GROWING UP LIVE

This double album captures the excitement and great music and sound that was this tour in 1982--a concert that I enjoyed so much I attended them twice. The current studio album on parade at the time was PG's fourth eponymously titled solo album which came with the sticker title of "Security" on it when I bought it the week it came out. Though Tony and Peter are always the focal points of my attention in PG concerts, Larry Fast and David Rhodes were also engaging and entertaining. The double album (and disc) was always the way to go as that captured most of the concert's highlights. At the time, the sound was one of the best quality engineered concert albums I'd ever heard--which was nice since my memory of the concerts was of great sound as well--and they managed this while still including crowd response (which is pretty amazing).

Sides One, Three and Four were my favorites as I was never very fond of most of the songs from "II" ("Scratches"). I always thought he should have included more songs from his wonderful debut album (besides the requisite "Solsbury HIll"), but was in love with "Security" at the time, so I was (am) very happy with the inclusion of so many songs from that album. (Opening with "Rhythm of the Heat" and the Ekome Dance Troupe was incredible.)

A five star masterpiece and wonderful capture of a great concert tour.