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22: 470:. This track may also help date this recording since Pryor claims that his reason for recreating this scene was because he had just seen the movie and he couldn’t stop thinking about it. Assuming he saw the film during its original release, that would date this performance to the spring or summer of 1968. 287:
Sonically this album is uniformly consistent. There are no significant changes in the character of Pryor’s voice, the level of the volume, or the general sounds of the audience. On several different tracks there are problems with noises and distortion from the microphone which are all acoustically
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similar to each other. All of this suggests that the master tapes for this album were recorded during one set of performances with the same recording set up, the same engineer, and the same troublesome microphone. It is not, like some of Pryor’s unauthorized albums on
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also claims that Pryor authorized the release of this album on Tiger Lily Records. As most sources such as Robert Plante claim, however, the releases on Tiger Lily were usually unauthorized--Tiger Lily being, in fact, a tax scam operated by
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Two of the tracks on this album are taken from one of Pryor’s previously released albums. Tracks #1 and #7, "Arrested" and "Black Jack," on this album are the same as Tracks #8 and #14, "Cops/Line Up" and "Black Jack," on the
610: 369:. The fact that several of these tracks are copies of tracks which appeared on an album that Pryor had previously released also supports the notion that this album was not authorized. 427: 418: 409: 400: 391: 382: 345: 339: 327: 321: 1021: 51: 905: 816: 478:
According to the liner notes, this album was produced by Black-Rain Music, released on Tiger Lily Records (catalog number TL 14023), and distributed by
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Although this album was not released until 1976 it was probably made during Pryor’s "transitional period"—i.e. after he walked off the stage at the
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this calls into question the assertion of this album’s own notes which state that it was recorded at P.J.’s in
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Several of these tracks can also be connected with material Pryor will use on other albums.
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As stated earlier, in 2005, many of these tracks appeared on Pryor’s compilation album
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were recorded at The Redd Foxx Club in January 1971. Those notes from
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which Pryor will again recreate at the end of the track "Acid" from
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which does include detailed notes. According to the notes on
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is known to have been recorded at The Redd Foxx Club in
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Live album
Richard Pryor
P.J.'s
West Hollywood
Genre
Stand-up comedy
Label
Tiger Lily
Producer
Richard Pryor
...Is It Something I Said?
Bicentennial Nigger
Richard Pryor
P.J.'s
West Hollywood
Aladdin Hotel
Las Vegas
That Nigger's Crazy
Laff Records
Craps (After Hours)
Craps
Hollywood

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