Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted (Import, Original Recording Remastered)

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The Animals

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If you are an Eric Burdon fan, like I am, you have to have everything the guy has ever done so I bought this album when the vinyl version came out and then the cd. I had read,somewhere, that Burdon's talent was always stiffled by the rest of the orginal Animals who were just average musicians. Since this is the orginal line-up I can't agree more. The instrumentation is just adequate and Burdon's voice is on a much higher plane of musicianship and could be so much more if it were not for the background noise produced by by the rest of the Animals. Its seems Burdon progressed so much more as a singer and the rest of the group stopped growing as musicians.The performance on each cut lacks any energy with Burdon doing all the work and the rest just coasting.If you had the ability to just listen to the instrumentation without Burdon's voice you swear it sounded like a group you heard at a Holiday Inn lounge. Their bass player, who discovered and managed Jim Hendrix, produced this album.He should have done a better job and used better muscians to complement Burdon's powerfull voice. Back then, Eric Burdon could easily be persuaded to make some in appropriate choices. This was one of them. However, listening to his voice should be why you buy the album so just dismiss the amateur musicianship and you'll do fine.