Complete Rip-off
Parallax | 01/17/2007
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I really love the debut album by Tomorrow. It is charming, fun, adventurous, and loaded with great guitar playing. It is one of the best slices of psychedelic pop that you'll find anywhere. As a result, I was very excited when I heard that some rare, unreleased recordings of this short-lived band had emerged. I read that some of the material on the "Live and Unreleased, 1967" CD sounded a little rough but I thought the recordings would be worth hearing, even if they were less than perfect. After all, this was an awesome group and even a rough recording would be worth the price of a CD.
So, I ordered "Live and Unreleased, 1967" and was very disappointed by the low quality of the material that it contained. The first two tracks are fairly uninspired songs that were originally recorded for the film "Blow-up." Those are followed by two halfway decent songs that were recorded live for a radio broadcast. They are okay but they are nowhere near as good as the versions of those same songs that appear on the debut CD. Then, things get REALLY sketchy:
The last eight tracks are from a live concert that sound as if it was recorded with a boom box from the back of the hall. That distorted noise that sounds like a kazoo? It's the lead vocal recorded on inferior equipment. That tinny noise in the background? That's the band. I have read that this was a really wonderful concert. You would never know it from listening to this recording of it.
There is simply no reason to release this material on CD except to rip off fans. This wonderful band deserves better representation than "Live and Unreleased, 1967." Don't reward the sleazy record label for releasing this CD. They don't deserve your money.
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Some spicy leftovers
Socrates | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 05/17/2001
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Tomorrow is one of those bands that was instantly great, but lived for like, only a few seconds. They produced one album with great stuff, which leaves you wondering if there aren't some cool outtakes, live-recordings etc. left to be released. The Good news is, that in the case of tomorrow, apperantly there was some stuff like that. The bad news is that there wasn't a major undiscoverd treassure to be found like in the case of Jimi Hendrix. The live-recordings are of such bad quality that they sound more like heavy-mental than tasteful acid rock. Still their masterpiece "My White Bicycle" has the same hypnotising effect -live-, as the studio recording. Also the first four studio-tracks are rich and powerful. Especially "Three Jolly Little Dwarfs." A cheerful, humorous yet spicy piece, which is very rare in the mostly dark psychedelic rock of the late 1960's. So for fans of the genre this cd (with cool appropriate cover artwork) is still worth the money."
Tomorrow at "Christmas On Earth" 1967 (plus)
Henry R. Kujawa | "The Forbidden Zone" (Camden, NJ) | 11/22/2002
(3 out of 5 stars)
"This albums appears to be a reissue of THE 50 MINUTE TECHNICOLOR DREAM, which features Tomorrow performing live at the "Christmas On Earth" event in December '67, a show which, more or less, virtually marked the end of the "psychedelic" era. Keith West, Steve Howe, "Junior" Wood & "Twink" Adler were in top form, even if the equipment used to record the live show was seriously deficient (but then, who outside of the "folk" bands of the 60's ever had a really clear-sounding live album back then?).In addition, there's the 2 unused demos intended for the film BLOW UP, and 2 Top Gear Radio tracks (the original DJ having been replaced for overseas play...). All too TYPICAL of many slapdash reissues I've seen of late, 4 tracks from TECHNICOLOR DREAM are missing! Sure-- 3 of them have since turned up-- with better sound thanks to a remastering job-- on the 1999 EMI reissue of TOMORROW FEATURING KEITH WEST, but the alternate version of "Real Life Permanent Dream" on that disc was NOT the same take as the one on TECHNICOLOR DREAM.With all the confusion naturally there from artists joining and quitiing bands and breaking up and forming new ones, there's a number of releases related to early Howe & West-- must fans be subjected to even MORE confusing repackages to make things worse? (Can't you just tell I spent the last 3 days listening to this stuff before writing these words?)"
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1