Live At The Marquee/Don't Point Your Finger

Putting the first two Nine Below Zero LPs together in a 2CD package was a brilliant idea! Both albums are stellar, and now you get them in a single package. My only complaint is it would have been very nice to have included their debut EP as bonus tracks, but I suppose there may have been some copyright/licensing issues preventing that. This is high energy rock-blues at its finest. Nine Below Zero brilliantly infused the power of punk into rock-blues giving them a J. Geils Band on steroids sound. Good luck trying to stand still while listening to these discs!!

This band is one of the most energetic bands ever. The harp player is amazing, think Poppa but not as 'samey'! The guitar is rapid fire the vocals furious! Love these guys

Live at the Marquee is one of those albums that totally had me from the first listen and I've been trying to track it down for about 30 years. Was very happy to find it here, and it still sounds great. Dennis Greaves is an underrated band leader and his blues playing is right up there - full of tension and soul. His songwriting is pretty good too, and that comes out loud and clear on Don't Point Your Finger, a studio LP. This is a solid collection of songs, but isn't nearly as bluesy or intense as the Marquee disk.The live set is what I wanted, and totally worth it if you like a high energy mix of pub rock, Chicago blues and uptempo R&B. Great energy, very tight playing, and a devoted audience that is totally locked into every song. It's great to hear live recordings where the rapport between the band and the fans is so strong - it sure isn't like that today. If you don't know NBZ, just think of them as a UK version of the J. Geils Band, and the parallels are more than obvious in the band's makeup and their set list. So, if you liked Full House, you'll love Live at the Marquee. I think Magic Dick is a better harp player, and Peter Wolf is a more dynamic singer, but I'll take Dennis Greaves's guitar playing over J Geils any day. Whatever - if you like ths kind of music you should definitely have both albums in your collection!

Lee Brilleaux singer and founder of Canvey Island legends Doctor Feelgood once describe British RnB as "Four men in tight 2 piece suits playing soul and blues songs really fast".That's the essence of the Live at the Marquee album. Live albums rarely work unless you were there. Live at the Marquee makes you feel like you are there.Twenty nine years on this is still a major bench mark for British RnB.

If you think this is anything, I believe you should check out the guys who do this kind of stuff the best: The J. Geils Band.In fact Nine Below Zero are doing some of the same material as the J. Geils Band on this album, but they just don't pull it off.It's the constant harmonica wailing in the background that people are picking up on, and that's what makes these guys different than most "blues bands" these days. However, that's exactly what the J. Geils Band had with the supreme harp-meister, Magic Dick.Anything Nine Below Zero can do, the J. Geils Band did way better---and they played like they OWNED IT, baby.Nine Below Zero's singer sounds like he has some sort of speech defect, too. It gets irritating after awhile, and it's hard to listen to. The vocals being the main communicator with the auduence should dictate someone with a more agreeable voice, but I know very well how hard it is to put a band together. Sometimes you don't have much of a choice, and it may be more important that the vocalist gets along with everyone in the band rather that solely what he sounds like.The Nine Below guys ARE doing the correct form of music for right now, since rock and roll has all but disappeared, but for me, it takes more than that. The average occasional club-goer doesn't know the difference these days, so maybe that's how these guys are hanging on.In any case, I can listen to J. Geils do any of this stuff and it makes me feel like partying. This Nine Below album just makes me feel like getting it over with.Sorry, guys.

got this for my husband and he loves it if you like this band of course or bands similar to them

SERIOUSLY GOOD BAND AND STILL GOING STRONG

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Ich hatte die LPs aber irgendwann sind mir NBZ in Vergessenheit geraten. Der Kauf von Dr. Feelgoods All through the city hat Lust auf mehr gemacht und mir sind NBZ wieder eingefallen. Und siehe da der schnelle Rythm'n'Blues der Band weiß auch heute noch zu überzeugen, eigentlich wie damals. Die Jungs gehen ab auch wenn sie musikalisch keine Perfektionisten sind, sorgen für gute Laune. Auf der Live CD man riecht förmlich abgestandes Lager Bier und Schweiß. So muss ehrliche Musik klingen, die einem ganz schnell den Radiobrei aus den Ohren bläßt. Als nächstes müssen wohl The Inmates (nach)gekauft werden...