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Wishbone Ash are one of the rock oddities of the last 40 years. Despite never having had a single hit everyone knows the name, and if not an actual fan (and over 40), the sleeve of the acclaimed "Argus" album featuring a warrior looking out over a rolling landscape. They have, however, a large fan base and many devotees which enables the band to tour successfully to this day. They have also built up a catalogue of classic tracks most of which are featured on this on this double live collection.

Initially formed in 1969, Wishbone Ash, the band underwent many personnel changes throughout the seventies and early eighties before reconnecting with Miles Copeland (their former manager.) He succeeded in re-uniting the four original members of Wishbone Ash to record again and the resulting album "Nouveau Calls" (a fairly irksome pun on the words "no vocals") saw Martin Turner, Andy Powell, Ted Turner and Steve Upton release an album together for the first time in nearly fifteen years! In February 1988, the foursome played live together for the first time since 1974.

The subsequent twenty years has seen Andy Powell carrying the torch for Wishbone Ash.
After the reunion tours of the late eighties and the following albums "Here To Hear" and "Strange Affair", Steve Upton had been the next to leave, but Powell, accompanied by a succession of talented players, has kept the flame burning. Wishbone Ash still releases exciting new albums and spends many weeks each year on tour, an on-going testament to a band that has never had a hit single and enjoyed its commercial peak nearly twenty-five years ago!

Disc One – Live in the Seventies

1.FRONT PAGE NEWS
2.PERSEPHONE
3.THE KING WILL COME
4.YOU SEE RED
5.FUBB
6.BLOWIN' FREE
7.ERRORS OF MY WAY
8.TIME WAS
9.WARRIOR
10.BAD WEATHER BLUES
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Disc Two – Live In The Eighties

1.LIVING PROOF
2.IN THE SKIN
3.NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS
4.UNDERGROUND
5.KEEPER OF THE LIGHT
6.WHY DON'T WE
7.CLOUSSEAU
8.CELL OF FAME
9.NUMBER THE BRAVE
10. PHOENIXx
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