It's got to be a different Tim right? Rock Around the World
Newspaper Articles - Issue 13
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L.A GETAWAY
-by Stephen Peeples
Your fleetfooted scribe really had to move this summer to keep up with the ridiculously large number of excellent live sets in town. Next summer I'm going to have ball bearings installed in my bootheels. Meanwhile, on with the highlights.
Al Stewart and his band rolled back to L.A. with a couple new guys in the lineup -- Robin Lamble has replaced Peter Robinson on bass, and Tim Tobias has been added on keyboards. Stewart's Universal Amphitheater sets were very well-received in spite of the venue's aforementioned volume restrictions. And though it's logistically difficult to use his "Roads To Moscow" slideshow, both the tune and the presentation were sorely missed. But a couple nice surprises made up for it -- new tunes like "Palace Of Versailles" (about the French Revolution) and "Ton Ton Macute" (about former Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier). Also, "You Should Have Listened To Al", a tune from the soon-to-be re-released Love Chronicles LP, originally released in England back in '69. The second LP in the double-pocket repackage is a collection of the best from his other three English albums, by the way.