It Was the Best of Times

Occupation

See below

Studios

  • Manhattan Center (New York City )
  • Gateway (Portland )

It Was the Best of Times is the third live album by British Pop-/Rockband Supertramp. It was recorded during the Supertramp tour, " It's About Time " at the Royal Albert Hall in London ( UK ) in 1997. The record was released two years after the studio album Some Things Never Change on 12 April 1999 as a double CD version with 21 songs and on 27 April 1999 as a single - CD version with 13 songs. She sold in Europe, particularly in France, good.

Description

The tour, " It's About Time ", gave 102 concerts in the Supertramp, was the first tour without the long-standing band member Dougie Thomson, but with Jesse Siebenberg (percussion ), the son of longtime band member Bob Siebenberg (drums). From the classic lineup next to the tape head and tape founding member Rick Davies (keyboards, piano, harmonica, vocals), and the long-time band member John Helliwell ( saxophone, woodwinds, background vocals) were there. In addition joined as with Live '88 as a second vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player Mark Hart (since 1993 member of the band Crowded House ), which in many songs (even with those of ex -band and founding member Roger Hodgson ) the vocals ( mostly took along with Davies). In addition, the group was first added during a tour of Cliff Hugo (bass guitar), Lee Thornburg (trumpet, trombone ) and Carl Verheyen ( guitars).

In addition to numerous Supertramp classics the live album contains some new songs from the last studio album Some Things Never Change (1997). For the second time in her career - by Live '88 - the band played with "Do not You Lie To Me" (Hudson Whittaker, 1940), a song that does not come from her pen and immortalized it on the album.

The album name - " It Was the Best of Times " - refers to the beginning of A Tale Of Two Cities ( A Tale of Two Cities ), a 1859 by English author Charles Dickens novel written: "It was the best of times, it what the worst of times, it what the age of wisdom, it what the age of foolishness ... " is to be read there.

About three years after the live album "It Was the Best of Times " was released the studio album Slow Motion.

Song list

The live album "It Was the Best of Times " was released as a double and single CD version. All songs, except the songs with the appropriate vocal note ( " G. " ) were sung by vocals by Rick Davies. Their authors are mentioned in "()".

Double - CD version

The double live album contains 21 songs. The following specified lengths reflect their CD version ("A & M 7243 4 99 390 2 8 "), which is a total of 2 hours, 10 minutes and 14 seconds.

CD 1 ( Running Time 69:06 )

CD 2 (running time 61:08 )

Single - CD version

The single live album contains 13 songs. The following specified lengths reflect their CD version ("A & M 7243 99 390 4 2 2 "), which is a total of 1 hours, 15 minutes and 22 seconds.

Republication: In 2006, the single - CD version with different cover under the name Live 1997 by EMI Records was re-released.

Occupation

The Band:

  • Rick Davies - keyboards, piano, harmonica, vocals, background vocals
  • Bob Siebenberg - drums
  • John Helliwell - saxophones, woodwinds, background vocals

Additional personnel:

  • Mark Hart - keyboards, guitars, vocals, background vocals
  • Cliff Hugo - bass guitar
  • Jesse Siebenberg - percussion
  • Lee Thornburg - trumpet, trombone
  • Carl Verheyen - Guitar

Recording

The live album "It Was the Best of Times " was recorded during the Supertramp tour, " It's About Time " at concerts on 19 and 20 September 1997 in the Royal Albert Hall in London in the UK. Was mixed the plate in the Manhattan Center Studios (Manhattan, New York City, New York) and the mastering was done in the Gateway Studios ( Portland, Maine).

Production

  • Producer: Rick Davies
  • Live sound engineer: Ken Allardyce
  • Mixdown engineer Jay Messina
  • Mixdown engineer assistant: Lawrence Manchester ( Manhattan Center Studios)
  • Mastering: Bob Ludwig ( Gateway Studios)
  • Digital editing: Jennifer Munson (Gateway Studios)
  • Artistic direction and cover design: " Ph. D "
  • Cover Texts: Rick Davies ( January 1999)
  • Cover illustrations: Craig Frazier
  • Supertramp Logo: Laura Ljungkvist
  • Cover photographs: Andrew Catlin, Dimo Safari
  • Management: Sue Davies and Richard Frankel

Charts

The live album "It Was the Best of Times " sold well and reached France in a single-digit place of the album charts in Switzerland and in Norway there was in the top 20 in the Netherlands and Germany in the Top -30 and in Austria. in the top 50

Studio albums: Supertramp (1970 ) | Indelibly Stamped (1971 ) | Crime of the Century (1974 ) | Crisis? What Crisis? (1975 ) | Even in the Quietest Moments ... (1977 ) | Breakfast in America (1979 ) | ... Famous Last Words ... (1982 ) | Brother Where You Bound ( 1985) | Free as a Bird ( 1987) | Some Things Never Change (1997 ) | Slow Motion ( 2002)

Live albums: Paris ( 1980) | Live '88 (1988 ) | It Was the Best of Times (1999) Is Everybody Listening? ( Live Special Edition, 2001)

See also: Paragraph of Article Discography Supertramp

  • Album ( rock )
  • 1999 album
  • Supertramp album
  • Live album
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