...And yet we can hope they had stopped earlier. It's unclear to me why this was considered as the best live record of all time --- but maybe many were inspired by it and it became kind of standard? It's mostly OK as background music. A bit of jazz, of soul, of rock; almost a precursor of yacht rock? Hard to keep the attention at a high level. A bit short and a bit less full of itself, it could have been good I guess?
It’s not that he’s now a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxer, it’s just that this album is dull. He takes what should be a thrilling set of soul and jazz songs and somehow turns it into a snooze fest. At no point does he seem to be engaging with the audience in any meaningful way and the whole thing just shambles on without ever grabbing me. This is a double album, and apparently only the first volume. I’ll take a pass on the rest.