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Captured Live at the Forum

Three Dog Night - Captured Live at the Forum Audio CD

A fair review of the Three Dog Night "Captured Live at the Forum" 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 Three Dog Night reviews here, or go back to the Three Dog Night tabs.

Band: Three Dog Night
Title: Captured Live at the Forum
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Release Date: 1989-05-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Heaven Is in Your Mind 2: Feelin' Alright 3: It's for You 4: Nobody 5: One 6: Chest Fever 7: Eli's Coming 8: Easy to Be Hard 9: Try a Little Tenderness

Album Just as Good as TDN Live!
I played it a lot, eventually wearing it out, and I really got off on the energy of this live performance. Like many others who have written here, I also bought this album on vinyl when it first came out in December 1969. There were not a lot of other "live" albums out at the time, so I was excited and pleased by the concert ambience it conveyed. And this album certainly did not get an after-market face-lift in the studio, the way many supposedly "live" albums do now. No vocal overdubs, no re-doing the instrumental parts. Just great and energetic live playing! Shortly after this record came out, TDN performed live at UMass, where I was a freshman at the time. The band was delayed over an hour due to a blizzard, the equipment truck arrived even later, but when they finally got set up and started playing, they more than compensated for the delay. Not only could the 3 frontmen sing, all in that high rock tenor range that I can no longer reach, but I knew from the get-go that the band behind them was PHENOMENAL! They have been cited in many other reviews here so I don't need to name them individually, but be sure that these guys could really cook! Stress that: they were OUTSTANDING both as accompanists when the vocalists were on, and great soloists on the instrumental breaks. Yeah, the material could maybe have benefitted from some remastering, and the album could have been longer with more some additional tunes, but this is without a doubt one of the best live albums of its day with outstanding musicianship, amazing vocals, and great selection of material.
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Screaming At Dogs
This record is a document of one of their live shows from late 1968. By 1969, Three Dog Night {along with Creedence Clearwater Revival} were the kings of the pop charts in America. And it is one of the best live recordings we have of a working rock band of that fantastic decade, the sixties.

With frontmen Danny Hutton, Cory Wells and Chuck Negron, these three vocalists were about the finest of their day. But the band of players that included drummer: Floyd Sneed, guitarist: Mike Allsup, bass player: Joe Schermie, and keyboard wiz-kid: Jimmy Greenspoon, really shine on this record. The Dogs had a really great rock band that held it's own along side anyone else on the stages of the 1960's.

Three Dog Night, knew which songs to pick and present in the: "Dog Fashion" of Rock/R & B/Funky style that would bring them millions of fans and tons of million selling singles and albums worldwide. All of the members of this group already had years of experience in the Music Business as Producers/Arrangers and Performers. On this record at the Los Angeles Forum, in front of thousands of fans, Three Dog Night, delivered the Show.

With two songs from Traffic: {"Heaven Is In Your Mind" & "Feelin' Alright"} to open the show, The Dogs do indeed prove they are just as cool as the British Bands of the day, as these versions are really nice. "Chest Fever" from The Band, features a great opening solo from the organ of Jimmy Greenspoon that really rocks. "Eli's Coming" is a few notches above it's studio cousin as a classic 60's rock song. "Easy To Be Hard" throws out the slow soul style of ballads that this group could perform in their sleep. This record contains some great music that is performed even greater. These guys knew how to ENTERTAIN, in the American tradition of Frank or Bing or Elvis, Three Dog Night loved the Stage.

The Band's big number: "Try A Little Tenderness" is the record's closing number, and it builds and builds, and explodes as the finale. All the fans inside The Forum are happy and the screams prove it all through this recording. Three Dog Night, was never considered as cool as Jimi or The Cream, but they were just as great.
Capture this.
Four Stars!!!
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THree Dog Night in a different context
Great group album. I had this on vinyl back in the day.
The other 3DG I have is a greatest hits and is mostly the pop stuff from a 3 singer group.
This album from early in their career they sound more like a boogie band with 8 members.
Yes there are a few hits here, but so much more ( just listen to Chest Fever ).

Alot of sound from 5 dudes
The young ladies' joyous squeals in the near-silent intros. Alot of energy from the group *and* from the audience. to "Eli's Comin'" and the incredible closer "Try A Little Tenderness" bring this ol' rock & souler back to a different time - it was late 1969 and R & R was going back to basics - 4 or 5 guys playing their brains out - playing stuff for Top 40 *and* FM! And Three Dog Night actually had. . . . talent. Taking nothing away from those big, horn-driven, jazz-inflected groups like B, S, & T and Chicago and Chase, the new era had TDN and CCR. . . and you name 'em. (Where's Casey Kasem?. . . . . . . . . ).
Back around '68 a High School classmate enthused over this great group doing "Try A Little Tenderness". Never heard of the group or the song. Well, the great *live* rendition is here, the best track on the album. The pandemonium has built to a point of impossible tension tempered with artistic control.
Problem is. . . now go easy on me. . . . I still don't know who's singin'? Chuck?
No liners with that kind of detail. Another issue is that the CD does not sound "clean" - sounds like it was drawn from vinyl. Bass is still prominent but has a stereo to mono sound. (Gotta listen on the phones to confirm that, though).
This album-to-CD is a little more about the live experience (in 1969) than about great live "versions*.
Note that not all the l. p. graphics made it over to CD. Including the photo of that California girl in the front row. jk.

hard to believe
It is great fun to listen to this band. I have the LP and I also bought the CD of this concert. The part that is hard to believe is that Three Dog Night was the warm up act for Steppenwolf this night. To me "Chest Fever" is my favorite song of the show which features the whole band and shows how good Three Dog night really was. By the way Three Dog Night made alot of great LP's with with alot of hits and very little filler. .

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