Black Flag's first live album was recorded at just the right time, in the highly proficient year that saw the release of three studio albums which forms the basis for this performance, recorded before the latter two had even been released. The sound quality is similarly perfect: nicely raw and unpolished, but clear enough that each instrument can be audibly discerned, while keeping the distinctive crunch of Greg Ginn's guitar. At seventy-two minutes this is a generous and full performance, and an easy substitute for buying the studio albums themselves, particularly if you were turned off by the experimental tendencies of 'My War' and 'Family Man' that saw ...  Read the complete review