Roy Orbison And Friends – A Black And White Night Live

What a great pressing of a super show! It blows in tour face, like you were sitting in the first Row. Clear dynamics, great punch bass!

Incredible sound quality on this. Sounds like you’re sitting right in front of the band as it plays clear, clean and flawless. I still can’t believe he’s been gone since 1988 and most shocking, was only 52 when he passed. This pressing does not have tracks 6 & 7 on Side A that you’ll see on other versions.

got an original promo copy, sounds great all the way through, glad this is the one where the band and his vocal's are balanced, and not pronounced for vocals as the 30 yr remaster supposedly is. The original has great musicality, clarity and has the warmth of an original show. Quite delighted!

Don't get confused by the page heading brief description: Apart of being a reissue, this album is a deep remaster of the original Orbison's B&W Night mighty concert.

I say "deep remaster" because there is an absolute, clear reorientation in the way the concert is sonically presented: Whereas in the original version Mr. Orbison was at the same sonic level than the band, with a rich presentation of all the components playing more or less equally, in this issue the focus is clearly on Roy's voice, omnipresent over the soundstage with puntual emphasis in individual instruments, depending on the song or moment. The public presence is now less explicit than in the original issue.

Regarding the new tracks, since this release is recorded on two discs there's room for adding songs that was impossible to include in the original, single-disk version. In that sense, the addition of Blue Angel, Claudette or a short, additional version of Pretty Woman is more than welcome (personally I find Blue Angel fantastic).

Last but not least, recording and pressing quality: About recording, and being exposed objectivelly how this remaster has changed regarding the original, the record sound is fantastic (no compression, no distortion, nothing to say agains it). However, the pressing is not so good: though it arrived in perfect aesthetical conditions, my copy presents punctual noise always in the same tracks, same instant, only on the left channel. This is the same problem, though not so serious, as that described by some owners (including me) of the Legacy 2018 reissue of Miles Davis Kind of Blue. Curiously, Legacy is the same company publishing this record, presenting the same problem. This is the reason why I don't set five stars to this record.

Quiet, no cracks or pops with my copy. Its never sounded better.