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The Music of the 77s...
Echos O' Faith (Played Naked)1996 Produced by Brian Healy for Fools of the World.MT/ Nowhere Else/ Ba Ba Ba Ba/ The Treasure In You/ Hard To Say/ The Rain Kept Falling In Love/ Bottom Line/ A Different Kind Of Light/ The Lust, The Flesh, The Eyes & The Pride Of Life/ Caught In An Unguarded Moment/ Do It For Love/ Look/ U U U U/ Happy Roy/ God Sends Quails/ Kites Without Strings Another bootleg tolerated because the band gets to sell copies through the fan club. Echoes O' Faith was recorded in the fall of 1992 during the similarly named venue's acoustic music series which also featured the Choir, Dead Artist Syndrome, Undercover and others (all of which were reportedly recorded by Brian Healey, the producer of this disc.) This disc makes it clear why the "unplugged" was so appealing before it was done to death. Scaled back to the barest of instrumentation, the spotlight is squarely on the melodies, the hooks and the Seventy Sevens ability to make that electric connection with their audience, even when the power is turned off. Echoes gave the band a chance to fool around with the arrangement of their more popular live songs and play a number of other songs - like "Ba Ba Ba Ba" and "Nowhere Else" - that the band couldn't convincingly pull off live with electric instruments, and therefore never played. The empathy and intimacy with the audience that night (evident by the loud cheering and singing) is magically and effortlessly translated digitally for an experience that goes beyond "you are there" to something closer to "you are part of it," a connec tion few bands are capable of in any medium. The disc is only being sold through mail order and only 1,000 copies were pressed, although I suspect more will be made if there is a sufficient demand. But just in case, you better buy now or risk suffering later.by Brad Caviness - 7ball (Ed Note: demand was more than sufficient and successive pressings were made; however, the recording is presently out of print.) Reviews |