Joe Walsh / Camden 2016 / 1CDR

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Joe Walsh / Camden 2016 / 1CDR / Uxbridge

Live At BB&T Pavillion Camden NJ USA 12th June 2016.


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Joe Walsh in the middle of a coupling tour “ONE HELL OF A NIGHT TOUR 2016” with BAD COMPANY. The latest live album is here. This work is the audience album of “June 12, 2016 Camden Performance” which is the 14th performance of the tour.
There may be some people who can come here with “Bad Company?” And “Camden?” Yes, it’s the same as BAD COMPANY’s live album “CAMDEN 2016 (Uxbridge 575)” that I introduced the other day. It is Joe’s live album that was coupled at the same venue on the same day. Situations are not the only thing that is the same. Actually, it was the taper of BAD COMPANY’s “CAMDEN 2016” that recorded this work. In other words, it is a sibling work recorded by the same recorder in succession on the same day.
The BAD COMPANY version the other day was very well received thanks to you, but if you listened to that masterpiece, you probably have already purchased it just because of the fact that it is a “brother’s work”. After all, the sound quality that was the source of its popularity is an abnormal level. There are occasional audience recordings that make you want to call it a “sound board,” but the previous BAD COMPANY version was a dimension that made you wonder, “Isn’t it really a sound board?” It was an extremely wonderful sound that could only be called an “official-class audience”. And this work has exactly the same sound quality as the BAD COMPANY version.
The extra-thick direct feeling, the bass that is an eternal issue for the audience is rich, and the guitar and singing voice that rides on it are vivid but the natural sound is wonderful. Each of the instruments and choruses is perfect, and the balance of the whole is perfect, and the beautiful world goes through the whole story with a sense of stability of the iron wall. Moreover, if you listen carefully with headphones, you will feel the real presence of the audience, and you will feel the presence of the audience. It’s a super sound that has no complaints and doesn’t know how to complain.
The show drawn with that quality is also wonderful. The title song of the latest work “ANALOG MAN” released four years ago will also be performed, but other than that, it is thoroughly in the 70’s. In addition to solo representative songs such as “Rocky Mountain Way” and “In the City”, EAGLES’s “Life in the Fast Lane” and JAMES GANG’s “Funk # 49” and “Walk Away” are also performed. Especially close to my heart is “Take It To The Limit”. It was a song before Joe joined, but it was played saying “I’m dedicating it to my brother Glenn Frey.” A gentle and gentle melody that is so painful. After the Grammy Awards in February this year, Don Henley said, “We (EAGLES) are no longer performing. It’s over. The Grammy performance was goodbye.” EAGLES never plays a masterpiece. It’s a masterpiece that slowly spreads your feelings for Glen and EAGLES.

The latest Joe Walsh drawn with extreme sound that makes even different recording methods such as “audience or sound board” meaningless. Those who have listened to the BAD COMPANY version, as well as those who have not, will surely want to collect two pieces once they hear this work. Joe Walsh’s version of the finest album that tells the story of “British and American 70’s rock tradition” in 2016. One piece that promises luxurious music time, please.

BAD COMPANYとのカップリング・ツアー“ONE HELL OF A NIGHT TOUR 2016”真っ最中のジョー・ウォルシュ。その最新ライヴアルバムが登場です。本作は、ツアー14公演目となる「2016年６月12日カムデン公演」のオーディエンス・アルバムです。
　ここで「バドカン？」「カムデン？」でピンと来られる方もいらっしゃるかも知れません。そう、先日ご紹介したBAD COMPANYのライヴアルバム『CAMDEN 2016（Uxbridge 575）』と同じ。同日・同会場でカップリングだったジョーのライヴアルバムなのです。同じなのは、シチュエーションだけではありません。実は、本作を録音したのもBAD COMPANYの『CAMDEN 2016』のテーパー。つまり、同じ録音家が同日続けざまに録った兄弟作なのです。
　先日のBAD COMPANY版はお陰様で大変な好評を頂きましたが、あの傑作をお聴きになった方なら、“兄弟作”という事実だけで既にお求めくださっていることでしょう。なにしろ、その好評の源となったサウンド・クオリティが異常なレベル。「まるでサウンドボード」と呼びたくなるオーディエンス録音ならたまにありますが、先のBAD COMPANY版は「本当にサウンドボードじゃない？」と疑いたくなる次元だった。「オフィシャル級オーディエンス」とでも呼ぶしかない極限的に素晴らしいサウンドだったのです。そして、本作もBAD COMPANY版とまったく同じ、寸分違わぬサウンド・クオリティなのです。
　その極太のダイレクト感、オーディエンス永遠の課題である低音も豊かで、その上に乗るギター・歌声もビビッドでありながら自然な鳴りが素晴らしい。楽器・コーラスの１つひとつが完璧であり、それら全体のバランスもパーフェクトで、その美麗世界が鉄壁の安定感で全編を貫いている……。しかも、ヘッドフォンでよーく耳を澄ますと観客のリアルな存在感もうっすらと漂い、現場の立ち会い感覚もしっかりと感じられる。まさに文句の付け所がない、どうやって文句を言ったらいいのか分からないスーパー・サウンドなのです。
　そのクオリティで描かれるショウがまた、素晴らしい。４年前にリリースされた最新作『ANALOG MAN』のタイトル曲も演奏されますが、それ以外は徹底的に70年代。「Rocky Mountain Way」「In the City」といったソロの代表曲はもちろん、EAGLESの「Life in the Fast Lane」やJAMES GANGの「Funk #49」「Walk Away」等もたっぷりと演奏される。特に胸に迫るのは「Take It To The Limit」。ジョーが加入する前の曲ですが、「俺の兄弟、グレン・フライに捧げるよ」と言って演奏されるのです。穏やかで優しく、だからこそ切なく染みるメロディ。今年２月のグラミー賞の後にドン・ヘンリーは「もう僕ら（EAGLES）がパフォーマンスすることはないよ。終わりだ。グラミーでの演奏がお別れだったんだ」と語っており、もうこの名曲中の名曲をEAGLESが演奏することはない。グレンへの想い、EAGLESへの想いがじんわりと胸に広がる名演なのです。
 
　“オーディエンスか、サウンドボードか”といった録音方法の別でさえ無意味にしてしまう極限的サウンドで描かれる最新のジョー・ウォルシュ。BAD COMPANY版をお聴きになった方はもちろん、そうでない方も本作を一度耳にしたらきっと２枚をコレクションしたくなることでしょう。“英米70年代ロックの伝統”を2016年に語り継ぐ極上アルバムのジョー・ウォルシュ版。贅沢な音楽時間を約束する１枚、どうぞ。
 
(79：54)
1. Walk Away 2. Analog Man 3. Mother Says
4. The Bomber: Closet Queen/Bolero/Cast Your Fate to the Wind
5. Take It to the Limit (Tribute to Glenn Frey) 6. Turn to Stone
7. Member Introduction 8. In the City 9. Funk #49 10. Life’s Been Good
11. Life in the Fast Lane 12. Rocky Mountain Way
 
Joe Walsh – Vocals, Guitar Waddy Wachtel – Guitar Joe Vitale – Drums
Chad Cromwell – Drums Larry Young – Bass Jimmy Wallace – Keyboards
Rickey Washington – Background Vocals Leslie Fuller – Background Vocals
Connie Jackson – Background Vocals Windy Wagner – Background Vocals
Clayton Janes – Samples

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