by Stewart MasonA rather disappointing live set from a partially re-formed Hatfield and the North (keyboardist Dave Stewart didn't return, nor did the band do any of his material), Live 1990 only barely qualifies as a reunion album. Since Stewart had been the band's primary composer on their two studio albums of the '70s, only two of the nine tracks, "Share It" and "Underdub," are old Hatfield songs. (A third, "Going for a Song," is a Richard Sinclair song that was occasionally performed by the original band in concert but never recorded.) The new material, including replacement keyboardist Sophia Domancich's lounge-fusion snoozer "Blott," isn't a patch on what the lads had done back in the band's heyday, and although it's all most competent in both performance and arrangement, Live 1990 is overall just a bit of a drag. Only the most die-hard Hatfield and the North fans will want to bother, and even they might feel a strong twinge of disappointment.