Shorter, more concise songs brimming with verve and attitude make up most of this album. There's an endearing, 'cheap as chips' vibe to the whole proceedings. I was six, so I wouldn't really know for sure. It must have confounded the hell out of much of the 'denim and leather' NWOBHM crowd of the time. Sheer Greed, the debut album from Girl, landed slap-bang in the middle and ended up missing both parties. We've got the UK glam rock scene kicking off in the early 70s, and it's US equivalent arriving just over a decade later. ( AllMusic)Īlex Hayes: Man, the timing on this one couldn't have been any worse. The task would prove more elusive than the boys imagined, but Sheer Greed marks a promising start. Lewis and his mob rose to the occasion while they hoped for a stronger riff to insure the breakout hit that only seemed three chords away. "Chris Tsangarides' crisp, coherent production style kept Girl poised toward mainstream success without watering down the group's personality quotient. It mightn't offer quite as much youthful joy as the Leps, but there's definitely more of a transatlantic sound at play." ( Real Gone) "The early 80s had more than their fair share of UK bands harbouring obsessions with the USA (with Def Leppard's Hello America providing one of the best and most blatant examples), and Girl, too, looked overseas for influence on the superb 'Heartbreak America'. Oddly, with the influence so obvious on the two best songs on the record, probably the weakest number is their cover of Kiss’s Do You Love Me? It completely fails to capture the sleazy mood of the original. It’s probably the best song on the record, but followed closely by the straight-up hard rocker Doctor Doctor, a fist-pumping, head-bobbing affair that has a little more of Kiss than the glam bands. Note: to tie in with the careless bootleg theme of the album, the track "Draw the Line" is unlisted."Start off with the ripping opening track Hollywood Tease, which rocks with the intensity of Kiss’s heaviest 1970s material, but also has that air of something a little more artsy. But the album's high point has to be the aforementioned pair of long-lost tracks from 1973 - loose and groovy covers of the Yardbirds' "I Ain't Got You" and James Brown's "Mother Popcorn." Although the performances may lack the fire of the shorter Classics Live II set from 1988, Live Bootleg is an excellent representation of one of rock & roll's elite live acts. as well as key album tracks ("Sick as a Dog," "S.O.S.," etc.). Just about every classic is included - "Back in the Saddle," "Sweet Emotion," "Walk This Way," "Come Together," "Last Child," "Mama Kin," "Train Kept A'Rollin," etc.
tour (with the exception of a couple from 1973), while the album's packaging and title were a joke on all the poor-sounding, unauthorized live recordings that were in circulation at the time. All of the performances were taken from Tyler and company's 1977-1978 U.S. Unlike other live albums at the time, it's obvious that not a lot of overdubbing was involved to fix up the tracks, which results in a refreshingly authentic representation of Aerosmith at the group's most drugged-out and rocking. Since Aerosmith had become one of America's premier rock & roll concert attractions by 1978, it was only natural that an in-concert collection was issued that year, the double album, Live Bootleg.
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