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Various Artists - Concerts For The People Of Kampuchea (needledrop) (1979)

Track listing:
  1. Baba O'riley The Who 5:23
  2. Sister Disco The Who 5:20
  3. Behind Blue The Who 3:35
  4. See Me Feel Me The Who 6:01
  5. The Wait Pretenders 3:30
  6. Precious Pretenders 3:25
  7. Tattooed Love Boys Pretenders 3:20
  8. The Imposter Elvis Costello 2:12
  9. Crawling From The Wreckage Rockpile 3:05
  10. Little Sister Rockpile With Robert Plant 3:34
  11. Now I'm Here Queen 6:58
  12. Armagideon Time The Clash 4:16
  13. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Ian Dury And The Blockheads 4:36
  14. Monkey Man The Specials 2:33
  15. Got To Get You Into My Life Wings 3:05
  16. Every Night Wings 4:21
  17. Coming Up Wings 4:16
  18. Lucille Rockestra 3:03
  19. Let It Be Rockestra 4:12
  20. Rockestra Theme Rockestra 2:38

Notes

Unicef fundraiser
Never released on CD (almost certainly never will be)
Vinyl source: Atlantic SD 2-7005

This was one of my favorite concert recordings in my youth. These days I find the production values to be a bit lacking, with poor edits and other sound issues that would not make it to a major commercial release in this day and age. Still though, the performances are quite energetic and there is certainly something to be said for a live album that (presumably) has no overdubs. For example, it would have been relatively easy to trim the "false end" from the Rockpile/Plant track, but why? This is what you would expect to have happen at a fundraiser jam session and leaving it alone shows us the authenticity of the presentation. In this way it is almost like a very good quality bootleg rather than a label release.

The record is in very respectable condition for the most part but it will probably not surprise anyone to find that side four suffers a little more wear than the other three.


Lineage:

Fisher Direct Drive Turntable MT-6225
Audio-Technica AT440MLa Cartridge
Marantz Model 2230 Receiver (Phono Pre)
Digidesign Digi 001 (ProTools Hardware)
Protools Software (pencil tool, levels and track splits)
Lightly polished with ClickRepair
No other signal processing is used

Another quality GALEMARK needledrop
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