I'd been looking for a good concert bootleg by War for a long time. But they're one of those bands, like 1970s ZZ Top, that are strangely lacking worthy bootlegs. There is an official live album, "War Live," released in 1974. But that's about it when it comes to the band in the 1970s prime. And while that official album is very good, it has been criticized for some of the songs going on too long. For instance, two of the songs on it are about 20 minutes long. This is more streamlined, while still have some room for jamming.
Tracks three through eight are from the October 19, 1973 episode, which was hosted by War. "Slippin' into Darkness" was the only song they played on the show's pilot episode on August 19, 1972. And "Gypsy Man" is from the September 14, 1973 episode. Finally, "All Day Music" is from the "ABC In Concert" TV show, which was a rival to Midnight Special for a couple of years on a different TV network. Normally, I want to keep the content of these Midnight Special albums just from that show, but I'm making a rare exception here.
The episode hosted by War had a lot of other musical acts on it: New York Dolls, Mott the Hoople, Danny O'Keefe, the Climax Blues Band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Piper. I didn't include any of those here since none of them seemed like a close stylistic match.
As usual for this show, I converted the YouTube video to audio, then broke it into mp3s. I also patched in applause to make smooth transitions between songs.
This album is 42 minutes long.
01 Slippin' into Darkness (War)
02 Gypsy Man (War)
03 The Cisco Kid (War)
04 talk (War)
05 Me and Baby Brother (War)
06 The World Is a Ghetto (War)
07 talk (War)
08 City Country City [Instrumental] (War)
09 All Day Music (War)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/J1nV8CXk
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/0JFXtEeX4X2kLY2/file
The cover image is from this exact concert.
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