Doc & Merle Watson- Live A Tipitina's, 1984 (2025)- ***
(A strange release from the Tip's Record Club. With all respect to the amazing Doc & Merle, this is just not what I want from this club. Bring on some New Orleans rarities.)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band- Live At the Main Point, 2/2/75 - ****
(Just about through with friend of Burning Wood, Peter Carlin's excellent book on the making of "Born To Run." 50 years later, that record still kills. And so does this legendary performance from Bryn Mawr.)
Jon Batiste- Big Money (2025)- ****
(Review is up at the other place.)
Gary Moore- After The War (1989)- ***1/2
The Beatles- The Early Beatles (1965, MONO)- ****
v/a- Stiff Records (Personal Playlist)- ****
Motorhead- Ace Of Spades (1980) - ****1/2
(I know, I know. This band is a hard sell. But Jeebus, they fucking kick ass!)
G-Force- S/T (1980)- ****
(Fun facts about this Gary Moore side project. First, keyboardist Joachim Kuhn performed live with Ornette Coleman for one of my favorite Ornette records, "Colors." See? We could all get along. Next, my band Pep in The Cat covered "The Woman's In Love." It never quite gelled, but all five of us really liked this record. And speaking of this record, I loved it in 1980 and I really enjoyed it tonight. It has a few clams, but it's mostly a solid hard rock record with amazing playing throughout. Thanks to hpunch for the nudge.)
3 comments:
I'd like to hear that GForce cover one day.
The Live at Main Point performance is legendary indeed. Bruce and his band in top form and the big man, Clarence Clemmons, took it to another level.
That Watson / Tips concert was weird from the beginning. It was scheduled to take place at the World's Fair stage site (NO hosted it in 1984), but there were issues with the stage and it ultimately got re-routed to Tips (which was a strange booking for them). Not sure what led them to release this, unless its some effort to increase non-subscriber sales.
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