GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR : LIVE IN AMERICA 1979

1. Discovering Japan
2. Local Girls
3. Thunder And Rain
4. Don't Get Excited
5. Back To School Days
6. Passion Is No Ordinary Word
7. Protection
8. I Got Mercury Poisoning
9. Heat Treatment
10. Stick To Me
11. You Can't Be Too Strong
12. Love Gets You Twisted
13. I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
14. Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questions
15. Saturday Night Is Dead
16. Nobody Hurts You
17. Soul Shoes

Label : The Store For Music

Venue : The Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, Colorado, USA

Recording Date : April 15, 1979

Length : 58:44

Quality : Soundboard Recording (A+)

Review (Amazon) : Recording volume is a bit low on this cd, but the sound quality is excellent! The show itself is incomplete and fades out during the final song of the main set. The three songs played in the encore are missing, but this is still the most complete 1979 concert officially released with Graham Parker and the Rumour. There are some 1979 tracks on GP cd compilations of live tracks, and the cd version of Squeezing Out Sparks that contain the Live Sparks promo. Live Sparks itself is compiled from a couple of different radio shows in 1979. Anyway, it took 30 years for this cd to appear, so if you want to hear a 1979 GP & the Rumour concert as it happened, this is it for now!

Review (Amazon) : This is a superb performance of GP and the Rumour at the height of their Mercury days. Sound quality is very good, but the performance seems fast, sped up like Five Live Yardbirds, as if someone was trying to fit it all onto one disc. I hope at some point it's reissued at proper speed. This is still great stuff, though.