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Go Go Live at the Capital Centre [I Hear Ya EP, 1988]
Visuals don't make it a mythic live music--certainly not visuals the much longer accompanying video has the chops to convey. Spirit does, a spirit the harmonica-synth version of E.U.'s signature "Go Ju Ju Go" captures more boisterously than most crowd recordings. So does a groove that translates with ingratiating naturalness to the sonic limitations of live recording. B+