''Live Sky'' is a
live concert album by American rock band
Crack the Sky
Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia, in the early 1970s. In 1975, ''Rolling Stone'' declared their first album the "debut album of the year", and in 1978, ''Rolling Stone Record Guide'' compared t ...
, released on LP in 1978 (see
1978 in music
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Events Janu ...
) by Lifesong Records (catalog #JZ 35620). In 1988, four of these recordings were appended to the CD release of ''
Live on WBAB'' ("Maybe I Can Fool Everybody (Tonight)", "Lighten Up McGraw", "She's a Dancer", "I Am the Walrus"). In 2006, six of these recordings (remixed and remastered) were included on ''
Alive and Kickin' Ass'', a live CD compiled from the same 1978 shows as ''Live Sky''. The version of "She's a Dancer" that appears on ''Live Sky'' was edited for length; the complete performance appears on ''Alive and Kickin' Ass''.
Track listing
Personnel
The band
*Rick Witkowski – Lead guitar
*Joe Macre – Bass guitar,
harmonies
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*Jim Griffiths – Lead guitar, harmonies
*Joey D'Amico – Drums, harmonies
*Vince DePaul – Keyboards
*Gary Lee Chappell – Lead vocals
Production
*Rob Stevens – Producer ("Maybe I Can Fool Everybody (Tonight)", "Surf City"), engineer
*David Hewitt – Engineer
*Nick Blagona – Engineer, recording supervisor
*Bruce Tergesen – Remixing ("Lighten Up McGraw", "She's a Dancer", "Ice", "I Am the Walrus")
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Terry Cashman
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— Executive producer
*Tommy West – Executive producer
Additional credits
*Recorded at the
Tower Theater outside
Philadelphia
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and
Agora Theatre in
Cleveland
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*Susan Reinhardt (AGI) — Design
*Bob Heimall (AGI) — Art direction
Crack the Sky was the opening act that night opening for Robert Palmer
Sources
*LP and CD liner notes
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Crack the Sky live albums
1978 live albums