Glenn Hughes - The Official Bootleg Series - Volume I

Glenn Hughes - The Official Bootleg Series - Volume I - 2018

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He’s been hailed “The Voice Of Rock”, and for good reason, as this 7 CD live box set ably testifies. With vocals soaked in blues and soul, Glenn Hughes has played with and fronted many legends of rock, including Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Hughes-Thrall, Trapeze and Black Country Communion.

When Glenn’s 1994 tour hit Japan, always a stronghold of Glenn fans, he was promoting the “From Now On…” album. Originally released as “Burning Japan Live”, the show features ‘The Liar’, ‘Lay My Body Down’ and the title track from the new “From Now On…” album, among an incendiary set that touches on some of the cream of Glenn’s back catalogue, including the Hughes-Thrall classics ‘Muscle And Blood’ and ‘I Got Your Number’, Trapeze’s ‘Coast To Coast’, plus a host of Purple classics, including ‘Lady Double Dealer’, ‘This Time Around’ and ‘Owed To ‘G’’.

The same tour took Glenn to the Alexandra Rock Teater venue in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 25, 1994. In a similar collection to the Japanese show on CD1, the appreciative Danish crowd on CD2 are treated to Deep Purple’s ‘Burn’, ‘Gettin’ Tighter’ and ‘You Keep On Moving’, as well as ‘Into The Void’ from the then current “From Now On…” album, co-written with guitarist Eric Anders Bojstedt and keyboard player Mic Michaeli, in a band that also featured Thomas Larsson on guitar, Ian Haugland on drums and John Levénon bass.

Disc 3 kicks off with four lively Deep Purple classics captured at the Gran Rex Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina in December 2003. The acoustic set from Sydney, Australia in June 2006 that completes Disc 3 sees Glenn delve back to his debut solo platter, “Play Me Out”, with the single ‘I Found A Woman’, followed by a unique cover of ‘Nights In White Satin’ from the 2006 CD “Music For The Divine”, plus a take of Procol Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’, an impassioned version of “Burn” album classic ‘Mistreated’, plus the title track to the album he was then promoting, “Soul Mover”.

Discs 4 and 5 kick off with Purple barnstormer ‘Stormbringer’ from a show at Circo Voador, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on October 28, 2007. As well as Purple cuts ‘Might Just Take Your Life’, ‘You Keep On Moving’ that finales with ‘Burn’, the set includes ‘Steppin’ On’ and ‘You Got Soul’ from “Music For The Divine”, ‘Don’t Let Me Bleed’, ‘Land Of The Livin’ (Wonderland)’ and the driving title track from “Soul Mover”, with a band featuring Glenn on vocals & bass guitar, JJ Marsh on guitar, Anders Olinder on keyboards and Matt Goom on drums.

Despite his huge talents as a musician and as a songwriter, the 80s were relatively quiet period for Glenn fans, something that was more than made up for in the much more prolific 90s and noughties. In a run of very powerful solo releases, “First Underground Nuclear Kitchen” is one of the best, and an album he was promoting when his 2010 solo tour hit Belgian venue Spirit of 66 in Verviers on October 16, 2010. Spread across Discs 6 and 7, the show kicks off with Hughes-Thrall’s ‘Muscle And Blood’ followed by Trapeze’s ‘Touch My Life’ and ‘Medusa’, the latter covered in 2010 by Black Country Communion. By this time Glenn had built up a very solid and impressive back catalogue of solo releases, and this Belgian show includes ‘Orion’ and ‘Don’t Let Me Bleed’ from 2005’s “Soul Mover”, ‘Can’t Stop The Flood’ from 2001’s “Building The Machine”, ‘You Kill Me’ from 1999’s “The Way It Is” and the title track to 1996’s “Addiction”. In a band featuring Anders Olinder on keyboards, Søren Anderson on guitar and Pontus Engborg on drums, no Glenn show would be complete without revisiting Deep Purple, represented here with ‘Sail Away’ originally from 1974’s “Burn”.

CD 1 - Burning Japan Live, Club Citta, Kawasaki, Japan May 24 & 25, 1994

01. Burn

02. The Liar

03. Lay My Body Down

05. From Now On

06. Into The Void

07. Still In Love With You

08. Coast To Coast

09. This Time Around

10. Owed To 'G'

11. Gettin' Tighter

12. You Keep On Moving

13. Lady Double Dealer

14. I Got Your Number

15. Stormbringer

CD 2 - Alexandra Rock Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark October 25 1994

16. Burn

17. The Liar

18. Muscle And Blood

19. Lay My Body Down

20. Into The Void

21. Still In Love With You / Your Love Is Like A Fire

22. Coast To Coast

23. This Time Around

24. Owed To 'G'

25. Gettin' Tighter

26. You Keep On Moving

27. Lady Double Dealer

28. I Got Your Number

CD 3 - Argentina 2003 / Australia 2006

29. Stormbringer

30. Mistreated

31. You Keep On Moving

32. Burn

33. Coast To Coast

34. I Found A Woman

35. This Time Around

36. Nights In White Satin

37. Soul Mover

38. A Whiter Shade Of Pale

39. Mistreated

40. You Keep On Moving

CD 4 - Circo Voador, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 28-10-2007 (PART 1)

41. Stormbringer

42. Might Just Take Your Life

43. Land Of The Livin'

44. Mistreated

45. You Got Soul

46. Don't Let Me Bleed

CD 5 - Circo Voador, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 28-10-2007 (PART 2)

47. Gettin' Tighter

48. Steppin' On

49. You Keep On Moving

50. Soul Mover

51. Burn

CD 6 - Spirit Of 66, Verviers, Belgium October 16, 2010 (PART 1)

52. Muscle And Blood

53. Touch My Life

54. Orion

55. Sail Away

56. Medusa

57. You Kill Me

58. Can't Stop The Flood

59. Crave

60. Don't Let Me Bleed

CD 7 - Spirit Of 66, Verviers, Belgium October 16, 2010 (PART 2)

61. Keepin' Time

62. Steppin' On

63. Soul Mover

64. Addiction

65. Burn

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