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A double CD with no DVD (unlike the First Barbarians release), a full concert of great songs with some nice stage banter/grunting from tourmaster Ron Wood. The tour was an ambitious one, and while financially unrewarding for Wood (he has retreated from solo touring after getting burned on this one) it was a neat piece of rock `n' roll history, with a neat band composing Ron Wood and Keith Richards (whom Wood names "Keith Rigid" during band introduction time) from the Stones, regular Stones sideman Bobby Keys, ex-Face Ian McLagan, Stanley Clarke on bass and Ziggy Modeliste on drums. A crack band rocking through songs from Wood's three solo albums of the time, including songs also by the Stones ("Sure The One You Need", "Honky Tonk Women", "Before They Make Me Run", and "Jumping Jack Flash". There's also a BB King song, the Stones-linked Robert Johnson song "Love In Vain", Arthur Conley's "Let's Go Steady" (it's mis-creditetd to Neil Sedaka, who wrote "Let's Go Steady Again"), and Bob Dylan's "Seven Days", which Wood recorded that year, playing his version before Dylan did. There's also the supreme funk of Freddy Scott's "Am I Grooving You?". The sound quality isn't the best, but the versions are very nice, especially "Mystifies Me".
BB King's "Rock Me Baby" is especially nice, as are "Lost And Lonely" and "Breathe On Me", which finishes off with a great jam that makes it the longest song on the album (10:24). "Come To Realise" is beautiful and soulful, one of the few good songs from his third release. "I Can Feel The Fire" is loud and savage, with blistering solos and sax at the end. "How's that for a rescue?"
Keith Richards sings a bunch of songs, including "Sure The One You Need", a Jagger/Richards composition that never made it to a Stones album (he laid it down on Ron Wood's first solo album, and here as well). He also sings "Let's Go Steady" and "Before They Make Me Run" (prefacing the song by saying "we never did play this live as the Stones, the Barbarians were kind enough to sort of let it all hang out and do it."), as well as numbers like Johnny Paycheck's country tear-jerker "Apartment No. 9" and the blues of Big Maceo Merriweather's "Worried Life Blues" from his Toronto Tapes; this concert's rendition of the latter is simply stunning!
Just a few songs cut across both Barbarians albums. These are "Am I Grooving You" (this release features the longest version of this song by far), I Can Feel The Fire", "Mystifies Me" and "Sure The One You Need". "Am I Groovin' You" howls and shakes, a shambolic masterpiece of glittering scum. Lovely, fuzzy and great, with a wicked Stanley Clarke bass solo six minutes in, throughout the rest of the song - wow!! The song blends effortlessly with "Seven Days", the song Dylan gave Wood. Nice version, man! Cool final song - "Jumping Jack Flash!!"
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