Combines two things I'm 50/50 on: live albums, and double albums.
This one is a relatively pure live album. Apparently VM was so against the idea of doing re-records and overdubs on it that he cut his hit "Moondance" from the album because someone hit a bum note. To my mind that would have given the recording a bit of extra character.
As a double album it still suffers that issue of song fatigue. A double album kind of needs to have an over-arching theme or enough variety to carry it through (or both). Perhaps if I were attending the concert rather than listening to this as an album, the live vibe might carry me through. As it is though, this ended up being a bit of an endurance test. I could hear a whole lot of good bits, but they kind of just melted into this 'wall-of-music'.
You're a talented guy, Van, but 90 minutes of live recording is just too much in this instance.
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