Kerrang review of Living Colour Live at CBGB's 19/12/89

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Proof that not all Funk Metal sucked

Come the late 80's, heavy metal was easy to categorise either you
were a glammed-up hair rocker, or a thrash metal titan. Then Living
Colour emerged with a bold third way that blended metal, funk, rap
and jazz (along with a bit of social commentary). In 1989, flushed
with the success of their classic debut, `Vivid', and a Rolling
s=Stones stadium tour, the group returned to their birthplace, New
York's CBGB's, for a surprise gig. Mixing favourites with tracks
that would appear a year later on `Times Up' Living Colour are on
fire throughout, saluing their roots with a fierce cover of the Bad
Brains' Sailin On',as well as such RATM prototypes as `Cult of
Personality' and `Pride'.

Down Load Cult of Personality
For Fans of RATM, Bad Brains

Kerrang reviewer Greg Prato
thanks darren