| Spearhead: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 11/26/04 (Instant Live) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Michael Franti & Spearhead
Label: Instant Live Rec.
Category: Music
Buy New: $75.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 274892
Format: Box Set, Live
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 200 minutes
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 794465799523
EAN: 0794465799523
ASIN: B0009AHZY0
Publication Date: 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New and sealed! Not a promo or cutout! Ships First Class Domestic or International! Buy with confidence, always in stock, always ships within 24 hours Monday-Friday!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Intro | | • | Everybody Deserves Music | | • | Everybody Deserves Music (Continued) | | • | Yens, Euros, Dollars and Cents | | • | What I Be | | • | Pray for Grace | | • | Yell Fire | | • | Yell Fire (Continued) | | • | Is Love Enough? | | • | Clean Up Man | | • | Yes I Will | | • | People in the Middle |
Disc 2
| • | Oh My God | | • | Rock the Nation | | • | Stay Human | | • | (Audience) | | • | Never Seen a Place So High | | • | I'm Like a Bee | | • | (Words) | | • | Tolerance | | • | Bomb the World | | • | Sometimes |
Disc 3
| • | Never Too Late | | • | (Outro) |
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Product Description
Recorded Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA 11/26/04. His lyrics are rallying cries, calls to unify, declarations of protest. Illuminated by layers of rock, hip-hop, soul, reggae, and funk, Michael Franti and Spearhead groove through more than two hours of music for a captivated assembly at The Fillmore in San Francisco. If the times have been marked by tension and fear, Franti is unafraid to bring positivism to light, calling the audience to song with soaring vocals on Never too Late, spanning the political with grace on the Sly and Robbieproduced Bomb the World, and introducing, halfway through the second set, a Palestinian refugee he met while traveling through Iraq, Israel, and the West Bank (Hes never been to a concert before in his life.) Recorded on three CDs, this special new Michael Franti Instant Live release exemplifies Spearheads call of Power to the Peaceful. an astonishing accomplishment. Track list: Disc One: 1 Intro 2 Everyone Deserves Music 3 Everyone Deserves Music (cont.) 4 Yens, Euros, Dollars and Cents 5 What I Be 6 Pray For Grace 7 Yell Fire 8 Yell Fire (cont.) 9 Is Love Enough 10 Clean Up Man 11 Yes I Will 12 Disc 2: People in the Middle 1 Oh My God 2 Rock The Nation 3 Stay Human 4 (audience) 5 Never Seen a Place So High 6 IĀm Like a Bee 7 (words) 8 Tolerance 9 Bomb the World 10 Sometimes 11 Disc 3: Never Too Late 1 Never Too Late 2 (outro)
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| Customer Reviews:
 If you've ever been to a Spearhead concert... September 8, 2006
I have to say, I am a MAJOR Spearhead fan and of all the live albums I've heard this is my favorite, possibly because it's the only one with "Yens & Euros & Dollars & Sense" which I was disappointed was omitted on Yell Fire. Michael is a man who not only talks the talk, he walks the walk! If you have ever seen Michael and the boys live you will know that this set gives you a sense of what it is like to be there, and in his hometown of San Francisco, they shine. A Spearhead concert is a communal experience and that comes across loud and clear in this live CD! Only "Live in Alaske" comes close. If you love this band as much as I do, buy this set. You will not be disappointed!
Franti live June 25, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i had to respond primarily after reading another review of this GREAT album.
I believe it does a fantastic job capturing so much of the sprit Michael carries and transmits in his live shows. If you cannot find your way to a live show.....BUY this CD.
 This 3 CD Set Was An Immense Disappointment! April 2, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
After all the wonderful depth, soul, heart, warmth and magic of the studio albums, including and especially the home recorded Songs From The Front Porch, I was very excited to find out there was a live recording(at the time the only one I found)of Michael and the band.
Having listened to the studio music I could only imagine how much more real, immediate and soulful the experience of seeing and hearing them live would be. The next best thing, I thought, would be live recordings!
But was I sorely disappointed. In fact, I'm very sorry to say, I believe these were the most disappointing live recordings I've ever heard. How disappointing you might ask? Well, I bought this set back last year in the early fall. I played the first disc and thought, well, maybe the second one'll be better. When I finished listening to that one and was absolutely feeling ripped off, even angry, I avoided playing the third disc. Until just yesterday, March 31st, 2006. The LAST time I will play that disc or any of the other three.
I will be trying to sell to or trade for some other CDs at my local Hastings store, that's how dismal these recordings are to me.
Don't mistake me! I love Franti and Spearhead's studio recordings. Michael's one of the finest, most powerful song writers out there. Not to mention a truly great singer as well. He makes me feel what he's saying. And the music's always deep and connective.
But, at least on this set, all that deep soul just doesn't translate to the live experience. He spent too much time constantly trying to pump up the audience by shouting things like, "how ya feelin'?", etc. Many of the songs lacked the emotive depth that the studio recordings had. Often playing them faster and without the feeling the band imbued in the original tracks.
Sometimes they just went over the top and made the songs sound merely pedestrian. A far cry from the original recordings.
This doesn't mean I don't like Franti and the band. I just don't like this set of recordings. Some artists/bands are like that. I love the Stones in the studio, but dislike them in concert. Jagger pays real, genuine attention to the quality and depth of the in-studio recordings, whereas he's a buffoon in concert, making the songs sound like the commercial products they are when they play them in concert.
That's how I feel about this specific set of Franti/Spearhead live recordings. Now, I'm going to check out the other live ones to see if there's any improvement. We'll see how those sound(to be honest if Fillmore was any example I'm not very confident in the other ones).
But let me reassure anyone reading this opinion that you can bank on the Michael Franti & Spearhead studio recordings easily. They're truly musical masterpieces.
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