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| Artist: Various Artists
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £11.80
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 18684
Format: Live, Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9
EAN: 5099950323524
ASIN: B000VKL8NM
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: includes release sheet
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| » | Spunk Rock (Live) - Man | | » | Many Are Called But Few Get Up (Live) - Man | | » | Angel Easy (Live) - Man | | » | Bananas (Early Instrumental Version) (Live) - Man | | » | Romaine (Live) - Man |
Disc 2
| » | Intro (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Country Girl (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | One More Day (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Unknown Number (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | She's Got To Be Real (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Home Work (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Nervous On The Road (But Can't Stay At Home) (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Range War (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Silver Pistol (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Going Down The Road (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Midnight Train (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Private Number (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | It's Just My Way Of Saying Thank You (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Wonder Woman (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | I'm Ahead If I Can Quit While I'm Behind (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Surrender To The Rhythm (Live) - Brinsley Schwarz | | » | Music Belongs To The People (Live) - Magic Michael |
Disc 3
| » | Announcement/Apology - Hawkwind | | » | This Is Your Captain Speaking (Breakdown) - Hawkwind | | » | This Is Your Captain Speaking - Hawkwind | | » | You Shouldn't Do That - Hawkwind | | » | Awakening - Hawkwind | | » | Master of the Universe - Hawkwind | | » | Paranoia - Hawkwind | | » | Earth Calling - Hawkwind | | » | Silver Machine - Hawkwind | | » | Welcome To The Future - Hawkwind | | » | Born To Go - Hawkwind | | » | Brainstorm (Jam) - Hawkwind | | » | End Announcement - Dunkley, Andy |
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 Great, but I wish they wouldn't muck about with these things July 4, 2008
My only gripe is that Born To Go is at least two minutes shorter than the bonus track on the 2cd Space Ritual (which I'm assuming is what was on the original Greasy Truckers LP), even accounting for the fact that the talking at the beginning of the latter is part of the previous track here. I can only assume it was edited to fit the 'whole set' on one CD but it does make you wonder what other little tweaks they may have made.
'Greasy Truckers Party' - Various Artists (Caroline) May 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Superbly produced 3-CD expanded reissue of the legendary Greasy Truckers Party - of the first one that took place on February 13, 1972 at the London Roundhouse. Disc one is the complete set by Man, which is a fine audio document of the show although it's pretty similar to their live 'Padget Rooms' disc. Disc two is the one and only space rock pioneers Hawkwind with their (then) ground-breaking performance for the head-swirling "You Shouldn't Do That", "Paranoia" (off the band's 1970 first lp), Bob Calvert's top-of-the-line recital "Earth Calling", their only million-seller "Silver Machine", "Born To Go" and one of Nik Turner's true mile stones - a jamming version of "Brainstorm". If you automatically assume you might not want this 3-CD box set because you already own copies of 'Space Ritual', 'Empire Pool Wembley' and '1999 Party-Live At Chicago Auditorium' - think again! If you're a Hawkwind completist like I (sort of) am you're going to want this show because it appears to have different instrumentations, various arrangements, etc. Disc three is Brinsley Schwarz - featuring Nick Lowe (Graham Parker, Rockpile) playing their usual set of British pub rock. For some reason(s), I could never get too much into this band. Nonetheless, this 3-CD box set is a M-U-S-T have. Look around enough and you should be able to find it at a very affordable price.
Took Some Getting Used To April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have had the original double LP from not long after it came out. Bought it second hand and it sounded it even then - crackles, scratches on the Hawkwind side etc. However, it has always been one of my favourite live recordings. I pretty much despaired ever getting it on CD - but here it is!
On first listening, it sounded odd (and I don't mean any remixing that has gone on - that sounds OK to my uncultured ears). After over 30 years it was odd because there were extra tracks where I wasn't expecting them and odd because all the familiar hisses, pops and crackles were now gone. I have now (after several listens) got used to it - and what an excellent reissue this is.
I can still scat sing all the guitary bits of Spunk Rock (and that's all of it!), but now there is so much more. The Man set is excellent and the Hawkwind set is also great - but the revelation contained here is the Brinsleys. Their country flavoured rock was always slightly odd in the more psychedelic company of the others, but hearing the whole set really makes it slot into place. Their shorter, dancier style is a real contrast to the long guitar jams of Man and the space rock of the Hawks - but that is the disc I keep returning to at the moment. Having had some of the Brinsleys LPs over the years, I would say this is their crowning achievement. Slightly rough around the edges, good humoured and warm. Wonderful stuff.
As for Magic Michael - I don't listen to that bit, but in a perverse way this wouldn't be the same recording without him!
Of course the second Greasy Truckers record (Live at Dingwalls Dancehall) could also do with reissuing - although a lot of the music on that double LP was not that recorded on the night, but has been gathered from other sources.
Trucks Deluxe ! January 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like the original vinyl release that I bought way back when, I bought this cd solely for the Brinsley Schwarz contribution. Up until now it's been difficult to gather up more than a handful of examples of the Brinsleys strutting their stuff live but this release puts everything right. I'd witnessed the band playing live for the first time just a few months before at the Paget Rooms, Penarth and most, if not all the songs they played that night turn up on the Greasy Truckers' set, including the track "Homework" a song that hitherto, I thought I had only imagined they played.
Why should you buy this release? Firstly, it's the only full set by the band that's commercially available so, for a band that was almost universally praised for it's live performances, this cd is a must. Secondly, if you're in to Nick Lowe it features a song (It's Just My Way Of Saying Thank You) by him that you won't get anywhere else. The band are on top form here, playing a relaxed set, still in their intransigent mode of playing what they wanted, when they wanted - as long as they got off on the song and the audience could dance to it, then it was included, though it sure is strange after all these years to hear the songs played out of sequence when compared to the original release.
I have a few gripes about the liner notes in that they give the impression that Ian Gomm wasn't yet with the band; an impression further compounded by the fact that he's not afforded an individual photograph like the rest of the band, though he appears twice on group photo shots and his song writing credits and gritty vocals clearly show that he was indeed present. He is further done an injustice, unlike the other band members, by lack of information about his post Brinsley activities; a top 20 American chart entry is no mean feat. The liner notes also fail to mention that the Brinsleys too, not just Hawkwind, played lots of benefit shows in their early days.
Minor moans aside, this is a great release and judging by the other reviews here, one that is very welcome.
Tales from the British Underground, and supporting the miners January 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album was originally a double vinyl LP intended to raise funds for the Greasy Truckers, an organisation who's origins are lost in the midst of time to me. It contained performances from the live event, most notably Man and Hawkwind but also with Brinsley Schwartz, and it could be said that it was a relatively major underground hit.
Man had released a CD of their performance a few years ago but it is only now where we are able to enjoy the whole shebang interupted as it was by a power cut caused through a dispute between Prime Minister Ted (teeth) Heath and the National Union of Mineworkers. Rolling power cuts were the order of the day across the country and entertainment events such as my own Jingles Wednesday Explosion at the mecca in Sunderland were curtailed at most inconvenient times. In the end, Heath blinked first, the government backed down and that event began a chain of events which culminated in the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
However, back to the music. It is great to have this expanded set available once again not only for the superb 23 minute Spunk Rock which opens the album for Man but also for the hint of the power of Hawkwind's live performance although the mixing leaves a lot to be desired on their set. Brinsley Schwartz at first seem to be the odd band out here with their affable and easy going pub/indie rock but they are the perfect foil for the other two bands and later matured into one of the most accomplished and professional bands in Britain before their demise.
However, as a live album this may not be perfect but it is an accurate reflection of a dramatic evening filled with incident where the three bands, ably assisted by DJ Andy Dunkley, took those in attendance to a higher plane, all in a good cause.
What no video?
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