Live: No More Fish Jokes

Live: No More Fish Jokes
Live: No More Fish Jokes
Live album by the Walter Trout Band
Released	May 17, 1993
Recorded	August 10, 1991 at Skanderborg Festival (Skanderborg, Denmark); December 17, 1992 at De Hanehof (Geleen, Netherlands);
Genre	Blues rock; electric blues;
Length	71:36
Label	Provogue
Producer	Walter Trout; Willie Korman; Charlie Watts;
Walter Trout solo chronology

Live: No More Fish Jokes is the first solo live album by American blues rock musician Walter Trout, credited to the Walter Trout Band. Released on May 17, 1993, by Provogue Records, it features nine tracks recorded in 1991 at the Skanderborg Festival in Denmark and three recorded in 1992 at De Hanehof in Geleen, Netherlands.

Reception

Commercial

Live: No More Fish Jokes charted in the Netherlands only, reaching number 63 on the Dutch Albums Chart.^[2]

Critical

Reviewing the 2014 vinyl reissue of the album for Classic Rock magazine, Michael Köhler praised several tracks on Live: No More Fish Jokes, describing "Dust My Broom" as "A brilliant turbo start", praising the performance of the band on "False Alarm", and hailing the "indestructible" finale of "Going Down".^[3] Sister publication Blues included the album at number 17 on its list of "23 Greatest Live Albums", with writer Jamie Hailstone calling it "Trout at his very best" and dubbing it his magnum opus.^[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Walter Trout, except where noted

*Live: No More Fish Jokes* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dust My Broom"	Robert Johnson	6:27
2.	"If You Just Try"		7:05
3.	"False Alarm"		5:34
4.	"Life in the Jungle"		6:23
5.	"Girl from the North Country"	Bob Dylan	8:10
6.	"Victor the Cajun"		6:12
7.	"Earrings on the Table"		1:40
8.	"Motivation of Love"		6:26
9.	"Playing with Gloves On"		4:02
10.	"The Love That We Once Knew"		6:28
11.	"Prisoner of a Dream"		6:13
12.	"Going Down"	Don Nix	6:56
Total length:			71:36

Personnel

Walter Trout Band

Walter Trout – vocals, guitar, production
Jimmy Trapp – bass
Frank Cotinola – drums on tracks 1–7, 11 and 12
Bernard Pershey – drums on tracks 8, 9 and 10
Danny "Mongo" Abrams – keyboards

Additional personnel

Charlie Watts – co-production, mixing
Willie Korman – co-production
Sven Thornsen – recording on tracks 1–7, 11 and 12
John Hull – recording on tracks 8, 9 and 10

Charts

Chart performance for *Live: No More Fish Jokes'*
Chart (1993)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)^[2]	63

References

^ ^a ^b "Live: No More Fish Jokes – Walter Trout, Walter Trout & His Band". AllMusic. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Discografie Walter Trout". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved June 5, 2024.
^ Köhler, Michael (May 27, 2014). "Walter Trout – Live: No More Fish Jokes 25th Anniversary Edition". Classic Rock. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
^ Hailstone, Jamie (August 18, 2014). "23 Greatest Live Albums". Blues. No. 15. p. 78. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2024.

External links

Live: No More Fish Jokes at Discogs (list of releases)

[allmusic-1] "Live: No More Fish Jokes – Walter Trout, Walter Trout & His Band". AllMusic. Retrieved June 5, 2024.

[NED-2] "Discografie Walter Trout". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved June 5, 2024.

[3] Köhler, Michael (May 27, 2014). "Walter Trout – Live: No More Fish Jokes 25th Anniversary Edition". Classic Rock. Retrieved June 5, 2024.

[4] Hailstone, Jamie (August 18, 2014). "23 Greatest Live Albums". Blues. No. 15. p. 78. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2024.

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