The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Hammersmith Odeon, London
May 24th 1975
Reposted from January 2023
This concert is the source of the original live album.
Additional songs became available on the 'Teenage Idol' box-set.
I also have an (almost complete) bootleg SBD
with it's own, obviously false, running order.
There's a suggested setlist on setlist FM
which has been edited a few times although it is guesswork to a large degree.
I'm not convinced 'Midnight Moses' is in the right place, for instance,
but thought it would be fun to reconstruct as much of the show as I could
and to bring that speculative running order to life.
The bootleg patches are lower quality with noticeable hiss.
I tried EQ and/or various noise reductions
which didn't do the bootleg recordings any favours so I left them hissy.
A few brief bits were discarded for technical/aesthetic reasons.
Most notably at the end of 'Gang Bang' where Alex thanked the girls for singing.
This 'mic sharing' had fucked up the mic, as you can hear towards the end of the track.
Alex's words were just broken up bits hence my decision to ditch them.
Many other anomalies were addressed and, hopefully, improved.
No music was lost.
The talk at the very beginning of tracks 5 and 7 sounds the same.
That's rather suspicious but it is there on the soundboard. Weird?!
Various dastardly tricks were employed to make it all flow.
So it's not an accurate historic document.
Think of it as an alternative live album.
It took me hours to do.
I tell myself I enjoy doing these things.
Possibly a form of mental illness? Ha Ha
regards
Titus
Disc 1
01 Fanfare (Justly, Skilfully, Magnanimously)
02 The Faith Healer
03 Action Strasse
04 Tomahawk Kid
05 Soul in Chains
06 Vambo
07 Give My Compliments to the Chef
08 Delilah
Disc 2
01 The Tale of the Giant Stone Eater
02 Sergeant Fury
03 Tomorrow Belongs to Me
04 Midnight Moses
05 Gang Bang
06 Framed
