Eric Burdon - 1986-06-25 - Westbury, UK (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Excellent soundboard recording of Eric Burdon's performance at the Westbury Music Fair on the 25th. of June, 1986.It's released on Hiwatt records (Japan?) under the name of Searching For A Brand New Day - drawing on the title of one of the tracks performed here. It's a bootleg for sure, though. 

That makes this concert is a unique document of Eric's artistic visions at this point of time, and it's kind of sad hearing how inspired it sounds, thinking of what actually came out of his hopes and dreams in the years after. 

Ripped from the original "release" in lossless wave. Convertion, checksum created and torrent made with Trader's Little Helper. 

CD1 

01 - It's My Life 

02 - DOn't Bring Me Down 

03 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 

04 - No More Elmore 

05 - The Riff: Tobacco Road/Bring It On Home To Me/See See Rider 

06 - When We Were A Gang 

07 - Factory (Working Life) 

08 - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 

CD2 

01 - River Deep - Mountain High 

02 - Searching For A Brand New Day 

03 - I'm Crying 

04 - House Of The Rising Sun 

This actually isn't such a bad name, because this was sort of what Eric was doing at the time. He'd just published his first autobiography, and had a record deal for the first time in years. I think you can sort of feel the positive vibe in this concert, and Eric's in much better shape than last year's official live release - That's Live (recorded in March 1985). Sadly, the whole project crumbled (as so many times before), and the multi-media autibiographical project called I Used To Be An Animal was more or less ruined. The book was heavily edited, and the CD album which was supposed to accompany the book, wasn't released until 1988, and then on vinyl. This lead to many of the (best) songs being left off the record (like Storyville and Front Street), and there are several bootlegs circulating with alternate songs/versions from these sessions... The 1995 official album Lost Within The Halls Of Fame is a more true presentation of what I Used To Be An Animal was supposed to be. Here are the spoken word intros for the songs included, and more songs made it onto this release. Sadly, Lost... is the synth-based version of I Used... and thus isn't that great an album.