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(More customer reviews)First a little warning... released on video ages ago, long out of print and virtually impossible to find, if you already have the VHS version, don't breathe too much of a sigh of release... It definitely is *NOT* digitally remastered... The sound still sounds like it was recorded... well back in 1973 (in all fairness) and the picture is somewhat dark. With that said... what do you expect... this is SOUL MUSIC and a live concert in 1973... and you know the POWERS THAT BE weren't going to send out their BEST camera crew and recording equipment... Still, this is a window back in time, and considering it was recorded live in 1973 let's give the producers a break... despite the face that the recording could definitely have been cleaned up (even with the software I have on my own computer !)
The group features the entire MOVEMENT, HOT BUTTERED SOUL and that hardcore bald check (Is she the model from those old Ohio Players albums covers ?) Tunes are LIGHT MY FIRE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF, NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE, BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX, LOOK OF LOVE and I STAND ACCUSED and the playing time is 78 minutes. Issac Haye's is wearing the chains and the audience (overdubbed or not) is quite hyped. - - Though the concert gets off to a bit of a slow start, the soul and orchestral arrangements are totally off the wall by the time Haye's hits on NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE and you realize why in that era if you had a chick and wanted to impress her, it was out with the fro and in with some scalp !
Overall... if you can get back being spoiled by recent advances in digital remastering and place yourself in the position of the people who were viewing it when it first came out... you'll dig it majorly !
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