow and Friday, 15/16) last
year?  Hope to see you at the front of a Who gig soon

IanC



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul de Kievit" <pdk@dataweb.nl>
To: <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:23 AM
Subject: New boot review


> The Who Live in Studio Bellevue te Amsterdam op 20 september 1965
> is the title of a new CD-R bootleg from Holland. This first Who show
> on Dutch soil was recorded for TV by the AVRO broadcast association.
> The official studio tapes have been erased after the broadcast, but
> fortunately a 15-year old fan in the audience made himself a recording
> using a kind of toy tape recorder (a Dokorder PT-18C).
> To start with the cons: this is a really bad audience recording.
> Cry Blue Murder or Live in Sweden 1966 sound a lot better than
> this recording. Also, due to the changing of the small tape reels some
> tracks are incomplete. JE's bass is nearly inaudible, while his
> harmony singing and even lead singing on one track is very prominent.
> Then the pros: quite a unique and long setlist for this period.
> First set: Land Of 1000 Dances (incomplete), Daddy Rolling Stone,
> Jump Back, I Cant Explain, Dancing In The Street, Bald Headed
> Woman, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, Please Please Me (incomplete).
> Second set: Love Hurts, I Dont Mind, Just You And Me Darling,
> Man With Money (incomplete), My Generation. As far as I know,
> this is the only existing live recording of Bald Headed Woman
> and the two cover songs Land Of 1000 Dances and Jump Back.
> Jump Back was a hit record for Rufus Thomas on the Stax label
> in 1964, and was also covered by other mod bands like the Small
> Faces (it's on their BBC Sessions CD). Land of 1000 Dances
> was written by Chris Kenner and Fats Domino, but the version
> from which The Who got their arrangement was the 1965 cover
> version and US top 30 hit by Cannibal and the Headhunters.
> In the UK The Action released this song as a single, and later
> Wilson Pickett also scored a hit with it.
> The cover has a nice group picture from this show.
> All in all: dont go for this boot if you want good sound quality,
> but for Who historians and completists this is a nice and curious
> addition to your collection. More info: stbellevue@hotmail.com