I've supported Steve twice, once when I was in Rod Garfield's Blues Band at a gig in Newbury, and once at a gig at Basingstoke when I used to front Mondo Colosso Blues Band. I've seen him at The Tower Arts Centre in Winchester and at Talking Heads in Southampton doing his Dylan thing, and at Colne Blues Festival. Steve puts on a great, professional show every time, coolest guy on the stage wherever he plays, hope to see him at Colne again this year!
Love this album, I had it back in the day, and I love this band! Saw them at the Pleasance Theatre at Edinburgh Uni and bought Steve a drink after the gig. They were very underrated and they deserved a lot more than they ever received. Great to find it here, thank you!
Never heard of Steve Gibbons before, so funny enough, I figured maybe he was a Billy Gibbons relative, son, cousin, who knows- only to find he is about 1/2 way tween the nasal Dylanesque vocal style, and the very genuine Band ways of just belting it out. Nice sound and bad ass engine runs like my old Cutlass, proud primer grey, I run blocker and no policeman, no reveneur NONE, ever yet catch me! Like a sleeper car, I listened a couple times to just tune on in, and like the best of music, when the band is either impassioned, outraged and / or just plain having fun... gets better with each listen. Now I get to hunt through what I can find, and buy up what CDs (yes I do, like a disc over an upload, download, -pleh, eroded code of you can't have anything to hold in yer hands no mo' !! I just sold off my @5,000 LP collection, mostly rock, reggae, blues, country, and some ok many anomalies, stuff one can only obtain through travel or record as we all play- yep!) I'll miss the LP covers, the size and art of them especially the ones by Hipgnosis, the then style I guess you could compare to Deviant Art. I still like my HUGE Rhino box sets, and my purple Jimi, especially. I have some real gone items just to replicate what I had to part with, and always I discover more, as I travel so much, I had to at one point buy by the look of a cover, (found THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN), the names of the songs (Ruthie Foster, "Death Came A-Knockin'") or the band names too- oh many from the blues, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, North Mississippi Allstars, anyone who plays with the bands at Crossroads Festivals (gotta appreciate EC for all those shares, wow) or Reggae festivals, so many, and then I learned when my son said I could find some new and new old music on the laptop, he did not mean somewhere in the pile of papers and discs that I put there, so I had a place on my work desk to put sassy Lena's spellbinding tush- uh, tush tea, from the tush leaves of the tush tea tree, uh-huh. Now I became lost in all of it, so I started to call up the "record labels." Ended up so distracted I now have music on my expense allowances, haha, and in fact, the investors of the companies who contract me, thought this so fun, they called upon Eli over in Chi-town and bought up (literally) 2/3 of the Alligator records catalog. They all keep sending me these full and lengthy anthologies, promos and such, then I get catalogs and choose, though often still, by obscure and efficient methods, so Ruf and Blind Pig, oh, a big bada bunch, love when I call. I will have to look into Steve Gibbons Band and catch up. Seems the closer I get to my goals the more they grow, the closer I get to my place the more distant it seems to become. My life is a path and motion, music, high spirits and lit fuses are all just gas in the tank. Of course I run on solar, wind and water so shhh! I'm not really laughing, it must be the gas- gas- gas. Happy 2020 folks, a year good for vision over fission. Don't get a tumor in your humor and best to start your own rumors. I always strip naked to watch television, because I am told they are watching us. Grandpa gave me 2 times 3 rules to live by, told me a couple a few times if'n he'd forget he'd told me before. 1. If it ain't broke don't fix it. 2. If you can't fix it, well f***k it. 3. Nice work if you can get it. Yes he did keep it simple, and for the city his 3 rules would change to 1. No witness, no crime. 2. No body, no crime. 3. Nobody knows nobody. (I knew someone once, only he didn't know himself. Spent his life trying to become what he already was. This was one of my brothers and we used to talk like this all the time. Yet only when the family circus was not gathered in scrutiny. You know, kindness is truly a very telling measure. I'm not so smart as many, smart enough to know I write too much! ) Have you ever seen the rivers glow on a moonless night? Over on the Raritan by scenic Secaucus, NJ, the chemical plants are so kind as to dump in stuff to make a romantic vista from the Atlantic Highlands. I brought Karla there and she was hypnotic, so glossy eyed and wet, uh- sweet. My buddy brought her sister Lorna, who threw up her Old Frothingshlosh Beer, and then kissed him deeply. They married after awhile being all drunk and tripped out for weeks, had some beautiful critters and some nasty, sticky and genuinely scary children. When they split they went to court as each wanted the critters, neither wanted the kids. It can be a cruel world. At least we had that one romantic evening, watching the river glow, and I still have my gas mask bong to commemorate. Also, not for nothin', like, eww, don't go kissing even a fox after a chunky spew! I wrote something really beautiful. I needed a tissue so I used it. Hope this will do! Watching the river glow... Truly, ~RaVen~
Still have my original LP, tremendous stuff, great to be able to download it now to mp3/WAV. Oh-well-oh-well-oh-wop-wip-wip-wip...! And disinterring Chuck Berry's Tulane???!!! Insane! Seems they played at Brum Uni when I was on my year abroad - and just before finals in 74, both Van Morrison and Steely Dan cancelled in Brum for health problems, imagine how some of us who had front-row tickets for both went into finals... But hey, I passed OK. Don't have enough but I'm gonna get it!
A brilliant album from brilliant band.
This track comes from one of my favourite live albums. Totally excellant from start to finish!!
TD
I've supported Steve twice, once when I was in Rod Garfield's Blues Band at a gig in Newbury, and once at a gig at Basingstoke when I used to front Mondo Colosso Blues Band. I've seen him at The Tower Arts Centre in Winchester and at Talking Heads in Southampton doing his Dylan thing, and at Colne Blues Festival. Steve puts on a great, professional show every time, coolest guy on the stage wherever he plays, hope to see him at Colne again this year!
Saw Steve a lot in the early 80s in Birmingham, Great days. Forever young
What a brilliant album, I have worn out my vinyl copy so its great to be able to listen to it again
There is a cd version that I listen to. Great live album, great band.
Love this album, I had it back in the day, and I love this band! Saw them at the Pleasance Theatre at Edinburgh Uni and bought Steve a drink after the gig. They were very underrated and they deserved a lot more than they ever received. Great to find it here, thank you!
We're talking 1980 or 1981!
I know it’s a long time ago but thanks for posting this.
Never heard of Steve Gibbons before, so funny enough, I figured maybe he was a Billy Gibbons relative, son, cousin, who knows- only to find he is about 1/2 way tween the nasal Dylanesque vocal style, and the very genuine Band ways of just belting it out. Nice sound and bad ass engine runs like my old Cutlass, proud primer grey, I run blocker and no policeman, no reveneur NONE, ever yet catch me! Like a sleeper car, I listened a couple times to just tune on in, and like the best of music, when the band is either impassioned, outraged and / or just plain having fun... gets better with each listen. Now I get to hunt through what I can find, and buy up what CDs (yes I do, like a disc over an upload, download, -pleh, eroded code of you can't have anything to hold in yer hands no mo' !! I just sold off my @5,000 LP collection, mostly rock, reggae, blues, country, and some ok many anomalies, stuff one can only obtain through travel or record as we all play- yep!) I'll miss the LP covers, the size and art of them especially the ones by Hipgnosis, the then style I guess you could compare to Deviant Art. I still like my HUGE Rhino box sets, and my purple Jimi, especially. I have some real gone items just to replicate what I had to part with, and always I discover more, as I travel so much, I had to at one point buy by the look of a cover, (found THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN), the names of the songs (Ruthie Foster, "Death Came A-Knockin'") or the band names too- oh many from the blues, Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, North Mississippi Allstars, anyone who plays with the bands at Crossroads Festivals (gotta appreciate EC for all those shares, wow) or Reggae festivals, so many, and then I learned when my son said I could find some new and new old music on the laptop, he did not mean somewhere in the pile of papers and discs that I put there, so I had a place on my work desk to put sassy Lena's spellbinding tush- uh, tush tea, from the tush leaves of the tush tea tree, uh-huh. Now I became lost in all of it, so I started to call up the "record labels." Ended up so distracted I now have music on my expense allowances, haha, and in fact, the investors of the companies who contract me, thought this so fun, they called upon Eli over in Chi-town and bought up (literally) 2/3 of the Alligator records catalog. They all keep sending me these full and lengthy anthologies, promos and such, then I get catalogs and choose, though often still, by obscure and efficient methods, so Ruf and Blind Pig, oh, a big bada bunch, love when I call. I will have to look into Steve Gibbons Band and catch up. Seems the closer I get to my goals the more they grow, the closer I get to my place the more distant it seems to become. My life is a path and motion, music, high spirits and lit fuses are all just gas in the tank. Of course I run on solar, wind and water so shhh! I'm not really laughing, it must be the gas- gas- gas. Happy 2020 folks, a year good for vision over fission. Don't get a tumor in your humor and best to start your own rumors. I always strip naked to watch television, because I am told they are watching us. Grandpa gave me 2 times 3 rules to live by, told me a couple a few times if'n he'd forget he'd told me before. 1. If it ain't broke don't fix it. 2. If you can't fix it, well f***k it. 3. Nice work if you can get it. Yes he did keep it simple, and for the city his 3 rules would change to 1. No witness, no crime. 2. No body, no crime. 3. Nobody knows nobody. (I knew someone once, only he didn't know himself. Spent his life trying to become what he already was. This was one of my brothers and we used to talk like this all the time. Yet only when the family circus was not gathered in scrutiny. You know, kindness is truly a very telling measure. I'm not so smart as many, smart enough to know I write too much! ) Have you ever seen the rivers glow on a moonless night? Over on the Raritan by scenic Secaucus, NJ, the chemical plants are so kind as to dump in stuff to make a romantic vista from the Atlantic Highlands. I brought Karla there and she was hypnotic, so glossy eyed and wet, uh- sweet. My buddy brought her sister Lorna, who threw up her Old Frothingshlosh Beer, and then kissed him deeply. They married after awhile being all drunk and tripped out for weeks, had some beautiful critters and some nasty, sticky and genuinely scary children. When they split they went to court as each wanted the critters, neither wanted the kids. It can be a cruel world. At least we had that one romantic evening, watching the river glow, and I still have my gas mask bong to commemorate. Also, not for nothin', like, eww, don't go kissing even a fox after a chunky spew! I wrote something really beautiful. I needed a tissue so I used it. Hope this will do! Watching the river glow... Truly, ~RaVen~
Still have my original LP, tremendous stuff, great to be able to download it now to mp3/WAV. Oh-well-oh-well-oh-wop-wip-wip-wip...! And disinterring Chuck Berry's Tulane???!!! Insane! Seems they played at Brum Uni when I was on my year abroad - and just before finals in 74, both Van Morrison and Steely Dan cancelled in Brum for health problems, imagine how some of us who had front-row tickets for both went into finals... But hey, I passed OK. Don't have enough but I'm gonna get it!
Great album
This is real rock & roll, enjoy
Yeah your right man
The man does it good, for the last 45 years I been a fan, he is a proffesor of
The Grove as Marc Bolan might have said😊
There only album charting album , unbelievable .
Still have the 3rd LP brilliant
I suspect this live album was live in the way Thin Lizzy's live and dangerous was i.e. hardly, great album though.
Nobody can outdo Bob's version but this is a really good cover.
Steve gibbons a lot better than bob yank
Sounds like a Mickey Jupp song