Live at the House of Blues, Cleveland 9.15.07 is the second live album Canadian punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band Sum 41

Sum 41

Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario. The band was formed in 1996 and currently consists of members Deryck Whibley , Tom Thacker , Jason McCaslin and Steve Jocz .In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records...

, recorded on September 15, 2007, the House of Blues

House of Blues

House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues first location was in Cambridge's Harvard Square. It was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, star of The Blues Brothers...

 in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

, and released only 4 years later, on August 9, 2011.

Background

While playing the show, Deryck has announced that the show is being filmed for a future broadcast (either on TV or a live internet stream), though nothing about the recorded performance was ever discussed or mentioned ever since Deryck has announced it was filmed, until the release of the show as a live album on August 9, 2011, on iTunes

ITunes

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Reception

Many fans has criticized the delay in the release of the live show, which was recorded while the band was promoting their previous fourth album Underclass Hero

Underclass Hero

Underclass Hero is Sum 41's fourth studio album and the only record that was released with only three members in the band, since Dave Baksh left a year early to focus on Brown Brigade. The album was first released July 18, 2007 in Japan. It was released under the Island Records label and...

, and released in conjunction with the band's supporting tour for their fifth album Screaming Bloody Murder

Screaming Bloody Murder

Screaming Bloody Murder is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on March 29, 2011, after many delays. It was the band's second album produced by the band's frontman Deryck Whibley and recorded as a three piece, and is the first album by the band since 2007's Underclass...

. It is the band's first live release (either CD or DVD) to feature songs from the Underclass Hero

Underclass Hero

Underclass Hero is Sum 41's fourth studio album and the only record that was released with only three members in the band, since Dave Baksh left a year early to focus on Brown Brigade. The album was first released July 18, 2007 in Japan. It was released under the Island Records label and...

album.

Track listing

Personnel

• Deryck Whibley
  Deryck Whibley
  Deryck Jason Whibley is a Canadian musician and producer, best known for his work as the guitarist, lead vocalist, songwriter and producer of the Juno Award-winning rock band Sum 41. Whibley married fellow singer Avril Lavigne in 2006. The couple occasionally performed together, and they have...
  
   - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Tom Thacker - lead guitar, backing vocals
• Cone McCaslin - bass, backing vocals
• Steve Jocz
  Steve Jocz
  Stephen Martin "Steve" Jocz was born on July 23, 1981, and is best known as the drummer for Canadian punk band Sum 41.-Early life:...
  
  - drums, percussion, vocals on "Fat Lip"