![]() What Street Legal should have sounded like! Is is rock, is it jazz, is it R&B, is it fusion? Who knows, but it is definitely wonderful. Some of the best live Bob you will ever hear. With decent microphones hidden in a wheelchair. Most of this sounds better than most Columbia official live recordings, & it was recorded on analogue tapes using a reel-to-reel recorder The vast majority of songs performed by Bob in LA were recorded by Millard, so only a few on this compilation are from inferior sources. The setlists were fairly static & LA got little of the yet-to-be-released Street Legal, but what it did get was some amazing music from Bob's back catalogue. (you would think an experienced Zeppelin bootlegger would not run out of tape),īut these bobtapes only recently emerged & were a very pleasant surprise as the LA residency had long suffered from very poor sounding recordings. By 1978, Millard was a legendary bootlegger of both Led Zeppelin & The Rolling Stones With one starting later than the other to overlap. Millard recorded three of the seven nights at Universal Amphitheater but only succeeded in completely recording the third concert by using two recorders Now Bob could have saved himself a lot of trouble by getting LA resident Mike Millard to record Street Legal using his mobile "wheelchair" recording studio. The resulting album - the music was fantastic & the sound was horrible.Īfter the album was recorded, Bob spend a week doing seven consecutive nights without a breakĪt a residency at LA's Universal Amphitheater as a warm-up to a summer tour of Europe. ![]() Jerry Scheff replaced Rob Stoner, who was fired from the band after the first 1978 tour leg (Japan, New Zealand & Australia). In a live-in-the-studio format using a mobile studio, just like Exile On Main Street?! Problem was, the acoustics were dreadful.īob had been inspired to do this after listening to the tapes of the Jerry Scheff audition in April which was recorded this way. ![]() There was an overabundance of talent & a very disperate mix of musical genres.īob then stuck all this talent in a converted gunshop (Rundown Studios) in LA to record, in a week, Street Legal, To begin with, Bob had assembled a band which included:Įx-members of Elvis Presley's TCB (Taking Care Of Business) Band (Elvis died in Memphis on 16 August 1977), I also wish some of his info files were smaller.ġ978 LA SPRING SESSIONS, REHEARSALS & CONCERTSĮven by Bob's standards, the recording of Street Legal was weird. Someone asked me for some of the Pink Panther Dylan Compilations. ![]()
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