Track Listing

1. Da Da Man
2. Early In The Morning
3. Don't Care
4. Toad
5. Aiko Biaye
6. Man Of Constant Sorrow
7. Do What You Like
8. Doin' It

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47608 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Ginger Baker butchered
Two words to describe this release - caveat emptor. I had great hopes for this release, but this is what I found:
1. Its a vinyl rip from so-so vinyl.
2. It's recorded so loudly that it distorts often and obviously.
3. The cover pictures are joined together back to front.
If Lemon were going to rip an album, then why not find a copy of the original CD and Do What You Like, and combine the two to get the complete concert with all announcements and in much better sound.
On the positive side, the cover pictures are well reproduced, even if they are joined together incorrectly.

Great Album - nice to see it available on CD
This is a wonderful treat! The utterly loony Air Force - which should have been a disaster, but actually works brilliantly. Ginger Baker and a series of well-known "chums" grooving together on one of the seminal Live albums of the late '60s, early '70s.
As far as I can tell the sound is excellent (given that it was recorded in the middle of the last century in a Live environment), and the album cover (on my version, at least) is the right way round!
Just wonderful ensemble playing - telepathic in the same way as the similar(-ish) "Colosseum Live", as the musicians seem to feed off each other, creating thrilling cascades of sound.
I haven't heard this since it was first released on LP - but it actually sounds better (but then my old Stereo Record Playing Gramaphone device left a lot to be desired...).
Ah... the Good Old Days... pass us that bottle will ya'?

Grim beyond measure
I read the two reviews for this CD and still went ahead anyway. All the right ingredients were there and I thought "well how bad can it actually be?". In the event, truly atrocious. Recording equipment in those days was not that bad - even "Earthbound" by King Crimson (no masterpiece of live recording) was acceptable, but this is aweful. The bass is alarmingly distorted, the mix is all over the place (as is some of the playing) and there are very severe tuning issues. I actually have a low threshold when it comes to recording quality, preferring atmosphere to hi-fi sound, but this was too much for me and I gave it away - to someone who was similarly disappointed. Maybe is was great to be in the audience, but this is a really, really horrible recording.