Dreaming of the Masters

There was an urgency we heard during the 1984 performance of Nuclear War at Atlanta's Moonshadow Tavern that's belied by the ironically laid-back studio version.  That urgency can be heard in this live version from Paris in 1983.

Interestingly, Sun Ra and the Arkestra achieve a high level of intensity in this live recording without using the profane expletive ("it's a motherfucker, don't you know?") that characterizes the studio version. They definitely used it during the Atlanta performance at the Moonshadow a year later.