Don't Try This at Home: Live

Don't Try This at Home: Live Artist: Spock's Beard
Label: Metal Blade
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 039841432923
EAN: 0039841432923
ASIN: B00004SG67


Release Date: 2000-04-25

Don't Try This at Home: Live


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Tracks:

  1. Day For Night
  2. Mouth Of Madness
  3. Skin
  4. Gibberish
  5. June
  6. The Healing Colors Of Sound

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Album Description

This is the 2nd Metal Blade release for the progressive rock act, their 6th album overall, of their most accessible material to date. Tracks include 'Gibberish' and 'The Healing Colors Of Sound'. This CD contains over 50 minutes of music. Available again at the new lower price of $7.99!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This is Progressive with a capital P.......2005-10-01

Great stuff. Gentle Giant meets Genesis meets ELP, all with the rythm section of Yes. That would be if you could even qualify comparisons. If you are a Prog Rock fan this is IT.

The recording quality is great but still retains the first come first serve atmosphere of a live performance. No dress-ups (re-recording or musical "cleanups") in the production halls. This is testified by Neal Morse's singing (not perfect) and some timing rough points that you will not hear on studio versions of these
tunes. However, I for one don't mind especially when hearing the complexity of harmonies and rythm section timing. I like the recording just the way it is - real and organic.

Buy this one, enjoy this one, hear true Progressive Rock; not Neo-Progressive or the like. Here are masters of the game.

3 out of 5 stars 2.5 stars.......2001-09-04

Little if any variation on the studio versions of this material. All the cuts are from the two discs-Kindness of Strangers and Day to Night. Sound quality of studio material is also, obviously, better than live versions-Neal Morse's voice in particular fares better in the studio. So why bother. Stick with the studio discs-this one's redundant...Simon

4 out of 5 stars A good disc, but it's a little limited........2000-12-12

Spock's Beard's bonbastic and challenging form of progressive rock translates very well to the live medium, because the band plays with incredible energy onstage. Neal Morse, the head honcho behind the band, is a brilliant entertainer, and this album ineffably captures and preserves the band's topnotch live performance. Sound quality is impeccable...about as good as a live album can get.

If only the song selection weren't so limited. You get a pretty good variety, just not enough. Songs come only from the "Day for Night" and "Kindness of Strangers" albums. All the songs are good, sure, but when the album only clocks in at around 50 minutes, it leaves you wanting more. The live renditions of this disc's tracks are mostly predictable reiterations of the studio versions, but these guys put on a great show that keeps things interesting. (A lot of the vocal parts sound better with the live versions as well.) It's really something hearing "Gibberish" performed live, with those complex vocal sections.

It's kind of disappointing, but all in all it's a good disc.

5 out of 5 stars Difficult-to-perform music live on stage.......2000-11-19

The highlights of this live CD are clearly "Gibberish" and the 20-minute epic "The Healing Colors Of Sound". The latter is one of my all-time favorites of Spock's Beard, so it is great to hear how the boys perform it live. "Gibberish" is one of their most difficult tracks, because it features highly polyphonic a-capella vocals in the tradition of Gentle Giant, e.g. "On Reflection". I was amazed to find out that Gentle Giant actually can perform this odd piece of music on stage, and now Spock's Beard dare to walk in their footsteps - and succeed!

4 out of 5 stars Hardly for Die-Hards.......2000-08-17

I had to respond to the reviewer who said that this album was for "Die Hards" and no one else.

It is just the opposite of that.

Spock's Beard wanted a live album to sell along their tour with Dream Theater that reflected what they were playing with them for new listeners to buy at the shows. That is what this album is. Primarily targeted for new listeners.

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