Will

I haven't heard the Need your love but can imagine. I'm not sure where but I have an 8 minute live Peter Green playing 'The Stumble' (must be a John Mayall album I'd guess) which has so many more levels than the recorded one on A Hard Road.

Clapton (who I used to like a lot) was much better live than recorded on album. I always thought they chose the safest cuts. I have much better playing than on his main stream albums from various things like Radio One and others. (Perhaps my favourite thing was at a Royal Albert Hall concert years ago where he played 'Ain't nobody's business' as an encore to a piano accompaniment and then shifted his gears up each time he played a solo - not on an album anywhere but so much better.

Albert Collins. Wow. Still the best player I ever saw live. Three or four notes and the place took off. Saw him with Buddy Guy, Robert Kray, Clapton and Jimmy Ray Vaughan and just astounding to me.

Live always seems to work better and has more flexibility and life to it. I saw Sally Barker with her Joni Mitchell Project a while back and I loved the live but found the CD a bit pedestrian.