Golden Earring - Live – Remastered and Expanded (2CD + DVD)

Red Bullet

£21.58

Format: 2CD + DVD
Catalogue No.: RB66360
Barcode: 8712944663604
Release Date: 29 Jul 2022
Genre: Rock

Newly expanded and 45th anniversary edition of the first Golden Earring live album

Remastered from the original IBC Studios master tapes

Featuring 5 bonus tracks, including 3 previously unreleased recordings from the concert in Brugge in March 1977

Including a 30-page booklet with a new essay, memorabilia, and photos

Founded in 1961 by George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen, Dutch rock band Golden Earring (or Golden Earrings, until 1969) started off as a beatband, experimented as a psychedelic quartet and finally became a heavy rock group. Their ninth album Moontan (1973) hit the international album charts and is the band's most successful album in the United States, being the only Golden Earring album to be certified Gold by the RIAA, alongside the classic single “Radar Love”, that reached #10 on the Cash Box Top 100 and #13 in Billboard in the United States.

Live is the band’s first live (double) album released in 1977. With its long, spun-out versions of classic Golden Earring songs, this record is vastly different from other live registrations by the band. It's also one of only three albums featuring guitarist Eelco Gelling as a band member, adding a new dimension to the band's sound. Furthermore, this album emphasises Golden Earring's strong rhythm section on swinging songs like “Mad Love's Comin'” and “Radar Love”.

Live celebrates its 45th anniversary in 2022 and has been being remastered for the first time from the original IBC Studios master tapes.

It includes three bonus tracks recorded during the concert in March 1977 in Brugge and the double A-sided single “Radar Love/Just Like Vince Taylor” which was issued to promote the album and features edit versions of the respectable album tracks.

In addition, a DVD entitled Golden Earring Live features four tracks filmed at the IJsselhallen in Zwolle on 28th August 1977, which were broadcasted on Dutch television four weeks later. This footage has been restored and remastered from the original 16 mm film reels.

The 2LP edition of Live (remastered & expanded) has been released by Music On Vinyl on 10th June 2022.

This 2CD+DVD edition of Live is the second volume in a special series of remastered & expanded albums by Golden Earring, overseen by Red Bullet catalogue and band archivist Wouter Bessels.