A must buy for any Move fans, of course, but what incredible music for younger music fans to experience for the first time. This is definitive proof that if The Move had played The Fillmore East they would have been The Top English rock band, right next to Led Zeppelin. But being inventive was all that mattered to these musicians, especially Roy Wood, so playing the same songs over and over on a national tour would probably have lead to boredom. These songs were perfected already so how could they have been..
The Move are barely known in the U.S., but their impact on the late-60s British rock scene, and all that tumbled from it, reverberates through to today. By the end of their run, they'd evolved an artier sound that would find full-flower as founders Roy Wood and Bev Bevan, and latter-day member Jeff Lynne, decamped to form the Electric Light Orchestra. But in their prime, they were a rock powerhouse that matched up to the Who's incendiary music and daring social antics. The group is captured in full-flower o..
This is an insanely GREAT album. The mighty Move captured in a couple of performances at Fillmore West in 1969 when they were absolutely on top it. Yes, it's pretty much a front-of-house board tape, so it's gonna be vocal heavy, but after the first track, which is way out of balance vocal and instrument-wise, things even out nicely and you hear why the Move was heralded in Europe and England as one of the greatest live bands ever, though remaining relatively unknown here in the U.S.In its most stripped down..
