This is the only official live album from the original Misfits and contains tracks recorded at shows in San Francisco and New York in 1981, mainly consisting of material from the Walk Among Us era.

A couple of things become evident pretty quickly on what kind of live band The Misfits were. From this album and live video bootlegs I've seen, I can say The Misfits were a band almost unmatched in their own and the audiences intensity creating a whirlwind of flying bodies, while Glenn rolled around howling like a maniac and brothers Jerry Only and Doyle pounded their guitars into oblivian.

Musically, live, the band as musicians are some of the sloppiest and crudest out there. Only's bass playing is all over the place and Doyle's guitar is barely in tune or playing the right chords. Doyle even manages to completey screw-up any and all solos. Even the solo in "We Are 138", which only consists of a whopping 3 notes (none of which he plays by the way), is mutilated beyond recognition.

So without actually being there and experiencing the visual aura of the band, what's really here to recommend? Well, like the finest B-movie that's "so bad, it's good", this is a highly enjoyable listen - if only for how terrible a live album this really is. Like a B-movie, this has horrible production (sounding ultra cruddy), lousy editing (you can easily tell this was a cut and paste affair) and substituting for the inane dialogue which usually accompanies B-movies is some of the the funniest, cheesiest stage banter in many a moon ("We gotta tune up, we pound these f**kin' guitars like jackhammers. Whatta ya think we're lightweights?"). And to top it off you get a bizarre-o cameo that makes no sense at all when Henry Rollins (of Black Flag at the time) shows up to add some misplaced growling and random grunts to closing song "We Are 138". (Derek Carlson, 2004)

Produced By: The Misfits.