stormbringer08 wrote:
Geff R. wrote:
Interested with 2 caveats:
1. I prefer Moore playing Rock to Blues
2. Eagle tends to compresse the heck out of music, especially Moore & Counting Crows.
1. I have never considered Moore a "blues" player in the purist sense. His blues albums almost always had rock underpinnings--compare Moore's
Power Of The Blues (2004) to Eric Clapton's
Me And Mr. Johnson, released the same year. The purists prefer Clapton, but the truth is that Moore played with the fire that Clapton once had. Of course, if you're hankering for a Moore hard rock fix akin to his 1980s repertoire (
We Want Moore! from 1984 is a phenomenal live album) this won't fit your bill. Although
Live At Montreux 2010 which documented Moore's return to celtic hard rock shortly before his 2011 death, came pretty close, with 3 really promising new songs.
2.
What annoys
me about Eagle is that in the case of
Live At Montreux 2010, the Japanese edition had two exclusive bonus tracks, which prompted me to buy the very nice but oh-so-pricey blu-ray/double CD combo package. My wallet wasn't so happy, unfortunately. Eagle has done it again with this release; even though the bonus is the (approximately) 10th live version of "Parisienne Walkways," I have of course already pre-ordered from CD Japan.
This is one of several sources online indicating that this gig was originally broadcast on digital radio, so the recording source should at least be solid.
http://rideinthelizzymobile.wordpress.c ... -source-1/I'd also rather hear Moore play blues then Clapton. EC has mostly bored the cr@p out of me since the mid 70's (I mostly jumped off the bandwagon after the self titled for studio albums, & EC was here for live albums); Just One Night (early 80's?) was the last rock album i liked, though I do like the Rush soundtrack (early 90's blues).
I own the Montreux box; but have never been thrilled with it. Love Parisienne & of course GM's versions of Messiah Will Come Again; but in general i prefer Moore as a rock player.
I suspect the original recording will be fine, but for me Eagle tends to over compress everything.
GM's musically superb Live At Monsters of Rock (Sanctuary, not Eagle) was so compressed & screechy that I ripped it, digitally re-eq'd it & burned it. ONLY time I've EVER done that with an official release. Still sounds pretty bad (sound quality wise) but at least I can play it without my teeth hurting! And musically it's one of his better live albums.
