Bright Midnight With Elvis, A [Archive]

Sonny

08-29-2004, 09:02 AM

Bright Midnight With Elvis, A

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Tracks:

01. Opening riff
02. That's allright
03. I got a woman / Ave Maria
04. Tiger man
05. Playing with laughing box
06. Love me tender (false start)
07. I've lost you
08. Sweet Caroline
09. You've lost that lovin' feelin'
10. Polk salad Annie
11. Introductions to band
12. Sweet inspiration
13. Introductions continued
14. Johnny B Goode
15. Introductions continued
16. The wonder of you
17. Heartbreak hotel
18. Blue suede shoes
19. Hound dog
20. More (one verse)
21. Bridge over troubled water
22. Suspicious minds (laughing version)
23. Can't help falling in love
24. Closing vamp

25. Tiger man (show opener)
26. I've lost you
27. You don't have to say you love me
28. Polk salad Annie
29. Bridge over troubled water (incomplete)

Label: Memory Records MR 2037-2
Released: 2004
Sound quality: average/good (audience recording)

Date - tracks 01-24: August 20, 1970 (Midnight show)
Location: Las Vegas
Jumpsuit: (?)

Date - tracks 25-29: August 19, 1970 (Dinner show)
Location: Las Vegas
Jumpsuit: (?)

Reviews: n/a

Joern

10-26-2004, 08:48 AM

Not only in your opinion, Big Boss Man ;)

I've written a review which you can find on Elvisbay.com :D

"The other CD ?A Bright Midnight With Elvis? offers us the midnight show from August 20th .
The soundquality is also very, very good for an audience recording and once again I show some respect for the sound-engineer who re-tuned and remastered the recordings. The producers said the tracks for the midnight show were sourced directly from the original stereo cassette mastertape. The source for the bonus-tracks were sourced from a first generation mono cassette copy, because the original master has been lost. The cover-art is more or less done like the one from ?A Dinner Bell In Vegas?, which makes both CD?s look like a 2-CD-set.
There are also some informative liner-notes, especially the part about the dinner show from August 19th, which was the only show were Elvis was booed by the audience. The reason why the audience ?booed? him, because Elvis took too long of an interlude during ?Love Me Tender? and the audience became bored. As Rick Rennie stated, the audience started clapping in unison and when Elvis seemed to ignore that, they began to ?boo? him to get on with the show. At least it must have lasted for 20 minutes or more!! This was edited from the first generation copy and the master has since been lost.

In comparison to the dinner show, the midnight performance is a bit tighter and Elvis is even more ?up? for this show. The setlist is fairly similar to the performance from just a few hours prior, but there are several variations. There are a lot of amusing moments during the show, like when Elvis presents the ?laughing box? to the audience or a hilarious performance of ?Suspicious Minds?. There is also a super rare rendition of the song ?Sweet Inspiriation?, which was somekind of a trademark of the Sweet Inspiriations. So all in all the concert is very enjoyable. Elvis must have enjoyed being on stage a lot during this show!

Memory Records put some bonus-tracks on this CD as they did on ?A Dinner Bell In Vegas?. On this one they present us five songs from the dinner show the day before, August 19th. The show was also released on the ?Double Dynamite?-CD-set from Rock Legends. The sound-quality of the bonus-tracks is a little below in comparison to the one you can enjoy during the whole concert. The speed is also re-tuned and runs now at the correct pitch. Within the bonus-tracks is the former unreleased version of ?I?ve Lost You?. At least there is to say, that during the pressing of this CD something went wrong, because the CD ends 20 seconds before the ending of ?Bridge Over Troubled Water?, which is infact the last song on the CD, but this is the only minus of this CD."

Kind regards, J?rn