Live Bootleg (Resurrection Band album)

Live Bootleg is the first live album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1984. It was the band's first release for Sparrow Records, and also their first under the shortened moniker "Rez Band." Live Bootleg was the group's biggest selling album.[1]

Live Bootleg
Live album by
Released1984 (1984)
Recorded1983
VenueThe Odeum, Chicago, Illinois
GenreChristian rock
LabelSparrow
ProducerRez Band
Rez Band chronology
D.M.Z.
(1982)
Live Bootleg
(1984)
The Best of REZ: Music to Raise the Dead
(1984)

Recording history

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Recorded at the Odeum Arena in Chicago over two nights, October 21 and 22, 1983,[2] this album features a mixture of the band's most popular live tracks as well as two new songs: "Gameroom" and "Playground". The album also features the only time a song from one of the band's independent cassettes was ever re-recorded for one of their official releases ("Quite Enough").[citation needed] "Gameroom" continues the trend begun on D.M.Z. of directly addressing the concerns of a high school aged audience, and the album closes with an evangelistic message from Glenn Kaiser, which was typical of the band's live performances.

Steve Taylor was Rez Band's opening act for this concert.[3]

Track listing

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  1. "Military Man"
  2. "Gameroom"
  3. "Wendi's Rap"
  4. "Playground"
  5. "Medley" ("Waves," "Awaiting Your Reply," "Broken Promises," "Autograph," "City Streets")
  6. "White Noise"
  7. "Quite Enough"
  8. "Area 312"
  9. "Can't Stop Loving You"
  10. "Glenn's Rap"

Personnel

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Production

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  • Rez Band – producer
  • Phil Bonanno – engineer
  • Roger Heiss – engineer
  • Steve Hall – mastering

Further reading

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  • Schill, Brian (Summer 2007). "The Impossibility of Negation: A Theoretical Defense of "Cross-Over" Christian Rock". Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 16: 1. doi:10.3138/jrpc.16.1.001.

References

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