Midnight Roads & Stages Seen

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Jason & The Scorchers

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The reasons I am recommending this cd is:

1. SOUND QUALITY and PERFORMANCE. It is one of the best Live albums ever recorded and performed. In a league with the Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore, Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous, Kiss - Alive, Duke Ellington - Live at Newport, Yes - Yessongs - to name a few.

2. PRICE. At the price of what a single cd costs, you get a double cd that I. a fan who already owns their studio recordings will be pleased with the live performance of the songs and II. an inexpensive way for a potential new fan to become acquainted the band.

3. THESE GUYS ARE THE MODERN EQUIVILANT OF ELVIS What Elvis did with great rockers like "Jail House Rock" to great ballads like "Love me tender"; these guys are doing with great hard rockers like "White lies" to great country songs like "Broken whiskey glass".

4.ORIGINALITY and INTEGRITY. No other band has ever been able to play such extremes in music with such quality, integrity, conviction and in a constant manner, as well as often combining these extremes that amazingly sound so great combined, and consequently, this band sounds like no one else.

They are one of the few original acts today, who despite receiving indifferent treatment from the narrow minded modern radio stations and the majority of the music buying public who can't accept such extremes in music today - have never sold out and tried to become just another country group or just another hard rock group.

For music recordings, all Jason and the Scorchers cds should get 10/10.

For Jason and the Scorchers recordings it gets a 8/10 due to the superiority of their studio recordings being "Lost and Found", "Still standing", "Fire and Lightning" and "Clear impetuous morming"

Having followed this band since the early days I have "straped in" for several shows.. From a small uptairs club in Bloomington, Il..the night Jasin broke a tooth on stage..to Chicago Park West with opening by the Georgia Satillites.

For years these genra-busting blasts have left me thirsty for a live album! Unfortunatly this show was recorded with both audience and band knowing that it would become the long awaited live album. Fans and band alike are overdoing it on this record and it comes off as slightly phoney. The performances of some of the older songs represent the final evolution rather than the prime of life of these wonderful creations.

I still hope to someday hear a live disc representing these tunes from a collection of live tapes more representative of their true form. in the interval the most avid Scorchers fas are left to search bootleg sources for recordings of the band in it's hayday. My favotite is a 7-Up "unconcert" broadcast live on Chicago's WXRT inthe mid 80's from The Metro. I attended that show as well.