Bad Company
Live at Wembley
Eagle Records - 2011
Capturing the band's reunion tour of the UK, the 15 track live CD hits all the high notes of the band's highly noteworth back catalog.
The sound on this disc is fantastic. I know the band's shows were reportedly some of the best sounding of their career so I'm hoping that any overdubs on the recordings were minimal at most. Paul Rodgers can still bring it on vocals like few performers have ever been able to manage.
With Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke on guitar and drums respectively, the band never wallows in their age, they just rock and roll all over the place. They get help from guitarist Howard Leese (Paul Rodgers solo band, ex-Heart) and bassist Lynne Sorensen (stepping in for the late Boz Burrell).
The art on the CD itself was nicely done up so that it looked like a vinyl record. There is also an essay about the band from Classic Rock Revisited.com's Jeb Wright. It is pretty good but personally I feel it glosses over the band's success with second vocalist Brian Howe.
The CD is mostly the performance with very little between song conversation. It doesn't really bring anything new to the table but it does capture a band that while career-wise might be long in the tooth, isn't quite ready for the rocking chair. This show is also available on DVD and blu-Ray.
GRADE: B PLUS
01. Can't Get Enough
02. Honey Child
03. Run With The Pack
04. Young Blood
05. Seagull
06. Gone, Gone, Gone
07. Electric Land
08. Simple Man
09. Feel Like Makin' Love
10. Shooting Star
11. Rock and Roll Fantasy
12. Movin' On
13. Ready For Love
14. Bad Company
15. Deal With The Preacher
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Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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