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(More customer reviews)As a Utopia fan from way back, this CD was at first intriguing to me simply on the basis of when in their career it's from. I've found that most of the live audio recordings of Utopia out there revolve around 1977-79 largely due to the attention Todd was attracting with 'Back to the Bars' and 'Hermit of Mink Hollow'. A time when the democratic concept band of Utopia was only in it's infancy and Roger, Kasim and Willie were very much still in Todd's shadow still even playing much of Todd's solo material. Beside that most of what's left is the entertaining (and out of print) 'Evening with Utopia' DVD which is emphasizing heavily the new material of the time and 'Live at the Royal Oak' DVD, which never sounded real inspired and still captured Utopia in a formulative stage. With the 'REDUX' CD-we are given a great, but, past their time Utopia not really representing what they were in their prime and what they played. The 'Oblivion Tour' CD may well be that one recording that shows Utopia as a fully democratic unit as intended with ALL four guys leading the way, playing a set list representing their own catalog serious and lighter and as slick as a band in the 8th of what would be 10 year existence. Just about everything is hear-from little live sound imperfections, typical in Utopia, to a rousing set list building as it goes along!
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Japanese exclusive release featuring 17 tracks. 2001.
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