Title: Memories From Kalamazoo (released in 2001)

Label: Vavavoom 0001

Date: April 26, 1977 Kalamazoo, Michigan, Wings Stadium, 8:30 PM

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

Concert Rating: * * / * * * * * +

Tracks: 1.Love Me 2.Fairytale 3.If You Love Me (Let Me Know) 4.You Gave Me A Mountain 5.Jailhouse Rock 6.O Sole Mio 7.It's Now Or Never 8.Big Boss Man 9.Heartbreak Hotel 10.Blue Suede Shoes 11.And I Love You So (false start) 12.And I Love You So 13.My Way

Package: The package is rather strange, in fact, we posses many different photos from this actual concert (and they are well-known and published), but only few of them were used inside the cover. Instead, the producers put there some photos from April 21 and April 28, 1977 shows. I can't really understand the reason for this.

Elvis: Well, what can I say? Poor, very poor show as usual for this spring 1977 tours, however some songs are quite listenable. For instance, You Gave Me A Mountain, Big Boss Man, And I Love You So are very good, not to say awesome. Elvis cancelled Fairytale after he missed the first lines and asked to do If You Love me Let Me Know. I think he was not in spirit to sing Fairytale and this mistake was just a pretext.

The way the sound engineer recorded this concert shows the attitude to the standard Elvis numbers - it was more a tradition than real knock-out rock'n'roll.

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