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Badfinger - Day After Day: Live Audio CD

A fair review of the Badfinger "Day After Day: Live" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Badfinger reviews here, or go back to the Badfinger tabs.

Badfinger Band: Badfinger
Title: Day After Day: Live
Rating:
Release Date: 1990-09-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Sometimes 2: I Don't Mind 3: Blind Owl 4: Give It Up 5: Constitution 6: Baby Blue 7: Name of the Game 8: Day After Day 9: Timeless 10: I Can't Take It

But I like it!


So how does this cd sound? Really good actually . Even the Springsteen live box had drum effects that were 15 years out of place. I like it!.


Only for fanatical fans.
I am unsure if the audience is less enthusiastic than the band but, this is far from a rousing performance and sounds more like a rehearsal. Overdubbing and resequencing do not save this limp outing by the original band members in Cleveland during 1974.

Perhaps it was playing Cleveland or perhaps the band was about to unravel but there is little energy. Although the performance is competent it is not something you will play more than once unless a fanatical fan.

If it difficult to believe the source is the original 16-track master tape which Joey Molland kept at his house until 1990. It should have remained there under lock and key. But, than again, fans would have always believed that it was the lost holy grail rather than evidence confirming the crime. .


Would you buy a second hand car off Moland ?

It`s bad enough that an earlier court case gave Molland and the others a share of all Ham & Evans royalties , taking money from their beneficiaries. Everyone interested in Badfinger and who wish to read more about this album and resulting court case and Molland`s dishonesty ( he and his wife drew up an agreement with Ryko so that they would receive all royalties from this album rather than share equally with all of the band`s other living and dead members families ) should read the judges`s summing up - you can find it on the web - search using - badfinger music v evans 2000. Imagine a judge telling Lennon&McCartney instead of the 100% you are getting you are only going to get 35% of your songwriting
royalties . The remainder will be shared 5 ways - one share to each band member and the manager. On top of that Molland had the indecency of getting up on stage to accept an award as co-writer of Without You.
Molland must have had training from Polley.


A Remix Gone Wrong
The fault here is he tried to modernize the sound too much. Joey Molland released this CD in the 1990's after remixing and overdubbing the tapes. Live Badfinger would have sounded much better left in the context of the 1970's. The biggest problem to me is the drum sound, it's echoey and reeks of drum samples grafted on in places. Joey also overdubbed his lead vocals and guitar parts, a common fix on live albums. Thoughout the disc I was drawn to listen to the remixing rather than the original Badfinger performance. Hence my two star rating.


LIVE.......finally
A live album in 1973 would have helped the group's public standing as they left Apple to join Warner Brothers. This is the album Apple failed to release. A "Best Of" album wouldnt have hurt either and probably would have made Apple lots of money. But it didnt happen so we had to wait years for a Badfinger "LIVE" release. I'm glad Joey had the tapes and I'm glad he released them. I dont care about the overdubs because the over all sound is good and was done as a legitimate release would be. I think alot of people missed out because they were too busy analyzing it instead of listening to it. The only counterpart is the "BBC" disc which really does have inferior sound and lousy artwork. So thanks Joey, for a Badfinger LIVE release. Some of us appreciate it. .


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