"If you like The Gun Club and want a live cd - this is the best sounding one available. I have at least 2 to 3 other live recordings on cd and record and they range from o.k. sound to actually being able to hear people talk over the music...this Gun Club is clean, clear and crisp. I recommend it for any Gun Club fan. It is much better sounding compared to the other live releases on both cd and record formats."
Live : good sound and songs
01/04/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This Live-CD has a good sound and provides a good overview of Gun Clubs work. Regarding the songs, it features the style of Mother Juno and Fire of Love. As Gun Club is a live band, this CD can be recommended for it's added atmosphere alone. And there's a great Cover song also. So I would prefer this Live-CD over any Greatest-CD (given the same song selection)."
The chairman of the Murderous Musicians says yes
flash daddy | 10/11/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I remember going to see the Gun Club at Sheffields Leadmill.They turned up late,about 4 hours to be exact then the group of friends I was with decided into the second song it was time to catch the last bus home,afterwards whilst walking for four hours in the pouring rain trying to locate the whereabouts of my so-called mates house I reflected back on what I can only descibe as a truly inspirational gig, J L Pearce with his pale blue fender powering through all his classics, Kid Congo sliding and feeding back in all the right places, the fender twin reverb amp he was playing through propped up on a flimsy chair defying gravity with its pulsing vibrations,this was 13 or 14 years ago and I still reflect fondly to this day on one of the best gigs I have ever witnessed.Many gigs later of my own, there isn't one that hasn't had some ingredient of that Gun Club set which obviously has had a lasting effect on me.This album just about sums up my own personal thoughts on how a band should sound live.Where was I,Oh yeah -the album just buy it you know it makes sense."
Gimme weird vibes Congo !!!
Kenny Bridges | 10 minutes from Girdwoods, Scotland | 05/25/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Personally I'm very wary of live Gun Club albums, the early eighties glut of lo-fi semi-offical bootlegs being the cause (and yeah I know they sound better on cd but that's not the point)-anyway all I really want to say about this is HAVE NO FEAR-this is simply a really stunning record-great sound quality (obviously, since it's a radio broadcast), and a great line up-JLP/Congo/Romi and Simon Fish-the band is superb throughout.
I would reckon that if you've got to the point of searching for this album you already love The Gun Club and don't need me to tell you how great they are. This album (however much you eventually wind up paying for it) is worth it alone for the version of Yellow Eyes, and great as the original versions on the Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee album are, Go Tell The Mountain and Stranger In My Heart are different beasts on this record, but that's beside the point-it's all great, and your record collection needs this album !
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Ahmed's Wild Dream?
flash daddy | the english riviera | 09/14/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Yea, this appears to be the same recording that was also released as Ahmed's Wild Dream....a gig recorded for a Dutch radio broadcast by VPRO-radio in March 1992. A late Gun Club recording and it was a good gig...Jeffrey was on form and the guitar work on 'Go Tell The Mountain' is superb.
Bottom line is that a lot of poor live recordings got issued by various disaffected GC members over the years but this isn't one of them. Buy it!"