Keith Richards & the X-pensive Winos - Live at the Hollywood Palladium (December 15, 1988)

pure keith

you could not be a true Keith lover and not love this album.
He is what he is.thank god! January 4, 2009

disappointing to me, but you may like it

I like almost all of the bands from the classic rock era and many of the alternative bands up until the mid 90s. I wasn't expecting the Rolling Stones with this CD, but I was expecting more than I got. I believe this is essentially the CD of the DVD of the same performance. I can only say, like I did with the DVD, the music is mediocre at best to me. Nothing really moved me and after viewing the DVD I had no interest in hearing it again on CD. At least with the DVD watching the band was a distraction from the music. I only watched it once and likely won't again. It wasn't anything in the way they played or the sound quality. The performance was spirited, but the music just didn't do anything for me. I won't buy any other Keith Richards and the Wonderful Winos, that's for sure. October 3, 2008

Live Keith & Winos

A great time capsule of an album of Keith's tour with his other band The XPensive Winos. This album has a great live ambience of Keith in his element , on stage doing what he wants. Namely, that is making music with ace musicians. Some nods to the Stones of course, & bringing back CONNECTION is a perfect choice for Keith, as well as HAPPY of course. Biggest surprise here is the amazing live version of TIME IS ON MY SIDE with lead vocals by SARAH DASH, formerly of Labelle. Keith called it the best version he ever heard. Ms. Dash's soaring sweet voice is a perfect companion to Keith's gnarly gruffness on MAKE NO MISTAKE as well. Captures the essence of the solo Keith period perfectly. December 30, 2007

Good Live Album from Keith and his Band

This is a good album though because it's live it is a little muddy. The songs are all played at a high energy level, the band is bluesy and good, and Sarah Dash, the female backup, is excellent. Richards strains a little on some of the numbers vocally, but his virtuoso guitar playing more than makes up for it. Richards' solo efforts are superior to those of the other Stones members. He has stayed truer to the roots of the jazz and blues that made the Stones such an outstanding band. Listening to this album makes me feel like I'm in a smokey bar listening to a blistering live performance. The sound will not stack up well against a studio recorded album, but what do you expect? Probably the closest most of us will ever get to hearing a solo Keith Richards live.
Four and a half stars. January 21, 2007

Talk is Cheap

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This live CD, recorded during the FABULOUS "Talk is Cheap" tour, primarily represents a second recording of the studio album (and a few great extras) with very appreciative crowd noise sandwiched between the songs. Nothing wrong with that, because these are songs that are MEANT to be played live - but the energy and production values of the original studio "Talk is Cheap" album is so extraordinary, this live album primarily speaks to Keith completists. I once read Keith questioned releasing this live album, but there were sooooooooo many bootlegs out of the winos live preformances, he felt his fans deserved a definitive version.

August 24, 2004

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