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Live At The Comedy Store, 1973

Richard Pryor

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Format: CD

Cat No: OVCD432

Release Date:  23 July 2021

Label:  Stand Up! Records / Ismist Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  810075110227

Genres:  Spoken Word  

Release Date:  23 June 2023

Label:  Stand Up! Records / Ismist Records

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  609461022516

Genres:  Spoken Word  

  • Description

    • First commercial version of the legendary comic’s 1973 four-show run in Hollywood • 20 tracks including 6 bonus performances • New liner notes from Cory Frye • Released with full cooperation from the Richard Pryor Estate “Monday, October 29, 1973: Richard Pryor hits the Comedy Store for night one of a four-show run that will, within a year, yield one of the greatest comic documents of all time, a generational sea change no one saw coming.� From the new liner notes by Cory Frye After the release of his iconic debut, Richard Pryor, in 1968, Pryor further sharpened his skills and delivered the comedy classic, “Craps� (After Hours) in 1971, but he never stopped pushing forward. In preparation for a Kennedy Center show in New York, and a February 1974 Soul Train Club date in North Beach, San Francisco (that would produce the top-selling That Nigger’s Crazy) Pryor booked four nights at the, then relatively new, Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard to woodshed new material. It was never meant to be heard beyond its original audience, but luckily tape not only rolled, but survived. Fourteen tracks were originally issued in 2013 as a limited edition promotional CD given away with copies of the No Pryor Restraint: Life In Concert boxed set purchased from Shout! Factory’s website. Six additional Comedy Store performances found their way into the public earlier as bonus material on 2000’s …And It’s Deep Too!: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) and Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974) in 2005. Now, all 20 tracks are pulled together for the first time and available on Live At The Comedy Store, 1973. The release was produced by noted Pryor expert Reggie Collins, who helms this new set along with Jennifer Lee Pryor and Grammy®-winning producer, Cheryl Pawelski. Packaging features new liner notes from Cory Frye and restoration from Grammy®-winner, Michael Graves. From Frye’s notes, “As time has shown, there’s no death with Richard Pryor. He may have left us in 2005 (after whole decades that would have killed lesser men), but his own afterlife’s proven immense, minus the eight billion harp-happy m***********s he once described practicing on some distant cloud. Here’s a chance to catch him just as he begins to live—again.�

    Description

    Richard Pryor contained multitudes, each fully inhabited character funnier and more insightful than the last, so it's no wonder when he took the stage at The Comedy Store in Hollywood in 1973, it'd be a full 15 minutes before he spoke to the adoring audience as himself. No, he needed to start where he started, on the streetcorner, with all the wit, wisdom, and general jackassery of Wino & Junkie. Throughout a set full of hard jokes and detailed character sketches (including the men of the Saturday night police lineup in his hometown of Preoria, Illinois-the first and riskiest stage he knew), the audience has the chance to get caught up in the silliness so inherent to Pryor while never losing sight of the issues America had yet to face (and hasn't still). There are sex jokes that hit so hard the women in the audience take an audible refractory period, drug advice that has you weighing the relative trip-laden merits of dope and acid, and a call-and-response on sandwiches that proves the irresistibility of zealous Black midwestern preachers; there's a litany of celebrities whose names and projects have blurred in Pryor's mind, but whose faces and friendship so clearly light him up; there's even fighting advice (don't fight Italians, their mothers get involved, and try to avoid a paternal cowboy whuppin', because no one wants to get hit with a chair). And then you get hit with the hardest punch: Pryor reaching out from 50 years past to make the truth plain. You never hear about civilians accidentally killing cops, so why is it that cops are always "accidentally" killing Black men? As it turns out, 1973 and 2023 aren't so far apart that the legendary Richard Pryor can't bridge the gap. We've teamed up with Omnivore Records and Richard Pryor's production company Indigo to pack this double-deluxe vinyl release, "Live at The Comedy Store, 1973," with delights aplenty: sides one and two are the newly mastered album, "Live at the Comedy Store, Hollywood, CA-October 1973," making its first-ever debut on vinyl.* Also for the first time on vinyl, the first track of side three comes from "...Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968-1992)" and the remainder hails from "Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974)." This set, which will come in three color versions of the vinyl and two different covers contains both the original and expanded liner notes; the Mondo and Stand Up! Records releases also feature new artwork, created by illustrator and painter Jason Edmiston. What can we say? It's another, in Pryor's words, wing-dang-doodle! *Released only as a 2013 promo with purchase alongside the "No Pryor Restraint" box set.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Introduction (Live)
      • 2. Street Corner Wino (Live)
      • 3. Wino & Junkie (Live)
      • 4. Fighting (Live)
      • 5. Masturbating
      • 6. Dope (Live)
      • 7. Sex (Live)
      • 8. Religion (Live)
      • 9. Acid (Live)
      • 10. Black Movie Stars (Live)
      • 11. Cops (Live)
      • 12. The Line-Up (Live)
      • 13. Nixon (Live)
      • 14. Celebrities In The Audience (Live)
      • 15. Death (Live) [Bonus Track]
      • 16. Niggers & Italians (Live) [Bonus Track]
      • 17. Jim Brown (Live - Alternate Version) [Bonus Track]
      • 18. Black Films (Live) [Bonus Track]
      • 19. Jesus Saves (Live) [Bonus Track]
      • 20. Street Corner Wino (Evolution/Revolution Edit) [Bonus Track]

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Street Corner Wino
      • 3. Wino & Junkie
      • 4. Fighting
      • 5. Masturbating
      • 6. Dope
      • 7. Sex

      Side 2

      • 1. Religion
      • 2. Acid
      • 3. Black Movie Stars
      • 4. Cops
      • 5. The Line-Up
      • 6. Nixon
      • 7. Celebrities In The Audience

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. Death
      • 2. Niggers & Italians
      • 3. Jim Brown (Alternate Version)
      • 4. Black Films
      • 5. Jesus Saves
      • 6. Street Corner Wino (Evolution/Revolution Edit)