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Take for example "Wah-Wah", the first cut on the second side. Although it jumps and cooks, it's only three minutes and fifteen seconds long. The studio version is five minutes and thirty five seconds. The studio and live versions of "My Sweet Lord" are roughly equivalent in time and quality. And that's indicative of the whole album. What we are given are essentially live, note for note renderings of studio versions. Not that that's bad when they're playing songs like "It Don't Come Easy," and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"; it's just different...
...always the classic "You Keep Me Hanging On", a hit so big that they were never able to duplicate it. The new arrangements were made long and drawn out by the liberal use of a screaming, powerful Hammond organ and a perhaps too heavy use of fuzz box and wah-wah pedal. The songs were full of three part vocal harmonies and surprising changes in rhythm. But most of all they were psychedelic...
...real surprise of the evening, though, was Beck's new version of "I Ain't Superstitious." When Beck first did the song on Truth it was performed in a rough, raunchy fashion with plenty of wah-wah pedal added for effect. In the new version, however, the song is performed as a slow blues number. Cozy Powell, the drummer, was good all night, and was brilliant during this number; Max Middleton, the pianist, showed himself to be every bit as good as Nicky Hopkins. Bob Tench, who was troubled by microphone distortion throughout the evening, also seemed to settle down...