There Is a slight issue here in that while cat#s are the same on the orange and black labels the black label repress is on the RCA label and the original release is on the orange labels was on RCA Victor. Technically two different labels. Furthermore, when I added the images here (all of them except the black labels) I searched by cat# and this album with the black labels was listed but did not notice that the label is incorrectly listed as RCA rather than RCA Victor. So, the label here needs to change to RCA Victor to match the release date and the RCA black label needs a separate entry under date unknown. Could Graham7 or a MOD create a new entry for the RCA black version and a MOD change label here to RCA Victor as it should be and is also incorrectly listed here at Discwrongs (he he). Trifling I know for such a shit album but I do like trifle. (correction sent)
This album was not released in Australia in 1978 but I think a local Australian copy may have eventually surfaced in the mid to late 80's. Does anyone know of or have an Australian pressing?
Added RCA orange labels, cover, back cover and gatefold shots (in a new style for me). The band on this third live album for Lou in 1970's is great but Lou on the other hand just seems to be disinterested. As the band tear through favourites from his back catalogue and three off the new Street Hassle album Lou decides to deliver an endless stream of consciousness monologue. At first this seems to work as a sort of novel street smart way of reinterpreting the older material and an interesting way to build up to the point where the show really starts but it just doesn't. Lou just rambles on for the whole four sides of the album railing against everyone in the world, including himself, with the two notable exceptions being, Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen. He gets in to some clichéd rock theatrics, bossing the backup singers around and asking them stupid questions then goes to town on the band making them accentuate beats and change style. The audience lap up this drivel with an enthusiasm bordering on insanity as Lou goads the them and the band "ain't that control?" No Lou I'm sad to say it's bollocks from start to finish.