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Live at the Paramount

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Released
  
August 1972

Length
  
48:32 (LP version)

Genre
  
Rock

Recorded
  
May 22, 1972 at the Paramount Theater, Seattle, Washington

Label
  
Nimbus 9 4779 (Canada & UK) RCA Victor 4479 (US) Buddha (CD re-release)

Producer
  
Jack Richardson (for Nimbus Nine)

Live at the Paramount is a live album released by Canadian rock group The Guess Who. It was recorded on May 22, 1972 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington. The album reached #39 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States. This was the group's only live album until the reunion in 1983.

Contents

The 2000 re-release on Compact Disc was remixed and added six bonus tracks from the same concert which did not fit on LP. Live at the Paramount was the first Guess Who album to feature Donnie McDougall on guitar and the last to feature Jim Kale on bass guitar.

Original album

  1. "Albert Flasher" (Burton Cummings) - 2:59
  2. "New Mother Nature" (Cummings) - 4:26
  3. "Glace Bay Blues" (featuring Don McDougall) (Blair MacLean, Gary MacLean, Don McDougall) - 3:19
  4. "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" (Cummings, Kurt Winter) - 6:52
  5. "Pain Train" (Cummings, Winter) - 7:00
  6. "American Woman" (Randy Bachman, Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson) - 16:53
  7. "Truckin' Off Across the Sky" (Cummings, Kale, McDougal, Peterson, Winter) - 7:21

2000 Buddha CD re-release

  1. "Pain Train" (Cummings, Winter) - 7:00
  2. "Albert Flasher" (Cummings) - 2:59
  3. "New Mother Nature" (Cummings) - 4:26
  4. "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" (Cummings, Winter) - 6:52
  5. "Rain Dance" (Cummings, Winter) - 2:53
  6. "These Eyes" (Bachman, Cummings) - 4:29
  7. "Glace Bay Blues" (featuring Don McDougall) (Blair MacLean, Gary MacLean, Don McDougall) - 3:19
  8. "Sour Suite" (Cummings) - 3:58
  9. "Hand Me Down World" (Winter) - 3:53
  10. "American Woman" (Bachman, Cummings, Kale, Peterson) - 16:53
  11. "Truckin' Off Across the Sky" (The Guess Who) - 7:21
  12. "Share the Land" (Cummings) - 4:46
  13. "No Time" (Bachman, Cummings) - 6:06

Personnel

  • Burton Cummings: Lead Vocals, Piano, Flute, Guitar and Harmonica
  • Kurt Winter: Lead Guitar, Backing vocals
  • Don McDougall: Guitar, Backing vocals
  • Jim Kale: Bass, Backing vocals
  • Garry Peterson: Drums, Backing vocals
  • Brian Christian - Engineer
  • Dennis Smith - Engineer
  • Jack Richardson - Producer
  • Charts

    Album

    Singles

    References

    Live at the Paramount Wikipedia