Live Sentence

Artist: Alcatrazz
Label: Universal Japan
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988005311474
ASIN: B00006BGXR

Release Date: 2002-08-29

Live Sentence

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Tracks:

Too Young To Die Too Drunk To Live
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Night Games
Island In The Sun
Kree Nakoorie
Coming Bach
Since Youve Been Gone
Evil Eye
All Night Long

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Customer Reviews:

Better than their studio effort..........2005-11-24

Proof that Yngwie isn't using mirrors. He shreds through this live album, almost overshadowing the songs, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, since the songs aren't that great (let's face it) and Yngwie is a guitar god. It almost sounds like he is jamming to a Rainbow album -- his playing seems disconnected to the songs at times. The production is pretty much the same as the studio album, No Parole from Rock and Roll, (which is pretty bad by today's standards) but Yngwie is note for note when he wants to be. Amazing that he hardly hits a bad note LIVE, given how fast he plays. High points are Too drunk to Live, Kree Nakoorie (outro solo!), Since You've Been Gone, and Evil Eye (!!!). I paid $26.99 for this import back in 1989 and it was worth it (but I'm an Yngwie fan)... Get it for Yngwie or leave it on the shelf.

Alcatrazz - 'Live Sentence' (Universal).......2005-06-05

Originally released in 1984,as 'Live Sentence' is a so-so live recording of the band's tour they did of Japan during that year.I've never been able to get into Alcatrazz at all,even though guitar wizard Yngwie Malmsteen was cutting his teeth in this second rate hard rock band.Some of the tracks here I thought were okay were "Too Young To Die,Too Drunk To Live","Night Games",Russ Ballard's(member of Argent)"Since You've Been Gone" and Rainbow's "All Night Long".Line-up:one-time Rainbow belter Graham Bonnett-vocals,Malmsteen-guitar,Gary Shea-bass,Jimmy Waldo-keyboards and Jan Uvena-drums.Believe I saw Alcatrazz as support act for Ted Nugent around this time period.Take my word for it,as an opener,I didn't even notice Malmsteen.Sort of like a Rainbow wanna be.

Flawed Yet Fabulous.......2005-05-12

Released within months of their incredible debut "No Parole from Rock 'N Roll" in 1984, "Live Sentence" was the first opportunity for many to hear Yngwie Malmsteen play live. His work on this album is nothing short of amazing. Malmsteen is really the star of the show throughout this album, way up in the mix, all over the place, soloing like crazy and given the time to really show his chops. His studio version of "Evil Eye" would appear a few months later on his debut solo album, but here it is performed live with the Japanese fans going berserk throughout.

Aside from their debut album, Alcatrazz did not have much material. Four tunes from "No Parole" made it onto "Live Sentence", along with two Yngwie solos, the aforementioned "Evil Eye" along with "Coming Bach". Graham Bonnet has been a star in Japan for a long time and "Night Games" from a Bonnet solo album entitled "Lineup" is included here as well and it is a decent song. Also included are two Rainbow songs harking back to Bonnet's one album tenure in that band, "All Night Long", and the Russ Ballard penned "Since You've been Gone". What is mind boggling is how many times Graham Bonnet has recorded this Russ Ballard song. Besides the original version on Rainbow's "Down To Earth", you can find him singing it on this live Alcatrazz CD, then again on the second Impellitteri studio CD, "Stand in Line" and then unbelievably again on the Blackthorn "Afterlife" CD.

Graham Bonnet is much more of a studio singer then a live performer. He shines brilliantly on so many studio recordings and his sheer vocal power is mind blowing. But his weakness as a live performer singing this type of material is so evident on "Live Sentence". Not only does he constantly sing out of key, but his vocals lack any emotion and his raps to the audience sometimes are downright embarassing. I've seen this concert on video and it is almost funny to see this skinny Englishman with short hair and glasses wearing a pink suit, singing "Too Young To Die Too Drunk To Live", horribly out of key, while jumping up and down, trying to be cool. I am surprised that this album was released to the public without Bonnet re-doing many of his vocal tracks.

That being said, this album stayed on my turntable for months when it came out and I still listen to it today for the wonderful live playing of Yngwie Malmsteen and for the awesome version of "Kree Nakoorie". Flawed yes, for the reasons stated above, but still a worthy slab of fabulous live guitar shredding.

Great Album.......2005-04-18

This is a wonderful live album and I would urge anybody that loves live metal to by this album. One of the previous reviews said they love the cover of Rainbows "Since You've Been Gone", well it is a cover of a Russ Ballard song which Rainbow covered while Alcatrazz singer Gramm Bonnet was in Rainbow.

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