Colosseum - Colosseum Live (1971) {2004, Reissue}

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Artist: Colosseum
Title: Colosseum Live
Year Of Release: 1971 / 2004
Label: Sanctuary Midline #SMRCD118
Genre: Jazz Rock, Fusion, Progressive Rock, Blues Rock
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log)
Total Time: 01:14:27
Total Size: 552 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Colosseum Live is a live album by Colosseum, released in 1971. It was one of the band's most commercially successful albums, remaining in the UK Albums Chart for six weeks and peaking at number 17. This album was recorded at Manchester University (March 18, 1971) and the Big Apple, Brighton (March 27, 1971), on the "Daughter of Time" tour. After "Colosseum Live", the band broke up for 23 years and reunited in 1994.

~ Wiki

Recorded in March 1971, Live wasn't just a souvenir with live versions of favorites, although studio versions of half of the songs ("Walking in the Park," "Rope Ladder to the Moon," and "Lost Angeles") had appeared on prior albums. There were also three previously unrecorded items, those being the bluesy 15-minute Clem Clemson-Jon Hiseman original "Skellington," "Tanglewood '63" (in which Dick Heckstall-Smith's jazz sax came to the forefront), and the ten-minute charge through the standard "Stormy Monday Blues." Even on some of the songs that had been previously issued on studio releases, there's the difference of hearing Chris Farlowe (who didn't join until mid-1970) on lead vocals -- a blessing or a curse, depending on your taste for his piledriving approach. Credit should be given to Colosseum for giving the album a markedly different approach than their studio outings, and it does demonstrate their prowess as a muscular live outfit with a taste for blending progressive rock, jazz, and blues. But like many a live effort it does tend toward too-long arrangements, none of the songs clocking in under the seven-minute barrier.

~ Richie Unterberger, All Music

Colosseum - Colosseum Live (1971) {2004, Reissue}

Track List:

01. Rope Ladder To The Moon [9:47]
02. Walking In The Park [8:22]
03. Skellington [14:57]
04. Tanglewood '63 [10:12]
05. Encore… Stormy Monday Blues [7:32]
06. Lost Angeles [15:46]
07. I Can't Live Without You [7:51]

Personnel:
Mark Clarke - Bass, Vocals
Dave "Clem" Clempson - Guitars, Vocals
Chris Farlowe - Vocals
Dave Greenslade - Organ, Vibes
Dick Heckstall-Smith - Saxophones
Jon Hiseman - Drums

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