The Animals broke up in 1968, after many line-up changes, with lead singer Eric Burdon remaining the one constant member. Burdon then got involved with a then-unknown and unsigned funk band from California called "War." He put out two albums with them in 1970, and they hit a big hit single with the song "Spill the Wine." But in early 1971, Burdon and War went their separate ways. Burdon struggled to have much commercial success in a solo career, while War was very successful, with a bunch of hit singles.
There's no official live album of Burdon and War together, and only a few bootlegs. The ones I saw were both short and of middling sound quality. So I think this is just about everything that exists of them performing live with excellent sound quality. The first four songs come from an appearance on the German TV show "Beat Club" in September 1970. Although they played live in the studio, there was no audience. The remaining three songs are from a Danish TV show, "TV-Byen," recorded in January 1971. This performance did have an audience. By lucky chance, all the songs played in the two performances were different.
Apparently, Eric Burdon and War liked to jam out their songs, because every song here is at least six minutes long, and three are at least 12 minutes long. Since the album is roughly evenly divided between two performances, I've called this album "Live on European TV," since both unreleased performances were for TV shows in Europe.
This concert is an hour and 11 minutes long.
01 Paint It, Black (Eric Burdon & War)
02 Spill the Wine (Eric Burdon & War)
03 Tobacco Road (Eric Burdon & War)
04 Bear Back Rider (Eric Burdon & War)
05 Spirit (Eric Burdon & War)
06 Love Is All Around (Eric Burdon & War)
07 Mystery Train (Eric Burdon & War)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15473487/ErcBurdnWar_1970-1971_LveonEurpeanTV_atse.zip.html
The cover photo is a screenshot I took of a YouTube video of the Beat Club performance.
Thanks for the early War with Burdon! Rare stuff!
ReplyDeleteand for this night stop! I must sleep. Your blog is wonderful.
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