Wyatt, Robert - Theatre Royal Drury Lane vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
39-LP-DNO-206
Well, 31 years later comes this oft-bootlegged show of Robert's big re-emergence concert after his accident and after the huge success of Rock Bottom. This isn't the *complete* concert - Robert says something about not having complete tapes of the second set - but it is most of it. The sound is unbelievably better than the bootlegs, but it still is not a 'professional sounding' live release from the mid 70's. But who cares? Not me!
The following info was borrowed from Aymeric Leroy's Calyx site [http://calyx.club.fr]
"2005 has been a great year for archive recordings (see below), but this one probably tops them all. At long last, an official release of this legendary performance, Robert Wyatt's only ever solo appearance, coinciding with the release of Rock Bottom. Only "Calyx" had been released leading to much speculation about whether the rest of the concert would/could be released. The people at RykoDisc, Wyatt's current label, apparently investigated further, located the multitrack tapes, remixed them and here are the results.... Basically, it's very interesting viewed as a group of great musicians playing the Rock Bottom material and other stuff without any attempt to recreate the sonic environment of the album but instead just being themselves (particularly true of Dave Stewart and Hugh Hopper who make the whole thing sound more "canterbury-ish"), which is both a good and bad thing - good in that it makes the performance worthy of interest not being a mere duplicate of the album; bad in that much of what made the album unique and compelling is lost in the process, and only partly replaced by something else. I don't think anything I'll say or write will have much influence on whether you'll want to get this - you will, and you definitely won't regret, musicological considerations aside.."
: Robert Wyatt (voc/pc), with: Dave Stewart (elp/o) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Laurie Allan (d) - Nick Mason (d [2-4/14]) - Fred Frith (vln [3]/g [6/14]/vla [13]) - Mike Oldfield (g [8/10/11/14]/syn [4]) - Julie Tippetts (voc [9/10/13/14]/p [9]) - Mongezi Feza (tpt [6/14]) - Gary Windo (ts [7/8/14]) - Ivor Cutler (voice [13]) Tracks: 1. Introduction by John Peel (2:18) - 2. Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening [H.Hopper] (1:36) - 3. Memories [H.Hopper] (3:58) - 4. Sea Song [RW] (9:13) - 5. A Last Straw [RW] (4:38) - 6. Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road [RW] (6:42) - 7. Alife [RW] (4:28) - 8. Alifib [RW] (6:24) - 9. Mind Of A Child (Julie Tippetts solo) [J.Tippetts] (5:26) - 10. Instant Pussy [RW] (4:22) - 11. Signed Curtain [RW] (4:42) - 12. Calyx [P.Miller/RW] (3:19) - 13. Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road [RW] (6:12) - 14. I'm A Believer [N.Diamond] / Laughing Policeman (7:36)
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