Live at the Paramount

For the 2011 Nirvana video album, see Live at the Paramount (video).
Live at the Paramount
Live album by The Guess Who
Released August 1972
Recorded May 22, 1972, Paramount Theater, Seattle, Washington
Genre Rock
Length 48:32
Label Nimbus 9 (Canada & U.K.)
RCA (U.S.)
Buddha (re-release)
Producer Nimbus Nine
The Guess Who chronology
Wild One
(1972)		 Live at the Paramount
(1972)		 Artificial Paradise
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic - [1]
Rolling Stone - (favorable)[2]

Live at the Paramount was the first live album released by Canadian rock group, The Guess Who. It would be their only live album until their reunion in 1984. It was recorded live on May 22, 1972 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington. The 2000 re-release included bonus tracks from the same show which were not included on the original pressing like "These Eyes" and "No Time".

Contents

Track listing

Original and 1st Release

Side One

  1. "Albert Flasher" (Burton Cummings) - 2:59
  2. "New Mother Nature" (Cummings) - 4:26
  3. "Glace Bay Blues" (Blair MacLean, Gary MacLean, Don McDougall) - 3:19
  4. "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" (Cummings, Kurt Winter) - 6:52
  5. "Pain Train" (Cummings, Winter) - 7:00

Side Two

  1. "American Woman" (Randy Bachman, Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson) - 16:53
  2. "Truckin' Off Across the Sky" (Cummings, Kale, McDougal, Peterson, Winter) - 7:21

2000 Buddha Re-Release

  1. "Pain Train" - 7:00
  2. "Albert Flasher" - 2:59
  3. "New Mother Nature" - 4:26
  4. "Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" - 6:52
  5. "Rain Dance" (Cummings, Winter) - 2:53
  6. "These Eyes" (Bachman, Cummings) - 4:29
  7. "Glace Bay Blues" - 3:19
  8. "Sour Suite" (Cummings) - 3:58
  9. "Hand Me Down World" (Winter) - 3:53
  10. "American Woman" - 16:53
  11. "Truckin' Off Across the Sky" - 7:21
  12. "Share the Land" (Cummings) - 4:46
  13. "No Time" (Bachman, Cummings) - 6:06

Sources

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. "The Guess Who — Live at the Paramount". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r8728. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
  2. ^ Niester, Alan (12 Oct, 1972). "The Guess Who — Live at the Paramount". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theguesswho/albums/album/114078/review/5942017/live_at_the_paramount. Retrieved 2009-10-11. 
The Guess Who
Studio albums
Shakin' All Over · Hey Ho (What You Do To Me) · It's Time · Wheatfield Soul · Canned Wheat · American Woman · Share the Land · So Long, Bannatyne · Rockin' · Artificial Paradise · #10 · Road Food · Flavours · Power in the Music · Guess Who's Back · All This for a Song · Now and Not Then · Liberty
Live albums
Live at the Paramount · Together Again · The Best of the Guess Who Live · The Spirit Lives On · Down the Road · Running Back Thru Canada · The Best of Running Back Thru Canada · Extended Versions: The Encore Collection
Compilations
Singles
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