801 Live

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Cat No: EXPCD3R

Release Date: 24 June 2009

Label: Expression Records

Packaging Type: Hard Back book

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 5020284000072

Genres: Rock

Description
In 1976, while Roxy Music had temporarily disbanded, 801 (also referred to as THE 801) got together as a temporary project and began rehearsing at Island Studios, Hammersmith, about three weeks before their first gig. The name of the band was taken from the Eno song "The True Wheel", which appears on his 1974 solo album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). The refrain of the song -- "We are the 801, we are the central shaft" -- reportedly came to him in a dream. The original sextet included Manzanera, Brian Eno, Bill MacCormick, Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips and Lloyd Watson, and after a warm up show in Cromer in Norfolk, that line-up played just two gigs - at the Reading Festival (with John Peel acclaiming them â€˜the musical high point of the weekendâ€™) and at Londonâ€™s Queen Elizabeth Hall. This memorable concert was subsequently released as â€˜801 Liveâ€™.
The music consisted of more or less mutated selections from albums by Manzanera, Eno, and Quiet Sun, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me".
Track Listing:
CD 1 â€“ Lagrima / T.N.K / East Of Asteroid / Rongwrong / Sombre Reptiles / Golden Hours, The Fat Lady Of Limbourg / Babyâ€™s On Fire / Diamond Head / Miss Shapiro / You Really Got Me / Third Uncle.
CD 2 (Recorded at Shepperton Studios during rehearsals Aug 23rd 1976) - Lagrima / T.N.K / East Of Asteroid / Rongwrong / Sombre Reptiles / The Fat Lady Of Limbourg / Babyâ€™s On Fire / Diamond Head / Miss Shapiro / You Really Got Me / Third Uncle / Lagrima (Reprise).
Tracklisting