Fuel 2000
2009
Live Fast, Love Hard
About This Album
For Live Fast, Love Hard, rockabilly singer Robert Gordon went into his own vaults to license two concerts recorded during the late 1970s -- the period for which he is best-known -- with both of his star attraction guitarists, Link Wray and Chris Spedding. Before getting started, this set issued by Fuel 2000 is not a rehash of any of the live Gordon documents that have been circulating since the '90s. These are newly circulated board tapes. Disc one features Gordon playing live with Wray (the rhythm section is uncredited) in a set that can only be called blistering. It burns with white-hot, hedonistic rockabilly intensity, ignited by the guitarist's overdriven, "Rumble"-style guitar throughout -- it's useful to remember that Wray was issuing some killer recordings of his own during the period. (Remember Bullshot?) The set is familiar in terms of songs, but the highlights are "If This Is Wrong," the midtempo ballad that opens the set, "Lonesome Train," with some in-the-red guitar by Wray, and set closer "I Got a Woman." There is a "bonus track" included on this disc: an early live reading of "Black Slacks" that is actually the beginning of the Spedding gig, and was inexplicably placed here.
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