BBC1 Radio Broadcast

This is a live BBC 1 radio broadcast from 1973. It has 10 songs and is about 55 minutes. Most of the songs are around 4 to 5 minutes, except the first and last track that are 9 minutes each. The sound quality is OK but not great. It has that head banger live quaility to it. There is only a little audience clapping at the beginning and end of each track.

Nazareth is a heavy metal band from Scotland. They had a couple of hit songs when heavy metal was big in the seventies, but they never really made it big. They always did a very nice version of Morning Dew.

This album doesn't really contain any hits. I found the playing to be mediocre. There are a couple of ballads that are nice (every heavy album has to have one or two ballads). But the only track I really liked was Morning Dew.

To calibrate, I am not a huge heavy metal fan. The hardest I get is Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin. So, someone with a better appreciation for the heavy metal art form may like this better than I do.

Classic early live set.

This 1973 BBC broadcast captures Nazareth right before their star rose with the release of their 3rd album, Razamanaz. The sound quality is pretty good for a 30+ year old recording and it shows the band in good shape. This was long before they added extra musicians to flesh out their sound onstage, so it features the classic, original four piece line-up. While it's true there are moments when Manny Charleton's voice is a little raw, it's a great document of a great band. One really for fans only though. Other should stick to their later live albums, with more hits and a little more overall polish.