New Barbarians - Buried Alive: Live in Maryland
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Free Music Review: these barbarians rocked the world
Hit: 5 Stars
it was 1979, when keith and ronnie put a band that was supposed to be called the barbarians. they found that that actually a band with that name already existed and decided to change the name into the new barbarians.
fans who were lucky enough to see this tour consistently said that they had rarely seen keith having so much fun as he had with the new barbarians.
the band, in addition to having keith and ronnie on guitar, featured a bunch of legenday musicians: bobby keys, ian maclagan and staley clarke on bass.
the concert was recorded in maryland on may 5, 1979 and was previously made available as a bootleg by, i believe, an italian record company.
the set is great. there are some tunes with ronnie as leading vocalist and keith singing back up vocalist and other sings that were sung by keith--the numbers that were sung by keith include worried life blues, apartment n. 9, let's go steady, and so on. it was also the first time keith and ronnie performed a live version of before they make me run--the great piece that keith had recorded with the stones for some girls (1978). ronnie sings instead tunes like seven days (by bob dylan) and i can feel the fire --that he had originally recorded with mick jagger and david bowie when the stones were recording it's only rock and roll. the comparison between this version of i can feel the fire and the one recorded by ronnie, sir mick and bowie shows quite clearly that keith is a genius. the way in which he sings his parts as backing vocalist (but all the stones record makes it clear that behind mick's voice, keith's performance as backing vocalist was giving the song a richer, wilder flavor) brings new life to the song and makes it infinitely more catchy than the studio version. this is a must have for everybody.
for those who do not have the bootleg, this live album is a great opportunity to appreciate what keith and ronnie were doing with their band. for those who already have the bootleg, this is a great chance to hear the songs (such as jumpin' jack flash) that were never put on the bootleg.
it's awesome
Free Music Review: Finally!
Hit: 5 Stars
I saw these guys during Keith's benefit show for the blind, which was part of his sentence for smack possession in Toronto in the mid-1970s.
I was quite young and it was probably one of my first concerts. The show was a blast in the tiny Oshawa civic centre.
Like the other reviews mentioned, both Keith and Ronnie were wasted, having a good time, and although we really didn't get a polished musical performance, it didn't matter. These guys were gods: smokes dangling from their mouths, Ronnie on his Strat, Keith playing his black Tele deluxe, cranking out tunes that ranged from the straight-ahead, key of G rocker, "Sweet Lil Rock n Roller," to the bluesy "Love in Vain," to the country balladry of "Apartment No. 9." It's was all good.
You'll get the same here.
After years of trying to find anything by the Barbarians, and not having a copy of a bootleg, I had almost given up. So it was welcome news when this CD appeared earlier this month.
If you like unpretentious rock and roll, from an era when popular musicians knew how to play their instruments (no matter what the state of their minds), then buy this one. It's a good find.
Free Music Review: Loose and FANTASTIC!!
Hit: 5 Stars
These guys rocked the Oakland Coliseum when I saw them swing through the bay area back in the 70s. Keith and Ronnie were so elegantly wasted cool. Sharing a mic on Honky Tonk Women, Ronnie would approach the mic with cigarette in mouth and then quickly take it out and put it at the foot of the mic stand. Keith would sidle up and drop down and in a flash would have that cigarette in his mouth, both of them smiling in agreement that this stage is where it's at. And Stanley Clarke playing an out of this world bass solo with Ziggy pounding out a funky beat! If this double CD set is the only live chronicle of this band having a blast, then it's totally worth owning. Great that this gig is officially released. Ian MacLagan's "Troublemaker" CD uses the same musicians in the studio. His voice has that same raspiness of Ronnie's voice. Rock n'Roll!Free Music Review: Big and Dirty
Hit: 4 Stars
This 2-CD set documents an event remarkable in Rolling Stones history: The New Barbarians' series of arena shows during 1979 marked the first time any of the Rolling Stones toured outside the band. "Some Girls" had rejuvenated the Stones creatively the year before, and the '78 tour (documented on the essential Stones boot "Handsome Girls") itself revealed a lean, hungry Rolling Stones, minus the bells and whistles and inflatable phallus of 1975's "Tour Of The Americas". In the wake of the punks, The Rolling Stones stripped down for their 1978 trek to the five band members, plus Ron Wood's longtime Faces bandmate Ian McLagan and original sixth Stone Ian Stewart comprising the musically perfect, unobtrusive keyboard team.
The New Barbarians' lineup wasn't certain until the last minute (Neil Young, who coined the band's name, and Boz Scaggs had participated in rehearsals but later bowed out), leading to rumors that various superstars, including Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan (who had been hanging out with Wood and contributed a song to his new album), would make 'surprise' appearances at nearly every stop. The lineup finally coalesced, however, and the New Barbarians opened for the Stones themselves, in Canada, at the April 22, 1979 benefit for the blind Keith was sentenced to perform after his infamous Toronto Heroin bust, toured the U.S. April 23 through May 22, 1979, followed by a single show in the UK that August, the giant Knebworth festival, where they opened for Led Zeppelin. The Barbarians' tour coincided with the release of Wood's fourth solo album, "Gimme Some Neck", but this remarkable set documenting a Largo, Maryland show May 5th shows they had already forged a potent, if occasionally wobbly, sonic identity of their own - sort of a rich man's version of (Johnny Thunders') Heartbreakers, loose as the Faces, raw as any great garage band, and with their varied musical influences and backgrounds always on display - blues, country, funk, '50s rock 'n' roll - yet fully integrated into the collective. Recalled as "sloppy" and drug-addled, the New Barbs were, to a man, master musicians ready, willing, able, and big enough to put together something special; add prodigious amounts of chemical enhancement and the results are what you hear on this frequently blazing, powerful and only occasionally disheveled live set.
First, it has indeed been remastered and absolutely sounds better than the boot from this show I'm familiar with, issued by Swingin' Pig years ago. In fact the sound is remarkably immediate and powerful, except for the closing 'Jumping Jack Flash', which sounds like an fiery version sadly marred by the fact that it's taken from an inferior source. Also, both due to the intensity of the band's performance and because Ron Wood's voice is often hoarse, especially on the early tracks from disc 1 (nothing like the healthy sounding Wood who sang 'Ooh La La' just six years earlier), this album is most effective if you program a handful favorite tracks at a time. The second disc is tighter than the first, overall. The band, as noted, are all superstars: The Meters' Joseph Modeliste (drums) is a master of deep funk grooves, with a century of New Orleans' rhythms in his DNA. The Meters had recently broke up after a dozen years together, and 'Ziggy' sounds like he's thrilled to be aboard playing rock 'n' roll. The two Stones, Ron Wood and Keith Richards (guitars, vocals, pianos, etc) were still, clearly, close friends and partners; longtime Stone-in-law Bobby Keys (sax) is the perfect tenor man, with soul and grit in his tone, for any house party. Add Stanley Clarke, the technically astonishing jazz bassist, the perfectly complementary, marvelous piano and organ work from Ian McLagan, and the results indicate this ad-hoc combo make big, loud, dirty rock and roll together, with more than a dollop of hard funk in the grooves. It works about 80% of the time, and when it gets a little ragged you can still just bask in the grunge. Keith and Ron are really playing together (you know, "weaving") here, and that itself is wonderful to hear. And everybody seems to be having a great time.
Highlights include a long, powerful take on one of Wood's best songs, 'Breathe On Me'; Keith's soulful versions of 'Let's Go Steady' and a lovely Tammy Wynette song left off the "Emotional Rescue" album, 'Apartment Number Nine' (with Wood on pedal steel). The band rocks the blues on Maceo Merriweather's chestnut 'Worried Life Blues' (sung by Keith) and B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" (which Wood recorded with the Jeff Beck Group). A couple of cuts later we come to the best sixteen minutes of the whole set: a 10-minute 'Am I Groovin You' (trust me: play loud!) simply shreds anything else I've heard recently, as the band settle in to luxuriate in the impossibly dense, funky groove; midway through Stanley Clarke makes noises with his bass that would leave Bootsy Collins dazed with delight. This leads into a ferocious, driving version of 'Seven Days' that blows away the studio version and even the hot 1993 version Ron did with the MG's at Dylan's 30th anniversery. The guitars prod and sting like rusty barbed wire, without the edits or sometimes sterile mixes that mar some latter day live Stones sets (i.e. "Flashpoint")
This is the first release from Wood's Wooden label, which has already signed a couple of terrific new bands. Ron Wood promises more archival material: a CD/DVD set documenting the two July 1974 Kilburn concerts, Ron Wood's first solo gigs; Keith, who had just contributed mightily to Ron's solo debut album, was integral to those shows, too - one hears the Stones' guitarists performing together a full year before Wood's first Stones tour. Wooden Records isoff to a terrific start: The New Barbarians' "Buried Alive" is essential for any serious Stones fan.
Free Music Review: Electric Sludge
Hit: 4 Stars
As others have noted, the performance itself has high and less-than high points. I don't know if the tracks on this 2 disc set are in the same sequence in which they were performed, but it seems that the band really starts cooking on disc 2. IMHO, the set reaches it's peak with the piss-and-vinegar, raunchy arrangement "Before They Make Me Run," which is an interesting contrast to the relatively sanitized, poppish version on the Stones' "Some Girls" album.
Granted, some of the looseness here is because the band itself came into existence on the fly, and some of the looser moments may be a reflection of Ronnie and Keith's sobriety on that particular night. This is not to say the band sounds incompetent -- because on this album they are clearly masters of their art in a most triumphant period for their artform. But this is not a masterpiece -- it's a raucous night on the town for the boys and they rock the joint to bits.
If you appreciate meandering, dual-lead, Chuck Berry freight train orgies peppered with random blasts of power chords, you will love this album. Power sludge, indeed.