Original Line-up Live performances

[pjk47]

Greetings all. I am compiling a collection of recordings of live performances by the original line-up (for my own personal listening). I would be most grateful for any help.I already have the S Africa recording (Shazam, Guitar Boogie, Sleepwalk). Many thanks! Pete Kirby.

[geronimo7476]

Hi Pete, what about FBI off the same EP,(Also on The EP Collection Vol 2) And you can't leave out 'Live at the ABC Kingston 1962!!
Cheers CC

[JimN]

The original poster specified the original line-up, but whilst the ABC concert (1962) features Jet alright, it is not Tony Meehan on drums by then.

Other live recordings of the original line-up are few in number - especially in proper recording quality, and it may be that the three Drifters tracks on the "Cliff" LP/CD are the only others commercially available. There are a number of off-air live radio recordings in circulation (from BBC, Radio Luxembourg and other European broadcasters), but the quality ranges only from acceptable to desperate. Those tracks include:

Three-Thirty Blues (a Duane Eddy cover), Quatermasster's Stores, Gonzales, Cerveza, Barney's Blues, Dooby Dooby Wah (a Roy Orbison song), The Savage, Shadoogie, Walk-Don't Run (Ventures version), Jet Black, Bongo Blues, and The Stranger.

If the once-proposed "Live At The BBC" CD ever sees the light of day, it ought to present some of those in something more like Hi-fi.

JN