"I was at the taping of All Night Long at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio and this was a killer set that Hagar put on. This is must for Hargar fans."
The best live album ever
08/05/1998
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is without any daughts the best hardrock live album ever produced. Sammy Hagar/Red Rocker at his best."
Sammy's always at his best live!! Nothing more need be said!
07/27/1998
(5 out of 5 stars)
"For those who only know Sammy Hagar from his time in Van Halen, listening to this recording will be an eye opening experience. The real Sam comes through when you put a guitar in his hands and turn him loose on his own classics such as "Turn up the Music", "Bad Motor Scooter" and his personal anthem "Red".These live versions blow the original studio versions away with vibrant guitar solos from both Hagar and Gary Pihl.As good as these tracks are, they are dwarfed by the brilliant guitar solo on "Young Girl Blues" by Sammy that illustrates how much of his immence talent was being wasted in VH.The only problem with this album is that it wasn"t a double album set that could have included even more of his early classics."
Turn up the Music, words to live by!
Dean P. Hughes | West Linn, OR United States | 05/08/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I've owned multiple copies of Montrose's first album and the rest of the albums with Sammy as the vocalist. When songs like "Red" and "Turn up the Music" started to be played on the radio I wanted to hear more and bought this album.
It remains an excellent live recording, although too short by today's standards, it contains some of Sammy's best early years songs. His band with the "Electric" Bill Church on bass, Denny Carmassi on drums and Gary Pihl on guitar, was a very tight unit. Interestingly Pihl would leave to join Boston for later albums.
My favorites are "Turn up the Music" and "Bad Motor Scooter", both from the 70's hard rock uptempo school. Bad Motor does unfortunately fade out somewhere before the end of the song. The lesser known "Young Girl Blues" is a cover of an old Donovan tune, that starts out slow and builds to a climax.
When this was released it may not have been metal, but it had lots of guitars and rock swagger, so get it and turn it up!"