4. FESTIVAL, The Early Years
4. FESTIVAL - The Early Years (Never before released - release date 2007)
Live
performances from 1974, 1979 & 1983.
Songs include: Disco Inferno - Skidmore Shuffle - Get Down, Get Funky,
Get Loose - Baker Street - Back In The U.S.A. - We Are Family - Color My World
- Come Dance With Me - Jessica - Buried Alive In The Blues - Save The Planet -
Strollin' In The Bones - Bobbie Sue - Rockin' The Paradise - Endless Love -
Where There's a Will, There's a Way - James Brown Medley: Super Bad, Cold
Sweat, I Got You
This is an incredible collection of newly-discovered, live FESTIVAL
performances, from 1974 to 1983. It includes FESTIVAL singing a
cappella, and instrumentals played FESTIVAL-style. There are
fabulous show tunes, played to screaming audiences. "Color My
World", sung in FESTIVAL-style mass harmony. The
unbelievable opening vocals on, "Rockin' The Paradise", and then
FESTIVAL rocking the song with unreal dynamics. Dan & Stan playing
screaming guitar solos like you've never heard before on the Allman
Brothers', "Jessica", Dan's swinging blues guitar on Billy
& the Beater's, "Strollin' In The Bones", and the rhythm
sections' tight version of the Janis Joplin Bands', "Buried Alive In The
Blues". High-energy FESTIVAL funk on a, "Disco
Inferno" entrance, and an invitation to party on,"Get Down, Get
Funky, Get Loose". Songs that feature Becky on lead vocal,
"Back In The U.S.A.", "We Are Family", and "Rockin'
The Paradise", and duets featuring Britt and Becky, "Endless
Love", and, "Where There's a Will, There's a Way". There's
a foray into country-rock, with Britt singing deep bass notes on the Oak
Ridge Boys', "Bobbie Sue", which also features Ray, Dan, and
Mark on lead vocals But, the icing on the cake is a James
Brown medley, recorded live in The Cavern, in Rock Island, Illinois, in
December 1974, that will make you want to get up, and dance. There is Britt scat-singing, playing
trombone, and trading trombone licks with Ralph Taylor who is playing
trombone. A tenor sax solo by Mike Reinig, a Hammond organ solo by Jim
Harris, and a bass solo by Mark Dobroth. You'll be amazed
by Britt's ear-shattering screams on, "Super Bad", "Cold
Sweat", and, "I Got You". Best of all, there is that
unmistakable FESTIVAL ability to "run like wild horses, and then stop on a
dime together". This album
will “rock your socks”