Actually,
one sentence would be enough to describe this 4 hours spectacle. Let the
music do the brilliant talking. - And that's it. Not more no less. But
you wouldn't be happy with a review like that, would you?!
Okay, then let me
tell ya' briefly about the non plus ultra of musical perfection. It
consists of 1) musicians named - Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Tony McAlpine,
Dave Weiner and Jeremy Colson - no more comment about that. 2) The magic
inbetween this soundgame is truly right including the harmony and
everything else. And 3) those concerts are the best, when you don't
watch the time, hoping it's over soon, and your legs don't hurt, even
after 4 hours. - There's
nothing above that.
But
you need one thing for sure for that kind of entertainment and
this is endless love for real good music and whole lot of understanding
as well what's up to the excellent quality. And so that's why at least
half of the audiance are local musicians and insider. The rest are
chaps, who are nosy and just fans of rockmusic. All together comes to
the result of an almost sold out show with 1.500 units. Yiipppiieeehh
Munich certainly knows what musical quality sounds like.
Jesus wept, - this is good.
Steve Vai has got something else. He's got a very strong aura. This and
his guitar play are enough to get us fascinated. No vocals are necessary.
By the way, he has never been a nitingale anyway. But he doesn't have to
be. Nobody in here misses the vocals. And when you got strong characters
such as Billy Sheehan and Tony McAlpine on your right and left hand side,
then literatually nothing can go wrong, apart the fact, the energy would
fail. It doesn't of course. - McAlpine plays as well keyboard, as he
does on his guitar. And Billy Sheehan gets introduced by Steve as the
best bassist in the world. Yep, he's right. - Okay almost. I can't deny
my very special love for Tony Levin, I have to confess. - But Billy is
great in every sense.
Everything is
100% perfect and not a glimpse boring. This here is not Dream Theatre,
who stand up there on stage, fideling their 20 minutes solos, without a
movement in their faces. No, this here are also 20 minutes solos but
accompanied by lots of movements, and you can feel, how much those guys
up there enjoy their jobs. Christ.... 3 hourse full pover, not a second
boredom, as I said before. No please don't you ever stop playing. We
don't care, and we want more. I don't give a damn about my feet, I don't
feel 'em. "The Audiance is listening" - what a great
piece of music! It has always been one of my faves. Even the videoclip
is great. But also other greats of Steve's repertoire get
performed in a tremendous way. As I often have said, the feeling to have
experienced a good show does not only depend on the talents of the
artist but also depends on the famous magic vibe. In this case it's
there - 100% sure.
And yep, I'm still no musician, but I can feel it as well, - this is it,
the peak of the mount everest.
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