Renaissance - Academy of Music New York USA 1974 | Floppy Boot Stomp

 Renaissance - Academy of Music, New York on May 17, 1974

FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

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Source: FM Broadcast (WNEW - New York).

Sound Quality: Very good stereo mp3@320kbps.

Genre: Progressive rock, Folk.
Set: Full Set. 

Notes from original poster:
One of my all time favourite (officially released) live albums has to be 

Renaissance Live At Carnegie Hall from 1976. 

Despite the emergence of punk and the associated back lash to the 

'millionaire rock stars' and the music business excesses, somehow 

Renaissance seemed to sit outside of the fury.

For me it was simply a band that were both astonishing musicians 

and writers rather than posers and pretentious, and their live 

performances reflected this. Annie Haslam's five octave range, 

and the balanced use of a live orchestra just added to the bands credibility'

This is a recording originally broadcast live on WNEW from a

 concert at the Academy of Music, New York on the 17th May 1974. 

It makes a great companion to the subsequent Carnegie Hall album 

and the sound quality is crisp and clear.

Set List:

1. Introduction & music

2. Can You Understand

3. Black Flame

4. Carpet Of The Sun

5. Cold Is Being

6. Things I Don't Understand

7. Running Hard

8. Ashes Are Burning

9. Mother Russia

Comments:
Renaissance were accompanied by a 24 piece orchestra & conductor. 

Ashes Are Burning included Andy Powell (Wishbone Ash) on guitar 

and promoter Howard Stein on piano.

The Academy of Music was a theatre and opera house located at 

East 14th Street and Irving Place in Manhattan, New York City.

 The Academy was built in 1854 and seated approximately 1,500 people. 

It was rebuilt in 1866 after being destroyed by fire. It served as a venue

 for rock concerts in the 1970s, and in 1985 became the Palladium nightclub. 

The theatre was demolished by New York University and replaced by the 

present Palladium Residence Hall.

a subadoo special

Curiously underrated somehow this US radio broadcast is great stuff 

and highly worth collecting for Brit-Folk fans especially I guess 

but deserved of a wider audience IMHO