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An Incredibly Exciting Performance! Oct 19, 2009
The original album, "Otis Redding Live In Europe," has been one of my all-time favorite albums for more than 40 years. This expanded release has two full concerts that were edited into the original album. The London show is good, even very good. But the Paris show is incredible! It's an exuberant, exciting performance that will thrill you.
Otis Redding and the band (Booker T & the MGs with a Stax horn section) build the excitement and the tension, then release it some, then build it again to new heights. Otis Redding rips it up. He implores the band to "Keep the groove going!" The audience is going crazy. The band, driven by drummer Al Jackson, builds the tension further and further until it finally explodes at the end with "Try A Little Tenderness." The audience is going crazy. The MC begs Otis to come back out. Otis, the whole band and other headliners from the tour pour their hearts into the climax. It doesn't get any better than this.
There are moments in time that stand out. This is one of them.
The absolute KING of Soul! One of the greatest live albums ever! Sep 16, 2009
INCREDIBLE!!!!! Okay, my best friend got me recently the fantastic DVD of Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway, and besides a reminder that Donald "Duck" Dunn is the greatest bass player who has ever lived, along with the thrill of seeing Arthur Conley and everybody else, was seeing more Otis footage besides his mind-blowing performance at Monterey. But that's another review; it reminded me once again of the greatness that was Otis Redding, and afterward I quickly stumbled across this CD here on Amazon. Luckily!
This CD consists of the entire CD "Live In Europe" (the second half of this, Paris 3/21/67), plus a London show from four days before that completely blows it away! It is utterly astonishing; maybe I should start expecting nothing less from Otis, I don't know! Respect is at a breakneck pace (though not as much as Monterey), and Otis's voice in as fine from as ever, and considering NOBODY sang every note with more intensity and true feeling, that says a LOT! The whole concert, like the opening of My Girl, or Shake, each song, is greeted with such an incredible response of utter joy, he beat anyone for getting a crowd going; he was a master live of reading his audience, and was at his peak power here. And the London crowd responds properly, bordering at times on pandemonium!
This has the best Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa you will EVER hear, I can't imagine a more soulful version; and Try A Little Tenderness, this one goes on so long, the audience manic, with Arthur Conley, Sam Moore and Carla Thomas all coming out. It's unbelievable. No words can completely convey how great this all is, but the liners here, this comes with a nice 16 page booklet, with brief but GREAT liners.
The Paris concert, it has been a while since I have heard the Live In Europe LP, and it's all here, including the quintessential version of Can't Turn You Loose (whose part, the first false ending, with Otis leading the band further on, is one of the most beautiful moments of ANY live albums I have ever heard).
Add to all this the often-forgotten fact that Booker T. and The MG's were not just one of America's greatest bands ever, they surely were the most perfect back-up band of all time! While all members deserve utter praise, for me it's Donald "Duck" Dunn who is the most amazing, and his fluid bass lines throughout this disc are an utter joy to hear.
The Mar-Keys horns are heavenly also.
This is simply one of the most exciting live albums ever, so along with Monterey, this captures Otis at his absolute best. The greatest soul singer ever at his best.
There's no way I can't recommend this to anyone interested in soul music. Otis was at his best live, and compared to on here, the faster songs are sluggish on his studio albums, and the slower more soulful ones, much more intense here as well. The greatest!
Those horns on Respect are so glorious...
Classic Otis! A must have! Aug 29, 2009
There are two separate concerts from the same tour, recorded just days apart, so there is some repetition - yet not really, because the performances vary just slightly from show to show. I feel like the songs feel a bit more relaxed and muscular in Paris, but that may be just my imagination. In addition to the Otis standards, his covers of Lennon/McCartney and Jagger/Richards are excellent - he takes the songs and makes them his own. Both shows are worthy performances, and an excellent addition to anyone's collection. This is soul at its finest!
Is this the same set as... Jul 23, 2009
"Live in Europe" ? I'm referring to the Paris set - I think it's the same set - but I'm picking up little off hand remarks and even lines in the song from Otis that don't appear on the earlier set - it may just be a different source tape (it's closer to Otis than the earlier release tape) Could it possibly be a different set? I don't remember the "keeps you in a groove" line or "dig this" during FA-FA-FA-FA-FA for one example. Any one know? It's the same, but different!
Smokin' Otis Redding Is Live.. Jun 15, 2009
Most live recordings lack quality sound and seem to reveal mediocre average performances from various artist down throughout history,not the case here on this Otis Redding combined - "Live In London and Paris", both shows on one disc. The rock/soul singer showed up to perform and perform he did in front of an enthusiastic European audience who were lucky enough to purchase a ticket.. Redding is energized, brilliantly backed by Booker T. and the MG's,with the brass section of - The Mar-Keys and the distinctive guitar licks of Steve Cropper,the rest is Otis all the way,prominently alive and vital,wailing all the hits, RESPECT,SATISFACTION,MY GIRL,SHAKE,THESE ARMS OF MINE - Redding's first recording),FA-FA-FA-FA-FA(SAD SONGS),listen for the mesmerizing-I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU,with the grand finale,TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS. Some of the songs are repeated giving a different perspective of Redding's stand out performances of each show. The Paris concert is the stronger set of the two, both combined makes for one helluva compilation. Otis Redding,a man who knew "how" to sing a song,a 2008 release on Stax/Volt records,with booklet,packaging is a cardboard flip open 'mini' album cover,disc is placed in a secure holder.
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