Title: This solid album lacks the fire of the earlier LPs
Product review: I've always loved Renaissance. Other than Steeleye Span, this is my favorite '70s pop music group. They did their best work on two albums from 1973 and 1974--"Ashes Are Burning" and "Turn of the Cards"--which serve as the foundation for this "you are there" full concert (you hear it from beginning to end). If you add the instrumental "Prologue" from the debut lineup for this band (there was one earlier album by the group with a different lineup), and salt in most of "Scheherazade," you have this album. I've always been somewhat lukewarm on the "Scheherazade" album, & feel that this live version is a better presentation of that material. Otherwise, the greatest songs from the earlier albums receive a competent but less inspired performance than the studio versions. However, any Renaissance fan will want both the the studio and live versions of these songs, some of the best produced and performed by a '70s band.
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