Search - Otis Redding :: Good to Me: Live at the Whiskey a Go Go V.2

This is a shame and a sin that this is not available in U.S.

douglasnegley | Pittsburgh, Pa. United States | 09/08/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is Live, raw Otis at his best. These are the takes that didn't make it onto the first Live Volume - also inexplicably unavailable in the U.S. The band is loose - no Steve Cropper tight arrangements here - this was Otis the way he liked it: lots of banter with the audience and even mock shock at the responses it evoked. This audience was INTO it. "Chained and Bound", "Old Man Trouble", and lots more from this gem of an unissued second. I have the promo LP, it was never issued. One letdown...this CD cut one of my favorite tunes - "Destiny", which opened up the LP I have, but they kept "Hard Day's Night", which is really rough...so rough in fact that Otis doesn't know the words and makes some up as he goes! No matter, that's what it was all about. As Otis says in one of his moments of reveling, "..just take your shoes on off! Relax! Get soulful, you know? Just hollar loud as you wantta, stomp hard as you wantta, and we'll get into a thing, you know?! What a piece of History. This is a real find."