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Title: Realism, if you please...
Review: After wearing out a copy of the Live at Leeds remaster (not true, but you get the idea), I figured I'd give their IOW cd a try; knowing that this is was one of the best live bands of all time, how bad could it be?In actual fact, it's a solid live album, and like most of the other reviewers, the tunes from Tommy performed here are worth owning, but the band takes a bit too long to get into their groove, and Moon's drumming on the first 4 songs is pretty awful, by their own previously set standards.I don't doubt that it was probably a fantastic show to attend, but Live at Leeds is the stronger album, in both performance and sound quality. This album sort of catches them on the way down, and while they still had a long way yet to fall by 1970, it's not an essential live recording. Anybody that tells you so is likely a die-hard fan, and as such, their opinion is too biased to give you honesty.
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