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(More customer reviews)It's good that this album is finally available on CD in the US. From what I've seen this album has been slammed by critics and treated as almost a non-entity in the Doobie catalog.
That's just unfair, because this is a GREAT live album. Every Doobie fan (except maybe those who are Johnston-era only fans) needs to have this. This is everything a live album should be. Many live albums have versions of songs that are just carbon copies of the originals, adding nothing to them and sometimes even subtracting from them. But you won't hear that kind of thing here. Many tracks on this album add new twists to the originals, and some (Steamer Lane Breakdown, You Belong To Me) are actually more definitive versions of the songs.
Of course this is a historically important collection as well, in more ways than one. There are two Doobies originals that were first heard here (including "Olana," which later appeared in studio form on the box set, but the definitive version is on this album). There is the lead vocal debut of (the late) Keith Knudsen, on "Don't Start Me Talkin'" (sounding a lot like Pat Simmons and a lot UNlike Keith's vocals on SIBLING RIVALRY).
The second Doobies live album, WILDLIFE CONCERT, repeats most of the songs that were on this album. With only a couple exceptions, it is the FAREWELL TOUR versions, not the WILDLIFE CONCERT ones, that I listen to.
If you're a McDonald-era or "all-eras" Doobies fan, GET THIS!
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