Live in Anvers

Artist: Alex Chilton
Label: Last Call Records
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 614511727822
EAN: 0614511727822
ASIN: B0002JELXQ

Release Date: 2004-08-03

Live in Anvers

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Tracks:

Intro
Ah Ti Ta Ti Ta Ta
Song Intro
In the Street
Song Intro
634-5789
Hook Me Up
II Ribelle
Song Intro
Bangkok
Shiny Stockings
Claim to Fame
Sonata, Grave
Autumn in New York
Sick and Tired
It's Too Late to Turn Back Now
Concert Outro

Customer Reviews:

The great live Chilton album is yet to come.......2004-09-02

This one's a little frustrating. As was the case with the live record from 1980 (with the Soft Boys members backing him up), the players aren't bad at all. It's just that the American studio and touring bands are better versed and rehearsed than this European counterpart. Those looking to sample the post-Big Star Chilton should look first to "High Priest" "Set" "Cliches" and "Man Called Distruction." Or "Like Flies on Sherbert," if you want drunken mayhem done once more with feeling.

That said, there's enough here to make it an easy recomendation for my fellow Chiltophiles.

"Ah Ti Ta Ti Ta Ta" (not to be confused with "Tee Na Nee Na Nee Na Noo") is a happy little Ernie K. Doe tune that was new to me (and well done in this live version). Sam and Dave's "634-5789" is also a highlight. "It's Too Late to Turn Back Now" is great, though it has a band introduction in the middle that breaks the mood a bit. "Claim to Fame" is more Stax-flavored R&B, and is one of the better tracks on the album.

The intro to Bangkok is funny--Alex refers to his late-seventies self as a "drunken hooligan," the the performance is fine (but not quite sleazy enough to those in love with the original single). I had high hopes for "Sonata, Grave" (hoped it would be as nice as his solo-guitar arrangement of part of a Bach chorale on "Cliches")--alas, the band joins him for this, and it doesn't really succeed.

"Il Ribelle" and "In the Street" are fine--you won't find yourself reaching for the track-skip button, but his studio versions of both tunes surpass what's here.

In the "I don't need to hear this more than once" category are "Shiny Stockings" and "April in Paris"--both rough here (the pickup band just isn't familiar enough with these tunes/arrangements, both from the Count Basie Band book)--and "Sick and Tired," which doesn't recreate the killer New Orleans groove of the earlier studio version. "Hook Me Up" also misses the deep pocket of the studio version. I really wish the band had just layed out on the standards (Basie material) and let Chilton do them solo--also the classical piece. The album is a mixed bag; worth it in the end, but not for the Chilton novice.

Alex Chilton.......2004-09-01

Alex Chilton about says it all. Very few singers sing with the emotional cool intensity of Alex Chilton. He nows wring out the emotional content of each song with his voice and guitar. Some think that Frank Sinatra could do anything with a song. Those people should listen to Alex and weep.

Live in Anvers or Live in Memphis?.......2004-08-10

Alex Chilton stole into Antwerp in January '04 with very little fanfare and laid down one of his cleanest, tightest live performances on CD. It's really a bit of an anachronism: three back-up Flemish musicians joined this career veteran in his homage to the great names of Memphis music on this Belgian stage. Thankfully Studio Brussels and Last Call Records managed to nail down the one-time performance.
The slew of cover tunes from the likes of Eddie Floyd, Ernie K-Doe, and Johnny Watson nearly drown out the headliner himself. And the funny thing is, Chilton almost embarrassingly introduces his self-penned tunes as if he doesn't feel worthy to stand among those he prefers to cover.
Fans and collectors of Chilton's 30-year career will welcome the new recordings of like the catchy "Ah Ti Ta Ti Ta Ta," "634-5789," and "Claim to Fame." Few musicians have strung together such an eclectic career as Chilton, and there is certainly a taste of nearly everything here, and it's in all aspects Memphis sound. For good balance, there's a rocking live rendition of "Il Ribelle" and a tear-jerking version of Vernon Duke's"Autumn in New York."
The only "drag" about this otherwise impressive CD is that Chilton never had the chance to play long and deliver "What's Your Sign, Girl?" as the ultimate encore. In the meantime, Amazon should discount this fine album since it will surely lead to mining for forgotten classics from the recent past from Chilton and those he covers so well.

i was there.......2004-08-04

I saw Alex in Anvers and I was really thrilled sitting in the first row. He played it very clean and he didn't miss a note compared to the recordings, maybe not as mean or fast as you would like it better and only tool little tracks. Mauro played the however slick rithmes from sheet and the drummer could have been a better class. There were two new songs if i'm not mistaken. Amazon should put in the set.

It lasted way too short. I should buy and hear if my rating is correct and if the request from the public (the guy next to me) for 'what's you're sign' was recorded. The song won't be on it for the master replied 'no horoscope today'.

Huub

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