9:15 LIVE

First Pendragon album featuring the now classic line up of Barret - Nolan - Gee - Smith. And it shows. This early live album is a proof of how good they were from the start and promises a lot (which, after a little while, was fullfilled). At the time a live album seemed to be a little too soon, since the band had only a LP out, The Jewel. But now I treasure this CD as a good look at their first years and it's really interesting to hear how Pendragons's classic line up gels from the very beginning, and the songs are actually better sounding here then on The Jewel. 9:15 (the title refers to the time the show started) has a good production for its time and shows the band playing in front of a fanatical crowd. Those were the times! The addtional studio tracks (one in the orignal LP and two on the CD version) are ok, but they'd be much better if they were live versions of the same, since those songs appear on various best of CDs and early albums re-releases.