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Big Star Live At Lafayette's Music Room 2LP |
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1973 Live Performance On Double LP!
Remastered & On Vinyl For The First Time!
It is well known that Big Star played a one-off promotional show for the
Memphis Rock Writer’s Convention at Lafayette’s Music Room in Memphis in May of
1973. It cemented them into legendary status due to the writers who witnessed it
and carried the message of Big Star out in their writing, even though the band
had only released one album, #1 Record, and were unsure of recording a second
after the departure of co-founder Chris Bell. What may not be so widely known is
that the trio played the same venue four months earlier with the same power and
passion, opening shows for the Houston R&B band Archie Bell & The Drells.
First issued as Disc 4 of the Grammy® Award-winning Keep An Eye On The Sky boxed
set, Live At Lafayette’s Music Room sees new light as a stand-alone release,
available on CD, Digital, and for the first time, double LP. The performance has
never sounded better thanks to new mastering and restoration from the
Grammy®-winning engineer, Michael Graves with supervision from fellow
Grammy®-winning producer, Cheryl Pawelski.
The 20-track set features material from their debut, #1 Record, songs that would
appear on the (not yet recorded) follow-up, Radio City, and choice covers from
The Kinks, Todd Rundgren, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and T-Rex. As an added
bonus, all formats include a download of a previously unissued interview with
Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel from the summer of 1972 with Jon Scott on FM 100.
Packaging features new liner notes from Bud Scoppa, who was friends with the
band, and in attendance at the 1973 Rock Writer’s show. His most recent work for
Omnivore was an integral part of the acclaimed Big Star boxed set Complete
Third.
Experience the only known document of Big Star at this pivotal point in their
short, but massively influential career. Omnivore is proud to present, Live At
Lafayette’s Music Room.
"The quintessential American power pop band, Big Star remains one of the most
mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll. Originally led by the
singing and songwriting duo of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell, the Memphis-based
group fused the strongest elements of the British Invasion era -- the melodic
invention of the Beatles, the whiplash guitars of the Who, and the radiant
harmonies of the Byrds -- into a ramshackle but poignantly beautiful sound that
recaptured the spirit of pop's past even as it pointed the way toward the
music's future. Although creative tensions, haphazard distribution, and
marketplace indifference conspired to ensure Big Star's brief existence and
commercial failure, the group's three studio albums nevertheless remain
unqualified classics, and their impact on subsequent generations of indie bands
on both sides of the Atlantic is surpassed only by that of the Velvet
Underground." - Jason Ankeny, allmusic.com
Features:
• Double LP
• First time on vinyl
• Remastered
• New liner notes by Bud Scoppa
• Gatefold jacket
• Limited time download card includes previously unissued 1972 interview with
Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel
Selections:
Side One:
1. When My Baby's Beside Me
2. My Life Is Right
3. She's A Mover
4. Way Out West
5. The Ballad Of El Goodo
Side Two:
1. In The Street
2. Back Of A Car
3. Thirteen
4. The India Song
5. Try Again
Side Three:
1. Watch The Sunrise
2. Don't Lie To Me
3. Hot Burrito #2
4. I Got Kinda Lost
5. Baby Strange
Side Four:
1. Slut
2. There Was A Light
3. ST 100/6
4. Come On Now
5. O My Soul
Limited time download only:
Alex Chilton & Andy Hummel Interview With Jon Scott on FM 100, Summer, 1972*
*Previously Unissued
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