Live at Jacksonville
Date: Sunday, 03 Jan 1999 06:44:42
From: dlb at pobox dot com (David L. Bohnsack, Ph.D.)
Subject: Live at Jacksonville
Club Selection 2 arrived here in the far west Chicago
suburbs in the midst of the Great Blizzard of '99. Kudos to
our mail deliverer.
This selection is better than the first release in all ways.
The sound quality is better, the song selection is more to
my liking and the performance seems better. I'm partial to
Mel Collins and this is a showcase of Mel. Boz does an
adequate job with the vocals, even though the pieces were
clearly not written for his style (He's better on Ladies of
the Road than Cirkus). The band lurches into several
extended jams that are exactly what I was hoping to get out
of the DGM club releases. I love the mellotron on Cirkus. I
generally abhor drum solos, but Ian does a fine job,
although I see skipping ahead of it during some future
listenings. And, of course, Robert was in fine form.
Despite the tensions between the members in this
configuration, they sound like they are really having fun.
For a bootleg of this era, I would term the sound quality
very good, with only the few volume shifts minimally marring
a tasty offering.
Robert: more like this one, please. Jams, improv and songs
not previously released as live recordings.
A question: is Robert doing any of the speaking, the banter
between tracks? It sounds like his style to say "We are
going to attempt to lurch into a form of life...", but it
doesn't sound to much like him. Probably Boz...
This one will be in my players for the next few weeks.
Thanks Robert.
Mike Stok