This new live album is quite a cool one, both in terms of the music presented here and the full package. For one thing, we get not only the audio CD but also a DVD of the performance. From what I can tell the DVD is sort of a reissue of an earlier release, but then again it’s a bonus here, so essentially free if you buy the CD. The live performance is great. The only real flaw is that the sound quality isn’t the greatest. It seems a little muffled. Even that, though, isn’t bad enough to really detract from the enjoyment. All in all, this is highly recommended.

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This comes in high energy and a little noisy. There is a short burst of something that sounds a bit like Frank Zappa. Then they bring it out into the vocal movement. This has a hard rock sound merged with something perhaps a bit like Magma. Maybe a better description would be Magma meets Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa. They shift it out into a slower moving, mellower jam with both Zappa and Hawkwind like space rock represented. They take us into some different jams as it continues. Then it powers back out into the Zep, Zappa and Magma conglomeration.

I’ve always loved this song in all its incarnations. With a real psychedelic space rock vibe here, this one works quite well. It works out to something rather like Hawkwind later. Then it gets powered up into an ever faster jam that’s hard rocking and very potent.

I can make out sort of a Robert Plant solo vibe here in some ways. That’s blended with the same kind of spacey progressive rock sounds heard on the rest of the set. More fusion oriented elements emerge later and this has some great jamming. This is one of the most straightforward and mainstream tunes here. Some smoking hot instrumental work eventually serves as the extended outro here.