Date:  May, 1977 Venue:  Stanley Theater Grade:  C- Sound:  Original Source Total Running Time:  71 minutes 43 Seconds Source:  Audience Artwork:  Gypsy Eye

Track Listing:

1. Do You Know
2. Stealin'
3. Look At Yourself
4. Lady In Black
5. The Wizard
6. July Morning
7. Firefly
8. Sympathy
9. Who Needs Me
10. Easy Livin'
11. Gypsy
12. Sweet Lorraine

Lineup / Credits:  Mick Box (Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals) / John Lawton (Lead Vocals) / Ken Hensley (Keyboards, Guitar, Backing Vocals) / Trevor Bolder (Bass, Backing Vocals) / Lee Kerslake (Drums, Backing Vocals)

Comments:  

We enter the Lawton era of the history with a new vocalist and the addition of Trevor Bolder on bass.  With a new album Firefly hitting the charts, the bands set on this date included four songs from that album; Firefly, Do You Know, Sympathy and Who Needs Me.  Hensley gets to showcase more of his talents at this point, taking the lead vocals over on parts of the title track, plus doing Lady In Black in traditional style. 

Originally circulated as the silver disc bootleg titled Sympathy, the exact date of this recording isn't known, but presumed to be very early in May of 77.   The sound mix from the board had the keyboards up in the mix so it overshadowed other instruments at times.  We actually have two sources of this show, but neither are that much better then the other.

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