MANASSAS : AMSTERDAM 1972

Disc One

  1. Rock And Roll Woman
  2. Bound To Fall
  3. Hot Burrito #2
  4. It Doensn't Matter
  5. Go Back Home
  6. Change Partners
  7. Know You Got To Run
  8. 4 + 20
  9. Intro to Bluesman
  10. Bluesman
  11. Word Game
  12. Do For The Others
  13. Move Around
  14. Both Of Us (Bound To Loose)
  15. Love The One You're With
  16. He Was A Friend Of Mine

Disc Two

  1. Fallen Eagle
  2. Hide It So Deep
  3. Johnny's Garden
  4. Don't Look At My Shadow
  5. Sugar Babe
  6. Four Days Gone
  7. 49 Bye-Byes / For What It's Worth
  8. Song Of Love
  9. Rock And Roll Crazies
  10. Cuban Bluegrass
  11. Jet Set (Sigh)
  12. Anyway
  13. The Treasure
  14. Find The Cost Of Freedom

Label : no label

Venue : Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland

Date : March 22, 1972

Quality : FM/Audience recording (A+/A-)

Review by Otto (101 Guitars) : You're looking at the ultimate Manassas concert registration. It was the first ever concert of this band. They sound pretty tied for a first one. Great band. The concert was recorded for radio and TV. Over the years different parts of the show have been broadcasted by radio, the last one in 2001 as we know of. There is a field report of a TV broadcast, a tape never surfaced. This project was completed in 2002, and a 3cd set was distributed in a small circle of friends. It has come to my knowledge that several different bootlegs were made up of this original set, even original artwork was used in some of these. Another good reason to give this set a more public performance. This was a collaboration between Reel Records, Forever Young Recordings, RV Productions and Otto Productions. A lot of research was done and a lot of effort was put in finding the best versions of the analoge tapes. Thanks Paul Zaich and Arend de Munk for your contributions. As we wanted to keep the original setlist in order, there are audible quality differences between songs as they come from several sources. ReelClasio did a hell of a job making it a flowing set of songs. Thanks mate. Due to broadcasting proccedings some of the songs are cut as indicated. The third CD (not included here) has the complete audience versions of the cut FM versions, for collectors only, as it is of poor quality. Beside the superb sound quality of CD 1 and CD 2, the setlist has some nice gems like Move Around (ever played again?) Sugar Babe (rare outing), a long rap in "For What It's Worth" as a piano version and "Know You Got To Run" as the early version of "Ballad Of A Blind Fiddler" played during the recent Stills tour.