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Number of London Live '68 (1986) Reviews: 3
Reviewer: Anonymous, June 19, 2005 Just to clear things on the date, according to chromeoxide.com this gig was recorded on the 27th of April, 1968 at the Main Extension Building of the Polytechnic of Central London and the recording was probably an audience recording cleaned up with Cedar.
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Reviewer: Mike Whitaker (mike@fleetfootmike.net), Lead guitarist, Fleetfoot Mike March 02, 2004 This would appear to be the same album as "The Dream", on the 'Going For A Song' label, GFS305, except that on the latter the tracks are (much better) ordered Worried Dream/Bleeding Heart/My Baby's Sweet/Don't Know Which Way To Go/Got To Move/How Blue Can You Get/I Held My Baby Last Night/My Baby's A Good 'Un/Buzz Me/The World Keeps On Turning
Also worth noting it appears to have been processed using CEDAR, to remove some of the noise on what sounds to me like an audience bootleg.
Reviewer: John Fitzgerald, Human resources staff database assistant July 19, 2001 This release along with "Live at the Marquee" are unquestionably the Mac recordings with
the poorest sound quality of all legally released Mac discs but they do capture the
atmosphere of the occasion nonetheless. "London live '68" disappointingly doesn't include
any other information as to the time and place of it's recording other than the title but it
does enclose some good songs that have not been released by the band in any other
fashion to date such as Peter's somewhat lengthy "Don't know which way to go" an
emotive slow blues, just as Jeremy covers a slow blues nugget in "Bleeding heart".
Spencer has also got a fast boogie called "My baby's a good 'un" which employs the type
of tempo that "Stop messin' 'round" has, but features lightning slide bursts from Jeremy
instead. This tune ranks as the hardest driving song on the record. As it is, Peter's B.B.
King covers of "How blue can you get" & "Buzz me" have just come out on another
form for the only other time (on a legal release) on the "Show biz blues" collection. "The
dream" of course relates to "Worried dream" and there's a snippet of Jeremy's on stage
humor but unusually more family orientated in that he seems to be making fun of reporters
that ask him about what kind of equipment he uses on stage (as we know Spencer was
against this kind of questioning in those days) but it is rather hard to hear because of the
poor sound quality of the album although it is marginally clearer than "Live at the
Marquee". Spencer and Green have 5 numbers each but strange (for an album) that
Jeremy starts with four, then Peter does all five of his, then finished off by a final Spencer
performance. Maybe this was the original order and if it was, then I'm glad but due to the
lack of information about this gig, I guess we will never know if this was the way it was or
just bizarre sequencing. This is a purchase undoubtedly better left until later on down the
road but shouldn't be too disappointing for aficionados of the early Mac history.
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