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Released: 2009-09-07 Rating:  More Details: 801 Live: Collectors Edition 801 Live: Collectors Edition @Amazon 801 Live: Collectors Edition @aStore |
Tracklisting:
Disc 1:
1. Lagrima
2. T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows)
3. East of Asteroid
4. Rongwrong
5. Sombre Reptiles
6. Golden Hours
7. Fat Lady of Limbourg
8. Baby's On Fire
9. Diamond Head
10. Miss Shapiro
11. You Really Got Me
12. Third Uncle
Disc 2:
1. Lagrima
2. T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows)
3. East of Asteroid
4. Rongwrong
5. Sombre Reptiles
6. Fat Lady of Limbourg
7. Baby's On Fire
8. Diamond Head
9. Miss Shapiro
10. You Really Got Me
11. Third Uncle
12. Lagrima [Reprise]
Customer Reviews:
A GREAT LIVE ALBUM- NOW AN ESSENTIAL DOUBLE SET.
Phew, what is there to say about the music on 801 Live thats not already been said? One of the most underrated live albums in British music, this newly remastered, doubled in length deluxe package has it all.
For a line up that played [ i believe], just 3 U.K. gigs the opportunity to hear this Manzanera / Eno vehicle was extremely limited, so the chance of a complete rehearsal session surfacing on tape was remote to say the least.Thankfully bassist Bill McCormack had the good fortune to bring a cassette recorder to one of the sessions and make an essential record of this fine musical collaboration.
Much has already been said about the original live album, and needless to say it still sounds fantastic, with a full and clear mastering 801 Live shows the musical virtuosity of the players to extremes. However it is the rehearsal material that is really the crux of this release, and very welcome it is too! Stripped of a studio makeover this recording has a genuine bootleg quality that has a charm in this age of pro-tools and other computer trickery. Each version of the albums songs sounds raw, but fully formed. Sure there are rough edges, and in particular Simon Phillips incredible drum style is reserved as the band go through their paces, but the real interest is in the performances of the musicians, and how they deal with the material.
Staying very close to the arrangements on 801 Live, this set run through does have a few welcome changes. For instance, all the songs actually have endings rather than those slightly annoying fade outs on tracks like Sombre Reptiles. The introduction to Lagrima is now intact, rather than faded in. Its little things like this that make this new edition so worthwhile, and whilst the changes are not earth shattering they do add a new perspective to the listening experience.
The accompanying booklet pretty much covers the short history of 801 Live, with some welcome memories and reappraisals by all of the band members [ Eno's being typically oblique!], making this collection a genuine musical oddity.It may be a bit pricey to the casual buyer, but to genuine fans of 801 Live this is a welcome potted history of one of Britains most inspired musical one-offs.
801 Live
801 Live has some very interesting pieces of music I love it and so will anyone who Buys it.
Beware 
Great music - as prev reviews.
But NOTE this is a Copy Control CD (although that fact is cynically hidden on the packaging!), rather than a proper legal red-book CD. It will not play in most computer cd drives, and may not play in in-car CD players. Some new - and expensive - hifi CD players specifically do not guarantee to be able to play these CD lookalikes.
I've dropped my rating from 5 to 1 star because of the deception.
Google for "Copy Control CD" to learn more about what you are actually getting here before parting with the cash!
1999 reissue of 1976 supergroup's live album
Following `Siren' and live album `Viva!', Roxy Music went on hiatus for a few years, leaving guitarist Phil Manzanera to pursue other directions - these included a solo album, an album recorded at the same time under the name `Quiet Sun' (who were in fact Manzanera's pre-Roxy outfit), and two phases as `801' (the second phase didn't involve Eno and has been forgotten about). 801 take their name from an Eno track found on early solo album `Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)' , `The True Wheel' which had a line, "we are the 801/we are the central shaft" - this song turned up on the Duran-compilation `Only After Dark' a year or so ago. The band featured Eno (keyboards, synthesiser, guitar & vocals) and Manzanera (guitar) alongside Lloyd Watson (slide guitar/vocals), Francis Monkman (Fender Rhodes & Clavinet), Bill MacCormick (bass and vocals), & Simon Phillips (drums and rhythm generator). They only played three gigs in this incarnation and `801 Live' stems from their final performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
The album opens with Manzanera's `Lagrima' from solo album `Diamond Head', a track up there with any instrumental on `Another Green World' - like all of the tracks here (brilliantly and revolution ally recorded) it appears to seague effortlessly into the next track. `T.N.K.' was one of the reasons I bought this album, having appeared on a free cd with a music magazine - that and the presence of the three Eno-tracks on the 1999 reissue not found on the original 1976 album. `T.N.K.' is 801's version of The Beatles' `Tomorrow Never Knows' , the opening keyboard part sounds like early Gary Numan and the song is delivered in a superbly tight style (which may be a tad muso for some?). `East of Asteroid' and `Rongwrong' stem from Manzanera's solo album and Quiet Sun-project - the latter is written by Charles Hayward, who would go on to work with forward thinking post punk outfit This Heat. On the strength of these tracks, I'd definitely track down both those albums...
`Sombre Reptiles' (from Eno's 1975 album `Another Green World') opens with a sound somewhere between Martin Denny and Denny-inspired Throbbing Gristle, before shifting into a jazzy take that makes me think of certain Miles, Mahavishnu Orchestra, & Weather Report. The album remains thoroughly Eno-tastic with a trio of songs not featured on the original live album - AGW's `Golden Hours', `TTM(BS)'s `Fat Lady of Limbourg' & `Here Come the Warm Jet's `Baby's on Fire.' `Golden Hours' is as gorgeous as the studio version that featured John Cale and Robert Fripp, Manzanera's countryish guitar recalls something like `Prairie Rose', while the latter section veers off into more jazzy noodling (the kind of thing Eno wouldn't do when he came more Krautrock inspired over the next few years). `Fat Lady...' has a rhythm generated in a similar style to Robert Wyatt's `Sea Song', the funky bass part anticipates stuff like Mackenzie-Rankine-Associates, `Low' , `Q We Are Devo...' & `Fear of Music' - as well as more recent folk like Franz Ferdinand. The trio ends with a manic take on Warm Jets' `Baby's on Fire', which is probably what the third Roxy album would have sounded like had Eno not left? This song sounds like an anticipation of Japan and many other acts of the post punk/new wave era - like the closing `Third Uncle' it sounds years, if not decades, ahead of the pack.
The rest of the album is as fine, epic Floydian instrumental `Diamond Head' (it makes sense that Manzanera has recorded recently with half of Pink Floyd), and the Eno/Manzanera-composition `Miss Shapiro' which segues wonderfully into a fairly straight version of The Kinks' You Really Got Me. Just a shame `Third Uncle' fades out at the end, oh, and that I always think of Pink Floyd's `One of These Days...' when I hear the intro!!!
`801 Live' is one of many great Eno-related works that seems a bit forgotten these days, perhaps as it came at a point between prog and post-punk? I think it's one of the great live albums, one to file alongside Bowie's `Stage', Magazine's `Play', The Ramones' `It's Alive', `Kick Out the Jams', `Damage' etc. A budget priced joy that really warrants more of an audience...
Stunning: just buy it
801 Live can justly lay claim to be at the top of the extremely short list which forms 'the best live albums ever' and my old vinyl copy was played practically through before I bought the cd. The tunes are mostly by by Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno plus a wonderful version of Lennon/McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an almost as good cover of Ray Davies' "You Really Got Me". The playing is masterful throughout from the tightness of Bill MacCormack and Simon Phillips' rhythm section to the outstanding guitar of Manzanera ("Diamond Head" is simply majestic). Chances are that if you're looking at this it's not by accident, but if you've just surfed in do yourself a favour and buy this record.
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