Live at the BBC: 1979-1980 [Live]

Live at the BBC: 1979-1980 [Live]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Double disc set featuring the classic lineup, including Gillan, Bernie Torme, John McCoy, Colin Towns & Mick Underwood. Contains recordings from their performance at the 1979 Reading festival and at the BBC's legendary Paris Theatre in London. Also includes two Ian Gillan interviews and a 16 page booklet.

Tracks:

Reading Rock Festival August 25th 1979: Interview With Ian Gillan
Reading Rock Festival August 25th 1979: Sleeping On The Job
Reading Rock Festival August 25th 1979: Mr. Universe
Reading Rock Festival August 25th 1979: Dead Of Night
Reading Rock Festival August 25th 1979: Roller
Reading Rock Festival August 25th 1979: Vengeance
Reading Rock Festival August 25th 1979: Smoke On The Water
BBC In Concert September 19th 1979: Secret Of The Dance
BBC In Concert September 19th 1979: Sleeping On The Job
BBC In Concert September 19th 1979: Mr. Universe
BBC In Concert September 19th 1979: Dead Of Night
BBC In Concert September 19th 1979: Vengeance

Tracks:

BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Unchain Your Brain
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Are You Sure?
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Mr. Universe
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: No Easy Way
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Trouble
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: If You Believe Me
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: On The Rocks
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Nervous
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Running White Face City Boy
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Vengeance
BBC In Concert September 9th 1980: Lucille
BBC Friday Rock Show March 27th 1980: Interview With Ian Gillan
BBC Friday Rock Show March 27th 1980: If You Believe Me

Album Description

Double disc set featuring the classic lineup, including Gillan, Bernie Torme, John McCoy, Colin Towns & Mick Underwood. Contains recordings from their performance at the 1979 Reading festival and at the BBC's legendary Paris Theatre in London. Also includes two Ian Gillan interviews and a 16 page booklet.

Album Details

Has Classic Line-Up of Ian Gillan, Bernie Torme, John Mccoy, Colin Towns and Mick Underwood. Cd1: Reading Festival (August 25th 1979). Cd2: Paris Theatre (September 24th 1980).

Customer Reviews:

Powerful!!.......2002-09-23

This is a fantastic record. Gillan is at the top of his lungs here, he was 32 at the time, he was at his best. His band of Bernie Torme on guitar, McCoy on bass, Towns on keyboards and Underwood on drums was simply fantastic. And this shows in these live performances.

Unfortunately, according to Gillan's own self-biography, things were not good within the band... the musicians always asked for more money and were not satisfied, what would lead to the band's dissolution. First, Torme left, in came Janick Gers. Then, after the albums DOUBLE TROUBLE and MAGIC, Gillan (the band) was gone.

LIVE AT BBC is very good, the only problem is the duplication of songs. OF course we're not talking about an official live release at the time, but a release made by bassist John McCoy in the nineties. I wonder if Gillan is earning any royalties upon this one....

HIghly recommended!

Very good but.........2002-09-22

Since finding Gillan best albums is almost impossible (Mr. Universe and GLORY ROAD, mainly. FUTURE SHOCK is a little bit less difficult), I was obligued to buy this bootleg, that has material from the first two aforementioned albums.

The band live is sounding really great, altough there is a lot of improvisation,extending the songs. Also, in CD 1, for example, there are two shows, qwith exactly the same songs. SAo. inthis CD we have THREE versions of the song "Mr. Universe!"