WINGS - CD
LAST FLIGHT: DEFINITIVE EDITION

LABEL:
Misterclaudel mccd-04/05
SOURCE:
Apollo Theater, Glasgow, Scotland - December 17th, 1979
FORMAT:
2CD
RUNNING TIME:
66:08, 59:22
SOUND/SOURCE:
soundboard
PACKAGING:
fatboy jewel case + obi + mini tour book
 

mccd-04/05 - front

mccd-04/05 - back


SOUND 9 / PACKAGING 10 / PERFORMANCE 9

 
TRACK LIST:

Disc 1:  Got To Get You Into My Life, Getting Closer, Every Night, Again And Again And Again, I've Had Enough, No Words, Cook Of The House, Old Siam Sir, Maybe I'm Amazed, Fool On The Hill, Let It Be, Hot As Sun, Spin It On, Twenty Flight Rock, Go Now, Arrow Through Me, Wonderful Christmas Time.

Disc 2:  Coming Up, Goodnight Tonight, Yesterday, Mull Of Kintyre, Band on The Run, Coming Up (single version), Coming Up (edit version).  Hammersmith Odeon, London, December 29th, 1979:  Got To Get You Into My Life, Every Night, Coming Up, Lucille, Let It Be, Rockestra Theme.

 
REVIEW:

Misterclaudel have re-released one of their initial, and most popular, releases.  This Glasgow tape has seen many releases since it's intital surfacing many year ago.  The virtue of this release is that the awful tape defect in "Got To Get You Into My Life", which plagued the SilverApple release, has been corrected perfectly.  There isn't even a hint on this release.  The only negative is the very slightest hint of mastering in the background of the tape.  Many labels leave traces of tampering by the crunchy metallic sound and this tape unfortunately has it.  The sounds are mostly noticable in quieter passages however.  It certainly isn't as heavy handed as some releases in the past but is enough to grade the sound quality a nine instead of a ten.  They have also followed the tradition of tacking on the December 29th Kampuchea fragment that was officially released on vinyl but has never surfaced on compact disc. 

But Misterclaudel have also included two versions of "Coming Up" that were officially released and taken from this show.  The performance is probably the best from what the band admitted was an uneven tour.  There are lots of surprizes in the set like "Cook Of The House", a song I never would have thought they would perform and does open the band up for criticism.  The second half of the show is the strongest with great songs like "Spin It On", "Coming Up" and "Goodnight Tonight".  Like other releases on this label the packaging is simply outstanding.  This new re-release doesn't have the slip cover from the first, just a simple fatboy jewel case with the obi slip and the mini tour program which is fun to read.  Like everything associated with these releases, whether this is an upgrade from previous releases is a matter of subjective taste.  I do like hearing "Got To Get You Into My Life" without the tape flaw and enjoy reading the book.  Perhaps this is a more definitive edition instead of the definitive edition.


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