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Title: Decent, but certainly doesn't capture his guitar prowess
Review: In light of some of the other live material that has been released by Stevie Ray, this certainly doesn't compare. Because of drugs or whatever, his playing seems uninspired and labored. He seems to play much of his songs with less enthusiam than at other times in his career. Compare "Live Alive" with other albums such as "In the Beginning" or the El Mocambo video. Those recordings show Stevie Ray at his finest, his playing inspired, and his emotions desperate, as if it would be his final performance. Unfortunately "Live Alive" doesn't not have the same feel or the same technical prowess displayed in some of the other of Stevie Ray's releases.
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