Saturday, January 17, 2015

January 17 - A Last Farewell From Uniondale Hysteria

The MxF import-label will release soon the first volume of a trilogy dedicated to Elvis’ historical performance at Uniondale Nassau Coliseum. This first CD is entitled "Uniondale Hysteria", featuring the Uniondale, June 22, 1973 8.00 PM Show. The CD has a running-time of 55 minutes.

From the press-release:
The June Tour represent the second and last tour of the year, Elvis on tour means Elvis at the top of his possibilities. Uniondale is the third step of the tour, in the Nassau coliseum Elvis performs four shows in three days. The show here presented is the first one…The begin of the 1973 presents an Elvis still at the top, no more a rocking singer, He deliveries with enthusiasm the classic repertoire post-72... The year was begun with the glorious Hawaii TV satellite Show and after a pale useless Vegas season, Elvis recuperated from the fatigue, started the first tour of the year in a different mood ... the second tour is even better with our man very energetic on stage, full of enthusiasm he sings with power delivering a solid and long show, with the classic repertoire of the 1973 including a incredible “Steaming Rolling Blues” version, together a sensitive I’ll Remember you and nice super pop I’m Leaving... together the three classic Bridge Over Troubled Water, Suspicious Minds and American Trilogy. On stage is an impressive figure in the Pharoo jumpsuit, the rocker attitude still intact, the voice great, the atmosphere enormous, the demand terrific, 16.500 lucky people attended at the show.

The show is unreleased and complete, here we present the show directly from a first generation copy of a privately-recorded 60-minute cassette. The sound was restored trying to remove the background noise trying to let intact the feeling of the concert and overall your listening pleasure. The sound quality here is good, considering it was taped from the audience in a big hall. Elvis and overall the band is loud and clear, the sounds is very powerful in very good balanced mix the audience is never too intrusive giving instead the real feeling of the concert.

Like its predecessors, this new release will be presented in a beautiful four panels digipack with a collection of photos taken during show. As bonus the first 100 copies will come with a 12x12 card, represent a memorabilia flyer of the Uniondale. All the photos, memorabilia and newspaper clips come from the Steve Rino and Bob Rush book on the Elvis June 1973 tour.

The recording is in good quality and the superb show give to Uniondale Hysteria the status of Unique.

Tracks - As recorded live at Nassau Coliseum, June 22, 1973 8.00 PM
01. 2001 Theme 02. See See Rider 03. I Got A Woman/Amen 04. Love Me Tender 05. Steamroller Blues 06. You Gave Me A Mountain 07. Love Me 08. Blue Suede Shoes 09. Rock Medley 10. I’m Leavin 11. Bridge Over Troubled Water 12. Fever 13. What Now My Love 14. Suspicious Minds 15. Band Introductions 16. I’ll Remember You 17. I Can’t Stop Loving You 18. An American Trilogy 19. A Big Hunk Of Love 20. Can’t Help Falling In Love 21. Closing Vamp 

The Last Farewell


Due for release at the end of February is a 5 CD set entitled "The Last Farewell", containing the complete masters and outtakes from the last Graceland sessions. The set, limited to 1000 copies, is packed in a Pewter box-set and comes with an 80 page book (28 by 28 cm) with unseen photo’s, never published before according to the press-release. It also claims the audio comes in superb sound quality, "better than ever was thought possible". 

(Source: FECC)