Mott The Hoople-Live (1974)

 


Artist: Mott The Hoople

Title: Live

Label: Columbia

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: PCA 33282

Year of Release: 1974

Country and Year of Edition: US gray shell

Sell Price:$3.78 --- credited

Sell Date: 7/4/26

Condition: leader broke on testing

Discogs Last Sold: 5/11/20 VG/not graded $2.99

Low: $2.99

Median: $3.38

Average: $3.38

High: $3.78

Current low price: $1.25 VG/no cover

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2

Have/Want: 19/10

Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought: ebay 8-track lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No 

Mott The Hoople are one of those bands I'd rather hear the studio versions of these songs than the Live ones.  I'm sure they were a "great band Live" in their day, but great songs sound less than monumental here.  Even the great opener "All The Way From Memphis" sounds a little flat.  Still I'm kicking myself for missing their return to the stage at the Beacon back in 2019.  How the hell did I miss that?

This is one of those 8-tracks that get faded not moved around.  "Rest In Peace," "Sweet Angeline" and "One Of The Boys" in the closing epic medley get the fades.  When I was testing the tape I went straight to track 4 and listened to most  of the end of the medley, then instead of stopping the tape went back to the "One Of The Boys"second half.  This is often a sign that the leader is falling off, but you never know until the cycle completes itself again.  Unfortunately that dreaded 8-track silence happened instead of the reassuring click and end of tape light going on.  The buyer had another order where he wanted to repair the broken tape after credit so instead of the refurbish pile it went to him gratis with the other titles.

As I've listened to this in streamland the last couple days, I've felt the record is good baseline live Glam Rock.  Something like "Walking With A Mountain" I didn't know as well as Memphis, Dudes and Angeline so I like that one more here.   Is the 6 song medley really a medley at all at 16 plus minutes?  Live you just might think they are playing their songs and covered the Beatles ("Get Back") and Jerry Lee (Shakin').

Rock for the rock 'n' roll queen and the dudes who love them.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Mott The Hoople-Mott (1973)

Ian Hunter-All Of The Good Ones Are Taken (1983)

Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson-Y U I Orta (1989)

Ian Hunter-Rant (2001)

Ian Hunter-All Of The Good Ones Are Taken (1983)



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