General Article name: Live in Memphis
Genre: Pop englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Rykodisc Number of tracks: 29 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Big Star - In the Street 2. Big Star - Don't Lie to Me 3. Big Star - When My Baby's Beside Me 4. Big Star - I Am the Cosmos 5. Big Star - Way Out West 6. Big Star - Till the End of the Day 7. Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo 8. Big Star - Back of a Car 9. Big Star - Fire 10. Big Star - Daisy Glaze Big Star - Jesus Christ 2:49 Big Star - For you 3:23 Big Star - Baby strange 3:36 Big Star - Feel 3:31 Big Star - September Gurls 2:38 Big Star - Big black car 4:56 Big Star - Thank you friends 3:34 Big Star - The girl from Ipanema 1:50 Big Star - Patty girl 3:21 Big Star - Slut 3:38   Tracklist LP - 2 11. Big Star - For You 12. Big Star - Baby Strange 13. Big Star - Feel 14. Big Star - September Gurls 15. Big Star - Big Black Car 16. Big Star - Thank You Friends 17. Big Star - The Girl from Ipanema 18. Big Star - Patty Girl 19. Big Star - Slut   Description Description

When Big Star played the New Daisy Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee on October 29, 1994 it was a concert designed as a homecoming farewell show of an unexpected reunion tour. Three days later, the group played Los Angeles, the earliest indication that this one-off reunion would wind up a going concern. Many more concerts would come, along with a brand new album, but that 1994 Memphis show was something special because it was the only Big Star reunion show to be filmed in its entirety. Twenty years later, Omnivore released the set as both a CD and a DVD called Live in Memphis (the one difference is that "Fire" is on the CD, not the DVD, but as it's a 36-second clip, it's not much of a loss). The closest cousin to Live in Memphis is Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93, a record that captured the first gig of this early-'90s reunion. It has nearly an identical set list, right down to the closing cover of Todd Rundgren's "Slut," but this finds space for a couple of other covers -- a throw-away of "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Patty Girl," an obscure 1967 B-side from the teenage guitar pop group Gary & the Hornets -- but the real difference is that the band is tighter, stronger, better than they were on the somewhat tentative Columbia. Here, it's possible to hear the band gel -- Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens found a balance with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, something that's obvious by the group's subsequent history, but on this spirited show you can hear the gears fall into place and that's worth the price of admission, perhaps more than once. [Live in Memphis was also released on LP.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Contributors Artist: Big Star Record Label: Omnivore