Originally Posted by
danman869
Ditto, ditto, ditto... even to the point that I also was going to comment that the cover photo on the 1970 release is actually in color and not black and white. I know there had to be good intentions by Motown for releasing such luxe packaging for the top star [oh, and those other two--LOL, j/k], but... the white box did not wear well [I've never run across a copy that wasn't dirty] and the box itself isn't very sturdy. BUT IN THE MOMENT, it was probably a significant investment in commemorating the final show[s] of DRATS and looked beautiful upon release/inside plastic. I just wish the cover photo was at least twice as big.
As for the contents, I agree with what everyone has said. There really weren't enough hits from their "long" career included. I had no problem with Diana's solo numbers being included, of course, but I think "Let The Sunshine In" was just too long. I can't remember whether Deke Richards ever told us something to this effect: was the rambling LTSI stitched together from multiple nights' performances or was that strictly from the final night? Either way, it just went on and on and on and... by the end, in spite of a couple of gems in the audience participation, most of it was mediocre singing that no fan really wants to hear. THE SAME for all the speeches from the Nevada senator and the Frontier management. It just went on and on and on and...without the visual aspect for all that talking, it lost something on vinyl. It's the kind of thing that I wish had stayed in the vault and then was only released on a subsequent CD release [or someday Expanded Edition--haha!]. Had there been any more musical performances [or even patter with the girls that wasn't TOO snarky!], it would have been better to include them over repeated choruses of a song that wasn't even their own and long speeches from people nobody remembers.
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