Dan Gould Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Anyone familiar with this one? AMG puts it out at the same time as Live at the Regal, which makes me wonder whether those brothers were trying to take advantage of that album's success by putting out their own live album ... but is this legit live or did they add applause to their studio takes? Anyone know this one? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 I'm not 100% positive, but I think I heard it back in the day and i remember it as canned applause - phony live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Correction...I AM 100% positive. I went to the collection and LO AND BEHOLD - it was there (although I have it on KENT). I played the first minute of the first track. Definitiely phony Live...and HORRIBLE phony stereo too. Kind of funny - they have a phony announcer introduce BB. I suspect I did the same thing 30 years ago. Played the first minute and put it away - the record looks MINT ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted January 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Thanks a lot, Harold. Even at $6 I don't need fake live B.B. Guess I was right that the Biharis were trying to cash in on the Live at the Regal album. Not much of a mystery why. What is a mystery is why AMG would give it 4 1/2 stars! No review, but 4 1/2 stars is the rating. If 3 stars is the default, how the heck could it be a fake live set with bad phony stereo and get 4.5 stars? Did someone really listen to this and give it that rating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stereojack Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Did someone really listen to this and give it that rating? Probably not - one of many such gaffes on AMG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 The Bihari Bros - Gotta love 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 The Bihari Bros - Gotta love 'em. Actually, I don't mind this; it's one of only 2 I've got so far from his Bihari period. The audience, though fake, is very good. If you're going to overdub an audience, at least let it be noisy and wild, which this is. It's much better than the fake audiences on most James Brown studio recordings. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gray Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 I don't mind it either. I have it on Kent as well. It introduced me to 'Baby look at you' which is one of my favourite BB tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted January 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Yeah, but these are old performances in new clothes, with no interaction between B.B. and the audience. Just doesn't sound worthwhile to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Nearly bought a totally trashed United copy of this today at the Mesquite Half-Price. But $5.98 is too much for sizzling bacon... $2.98 I'd have gone for, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gray Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Yeah, but these are old performances in new clothes, with no interaction between B.B. and the audience. Just doesn't sound worthwhile to me. Absolutely right, it's not worth buying now. But 40 years ago, it was VERY difficult to pick up BB King records in England and we had to take what we could find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Yeah, but these are old performances in new clothes, with no interaction between B.B. and the audience. Just doesn't sound worthwhile to me. Absolutely right, it's not worth buying now. But 40 years ago, it was VERY difficult to pick up BB King records in England and we had to take what we could find. Too true. Even in the early '80s B B King Bihari material wasn't all that common over here. Ace had only just started up. And, much as I love B B King, there are about a hundred people I love more, so completing a collection has had to wait. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 I have a soft spot for records with fake audiences overdubbed - I was thinking on my new CD of doing a song with fake background voices, hands clapping, and glasses clinking (like on The In Crowd) - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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