Concord does something right?

[danasgoodstuff]

I read somewhere on the net, and then confirmed it at Concord's site, the're doing an expanded version of Otis at the Whiskey - more, loonger tunes,three full sets exactly as played over two CDs. Should be great, outta tune horns and all.

[paul secor]

Might be a small start - we shall see - but they have a looooooooooong way to go to doing things right. Doubt they'll ever get there.

[Rooster_Ties]

Took a bit of digging to find it on the Concord site.

The new issue will be called Live On The Sunset Strip (which doesn't come up when you search on Whiskey).

(A number of typos in the press-release style product description.)

[Stefan Wood]

That's one crappy looking cover.

[John L]

Took a bit of digging to find it on the Concord site.

The new issue will be called Live On The Sunset Strip (which doesn't come up when you search on Whiskey).

(A number of typos in the press-release style product description.)

Looks interesting. There don't appear to be any different tracks than on the previously released Live at the Whiskey A Go Go discs, but there are some alternative versions of a few tracks. It will be nice to have as recorded in individual sets. If Otis had been around a bit longer and made more records, this might be one to pass up. But...

[danasgoodstuff]

Do any of you who do the 'tape trader' thing know if any of the v. late gigs of Otis with the Bar-Kays have surfaced? That would be real interesting to me....

[JSngry]

If Otis had been around a bit longer and made more records, this might be one to pass up. But...

Yeah, my recollection of the Whiskey material is that the horn section was not at all together, sometimes irritatingly so... less so the rhythm section, but still...

Is the Concord London/Paris a repackaging/expansion of the Live In Europe LP? As Dana implies above, that was some tight shit!

[brownie]

Is the Concord London/Paris a repackaging/expansion of the Live In Europe LP? As Dana implies above, that was some tight shit!

Wish they would.

That Stax tour show with Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T and the MGs and others at the Paris Olympia in March 1967 is one of the best show I ever attended!

Not some tight shit.. very tight shit!

Edited April 20, 2010 by brownie

[paul secor]

Doesn't Atlantic (or whatever conglomerate that now owns Atlantic) own the London/Paris material? Or at least the two LPs worth of material that was originally issued?

I believe that Concord would only have the rights to any material that wasn't issued when Atlantic had a distribution deal with Stax. The Otis/Whiskey material would fall into that category.

[danasgoodstuff]

Actually I was not refering to the Live in Europe/London/Paris(and elsewhere) with the MGs/MarKeys, which is quite wonderful, but I was saying that the Bar-Kays were the road band at the end (last half of '67 roughly?) and I've never heard anything from any of those gigs...