New Barbarians - Buried Alive: Live in Maryland
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Artist: New BarbariansEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-10-23
Music Label: Wooden Records
Soundtracks:
- Sweet Little Rock N Roller
- Buried Alive
- F.U.C Her
- Mystifies Me
- Infekshun
- Rock Me Baby
- Sure The One You
- Lost & Lonely
- Love In Vain
- Breathe On Me
- Lets Go Steady
- Apartment No.9
- Honky Tonk Women
- Worried Life Blues
- I Can Feel The Fire
- Come To Realise
- Am I Grooving You?
- Seven Days
- Before They Make Me Run
- Jumping Jack Flash
Music reviews of Buried Alive: Live in Maryland
Music Review: Big and Dirty
Rating: 4 Stars
This 2-CD set documents an event remarkable in Rolling Stones history: The New Barbarians' series of arena shows during 1979 marked the first time any of the Rolling Stones toured outside the band. "Some Girls" had rejuvenated the Stones creatively the year before, and the '78 tour (documented on the essential Stones boot "Handsome Girls") itself revealed a lean, hungry Rolling Stones, minus the bells and whistles and inflatable phallus of 1975's "Tour Of The Americas". In the wake of the punks, The Rolling Stones stripped down for their 1978 trek to the five band members, plus Ron Wood's longtime Faces bandmate Ian McLagan and original sixth Stone Ian Stewart comprising the musically perfect, unobtrusive keyboard team.
The New Barbarians' lineup wasn't certain until the last minute (Neil Young, who coined the band's name, and Boz Scaggs had participated in rehearsals but later bowed out), leading to rumors that various superstars, including Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan (who had been hanging out with Wood and contributed a song to his new album), would make 'surprise' appearances at nearly every stop. The lineup finally coalesced, however, and the New Barbarians opened for the Stones themselves, in Canada, at the April 22, 1979 benefit for the blind Keith was sentenced to perform after his infamous Toronto Heroin bust, toured the U.S. April 23 through May 22, 1979, followed by a single show in the UK that August, the giant Knebworth festival, where they opened for Led Zeppelin. The Barbarians' tour coincided with the release of Wood's fourth solo album, "Gimme Some Neck", but this remarkable set documenting a Largo, Maryland show May 5th shows they had already forged a potent, if occasionally wobbly, sonic identity of their own - sort of a rich man's version of (Johnny Thunders') Heartbreakers, loose as the Faces, raw as any great garage band, and with their varied musical influences and backgrounds always on display - blues, country, funk, '50s rock 'n' roll - yet fully integrated into the collective. Recalled as "sloppy" and drug-addled, the New Barbs were, to a man, master musicians ready, willing, able, and big enough to put together something special; add prodigious amounts of chemical enhancement and the results are what you hear on this frequently blazing, powerful and only occasionally disheveled live set.
First, it has indeed been remastered and absolutely sounds better than the boot from this show I'm familiar with, issued by Swingin' Pig years ago. In fact the sound is remarkably immediate and powerful, except for the closing 'Jumping Jack Flash', which sounds like an fiery version sadly marred by the fact that it's taken from an inferior source. Also, both due to the intensity of the band's performance and because Ron Wood's voice is often hoarse, especially on the early tracks from disc 1 (nothing like the healthy sounding Wood who sang 'Ooh La La' just six years earlier), this album is most effective if you program a handful favorite tracks at a time. The second disc is tighter than the first, overall. The band, as noted, are all superstars: The Meters' Joseph Modeliste (drums) is a master of deep funk grooves, with a century of New Orleans' rhythms in his DNA. The Meters had recently broke up after a dozen years together, and 'Ziggy' sounds like he's thrilled to be aboard playing rock 'n' roll. The two Stones, Ron Wood and Keith Richards (guitars, vocals, pianos, etc) were still, clearly, close friends and partners; longtime Stone-in-law Bobby Keys (sax) is the perfect tenor man, with soul and grit in his tone, for any house party. Add Stanley Clarke, the technically astonishing jazz bassist, the perfectly complementary, marvelous piano and organ work from Ian McLagan, and the results indicate this ad-hoc combo make big, loud, dirty rock and roll together, with more than a dollop of hard funk in the grooves. It works about 80% of the time, and when it gets a little ragged you can still just bask in the grunge. Keith and Ron are really playing together (you know, "weaving") here, and that itself is wonderful to hear. And everybody seems to be having a great time.
Highlights include a long, powerful take on one of Wood's best songs, 'Breathe On Me'; Keith's soulful versions of 'Let's Go Steady' and a lovely Tammy Wynette song left off the "Emotional Rescue" album, 'Apartment Number Nine' (with Wood on pedal steel). The band rocks the blues on Maceo Merriweather's chestnut 'Worried Life Blues' (sung by Keith) and B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" (which Wood recorded with the Jeff Beck Group). A couple of cuts later we come to the best sixteen minutes of the whole set: a 10-minute 'Am I Groovin You' (trust me: play loud!) simply shreds anything else I've heard recently, as the band settle in to luxuriate in the impossibly dense, funky groove; midway through Stanley Clarke makes noises with his bass that would leave Bootsy Collins dazed with delight. This leads into a ferocious, driving version of 'Seven Days' that blows away the studio version and even the hot 1993 version Ron did with the MG's at Dylan's 30th anniversery. The guitars prod and sting like rusty barbed wire, without the edits or sometimes sterile mixes that mar some latter day live Stones sets (i.e. "Flashpoint")
This is the first release from Wood's Wooden label, which has already signed a couple of terrific new bands. Ron Wood promises more archival material: a CD/DVD set documenting the two July 1974 Kilburn concerts, Ron Wood's first solo gigs; Keith, who had just contributed mightily to Ron's solo debut album, was integral to those shows, too - one hears the Stones' guitarists performing together a full year before Wood's first Stones tour. Wooden Records isoff to a terrific start: The New Barbarians' "Buried Alive" is essential for any serious Stones fan.
Description of Buried Alive: Live in Maryland
Two CD set featuring the first official release of this legendary live performance, recorded in Maryland in 1979. The New Barbarians were a live-only band consisting of Rolling Stones members Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, Jazz great Stanley Clarke, former Faces/Small Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan, Bobby Keys and Ziggaboo Modeliste. 20 tracks including 'Sweet Little Rock 'N Roller', 'Love In Vain', 'Let's Go Steady', 'Before They Make Me Run', 'Jumping Jack Flash', 'Seven Days' and more. Includes an eight page full color booklet with extensive liner notes. Released on Ron Wood's Wooden Records label. 2006.Addled, staggering, bleary-eyed, wired: that's how Buried Alive: New Barbariand Live in Marylan sounds. It's the band's charm, the reason this recoding has been long sought in bootleg form. And the irony of the New Barbarians' 1979 tour should be lost on no one. Keith Richards's sentence for his 1977 heroin and cocaine bust in Toronto was two days of charity work. What'd he do? He got his guitar-slinging partner from the Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood, to bring this ad hoc band--boasting himself and Richards on guitars, Ziggy Modeliste on drums, Ian McLagan on keys, and Stanley Clarke on bass--to play two dates for the Canadian Institute for the Blind. Describing how the band warmed up for the tour, the unnamed liner notician for this long-sought set writes that "[m]ost days rehearsals went on until the drugs ran out." So penance for the drug bust came in the form of a gig by a band who rehearsed until they couldn't get high anymore. As for the New Barbarians' tunes, they're ramshackle and shouted and bellowed and brilliant. The sound on these discs is remarkable, blurry only to the point you'd expect, given the sodden nature of the band members. --Andrew Bartlett
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