Title: Get Down And Get With It

Label: Fort Baxter

Date: July 16, 1970

Sound Quality: * * * * * / * * * * * +

Rehearsal Rating: * * * * * - - / * * * * * +

Tracks: 1.Stagger Lee / Got My Mojo Working 2.I've Lost You 3.Stranger in the Crowd 4.The Next Step is Love 5.You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 6.Sweet Caroline 7.Yesterday 8.Hey Jude 9.I Can't Stop Loving You 10.It's Your Baby, You Rock It 11.Crying Time 12.Ghost Riders In The Sky 13.Runaway 14.It's Now or Never 15.Peter Gunn's Theme 16.Love Me 17.One Night 18.Alla' En El Rancho Grande 19.That's All Right 20.Twenty Days and Twenty Nights 21.Patch It Up 22.Cotton Fields 23.Sylvia 24.Stranger in the Crowd 25.How The Web Was Woven 26.I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

Package: Not good enough for such a release: two black and white photos inside and that's all. Shame on you Fort Baxter! You have master tapes but do not possess photos?!

Elvis: Only when it's rehearsal you can hear Elvis relaxed, only when it's rehearsal you can hear Elvis singing the songs he never sang on the concerts and finally only when the rehearsal is complete - you got it all together!

Highlights: I know that many people probably won't understand why sound rating is so high, when Elvis sings out of microphone? I'll tell you why: sound quality is not the microphone quality. This CD gives us the best of what is possible to give.

Review: The cover claims it is a full rehearsal, we can't surely say if it is (well, to be honest, we can say almost for sure that it isn't. In the "recent" BMG TTWII SE release an unreleased version of That's All Right Mama from this date was used). It's great anyway, though many songs are sung off-mike, while when you can hear the King, his voice is too loud. There is a following hypothesis on the matter: if you've seen TTWII you've surely heard Elvis saying that the microphone shocked him. Actually that scene was taken from another rehearsal (July 29), but it often happened during those days. So he decided to take another microphone and sing some songs into it. It was not recorded. So...

There are some great numbers, such as Alla' En El Rancho Grande, which is pretty funny, the bluesy That's All Right, the funny Next Step is Love which is sung as "The next step is sex", You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, which was stopped in the middle because of the mistakes and others. But anyway, I don't have much to write about it. You can hardly hear Elvis, but the rest of the musicians are well heard. It is recommended for collectors only.

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