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Excellent bootleg - beautiful sound, wonderful performance. Made in Australia (Sydney)c.1977. Waits in great form - good humoured with much silly banter & brilliant performances, notably Burma Shave, Annie's Back in Town, medley of Jitterbug boy/I wish I was in New Orleans/When the Saints Go Marchin' In. All in all a great CD - the band are particularly great & the sound crystal clear but with loads of atmosphere - packaging nice too!. Equally,AVOID 'Drink at the Bar' - c.1975? - not bad sound, band fine - but Waits in nitpicking grumpy mood & growls every song in a flat monotone. Banter mainly re. how bad journey was etc & trying (unsuccessfully) to get the audience to tell him what to sing. Only relief = nice version of 'Piano Has Been Drinking'.
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