Title: Snowbird

Label: 2001

Date: January 29, 1971, The International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Sound Quality (Concert): * * * + / * * * * * +

Concerts Rating: * * * * / * * * * * +

Tracks: 1.2001 2.That's All Right (mama) 3.I Got A Woman 4.Love Me Tender 5.You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 6.Sweet Caroline 7.You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling 8.Polk Salad Annie 9.Band Introductions 10.Johnny B. Goode 11.Band Introductions 12.Something 13.Heartbreak Hotel 14.Blue Suede Shoes 15.Teddy Bear 16.Hound Dog 17.Snowbird 18.The Impossible Dream

Package: MThe package is very modest, with poor quality photos. However some shoots are really interesting, for example the photo on the backside with Elvis looking at his impersonator and laughing. One interesting shoot inside the booklet: Elvis driving out on a motorcycle being filmed on camera from one side and on photo camera from another side. In overall, the background with the sky is something very unattractive and not associating with Elvis music in any way.

Elvis: He is very close to the condition he was the day before (Fort Baxter's Lean, Mean and Kickin' Butt). After the kissing, he says: "I would like to tell everyone, who got kissed that I have a flu". The show crosses you like a train which goes forward while you are standing at the station and looking on it: very quick and very loud! El is still enjoying what he is doing.

Sound quality differs from song to song, there are some defects and pauses sometimes. Seems like the disc was combined from different tapes.

The title song - Snowbird, the only known version on soundboard at the moment, is a very funny rendition, including a few false-starts, where Elvis says: "What is it - America or some parts of China?"; "That's too slow, hold it. The snowbird is going like dead. The snowbird cuts up" Great item to have in the collection.

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