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Re: LAL



Gary, re:

>Why is LAL head and shoulders, not just above all other live rock albums,
>but all  other live Who recordings? Clearly the band played and sang
>extraordinarily well at Leeds University in 1970, but LAL has a clarity of
>sound and detail of production which are unique.

Probably due to the fact that they didn't bother getting too "creative"
trying to fix what wasn't broken. Too often they bring these tapes back to
the studio to "fix" them and it turns out sounding like something completely
different due to "creative mixing"... This album actually capture "the sound"
of The Who...

-wf