New boot review

[Paul de Kievit <pdk@dataweb.nl>]

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