Geez, 40 years since this album was recorded from a live radio concert on WNEW in NYC.  I was just a kid back then, barely 8 years old and I’d never really heard of Elton John or knew any of his songs… it would be at least another two years before I began to listen to him regularly, and another year or so before I heard this album.  It’s not a classic by any means, although it does offer up some fine live versions of Can I Put You On?, Burn Down the Mission and Amoreena, but it is a milestone for me at a certain point in my life when I discovered the joy and insight of popular music.