I could have started with the album and added in the extra songs. But the soundboard boot sounded just as good as the official live album to my ears, so I just used that for the entire thing. That was better for including more applause and some banter between songs anyway.
There were only a couple of minor problems I wanted to fix. One was that the soundboard was so pristine that the applause at the end of each song was rather quiet. So I boosted that some. The other is that there was a lot of boring cheering at the start and during the encores, so I cut that down some. That probably cut about two minutes from the total length.
Other than that, I'll leave the rest of the commentary to Mike. As usual, he's included a PDF file with his opinions, plus lots of photos of the band from this time period.
This album is an hour and 29 minutes long.
01 talk (Hall & Oates)
02 Don't Change (Hall & Oates)
03 talk (Hall & Oates)
04 Rich Girl (Hall & Oates)
05 Can't Stop the Music (Hall & Oates)
06 Do What You Want, Be What You Are (Hall & Oates)
07 The Emptyness (Hall & Oates)
08 Winged Bull (Hall & Oates)
09 Is It A Star (Hall & Oates)
10 I'm Just a Kid [Don't Make Me Feel like a Man] (Hall & Oates)
11 talk (Hall & Oates)
12 Back Together Again (Hall & Oates)
13 Sara Smile (Hall & Oates)
14 She's Gone (Hall & Oates)
15 talk (Hall & Oates)
16 Abandoned Luncheonette (Hall & Oates)
17 Room to Breathe (Hall & Oates)
18 talk (Hall & Oates)
19 You Must Be Good for Something (Hall & Oates)
20 Bad Habits and Infections (Hall & Oates)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/Dvvrf1MR
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/PGeZCf1qIGCZJOv/file
The cover is from a concert in Central Park, New York City, in 1977.
This is fantastic! I love the vintage H&O live boots and grab as many of them as I can find, particularly from pre-1978 when their music became more poppy. I managed to find an official import copy of Livetime on CD years ago, but you're correct that it is just too short. I had no idea that the full show was even out there. Thanks so much for sharing this gem and keep the old H&O boots coming!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your note...glad their is early Haulin' Oates fans out there. Maybe next I'll do a post with a great sound board from their next tour in 78 for the album Along The Red Ledge. Another great LP with guest appearances by George Harrison, Robert Fripp, Rick Nielsen and Todd Rundgren! Would anyone else like to hear that??
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DeleteFirst of all, this post is like a holy grail. The Livetime album is so good but so much was missing. I've been a fan since their early WLIR appearances--have all the early LPs and would certainly love to hear anything live from the early era up through the Voices LP. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteI'm curious why your interest stops right when they were starting to hit their peak popularity?
DeleteLet me take a shot at this LT...
ReplyDeleteI only started listening to Haulin' Oates when they got popular. I saw them from like 5 feet away on their Big Bam Boom tour in college. Loved it! But I never heard and thus never got into their earlier stuff until many years later. What I found when I finally did were albums filled with beautiful, wonderfully written, soulfully sung songs. Things that were definitely missing when they mastered the 3 minute catchy pop tunes in the late late 70's and throughout the 80's. Now, as I said before, that's the stuff I grew up on and fell in love with, but as I've grown older I find I relate much more to the pre-fame songs. I listen to No Goodbyes, their first Greatest Hits album on Atlantic more than I do Rock and Soul (their 2nd GH's Album) even though I love them both dearly.
So in answer to your question...their early stuff, to me at least, had heart...something that was missing for their more popular era songs from the 80's.
How'd I do LT?
Yeah, that sounds like a plausible explanation...I'm sure there was a similar schism in their fanbase, though it leaned more toward the catchy poppy tunes as you say in popularity, while the albums prior would be generally ignored by those who found them through their latter phase, and those who came into them through those earlier days might also have found the newer material lacking in comparison.
DeleteI'm sure there's also a bit of that 'I liked them *before* they were cool' going on too LOL
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