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 • Badfinger - Friday Night In Laredo  	                                      November 2008
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Badfinger - Friday Night In Laredo
Date: 15th June 1979
Location: Laredo Texas, USA
Delta Tone DT11005

01. Look Out California
02. The Winner
03. Lost Inside Your Love
04. Love Is Gonna Come At Last
05. Come Down Hard
06. Suitcase
07. Get Away
08. Blind Owl
09. Without You
10. Give It Up
11. Come And Get It
12. Baby Blue
13. I've Been Waitin'
14. Andy Norris
15. Rock Of All Ages
16. Better Days
17. Johnny B. Goode

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I notice that Rick Kellogg has listed this as an audience recording. I don't think it is. To
me this is a soundboard, especially as the crowd noise is well and truly in the background.
There are not too many soundboard recordings circulating among collectors, or released onto
disc from the Joey/Tommy versions of Badfinger from 1979 to 1981. This is one however, and
it isn't too bad.

It is obvious the guys are pushing the (then) new album, "Airwaves". The first five songs
are renditions from that album. Joey, after "Love Is Gonna Come At Last" beseeches the crowd
to buy the album. Unforunately they didn't.

The disc opens up part of the way through "Look Out California", either meaning that the
opening was missed by the person recording the show, or that the copy used to master this
CD is a not complete copy of the master tape. 

It is fair to say that there are some musically 'off key' moments at the start of the show,
especially for the "Airwaves" tracks. As the band warms up though and settles into the more
traditional Badfinger material the band settles down. "Suitcase" is the first example where
the performance doesn't sound 'forced'. However, there are times between songs when
speaking to the audience that band members do sound as if they are 'coked up to the
eyeballs' (my opinion only).

The rest of the show really could have come from any number of classic Badfinger
performances from 1972-1974. "Without You" for me is the show highlight, even if the
synthersiser is a bit over the top. The inclusion of keyboards to Badfinger's show does
provide a glimpse of how the 1974 tour may have sounded with Bob Jackson. The rest of the
show is generally great, quite enjoyable, and worth the purchase of the disc, despite some
tape dropouts later in the disc. 

So this beggars the question..... Do I need this disc? Well it really depends on whether
you like Badfinger.  :-)

I have noted it freely available on a Beatles binary newsgroup, so if you have the
bandwidth grab it. Otherwise I would recommend a letter writing campaign to the Evans
estate and to Joey and Kathie to see if a limited edition CD could be released to fans.
They have nothing to lose, just so long as an agreement suitable to all parties can be
negotiated. I will leave that for you (the eager fan) to arrange.


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