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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.

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

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