SLADE - CD ALIVE/ALIVE 2/ON STAGE/LI

Popis - ALIVE/ALIVE 2/ON STAGE/LI:
The first live album ?Slade Alive!? was recorded at the Command Theatre Studio in London, for just ?600, and released without overdubs of any sort in March 1972. The seven songs on the album captured Slade?s transition from enthusiastic novices with a knack for performing the music of others into a powerful group in their own right. As their fans had come to expect, ?Get Down And Get With It? was the showstopper, introduced as ever by Ringmaster Noddy with the now fabled battle cry of: ?Well, alriiiiiiiiiiight everybody... let your hair down.? The band?s version of the Steppenwolf standard ?Born To Be Wild? was further evidence of their showmanship. Among the cover versions, ?In Like A Shot From My Gun?, ?Know Who You Are? and the rock ?n? roll pastiche, ?Keep On Rocking?, all ably represented Jim and Noddy?s own developing compositional ability. A Number Two spot and 58-week run on the British chart for ?Slade Alive!? made a sequel inevitable. The story of Slade?s renaissance at the 1980 Reading Festival has long since passed into the realms of rock music folklore. It was a performance that resurrected their flagging career and several tracks were issued on a pair of EPs. Recorded at Newcastle City Hall and released in December 1982, Slade?s third live album reveals conclusively that Reading (and a powerful showing at Donington in 1981) had breathed new life into the band. They could now base their set-list upon new anthems like ?Rock And Roll Preacher (Hallelujah I?m On Fire)?, ?Lock Up Your Daughters? and the irresistible ?We?ll Bring The House Down?, as well as the evergreen ?Gudbuy T? Jane,? ?Mama Weer All Crazee Now,? and ?Everyday?. As Kerrang! magazine proclaimed: ?The days as teenyboppers are long gone and it?s time Slade were accepted for what they are ? a hard-working, entertaining rock and roll band.? Amen to that.