Larger Than Live

Larger Than Live was released by Keel on Gold Castle Records in 1989. The back cover divides the running order under two headings, "Large (All New)" and "Live": the first six tracks are new studio recordings and the last six were recorded on stage. The CD has twelve tracks, while the LP leaves out "Cold Day in Hell" and has eleven. The sleeve lists the band as Ron Keel on vocals, Scott Warren on keyboards, Dwain Miller on drums, Kenny Chaisson on bass and Tony Palmucci on guitar; Marc Ferrari is not among them, and Bryan Jay is also credited with lead guitar. The studio half was recorded at Sound City in Van Nuys and mixed at Promise Productions in Glendale, California. Ron Keel produced the album with Allen Isaacs, who also recorded and mixed the studio tracks. Ron Keel wrote "Evil Wicked Mean & Nasty" and "Die Fighting"; "Riding High" is credited to Miller, Chaisson, Ron Keel and Warren, "Dreams Are Not Enough" to Philip Wolfe and Ron Keel, and "So Many Good Ways to Be Bad" to Ron Keel and Steve Diamond. "Fool for a Pretty Face", written by Steve Marriott and Jerry Shirley, features Kevin DuBrow and Jaime St. James of Black 'N Blue on vocals. The album was mastered at Artisan Sound. The live half comes from two sold-out shows at the Roxy in Hollywood on 18 March 1989, captured by Westwood One's mobile recording unit. Two of its songs, "Hard as Hell" and "Private Lies", are marked "(new)" on the sleeve; the other four are "Rock and Roll Animal", "Rock'n Roll Outlaw", "The Right to Rock" and "Cold Day in Hell". Keel's next record was Keel VI: Back in Action in 1998, and its label, DeROCK Records, reissued Larger Than Live the same year on a CD made in Canada, with the same twelve tracks.