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Otis Redding - Live in Europe Audio CD

A fair review of the Otis Redding "Live in Europe" 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 Otis Redding reviews here, or go back to the Otis Redding tabs.

Otis Redding Band: Otis Redding
Title: Live in Europe
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Release Date: 1991-11-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Respect 2: Can't Turn You Loose 3: I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) 4: My Girl 5: Shake 6: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 7: Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) 8: These Arms of Mine 9: Day Tripper 10: Try a Little Tenderness

Something's missing!
I have the original which I purchased in the 60's. This is a great album. As someone else pointed out the best cut on the album is "Try a Little Tenderness" BUT THE VERSION IN AMAZON'S SAMPLE IS NOT THE VERSION THAT WAS ON THE ORIGINAL RELEASE! This is important because that version is musical dynamite and because it had Sam & Dave coming on stage to join Otis in closing the song, bringing the house down (you can hear an already near-hysterical crowd go crazy when they come out to join him). Find that version in other re-releases: it is out there and it is electrifying.


Mr. Peabody needs his own track
I wish the record makers put this on its own track because I definitely skip it every time I play the album. The only flaw on this album is the intro where the MC has the crowd spell out O-T-I-S R-E-D-D-I-N-G at its beginning. I'm nitpicking here, but the woman who yelled "Good to Me" 10,000 times - when OR asked for requests (or didn't) - should've been either sedated or moved away from the mike, too.

Long live Otis!.


Why he was the best
This album is the finale. Otis Redding was completing a highly successful Europian tour. Otis was the number one recording artist in England at the conclusion of this tour. He had replaced the the Beatles!! This is the best R&B album ever recorded. .


Still Miss Him!
If you ever get the chance, tour the Stax Museum in Memphis, stand in that studio, listen to the recording session, and imagine you've found the secret to time travel. Even 40 years later, you still wonder what Otis Redding might have accomplished if that plane hadn't messed up! Otis was the Muddy Waters of soul music - the absolute king who took everything he wanted and made it better. When I was there, several of us old guys had tears in our eyes imagining we had found our grail.

As great as Otis was in that studio, he was even better when he toured with Booker T & the MGs. With a crowd radiating joy, Otis led everyone to another level. On this CD, he doesn't just recreate some of the finest songs ever recorded, he makes them defining moments. I don't duplicate too many live and studio recordings of the same song on my iPod (there is a limit to how many songs you can put on that thing!), but all of these are on their with their studio partners.


Force of Nature
One of the better live recordings (some say the best of Otis') the audience is in his pocket. Was there anything like listening to Otis in person? No matter how many times I hear these familiar cuts, its goosebumps. I wore out Otis and Jimi Hendrix at Monterey, this is a perfect replacement.


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