Live On Tour - 1966!

This well recorded mono set shows another side of The Standells that's looser than any of their other albums. Yeah, this is a short (34 minutes) album, but it's an authentic look at the limited time a band is allowed to play before the headlining act--in this case--The Beach Boys. The disc snaps inside a tri-fold cardboard package with liner notes inside.Beginning with a fuzzed out guitar version of "Mr. Nobody" (after a typical for the period introduction), the band shows what their garage band sound is like without any studio help. Also here is "Good Lovin'" (The Standells were also a good cover band), "Sunny Afternoon" (The Kinks), "Gloria" (Van Morrison/Them), "Please, Please, Please" (James Brown), and "Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett/Steve Cropper), along with some of their most well known songs like "Mr. Nobody", "Dirty Water", "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White", and "Why Did You Hurt Me".Standells fans will want this as a good example of how the band sounded on stage, including their corny jokes and punch lines and sound effects (during "Gloria")--all to the delight of the crowd. In this day and age of "sophistication", the comments by the band to the crowd ("someone won a game today") will sound pretty lame. But growing up in that era I can tell you that's what it was like back then, when people didn't take themselves so seriously and music was for fun, and fun to listen and stomp to. This is a good addition to the band's studio albums (including their "Riot On Sunset Strip" stuff) and as a backwards peek at how innocent life was in those days. I was tempted to give this album 4 "stars" (1 for nostalgia) but I reined myself in and just judged the music.And for a blast of much tougher garage band music from '66, check out "The Shadows of Knight/Live 1966", also on the Sundazed label.

Excellent album

Great album

one great show by a great 60s group.

Great Live recording

I thinkI have every Standell CD.- 2 on 1's, single releases with bonus tracks,Live at PJ's(OR) & @ one of my 'fav' music(CD now plus vinyl) stores-Sound Solutions,out by LAX,which I can only get to coming & going while open, I found their all new 2013 CD signed promo, that stays true to their Garage roots.I won't take a half star off 'Live 66' because of the number of cover versions since it was a "sock hop"& the kids wanted to dance.

god

glad i got it.

If you’re a 60s garage fan, you’ll know that good quality live recordings of the period are as rare as hens’ teeth. I pre-ordered this album as soon as I heard about it… and a year or so after purchase Live on Tour -1966 is still a personal favourite, on or close to my CD player at all times! It’s that good!I can understand why some reviewers are a little critical because the band played a good number of covers and why some reviewers might find some of the between song banter a bit ‘cheesy.’ But this is the gig as it was, and unless someone’s gonna buy me a time machine for my birthday, it’s the closest I’ll ever get to experiencing a mid-60s Standells gig. And personally I just love the banter and jokes between the songs. So, to me, this really is the Holy Grail!!So, what about the songs? Standells fans probably picked up the 6-track EP ‘The Live Ones’ issued by Sundazed some years back. This is supposed to be the same 6 tracks, augmented with 4 more to give us the full 10 song set they played. So we have classic Standells ‘punk’ songs (Mr. Nobody, Why Did You Hurt Me, Why Pick On Me, Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White and, of course, Dirty Water) plus 5 covers (Good Lovin', Sunny Afternoon, Gloria, Please, Please, Please and Midnight Hour).The Standells’ classics are performed pretty much as per the studio versions, the band is tight and sound quality is excellent, particularly mindful it’s a live recording. You can hear all the instruments, and the only distortion is where you want to find it – in Tony’s fuzz pedal. Of the covers, Gloria is hilarious, with a string of sound effects as our lascivious hero is working his way up to Gloria’s room. You’ll all heard a 100 versions of Gloria, but not done as a comedy routine like this. Of the rest, Good Lovin’ is a highlight, mainly, I guess because it doesn’t appear on any of the other Standells albums. The other covers are OK but I’m not going to rave about them.What is slightly odd is that the intros to some of the songs are different to those on The Live Ones, and some of the songs that appear on both discs are slightly different too. Compare both intros to Why Pick On Me, for example. Also compare Gloria, which appears on both discs. The version of Gloria on The Live Ones is far shorter, and doesn’t include most of the hilarious sound effects. When I first heard Live on Tour – 1966 I was a little confused, and wondered if they were different recordings (early and late or matinee and evening performances maybe?) but in most respects they’re too similar for that. So I can only assume they’re both recordings of the same performance, but are different edits. But if that’s the case I can’t fathom why Live on Tour - 1966 excludes some of the funny between song banter that appears on the Live Ones, e.g. ‘by the way friends have your cigarettes been tasting different recently?’ It can’t have been because there wasn’t enough space on the CD as it’s not a long CD. Really, it’s a minor quibble and doesn’t spoil what, for me, is one of the classic garage releases of 2015. I just think it would have been even better to have included the entire performance on the CD, not removed bits and pieces for no apparent benefit to the listener. To put it into context: a rabid Standells fan like me would love to hear every second of the performance of his garage Gods, banter, tune-ups, feedback…

The standells live 1956 !!! love this band top notch good price and thanks.