Otis Redding: "In Person At The Whiskey A Go Go" Vinyl LP (1968 ATCO SD 33-265)

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You are bidding on a Vinyl Stereo issue of Otis Redding’s 1968 album, “In Person Live At The Whiskey A Go Go.” This album was originally recorded live in 1966, and released in 1968 on ATCO Records. The copy for sale, as best we can tell, is an original from 1968. (SD-33-265).  This is a great live album, and you get to hear Otis Redding live in a small club! 

We purchased this item the decades ago, played it (and enjoyed it!), and it has been sitting in our home (vertically) for the last few decades. 

The LP is in VG++ condition, but there are some markings. There is wear around the LP cover, and there is wear on the edges and corners. There is an ATCO inner sleeve, with promos for the latest Atlantic and ATCO LPs, such as Buffalo Springfield, etc. (See photos).

Please remember that this album was well taken care of, but it was played as part of our record collection decades ago.  

This item has been stored at room temperature, in a smoke free home.  Please see photos of actual item being sold. 

Otis Redding: In Person At The Whiskey A Go Go  (Atco)

“This album, released posthumously, captured Otis Redding's show at the Whisky A Go Go from April of 1966 in Los Angeles. What is essential here was that it captured Otis Redding's sound in a small club with his own touring band, as opposed to his work on stage with Booker T. & the MG's -- an ideal band, to be sure, which is why they were sent over to Europe with him and why they were at Monterey with him a year later, but not the group that Redding normally worked on stage with. This album is closer to how Otis Redding sounded in the years coming up and working his way to the top, and the way that his original audience on the chitlin' circuit heard him. The singer and his band (including a pair of tenor saxes, a trombone, and four trumpets, with James Young, Ralph Stewart, and Elbert Woodson pounding out the rhythm on guitar, bass, and drums, respectively, go through roaring versions of "Respect," "I Can't Turn You Loose," "These Arms of Mine," "Pain in My Heart," "Satisfaction" and "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and four more, in Redding's only full-length recording in a small-scale setting. They may not have the musical elegance of Booker T. and company, but they create this intense, hypnotic sound that is spellbinding. The set itself lasts less than 40 minutes but the singer and his band are so energetic, that it doesn't feel short or lacking. This album was, in more ways than one, Redding's equivalent to Sam Cooke's Live At The Harlem Square Club, and just as essential”.

“This is like being given a chance to travel back in time and witness something exceptional. It's not the absolute tightest performances in general, but it's the intangible nature of when you hear it you know it. This is a special time in the evolution of Otis Redding. He's still really super humble (as he always was), but he knows he's got it whatever it is and he's stepping out front and center with "it" and this touring band is, perhaps, more sympathetic than, say, Booker T & The MG's who are so consummately perfect. So, here we have that special location and band that makes a glorious "petri dish" from which Otis grows outward in a spectacular bloom from. This is one of those other worldly lost "live albums" in the rock genre. No it's not perfect in an audiophile way but it delivers the goods 10X. Wow! Makes one only wonder what a few more years of Otis evolving may have been like. Regardless he proved his special place in the world of American Rock and Soul. The man is up there with anyone you can name and this album is unadulterated proof”.