The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - British Tour '76 (1976/2004)
Artist: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Title: British Tour '76
Year Of Release: 1976/2004
Label: Major League Productions
Genre: Rock, Art Rock, Glam
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:05:38
Total Size: 172/467 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: British Tour '76
Year Of Release: 1976/2004
Label: Major League Productions
Genre: Rock, Art Rock, Glam
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:05:38
Total Size: 172/467 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. Fanfare
02. The Faith Healer
03. Tomahawk Kid
04. Isobel Goudie
05. Amos Moses
06. Vambo
07. Boston Tea Party
08. Dance To Your Daddy
09. Framed
10. Delilah
British Tour '76 is not an expanded version of the original Live album, despite the similarity in track listings, but a remarkable document of the band's next major tour, in support of the newly released SAHB Stories album. History relates that the group was on the way out now, and certainly its subsequent decline was precipitous. Here, however, Alex and the lads aren't simply firing on all cylinders -- they're enacting one of the finest shows any British stage had ever seen. Their seething reinvention of "Amos Moses," the bicentennial gift "Boston Tea Party," and the so-compulsive "Dance to Your Daddy" are the new album's contributions to the show; elsewhere, it's business as usual, as the SAHB dig back into their earliest fare for a mighty "Isabel Goudie" and the inevitable thunder of "Faith Healer"; "Tomahawk Kid," "Vambo," and the encore hit "Delilah" are all present and deliriously correct, but the highlight has to be "Framed," with Alex in full comic Hitler mode, and delivering a routine that you simply couldn't get away with today. That doesn't stop it from being hysterically funny, though, as well as serving as a potent reminder that good taste and great rock & roll have rarely been comfortable bedfellows.