Gomez Live: Volume 1 is a digital download available on the band’s website. You get 15 live songs from their live show for the price of an average download. The quality is pretty good. They’re no drunken conversations drowning out the music and you don’t have to try to hear the music over the ambience of the crowd. You can hear the instruments pretty good and the vocals are strong. So, what I am saying is that it is not a crappy live download.
It captures the Gomez live sounds. I find there live show to be like U2’s, meaning that it is far superior to the album. I saw this show twice, once in Toronto and then in New York.
As much as like this download, it is not for everyone. It is not one of those live albums that is a thinly veiled greatest hits i.e. any live album from The Rolling Stones. There are some deep cuts and it excludes many of their hits. I would have really liked a live version of “Pieces of me” from their last studio release. This is also not their complete live set. It is abridged.
For the Gomez fan, this is a must have. I have always thought of Gomez as being the closest one is going to get to seeing The Beatles live. I say that, because they have three lead singers with different styles plus great harmonies. The band takes turns on who has the leading vocal from song to song.
Well, I think this is great release. I do like live recordings if you haven’t figured that one out yet.
awesome. i love gomez! in the sea of crap that is the music scene of the past decade, they're quality! But alas, nothing is the beatles. :) PBS
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