FÜNF ALIVE!
Five essential krautrock live albums
AMON DÜÜL II LIVE IN LONDON
UNITED ARTISTS, 1973
Recorded December 16, 1972 at Croydon Greyhound and released as a budget album, Live In London captures the Munich anarcho collective in remarkably clear stereo. This is peak Düül, rocking tight and hard on “Archangels Thunderbird” and “Soap Shop Rock”; advancing some choice Germano-wiggery on Falk-U Rogner’s synth-heavy “Improvisation” and the prog suite “Syntelman’s March Of The Roaring Seventies”. The sheer heaviness of “Eye Shaking King” and “Race From Here To Your Ears” bridges the hard rock of the Stooges and Black Sabbath with the Ramonesy punk future that still lay over the horizon.