There’s been a sudden surge of activity in the STATUS QUO camp in the last year, what with their classic “Live!” album receiving a deluxe treatment, “On The Level” seeing an expanded reissue, and Francis Rossi putting “The Accidental” out fairly recently, and it doesn’t seem to stop yet. There’s a two-LP set planned for Record Store Day, April 18th, with a two-CD package to follow on April 24th, of the Frantic Four’s famous, and frequently bootlegged, 1979 recording from London.
Titled “Live In Hammersmith 1979” and documenting the quartet’s appearance in the popular venue on June 26th of that year, the vinyl version omits two tracks of those performed there and then, but they may be restored for the compact disc variant. In any case, it’s a solid set, heavy on the band’s classics but also featuring “Oh, What A Night” from then then-fresh “If You Can’t Stand The Heat…”
Live In Hammersmith 1979
1. Intro Drone
2. Caroline
3. Roll Over Lay Down
4. Backwater
5. Rockers Rollin’
6. Is There A Better Way
7. Hold You Back *
8. Little Lady
9. Rockin’ All Over The World
10. Oh, What A Night
11. Dirty Water
12. Forty Five Hundred Times *
13. Big Fat Mama
14. Don’t Waste My Time
15. Roadhouse Blues
16. Rain
17. Down Down
18. Drum Solo
19. Bye Bye Johnny
* not on vinyl
