Dead Boys - 'Liver Than You'll Ever Be' (Pilot)
Mike Reed | USA | 12/15/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"About as good as their 'Night Of The Living Dead Boys' live release(see my review).'Liver...' was recorded at the Ritz in New York City on December 26,1987 on a brief reunion tour,I assume.Can see that vocalist Stiv Bator(R.I.P.)produced the record.As for live albums go,the sound is a bit rough but I doubt many fans would be disappointed with the mix of this CD.Tunes I liked hearing the most were "I Wanna Be A Dead Boy","Ain't Nothin' To Do",the slamming "Son Of Sam",their Stooges cover "Search And Destroy",their Stones cover "Tell Me" and "3rd Generation Nation".The line-up here is:Bator-vocals,Cheetah Chrome-guitar,Jimmy Zero-rhythm guitar and Johnny Blitz-drums.What,no bass player?Sort of found it amusing toward the end of the set,when a couple of the band members were telling one another off SINCE this was the final gig of the tour anyway.Great all-American punk."
Good music, but horribly recorded....
jamesh-lantern-media | Scotch Plains, NJ | 05/05/2003
(2 out of 5 stars)
"I like the Dead Boys music - alot... I realize that this music is not meant to be recorded clean... The grittier the better in my opinion... This is a band that usually sounds better live than recorded...But.... This live album was really horribly recorded... It sounds as if it was recorded behind a loud fan (the cooling one, not someone who likes the band).. The sound cuts in and out very quickly (talk into a fan, and it sounds like what comes out the other end)Also, their was large feedback "shrieks" that really should have been minimized in the editing room... As much as I like their music, i had to turn this one off within 3 songs..."
Bad, very bad
04/07/2007
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Now let me just mention i love the dead boys, and i love every band Stiv has been in. but this cd is just plain bad. the audio of the audience is the same thing looped over and over again and sometimes during solos the sound of the audience over powers the sound of the guitar. thats pretty much what killed it for me. other than the audience i can deal with the quality, but i havent listened to this since the first time i bought it and i really never want to listen to it. stick with the studio stuff in my opinion."