Product Description

In 1974, underrated British prog-rockers Barclay James Harvest had just signed to Polydor Records in the U.K. and released the excellent EVERYONE IS EVERYBODY ELSE, which somehow failed to make them huge stars. However, a few months later they released this double live album, and their acclaim started to gather, at least in their home country. Never released in the States, this imported reissue demonstrates the pioneering band at the height of their powers.

Track Listing

1. Summer Soldier
2. Medicine Man
3. Crazy City
4. After The Day
5. Great 1974 Mining Disaster
6. Galadriel
7. Negative Earth
8. She Said
9. Paper Wings
10. For No One
11. Mockingbird

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #143698 in Music
• Released on: 2005-08-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

Four men take on an orchestra and win...
Nicely re-packaged with entertaining (and revealing) booklet notes, not only is this 1974 set brimming with BJH's best known work to date, it makes a good fist of conveying with just the four-piece band the 'big picture' it had become famous for with the full orchestra it toured with - an overhead that almost drove it to bankruptcy. New label Polydor took on the debts from EMI with the proviso that this release included Harvest-era classics like 'Mockingbird', 'She Said' and 'Medicine Man'. It all works a treat with a tight grip on these epic songs lending them a new muscularity while deft use of keyboards (notably that grand dame, the Mellotron) fills for the sonic mass that the string sections provided. Too many live albums pay disservice to their studio origins: this is an exception, working then as nifty showcase of what bookers could expect if they gave the band a gig, and serving now as a reminder of the creative force and showmanship of one of the UK's major progressive acts of the 70s.

A great live album
Yep Barclay James Harvest were best live and this album proves it.I even like some of their studio stuff, but this is the daddy!what I mean is ,at the original time of its release it was really all their best works played live and caught the popularity of the band. For (again) some unkown reason B J H never quite climbed into the super league division of rock.

The masters at their very best
BJH were one of the great 70's rock bands and their studio albums do not do them justice. Live they were at their best. I was privileged to see them three or four times with my mates in the late 70's and this album takes me back to my halcyon student days. Not a bad track on this CD - I bought it to replace a very worn out vinyl double album. If you are not stirred by my favourite 'Medicine Man' you have no soul. Buy it - you'll not be disappointed.