Editing Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners

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{{Infobox album|
| name       = Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
| type       = [[Live album]]
| artist     = [[Rod Stewart]]/[[Faces (band)|Faces]]
| cover      = Coast to coast....jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 10 January 1974<ref name="gray-37"/>
| recorded   = 17 October 1973 at Anaheim Arena (Anaheim, CA)
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Rock & roll]], [[boogie rock]], [[blues-rock]]
| length     = 49:48
| label      = [[Mercury Records|Mercury]] <small>(U.S. LP version, SRM 1-697)</small><br />[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]] <small>(U.S. cassettes/cartridges, M8/M5-2752)</small>
| producer   = Faces
| prev_title = [[Ooh La La (Faces album)|Ooh La La]]
| prev_year  = 1973
| next_title = [[Snakes And Ladders / The Best of Faces]]
| next_year  = 1976
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r19085|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2Score = C−<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|accessdate=13 March 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
}}

'''''Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners''''' is a 1974 [[live album]] credited to [[Rod Stewart]]/[[Faces (band)|Faces]].<ref name="gray-37"/> Stewart's practice was not giving concerts as a solo act at the time, but rather appearing jointly with the Faces, thus the dual crediting.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}

== History ==
The album presents only three songs from the previous albums by the Faces, while presenting six from Stewart's solo releases. Two previously unreleased songs were a cover of "[[I Wish It Would Rain]]", originally recorded by [[The Temptations]],and  [[John Lennon]]'s "[[Jealous Guy]]".

The performance was recorded with new Faces bassist [[Tetsu Yamauchi]], replacing [[Ronnie Lane]], who had left soon after the release of ''[[Ooh La La (Faces album)|Ooh La La]]'', fed up at the group increasingly being presented as Stewart's backing band. ''Coast to Coast'' was recorded live on 17 October 1973 at the [[Anaheim Convention Center]] and was mixed at Island Studios in [[London]].<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners |title-link=Album Title |first= |last= |others=Rod Stewart/Faces |date=1973 |page=(Inner sleeve) |type=LP |publisher=Mercury Records |id= |location=}}</ref>

In an unusual arrangement, LP versions of the album were issued in the United States by [[Mercury Records]] (which at the time issued Stewart's solo albums), while cassette and 8-track configurations were issued by [[Warner Bros. Records]],<ref name="gray-37">{{cite book | title=Rod Stewart: The Visual Documentary | first= John |last=Gray | year=1992 | publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] | location=London | isbn=0-7119-2906-8 | page=37}}</ref> the Faces' former label—and with whom Stewart would sign as a solo artist following the Faces' demise.

The cassette and 8-track versions also include an extra track - [[(I Know) I'm Losing You]] ([[Norman Whitfield]], [[Edward Holland, Jr.]], [[Cornelius Grant]]).

The back cover photo is actually the Old Boston Garden taken on May 2, 1973.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}

Long out of print in the United States, ''Coast to Coast'' is only available as an import from Japan. The Faces would disband within a year and a half of the album's release.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}

The crowd noise that plays behind the opening of [[David Bowie]]'s [[Diamond Dogs]] was taken from the opening track [[It's All Over Now]]. Stewart can be heard saying "Hey" on the Bowie track.<ref>[https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/diamond-dogs-david-bowie-song-story Diamond Dogs: David Bowie's "Pre-Punk" Gang Song Explained]</ref>

==Reception==
In [[The Pittsburgh Press]], critic Pete Bishop termed the album "50 disappointingly dull minutes" during which "nothing really excites."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bishop |first1=Pete |title='Overtures' an Album for Diehards Only |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oBsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E5YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2210%2C1056929 |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=6 January 1974}}</ref>  

== Track listing ==
'''Side one'''
# "[[It's All Over Now]]" ([[Bobby Womack]], Shirley Womack) - 4:38
# "[[Cut Across Shorty]]" (Wayne Walker, [[Marijohn Wilkin]]) - 3:45
# "Too Bad" / "Every Picture Tells a Story" ([[Rod Stewart]], [[Ronnie Wood]]) - 7:34
# "[[Angel (Jimi Hendrix song)|Angel]]" ([[Jimi Hendrix]]) - 4:28
# "[[Stay with Me (Faces song)|Stay With Me]]" (Stewart, Wood) - 4:50
'''Side two'''
# "[[I Wish It Would Rain]]" ([[Roger Penzabene]], [[Barrett Strong]], [[Norman Whitfield]]) - 4:20
# "[[I'd Rather Go Blind]]" ([[Billy Foster]], [[Ellington Jordan]]) - 5:55
# "Borstal Boys" ([[Ian McLagan]], Stewart, Wood) / "[[Amazing Grace]]" (Traditional, arr. D. Throat) - 9:52
# "[[Jealous Guy]]" ([[John Lennon]]) - 4:25

== Personnel ==
* [[Rod Stewart]] – lead vocals
* [[Ronnie Wood]] – guitars, backing vocals
* [[Ian McLagan]] – keyboards, backing vocals
* [[Tetsu Yamauchi]] – bass, trombone
* [[Kenney Jones]] – drums

== Production ==
* [[Faces (band)|Faces]] – producer
* [[Gary Kellgren]] – engineer
* Tom Scott and [[Tom Fly]] – assistant engineers

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Chart (1974)
! Peak<br />position
|-
!scope=row|Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=107}}</ref>
| align="center" |38
|-
{{album chart|Canada|51|artist=Faces|album=Ooh La La|chartid=4975b|access-date=January 26, 2025|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{album chart|UK2|3|date=19740203|access-date=January 26, 2025|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|63|artist=Faces|access-date=January 26, 2025|rowheader=true}}
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album |region=United Kingdom|artist=Rod Stewart & The Faces|title=Overture And Beginners|award=Silver|relyear=1974|certyear=1974|id=4970-479-2}}
{{Certification Table Bottom |nosales=true}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Rod Stewart live albums]]
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[[Category:Mercury Records live albums]]
[[Category:Warner Records live albums]]