Sunday, August 18, 2024

Angry Samoans - Return to Samoa (out-takes/lost tapes): 7.5 (high B+)


Upped from honorable mention after several additional listens and realizing that this isn't truly the # [odds/ends] it appears to be, so much as 10 studio tracks from 1982, around the time of Back From Samoa, followed by 15 live tracks recorded at "the 700 Club" in the East Village on June 14, 1981. The playing is much tighter (if you can call it that) than at the Live at Rhino Records show recorded a few years earlier, not surprisingly, and the audio is not that bad. I vaguely remember being outside the door of the club, tripping on acid, and not being able to get in, at 15 years old one night in the spring of 1981. Was it this show? Who knows? And they mean the A7 club, right? Another reason for buying this anyway. (My copy actually has two inserts, one with a black background instead of pink.)

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