INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE !! Renaissance - Ashes are burning live 1974

[@mikele5756]

I really loved the studio version because of the inclusion of the electric guitar at the end, but I have to say I am speechless after hearing this version. Annie's performance is absolutely brilliant. The musicianship is stellar. This has to be one of the best live performances I have ever seen or heard. This just confirms my feelings as to why they are my favorite band. Thank you for this.

[@johnnyallen5736]

Thanks!!!

[@ericanderson8886]

Annies voice just gives you chills, especially at the end. What a song.

[@jimreichel1466]

One of my favorite bands. Annie and Renaissance are in the middle of their “In Gratitude Farewell Tour“, which I have a ticket. Annie, at 77, has a 5 octave range. The only other vocalist I can think of with that range was Minnie Riperton with Rotary Connection.

[@andylinton2798]

That thing she does at 15:04 is astonishing! In fact the whole vocal, and all her vocals in all their songs, are incredible.

[@hifibrony]

Annie had one of the most remarkable vocal instruments of the second half of the 20th century. Allegedly a five-octave range, and I for one believe it.

[@fernandoroza6061]

Feels to me like some medieval Princess alone in some Tower singing 😌👍🎶

[@TheoZoffrok]

There are many, many bands and artists I never got to see in concert. Until about four years ago, Northern Lights was the only Renaissance song I knew. Now, they're probably the band I most wish I could have seen live, more than *any* other. That Carnegie Hall concert is the stuff of legend. Oh and yes, that's Jon Camp raising Cain on the bass guitar.

[@333wheeler]

Have seen another Live one of this and they change it up again with a massive bass solo type jam in the middle of it. Yes 1st few albums Jane Relf was the singer. She was good as well. She took a bit of upstaging which Annie sort of did when they were at the pinnacle .

[@Tsongkapa1]

She joined in 1971. The old lineup's material ended with Things ai Don't Understand on the album Turn of the Cards

[@Tsongkapa1]

I*

[@Grithron2]

She joined the band in 1971. Jim McCarty was still contributing a few songs after he left the performing line-up of the band, but everyone else from the pre-Annie era was already gone by Prologue. (I say that bearing in mind Dunford wasn't a fully-fledged member of the band until Ashes era).

[@gpreactions3194]

Thank you. Makes it a bit clearer for me x

[@Grithron2]

@@gpreactions3194 FWIW my favorite version of the song is the very long Albert Hall version from '77 (it's on KZbin). It has an entirely unique section in the first half where Annie "solos" over bass and drums, and, prior to that, a longer-than usual section of MD and the two Johns trading licks with Terry (who, this time, also gets a mini-solo).

[@Tsongkapa1]

She's lightning in a bottle.

[@hifibrony]

The bass riffs are fairly difficult, but well within the compass of an accomplished bassist. They're not Chris Squire or Jack Bruce level. John Tout's keyboards and Terry Sullivan's drumming are virtuoso level.

[@hempsellastro]

I did see them live in the mid-1970s and the feel was not too different from this studio performance, it was just an audience listening to (and enjoying) the ethereal music. So, it was much more like a classical music concert than a rock and roll gig. As a consequence, I think this is a band where less is lost with time, compared with many rock bands of the period where there the concerts had a special event feel to them that cannot be recaptured.