Live: No More Fish Jokes Explained

Live: No More Fish Jokes
Type:	live
Artist:	the Walter Trout Band
Cover:	WalterTroutLiveNoMoreFishJokes.webp
Length:	71:36
Label:	Provogue
Chronology:	Walter Trout solo
Prev Title:	Transition
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Tellin' Stories
Next Year:	1994

Live: No More Fish Jokes is the first solo live album by American blues rock musician Walter Trout, credited to the Walter Trout Band. Released on May 17, 1993, by Provogue Records, it features nine tracks recorded in 1991 at the Skanderborg Festival in Denmark and three recorded in 1992 at De Hanehof in Geleen, Netherlands.

Reception

Commercial

Live: No More Fish Jokes charted in the Netherlands only, reaching number 63 on the Dutch Albums Chart.^[1]

Critical

Reviewing the 2014 vinyl reissue of the album for Classic Rock magazine, Michael Köhler praised several tracks on Live: No More Fish Jokes, describing "Dust My Broom" as "A brilliant turbo start", praising the performance of the band on "False Alarm", and hailing the "indestructible" finale of "Going Down".^[2] Sister publication Blues included the album at number 17 on its list of "23 Greatest Live Albums", with writer Jamie Hailstone calling it "Trout at his very best" and dubbing it his magnum opus.^[3]

Personnel

Walter Trout Band

• Walter Trout – vocals, guitar, production
• Jimmy Trapp – bass
• Frank Cotinola – drums on tracks 1–7, 11 and 12
• Bernard Pershey – drums on tracks 8, 9 and 10
• Danny "Mongo" Abrams – keyboards

Additional personnel

• Charlie Watts – co-production, mixing
• Willie Korman – co-production
• Sven Thornsen – recording on tracks 1–7, 11 and 12
• John Hull – recording on tracks 8, 9 and 10

Charts

Chart (1993)!scope="col"

Peak position
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)	63

Notes and References

1. Web site: Discografie Walter Trout . dutchcharts.nl . Dutch . June 5, 2024 .
2. Web site: Walter Trout – Live: No More Fish Jokes 25th Anniversary Edition . Köhler . Michael . . May 27, 2014 . June 5, 2024 .
3. Hailstone . Jamie . 23 Greatest Live Albums . . 15 . August 18, 2014 . 78 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230226235452/https://issuu.com/weareteamrock/docs/blu15.page_turner . February 26, 2023 . June 5, 2024 .