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List Price: $10.97 | | Label: Edsel (UK)
Salesrank: 522004
Released: September 26, 1994 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Live at the Whiskey a-Go-Go Reviews:
Mind Blowing 
2007-12-11 - This is a great live recording. The sound quality is excellent and the band is in top form. The lyrics to Fields of Regret are completely different than the studio release of Easy Action. The Alice Cooper Group were way out there musically as well as visually. Can you imagine seeing them in 1969? Who could have come close to that ? Grateful Dead in 68? Frank Zappa? The arrangements are very complicated with off timings and 3/4 time signatures. At first listen, they don't sound like they have any talent, but they sure know what they are doing I think you should get this.
Alice Cooper - 'Live At The Whiskey A Go-Go' (Edsel) 
2005-10-05 - Just a mite similar to that of the umteen-something times released 'Live In Toronto 1969' or 'Slack Alice'(see my review),but better.Appears to have a different track listing as well for the most part.Tunes I was only too thrilled to fully experience within this vintage live recording were "Levity Ball"(sure wish he'd play this track while out on tour sometime),"Swing Low,Sweet Cheerio" and "Changing Arranging".A should-have for all Cooper fans.
Much Better than "Pretties..." 
2003-10-22 - "Live at the Whiskey a-GO-GO" is a definitive snapshot of where the Alice Cooper Group was musically in 1969. I think this was the show in which Warner Bros. were being shown a number of artists for possible inclusion into the Warner stable of artists.
The material is pretty much from the first album except it sounds and is played like the band had rehearsed the songs. In all fairness, Alice himself said the first album was pretty much rehearsal takes of the songs. He knew they has mistakes, but the band were not able to re-record any of the tracks.
Overall, the band was trying to sound psychedelic, but they seemed at this point in there careers to have no sense of hooks and riffs. The arrangements are all over the place. Bob Ezrin worked with the band quite a bit to get the sound everyone is so familiar with on "Love it to Death". Glen Buxton's solos are original but a bit unfocused. He has kind of a jazzy-rock feel to his playing which did'nt resurface until "Blue Turk" on the "School's Out" album in 1972. Ironically, it was Buxton who seemed to have the most trouble going form his loose-styled psycheldelic lead playing to the more tight and commercial sound Bob Ezrin needed on later albums.
In closing, "Live..." is basically a completists album. It is interesting in it's own right to hear the group in this form but the performances and material, with a few exceptions, can't hold a candle to the Ezrin-produced albums which came later.
Early Alice fan...
2000-12-08 - This is a very good recording of one particularly "far out" performance, including tracks from their first album. You can almost hear the audience walking out of the room! Great liner notes and photo's. This blows away the "Live in Toronto 1969" recording that's much easier to find (I think it's still in print as "Ladies Man" and other titles). These particular live tracks are unavailable in the box set and are definitely some of my favorites. The boys were trying really hard to emulate Zappa and they got it wrong, but in doing it wrong they sure as hell got something else very right. Fans of Zappa, Sun Ra and Beefheart will probably dig this. It's not nearly as cerebral - not cerebral at all in fact, but highly irritaining.
Early Alice!!!!
1999-09-25 - This contains early Alice Cooper tracks and frankly it isn't great but it is worth having not for any songs particularily but it is the beginning of an American institution Alice Cooper, plus trust me Alice goes on to bigger and better things. This is one only for the diehards so if you are new to Alice buy something else.
