1976-08-15
Louder Than Concorde (But Not Quite As Pretty!)
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
HQ Audience Recording
320 kbps (Vbr)
01. Grow Some Funk Of Your Own
02. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
03. Island Girl
04. Rocket Man
05. Hercules
06. Bennie and the Jets
07. Funeral for a Friend > Love Lies Bleeding
08. Love Song
09. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
10. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
11. Empty Sky
12. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
13. Don't Go Breaking My Heart*
14. I Got the Music In Me*
15. Philadelphia Freedom
16. We All Fall In Love Sometimes
17. Curtains
18. Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
19. Band Introductions
20. Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)
21. Your Song
22. Pinball Wizard
* with Kiki Dee
This is a pretty good audience recording, considering it was taped in 1976. Very few recordings have surfaced from this period of Elton John's career,
and with this band in particular. The Earl's Court DVD I uploaded recently was from May of this same year, and is the best recording I have
found, but is only partial. This is the entire show, and includes Kiki Dee as a special guest (Bernie Taupin and Billie Jean King as well).
She appears on the current single, at the time, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", and her own hit "I Got the Music in Me". This show also includes
the rarely played song "Empty Sky", as that album had just been released in the United States, six years after its initial release in England.
This may be as good as we get from this period, until they start to empty EJ's vaults. Play this loud and imagine you are in the cheap seats at
MSG!
The Band:
Elton John- Piano/Vocals
Davey Johnstone- Guitar/ Vocals
Ray Cooper- Percussion
Caleb Quaye- Guitars
James Newton Howard- Keyboards
Roger Pope- Drums
Backing Vocals:
Cindy Bullins (Guitar on "Love Song")
John Joyce
Ken Gold
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