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February,
2001 Pick of the Month
Gene Eugene/Adam Again Tribute
Boxed Set
Artist: Adam Again/Various
Artists
Label: Millenium 8
Distribution
Length: 3 Disks |
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It was pretty much a given that,
whatever tribute the late Gene Eugene's friends cooked up for him at Cornerstone,
it would not be enough. Eugene accomplished far too much in his 15+
years in the industry to compress into a two-hour concert. Thus,
the multi-artist homage held at midnight on July 7 felt painfully insufficient,
and while artists like Riki Michele and Mike Roe delivered heart-stopping
vocal performances, questions abounded when the show was finished:
Why was it so short? Where were Terry Taylor, Michael J. Pritzl,
Scott Siletta, et al? Why did Mike Knott get five songs?
Forgive me, then, if I find
it hard to be satisfied with M8's three-disc coverage of the event.
It's not their fault, really: their recording of the actual tribute
show has excellent sound quality, they've included short snippets of interviews
with Eugene's friends, and they've even given us two other (rather poor
quality, but I'm not complaining) discs containing Adam Again's shows from
1995 and '97. As is typical of M8 products, the packaging is rather
poor, featuring a four-page booklet with impossibly small type and one
small photograph of the event, but I think the real problem here is that
the material isn't enough, and could never be enough.
Still, let us be thankful.
M8 has done a wonderful job with the materials they were given, and while
not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, this boxed set tribute helps
us, to some extent, to bid farewell to a true artist.
Michial Farmer 1/7/2001
DISC ONE (CORNERSTONE 2000
TRIBUTE)
1) Riki Michele -- Strobe
(Perfecta)
2) Riki Michele -- Dance
Around in Circles (Homeboys)
3) Derri Daughtery -- Worldwide
(Dig)
4) Steve Hindalong -- Hide
Away (Homeboys)
5) Mike Roe -- Deep (Dig)
6) Mike Roe -- Dig (Dig)
7) Mike Roe -- Stone (Perfecta)
8) Sim Wilson -- Don't Cry
(Perfecta)
9) Mike Knott -- Hopeless,
Etc. (Dig)
10) Mike Knott
-- It Is What It Is (What It Is) (Dig)
11) Mike Knott
-- Homeboys (Homeboys)
12) Mike Knott
-- Relapse (Perfecta)
13) Mike Knott
-- All You Lucky People (Perfecta)
DISC TWO (CORNERSTONE 1997)
1) Hopeless, Etc. (Dig)
2) It Is What It Is (What
It Is) (Dig)
3) Deep (Dig)
4) All You Lucky People
(Perfecta)
5) Strobe (Perfecta)
6) Stone (Perfecta)
7) Worldwide (Dig)
8) Dig (Dig)
9) Dance Around in Circles
(Homeboys)
10) Homeboys
(Homeboys)
11) River on
Fire (Dig)
12) So Long
(Dig)
CORNERSTONE 1995
1) Occam's Razor (Homeboys)
2) Dig (Dig)
3) Deep (Dig)
4) Beat Peculiar (Ten
Songs By Adam Again)
5) Dance Around in Circles
(Homeboys)
6) Ain't No Sunshine (Ten
Songs By Adam Again)
7) So Long (Dig)
8) Hidden, Hidden (Dig)
9) Stone (Perfecta)
10) It Is What
It Is (What It Is) (Dig)
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