Alice Cooper Album: «Live at Toronto»

- Customers rating: (2.0 of 5)
- Title:Live at Toronto
- Release date:2007-03-27
- Type:Audio CD
- Label:Kala
- UPC:617917222427
This awful bootleg has been issued and reissued for over 30 years. I have it on LP. It's an amateur recording made at the September 13, 1969 Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival held at the football stadium of the University of Toronto.
Why does it sound so bad? For one thing, the concert promoter (Detroit's "Uncle" Russ Gibb) was a cheapskate, and provided only the minimum P.A. system, and this did not include stage monitors (which is why you often see photos of singers of that day singing with one finger in an ear so they could hear themselves).
My guess is that, "Ain't That Just Like A Woman?" and "Goin' to the River," the two songs obviously not sung by Alice Cooper are by '50s rebel Gene Vincent, who the Alice Cooper Band, formerly known as The Spiders, often backed up. He played earlier that day.
All this junk does is make money for the bootleggers.
1. Ain't That Just Like a Woman (B.B. King), 2. Painting a Picture, 3. Medley: A.C. Instrumental - I've Written Home to Mother, 4. Freak Out Song, 5. Goin' to the River (Fats Domino), 6. Nobody Likes Me (Listed as "Nobody Like Me"), 7. Science Fiction.
This awful bootleg has been issued and reissued for over 30 years. I have it on LP. It's an amateur recording made at the September 13, 1969 Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival held at the football stadium of the University of Toronto.
Why does it sound so bad? For one thing, the concert promoter (Detroit's "Uncle" Russ Gibb) was a cheapskate, and provided only the minimum P.A. system, and this did not include stage monitors (which is why you often see photos of singers of that day singing with one finger in an ear so they could hear themselves).
My guess is that, "Ain't That Just Like A Woman?" and "Goin' to the River," the two songs obviously not sung by Alice Cooper are by '50s rebel Gene Vincent, who the Alice Cooper Band, formerly known as The Spiders, often backed up. He played earlier that day.
This is yet another rehashing of the 1968 Toronto Rock 'N' Roll Revival this is only of interest to completist. This album has also been called "Freak Out", "Live In Toronto", "Snorting Anthrax", "Nobody Likes Me", etc..
Save your money kids this is not endorsed by Alice or anyone else.

