The Moody Blues - A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (1992) Review

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(More customer reviews)Moody Blues fans have long enjoyed and admired the group's unique ability to capture visual imagery in music. In this respect, Live at Red Rocks is a crowning achievement.
The beautiful Red Rocks Amphitheater provides a uniquely appropriate setting for the Moodies' haunting blend of rock melodies and classical accompaniments. The video does an excellent job of incorporating the scenery into the musical flow of the presentation.
Several facets of this production are noteworthy. The film masterfully captures the interplay between the band and the audience, long one of the group's touring trademarks. It also does a wonderful job of documenting the three generation span of Moody Blues enthusiasts, scanning the attendees to reveal middle aged grandparents in casual clothing, twenty-something hippee wannabees, and some fully involved pre-teens, all lost in the rapture of a major Moodies event.
Viewers with a good ear will notice that many of the vocals have a slightly strained quality, not sounding quite as good as one might expect from the likes of Hayward, Lodge and Thomas. This is because Justin was fighting a nasty case of laryngitis the night the video was filmed. Even with that disadvantage, the music still manages to be far beyond ordinary.
So far as the music, the normal repertoire is here. Standard stage versions of classics like Nights in White Satin, Lovely to See You, Story in Your Eyes and their traditional closer, Ride My SeeSaw are included. A true highlight is a magnificent version of New Horizons, powerfully enhanced by a dynamic orchestral background score.
When all is considered, A Night at Red Rocks is a true five-star experience. Don't miss it!

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Goodbye Review

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(More customer reviews)I respectfully disagree with another reviewer about the dubious quality of "Doing that scrapyard thing" and "What a bringdown". Scrapyard is one of my favourite Cream songs, a classic '60s Monty Pythonesque music hall jaunt reminiscent of Beatles offerings like "Lady Madonna". Great leslie enhanced guitar on this one. Is that Felix Papallardi on keyboards? What a bringdown is a great Baker(?) song. The bridge is classic Jack on vocals. In fact the three studio songs were at the time considered on a par with each other (Badge, of course, gaining wide popularity over time). The lack of soloing on Scrapyard and Bringdown give an indication of perhaps a more ensemble approach which could have developed (ala the Band or Traffic). The politician and sitting on top versions on this album are outstanding, as is I'm so glad. On comparing this album with Wheels of Fire, the studio cuts are certainly on a par with the lesser heard wheels titles and the live cuts are far more enduring than Toad (unless you're a percussionist). I have fond memories of this album, as I'm sure many others do as well. It marked the poignancy of their breakup as a band. It also pointed to possible new, and unfortunately unrealized within that group, directions. Goodbye was, in fact, a nice bridge (bridge not badge) between Wheels of Fire and the Blind Faith album. Let's hope we hear more of Cream in the future.

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Coast to Coast-American Tour Review

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(More customer reviews)This is just one example of why no British group could rock it like the DC5 could.
There's not a misfire on this record.And as always their harmonies were superb,their musicianship perfect and they score a direct hit with each and every one of these tunes.
Two tunes,"Anyway you Want it" and "Everybody Knows(I still love you)" came off this album and did well on the charts.This album is also known as "Across Canada with the DC5".Also some of the music off this album and the previous one went onto the picture soundtrack of their movie,"Having a Wild Weekend"(available on video).
This album has everything from ballads to fast paced rockers and everything in between.The first tune "Anyway you Want It" redefined Phil Spectors' "wall of sound" coming in at a mere two minutes and 28 seconds.Two more are JUST over the two minute mark while the rest are UNDER that mark.They could pack more into 2-3 minutes than ANY group extant at the time.And ALL of their songs,this album included,still stand the test of time.
So if you can find this gem,by all means get it.
Dave Clark now owns all the masters to his own recordings and he releases CDs only when he feels the time is right and it is good from a business point of view.
Well Mr.Clark if the reception your former electric piano man/collaborator/songwriter/singer Mike Smith received on his recent tour of North America is any indication,the time is definitely right for a release of MORE material......please!!
To start,how about the ENTIRE catalogue......then we'll go from there.

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The Complete History, Vol. 1 (Glad All Over / Return / American Tour) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been a fan of the Dave Clark Five since 1964, when "Glad All Over" hit in the U.S. This CD contains the first three DC5 albums, in their original entirety and in the same order. I say this because Dave Clark just released the first two albums on i-tunes . . . separately. Go check it out and you'll see that some of the original songs have been REPLACED. Even the song titles listed on the cover have changed. This CD contains FIVE hit singles, SIX flip-sides and SEVEN instrumentals.
"Glad All Over" is a 100% rocking, thumping album. My favorite song there, "No Time To Lose" (which sounds like "Twist and Shout") is one of the affected tracks (i.e. not on i-tunes). "Return" has about 4 slower songs and "American Tour" contains a little of both, all very good.
If you can find this or any of the other volumes and you enjoy the Tottenham sound of the Dave Clark Five, go for it!

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33 Tracks: 1-Glad All Over 2-All Of The Time 3-Stay 4-Chaquita(second version) 5-Do You Love Me 6-Bits And Pieces 7-I Know You 8-No Time To Lose 9-Doo Wah 10-Time 11-She's All Mine 12-Can't You See That She's Mine 13-I Need You,I Love You 14-I Love You No More 15-Rumble 16-Funny 17-Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah 18-Can I Trust You 19-Forever And A Day 20-Theme Without A Name 21-On Broadway 22-Because 23-Who Does He Think He Is 24-Move On 25-Whenever You're Around 26-I Want You Still 27-Long Ago 28-Come On Over 29-Blue Monday 30-Sometimes 31-Any Time You Want Love 32-I Cried Over You 33-Ol' Sol.

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Coast to Coast / American Tour Review

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(More customer reviews)American Tour - Coast to Coast
Track Listings:
1. Because
2. Who Does He Think He Is
3. Move On
4. Whenever You're Around
5. I Want You Still
6. Long Ago
7. Come On Over
8. Blue Monday
9. Sometimes
10. Any Time You Want Love
11. I Cried Over You
12. Ol' Sol
13. Any Way You Want It
14. I Can't Stop Loving You
15. I Can't Stand It
16. What Is There To Say
17. Everybody Knows
18. Crying Over You
19. Say You Want Me
20. When
21. Don't You Know
22. To Me
23. It's Not True
24. I Knew It All the Time
25. Concentration Baby
26. Man In a Pin-Stripped Suite
27. Children
28. Always Me
29. Southern Man
Tracks 1 - 12 From "American Tour" 1964
Tracks 13 - 23 From "Coast to Coast" 1965
Tracks 24 - 29 B Side Singles 1964 - 1970

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Magical Mystery Tour Review

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(More customer reviews)The Beatles, as it has been said too many times to count, really hit their stride in the late '60s. Especially in 1966-1967, when they put out three classic albums: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and this right here. Probably the trippiest, weirdest, looniest album that the group ever put out. Maybe it's not as good as its monumental predecessors, but who cares?
There are a couple songs that are hit-or-miss for me, though. If I'm in the right mood, I can really dig the bizarre, psychedelic-Eastern ramblings of Harrison's "Blue Jay Way", but when I'm not in said mood they me cold. "Flying" is pleasant, but not much else.
And then there are nine other songs that pretty much all vie for my favorite on this album. Some are famous, some aren't. Everyone knows "All You Need is Love", that wonderful hippy anthem, with 7/4-4/4 time changes; the slightly dippy but amazingly infectious "Hello Goodbye", and Paul's pop triumph "Penny Lane". Those are all amazing, and there's more! "I Am the Walrus" might be the strangest song ever recorded by a famous band. The lyrics are nonsense on purpose, the backing track often borders on avant-garde, its fade is accompanied by excerpts from a radio broadcast of "King Lear", and the song is actually three unfinished tunes put together. One of my favorite Beatles tracks, precisely because it's so far out there. Is anyone surprised that this one was John's? He also wrote the well-known "Strawberry Fields Forever", a beautiful psychedelic ballad that may or may not be about acid. Of course, John always denied it, but you can definitely hear the drug influence in the lyrics. And the coda, a psychedelic whirlwind, is amazing. And I love pretty much every element of "Baby You're a Rich Man" - the chorus, the melody, the traded vocals in the verses, and that little psychedelic noise that runs throughout the tune. I don't know what that thing is, but it makes the song.
That's not to discount the two opening songs, of course. The "see-the-show!" title track might not be as good as the previous albums "see-the-show!" title track, but it's fun, and it has this great part near the end when it slows down and the melody is carried by phased vocals. And while "Penny Lane" is one of Paul's better light-hearted ballads, "The Fool on the Hill" is one of his best depressing ballads.
This is one of the Beatles' more underappreciated records, probably because half of it was the soundtrack to a universally panned movie of the same name which I've never seen, and half was a collection of singles. I see it's getting more recognition these days, and I'm glad for it, because it's one of the Beatles' greatest albums.

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