Recorded Live

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Recorded Live
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Live album by
ReleasedJune 1973
Recorded26–29 January 1973 live in Frankfurt, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Paris
Genre Blues rock
Length79:46
Label Chrysalis
Columbia
Ten Years After chronology
Rock & Roll Music To The World
(1972)
Recorded Live
(1973)
Positive Vibrations
(1974)
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Recorded Live is the third live album by British blues rock musicians Ten Years After, which was released as a double LP in 1973.

Contents

This album, containing no overdubs or additives, was recorded over four nights in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Frankfurt and Paris with the Rolling Stones' mobile recording truck and later mixed from sixteen tracks to stereo at Olympic Studios in London. The album was rereleased as a CD in 2013, with seven previously unreleased tracks. [2]

Track listing (original album)

Side one

  1. "One of These Days" (A. Lee) – 5:36
  2. "You Give Me Loving" (A. Lee) – 5:25
  3. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Williamson) – 7:15

Side two

  1. "Hobbit" (excluded from some CDs) (R. Lee) – 7:15
  2. "Help Me" (Williamson/Dixon/Bass) – 10:44

Side three

  1. "Classical Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:55
  2. "Scat Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:54
  3. "I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (part 1)" (A. Kooper) – 1:57
  4. "Extension on One Chord" (A. Lee/R. Lee/Churchill/Lyons) – 10:46
  5. "I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (part 2)" (A. Kooper) – 3:21

Side four

  1. "Silly Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:26
  2. "Slow Blues in 'C'" (A. Lee) – 7:24
  3. "I'm Going Home" (A. Lee) – 9:30
  4. "Choo Choo Mama" (A. Lee) – 2:56

Track listing (CD reissue of original album)

CD 1

  1. "One of These Days" (A. Lee) – 5:36
  2. "You Give Me Loving" (A. Lee) – 5:25
  3. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Willamson) – 7:15
  4. "Hobbit" (excluded from some CDs) (R. Lee) – 7:15
  5. "Help Me" (Williamson/Bass) – 10:44

CD 2

  1. "Classical Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:55
  2. "Scat Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:54
  3. "I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (part 1)" (A. Kooper) – 1:57
  4. "Extension on One Chord" (A. Lee/R. Lee/Churchill/Lyons) – 10:46
  5. "I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (part 2)" (A. Kooper) – 3:21
  6. "Silly Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:26
  7. "Slow Blues in 'C'" (A. Lee) – 7:24
  8. "I'm Going Home" (A. Lee) – 9:30
  9. "Choo Choo Mama" (A. Lee) – 2:56

Track listing (2013 CD reissue of original album with bonus tracks)

CD 1, original record tracks are 1–5 and bonus tracks are 6–8

  1. "One of These Days" (A. Lee) – 6:20 (Frankfurt)
  2. "You Give Me Loving" (A. Lee) – 6:10 (Frankfurt)
  3. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (Willamson) – 7:27 (Frankfurt)
  4. "Hobbit" (R. Lee) – 8:36 (Frankfurt)
  5. "Help Me" (Willamson/Bass) – 10:49 (Amsterdam)
  6. "Time Is Flying" (A. Lee) – 5:36 (Frankfurt)
  7. "Standing at the Station (A. Lee) – 11:51 (Frankfurt)
  8. "Jam" (A. Lee/R. Lee/C. Churchill/L. Lyons) – 18:09 (Amsterdam)

CD 2, original record tracks are 5–13 and bonus tracks are 1–4

  1. "Help Me" (Williamson/Dixon/Bass) – 12:06 (Paris)
  2. "I Woke Up This Morning" (A. Lee) – 4:26 (Rotterdam)
  3. "Sweet Little Sixteen" (C. Berry) – 4:24 (Frankfurt)
  4. "Jam" (A. Lee/R. Lee/C. Churchill/L. Lyons) – 16:33 (Frankfurt)
  5. "Classical Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:53 (Paris)
  6. "Scat Thing" (A. Lee) – 0:57 (Paris)
  7. "I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (part 1)" (A. Kooper) – 1:57 (Paris)
  8. "Extension on One Chord" (A. Lee/R. Lee/Churchill/Lyons) – 10:45 (Paris)
  9. "I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes (part 2)" (A. Kooper) – 3:12 (Paris)
  10. "Silly Thing" (A. Lee) – 1:09 (Frankfurt)
  11. "Slow Blues in 'C'" (A. Lee) – 8:14 (Frankfurt)
  12. "I'm Going Home" (A. Lee) – 10:54 (Frankfurt)
  13. "Choo Choo Mama" (A. Lee) – 3:21 (Frankfurt)

Personnel

Ten Years After
Additional personnel

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References

  1. "Recorded Live - Ten Years After". AllMusic .
  2. Forte, Dan (April 2014). "Forever Rocking: Ten Years After, Recorded Live, and Alvin Lee and Ten Years After, Live At Rockpalast". Vintage Guitar . p. 141.