2-LP set with live performances the band made for BBC at two occations. Record one contains a gig from February 1970, introduced by John Peel, and record two one from March 1972. They were a great live band, which had already been shown on the superb 1972 release "Live In Japan", and here's more of the same. The audio on the first record is somewhat hampered by fake stereo, while the second comes true and fully fledged. Yet fake or true mixes doesn't matter much here. You still get top performances with lots of zest and closing my eyes in the listening chair I can still be there. Hard to pick favorites since it's all very good listening, but I do like the over twenty minute long "Space Truckin", starting very intenese and powerful and then eventually turning in to psych spells on organ and guitar. A wonderful piece. And even if the performance hadn't been that good I probably would have bought it anyway, just for the package. Outer sleeve has fifteen colour pics of the band and the inners fifteen black and white, all from back in those days, so it's also good to the eyes. In all a very good experience and I guess a must have for any band fan. Issued early eighties all over the world on vinyl and cassette. Later reissued on LP, CD, cassette and SACD, some with different names and/or sleeve desgin and some with added tracks. First US 1981 on Portrait (R2 38050). Premiere UK had label as shown here in a laminated fold/out cover with picture inners. (LYBÖ*) (DHÄ*)
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