PACKING THE ARENA

This "packing the arena" release comes in two versions. 1x 2CD release ("normal") and 1x 2 CD release (deluxe boxset with special contents, 100 copies made).

CD 1 time about 67.00 min

April 25 1976 (2:30 pm). Long Beach CA. Long Beach Arena

01. 2001 Theme 02. C. C. Rider 03. Got A Woman / Amen 04. Love Me 05. If You Love 06. You Gave Me A Mountain 07. All Shook Up 08. Teddy Bear /Don’t Be Cruel 09. Tryin’ To Get To You 10. America The Beautiful 11. Polk Salad Annie 12. Band Introductions /Solos 13. Hurt 14. And I Love You So 15. Burning Love 16. How Great Thou Art 17. Hound Dog 18. Funny How Time Slips Away 19. It’s Now Or Never 20. Can’t Help Falling In Love 21. Closing Vamp

CD 2 Time about 68,00 April 25 1976 (8:30 pm). Long Beach CA. Long Beach Arena
01. C. C. Rider 02. I Got A Woman /Amen 03. Love Me 04. If You Love Me 05. You Gave Me A Mountain 06. All Shook Up 07. Teddy Bear / Don’t Be Cruel 08. Tryin’ To Get To You 09. My Way 10. Polk Salad Annie 11. Band Introductions / Solos 12. Hurt 13. And I Love You So 14. America The Beautiful 15. Burning Love 16. Help Me (+ 1 false start) 17. How Great Thou Art 18. It’s Now Or Never /Elvis introduces The Eagles 19. Funny How Time Slips Away 20. Hound Dog 21. Blue Suede Shoes 22. Can’t Help Falling In Love 23. Closing Vamp

Note from the producers:

The MxF label will release soon its third special product called “Packing the Arena'' featuring both the shows performed from Elvis in Long Beach CA, Long Beach Arena on April 25, 1976. The 2.30 PM show is previously unreleased, while the 8.30 PM show has been previously released on CD ("California Wave” on Memory Records in 2009). This show is presented in very improved audio-quality, so, we believe it is the right time for a proper re-release. 

The sound is very good for an ambient recording, considering that this kind of recording is coming from a big hall not the intimate Las Vegas showroom. We have on our hands the original mono tapes of extremely good quality enabling us to carry out a simple re-mastering work, concentrating on the reduction of noise trying to achieve a more clear sound balancing the channel and put at the right speed the tape. The result a pretty dynamic tapes with a great definition of the background music and for sure you can live the atmosphere of a Elvis’ concert in the seventy.

This is the third special product for this label, this new double set will be housed in a deluxe large four panels digipack (20 cm), containing a 12 page booklet with focus and details on the tour shows, including a collection of live photographs, newspaperclippings and memorabilia plus a high quality glossy 135 gram paper poster of 40x40 cm size + an high glossy quality paper art card ( 20x20 cm).

The single CD of 400 copies will be presented with four different sleeves variation, the same for the poster too. All the copies are handnumbered and individually sealed. This is limited handnumbered 400 copies like the previous special products, will be presented a 100 copies deluxe edition with exclusive contents.

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I'm not a fan of live concerts that are recorded from the audience (with a few exceptions). 

You read a lot of beautiful words from the producers of this CD box. Nevertheless, there's NOT one release from the MxF label that has descent sound. Judge for your self at:http://www.elvisoncd.com/EIGENECD_a-z/import/labellist.htm and search for MxF label.