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RELEASE DATE: AVAILABLE NOW
CD Edition limited to 5000 non-numbered limited edition copies.
Thirty years before the current standards craze, and a couple of years before everyone followed Peter Frampton into the double-live-album game, the Pointer Sisters recorded an impressive concert set in San Francisco’s Opera House. As was their usual style, the musical program was all over the map, from country to swing to blues.
The record begins with a rather extended (over seven minutes’ worth) “Overture,” which would make the casual listener wonder if the Pointers were ever actually coming out to perform. But it was all part of heightening the expectation, and the album launches out of the gate in grand style when the Sisters get out from behind the curtain with a version of “Salt Peanuts” that would do Lambert Hendricks Ross proud.
Despite having had only two records under their collective belts, the Pointers were a formidable live act; during the show, they not only reprised virtually every song from their petite catalogue, but they also got a chance to wedge in a credible update of Jerry Butler/Betty Everett (or Everly Brothers, if you prefer) hit, “Let It Be Me.”
Most artists would be wary of approaching a double live album even after their careers were well established; that the Pointers could do it so successfully so early is testament to their capacious talent. Newly remastered by Grammy-winning engineer Gavin Lurssen of The Mastering Lab in 2004, this release features the same type of gatefold packaging that accompanied the original vinyl album.
Hipocrates Says:
Did You Know? The Pointer Sisters were the first pop act to perform at the San Francisco Opera House.
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