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King's X fans have clamored for a true live album for years - most fans were underwhlemed with Live All Over the Place, which was recorded at several locations, and left out a lot of the stage banter and humor that is usually exhibited at their shows. Live and Live Some More catches the band in a curious place in their career. Dogman had just been released, and the band was portrayed by Atlantic Records to be a grunge group. Ironically, King's X influenced grunge bands such as Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam (which Jeff Ament freely admits), but their Beatles meets Black Sabbath sound was never quite grunge, never quite prog, and never quite "heavy" enough for many metal heads. Fresh off of their most successful albums, Faith Hope Love, and King's X, they perhaps are beginning to see the writing on the wall at Atlantic, and yet are still struggling to stay on top of their game, and capitalize on their new found success. 

Live and Live Some More  was recorded in Dallas on May 8, 1994, and has been remastered by Ty Tabor and Wally Farkas. The bootleg has been available to traders for years, but the sound here is cleaned up and is well worth the effort. "Complain" opens the show, and ironically, shows the effects of the editing - the vocal harmonies have been removed from one of the choruses. A track that is usually done toward the end of shows, "We Were Born to be Loved" is performed early, and is jaw dropping with its stop/start instrumental breaks. "Over My Head" features a crowd singalong, as well as one of Dug Pinnick's first rambling sermon/commentaries on how people should treat others, and be able to respect themselves for who they are. 

"Cigarettes" is brought to life by a blazing Ty Tabor guitar solo, while "Moanjam" contains an unrestrained joy lyrically and musically. "Shoes" has the crowd singing the first verse a capella before being joined by the band. Fans of the Dogman era should buy this disc immediately - nine of the seventeen tracks are from that album, and some of these haven't been performed live since that tour. This may not be the best King's X live recording out there, but it is one of the top five. Molken Music has a ton of material to work with - I'd love to save them release a show that has been widely circulated amongst traders. 

Brian A. Smith
29 May 2007