― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)
Live at Leeds has a great album cover, but dull contents.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)
...Kiss has improved dramatically during its recording career, first to the high point of raw efficiency achieved on "I Wanna Rock & Roll All Night," more recently to improved instrumental technique. The group has brought a lot of listening and a lot more outright thievery to Alive II, resulting in a textbook demonstration of how to play Stones/Who hard rock. The guitar solos on "King of the Night Time World" and "Shock Me" are note-for-note duplications of sections from Pete Townshend's long improvisation ("My Generation") on side two of Live at Leeds. Even more startling is the way the screams over sustained guitar codas on those two songs and on "Makin' Love" sound exactly like Roger Daltrey finishing off Townshend's pyrotechnics.
-John Swenson, "Rolling Stone", 18 January 1978
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Sunday, 22 October 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Dugga Dugga Dugga (Bimble...), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)
― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)
― groovemaan (groove nihilist), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)
― steve 'scratch' perry (listerine), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)
live at leeds rules
i could just listen to entwistle ffs
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:18 (six years ago)
great revive
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 May 2020 02:25 (six years ago)
There are a couple of good released live Who recordings from the same exact era as Live at Leeds. Look up the 'Live at Hull 1970' and 'Live at the Isle of Wight' collections. There is some pretty classic video of the Isle of Wight show. Pete Townshend himself says the CD/Video sounds so much better than the actual show did.
That said, I still love some Alive I and Alive II, those are arcana from a very different America at this point.
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This was always maybe the best part of the whole Kiss phenomena.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 May 2020 06:22 (six years ago)
Was it Tesco Vee that's supposed to be one of the guys holding the sign on the back sleeve.
I do like that first Alive a lot.Not sure about Live At Leeds cos not sure when I last heard it. Do like The Who quite a bit though never got into Tommy.Know they were very powerful live up to at least 73. Not sure when Keith became a liability.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 17 May 2020 07:39 (six years ago)