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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
West,
Bruce & Franco
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West,
Bruce & Franco
Poughkeepsie
1987 [no label, 1CD]
Live
at the The Chance Club, Poughkeepsie, December 19, 1987.
After Mountain's
comeback album and tour in 1985, Leslie West and Corky Laing parted ways
again. In 1986, West teamed up with the just-reformed Bachman, Turner
Overdrive on their tour supporting Van Halen who went out to promote their
5150 album. Since BTO had just recorded Mississippi Queen, he offered
his services to play for free on this as an encore, just to be close to
his friend Eddie Van Halen with whom he obviously indeed had a fantastic
time on this tour.
Alas, it seems West
didn't have plans to reassemble Mountain nor did he seem to have an album
contract at that time or maybe he didn't even care. However, it may have
interested a few record companies that he and Jack Bruce decided to record
an album together. According to the liner notes on the 1988 album, Theme,
it was obviously West's friend, Howard Stern, who came up with the idea
of re-recording Theme For An Imaginary Western - and what better way than
doing this with the very guy who wrote it?
Alas, for some reason,
Laing was not available (or willing) to join which deprived fans of a
veritable West, Bruce & Laing reunion - and finally a chance to hear
their take of Theme - all the more as it was always a bit strange that
WBL had never played it on stage when they were together for the first
time from 1972 to 1973.
Anyway, they secured
the services of ex-Good Rats (hailing from New York like West) and Twisted
Sister drummer Joe Franco for another go at the power trio format. Thankfully,
this band not only did the said studio album which was released in 1988,
but even decided to play what seemed to be their only known show at Poughkeepsie's
(in upstate NY) Chance Club in December 1987. Jack Bruce once stated that
he even flew to the US from Europe just for this one show!
Two tracks from this
show, Red House and Spoonful were (thankfully) included on the Theme album.
Unfortunately, the latter was edited down heavily from about 14:30 mins
to about 7:30 mins.
Luckily, about an
hour of this show survived and got into circulation as an excellent quality
tape - it seemed to be taken from the soundboard. This is not only an
- for West, then - unusually bluesy set, but it also features many songs
WBL had played. Alas, the tape cuts out after about an hour, so it doesn't
contain Red House or Sunshine Of Your Love, which is probably what they
closed their set with. Still, it comes with the "uncut" Spoonful which
alone is worth the price of admission. The bottom line is that this show
may be considered a highlight in West's career in the '80s. - Thomas
Schmid
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
Note: Due to the size of some of the files, please be patient when
downloading the tracks. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com
if you encounter problems downloading the files.
Click
here to order Leslie West's Theme album.
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