Spooky Tooth- LIVE IN EUROPE

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Spooky Tooth- LIVE IN EUROPE- CDr- 2001- Not On Label- No UPC (LVCDR-003/02)- 50 grn
FACTORY PRESSED genuine disc, not a home-made fake of any kind.
LIVE MUSIC Series.
Spooky Tooth's LIVE IN EUROPE is a cross section of previously unreleased live, rare, and outtakes. Some of these recordings came out of the archives from 1968. Tracks one through eight are live sessions (1968), and seven through eleven are studio recordings all the way up to recently (1999). One of the more intriguing components of the prog-rock movement was Spooky Tooth. They differed from other bands in that they utilized two very distinctive, talented vocalists (Mike Harrison and Gary Wright) and they featured an ominous yet potent organ sound. By 1968, they had broken through commercially in England and were on the verge of releasing their most popular material. It was at this time that they performed on several editions of BBC’s radio program Top Gear. Six of the nine tracks presented on BBC Sessions are taken from those appearances and showcase a band poised at the brink of big-time success. An aural snapshot of a well known band at that juncture of its recording career is very rare. As a special bonus, three additional tracks are included. One an obscure 1966 recording from Deep Feeling (featuring Spooky Tooth guitarist Luther Grosvenor) and two alternate mixes from the Spooky Tooth’s 1999 reunion release Cross Purpose. Music from Deep Yesterday, Classic Yesterday and Reunion Yesterday… BBC Sessions is everything a title like this should be.
PERSONNEL: Mike Harrison - vocals; Gary Wright - keyboards, vocals; Luther Grosvenor - guitars, vocals, percussion; Dave Meredith, Greg Ridley - bass; Mike Kellie - drums, percussion and backing vocals; Jim Capaldi - lead vocals, drums; Gordon Jackson - guitar; Poli Palmer - vibes, flutes.
For years now bootlegs of Spooky Tooth's BBC recordings have been circulating, most with less than excellent sound. Finally we get a chance to hear the band at its finest: LIVE At The Beeb, and what do we get? A truncated set, short in selections and definitely not what we would like to hear. The half dozen BBC songs come from but one or two of the numerous sessions the band recorded between 1968 and 1969, and many are faded in, suggesting that they are taken from transcription discs with spoken voice-over introductions that were simply edited out. Missing are some of the best BBC sessions, songs like "Tobacco Road," and "Evil Woman" that were hallmarks of the band in concert. Although the studio outtakes from the 1999 reunion album are nice to have, they really do not fit comfortably into this collection. Equally disappointing are the two bonus cuts tacked on to the end of the disc which come from a 1970 Berlin concert, but which are rather shabby sounding, and which appear with no explanation as to their origins. In short we get a taste of what might have been, namely a Spooky Tooth BBC set to rival those recently issued by The Kinks, and The Who, but which instead winds up a missed opportunity.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Black Tray Includes Foldout Inlay.
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