Tuesday, July 4, 2023

The Guess Who - Ambassador Theatre, St. Louis, MO, 5-6-1974

Here's a Guess Who bootleg concert.

I'm not much for hyping things, so instead I'll include a quote from Mark Doble, who an essay called "Burton Through The Bootlegs":

"The Ambassador Theatre bootleg may in fact be the finest bootleg of the Guess Who in existence. Recorded from a stereo FM broadcast, the recording includes 19 songs, all of the hits as well as some notable gems such as an impromptu rendition of Bobby Darin’s 'Artificial Flowers' by Burton Cummings while the bass amp was being repaired. ... Overall, the sound quality of this bootleg is spectacular. If there is a 'must have' in the collection of Guess Who bootlegs, this is it! This show was also one of the last concerts the Guess Who would play with Kurt Winter and Donnie McDougall in the lineup."

As mentioned there, the sound quality is excellent, so I didn't have to fix much. But at least on the version I had, the volume often varied a lot from one song to another, so I evened that out. And a couple of songs didn't have any cheering at the end, so I patched in applause from the ends of other songs. 

In my opinion, the Guess Who peaked around 1969 to 1971, and then had a slow decline all the way to breaking up in 1975. But you wouldn't notice that decline from listening to this. The band was still in strong form, playing a bunch of really solid songs, including all the hits you'd expect. If I had to pick just one live album for the band, I might prefer this to their 1972 album "Live at the Paramount."

This album is an hour and 33 minutes long.

01 Bus Rider (Guess Who)
02 New Mother Nature (Guess Who)
03 talk (Guess Who)
04 Artificial Flowers (Guess Who)
05 talk (Guess Who)
06 Sour Suite (Guess Who)
07 talk (Guess Who)
08 Undun (Guess Who)
09 talk (Guess Who)
10 Albert Flasher (Guess Who)
11 Runnin' Back to Saskatoon (Guess Who)
12 talk (Guess Who)
13 Glamour Boy (Guess Who)
14 talk (Guess Who)
15 Self Pity (Guess Who)
16 Clap for the Wolfman (Guess Who)
17 These Eyes (Guess Who)
18 talk (Guess Who)
19 Star Baby (Guess Who)
20 talk (Guess Who)
21 Straighten Out (Guess Who)
22 talk (Guess Who)
23 Bye Bye Babe (Guess Who)
24 American Woman - No Sugar Tonight - Truckin' Off Across the Sky (Guess Who)
25 Share the Land (Guess Who)
26 No Time (Guess Who)
27 Orly (Guess Who)

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The cover is a screenshot I took of the band appearing on the TV show "The Midnight Special" in 1974.

4 comments:

  1. Canada's best, thank you!! I had the chance to see them on their reunion tour in the late 90's. Excellent show and The Doobies opened for them.

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  2. Not a lot of boots floating around from these guys, so this is a welcome edition. Thanks

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  3. This is one of my favorite bootlegs, and I look forward to your cleaning up the overall levels. Thanks, Paul!
    Sax and Guitar

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  4. Glamour Boy is an amazing song and Burton's voice is one of the best ever. Thanks for this post.

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