Label: Voiceprint
Category: Music
Average customer rating:
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 604388626922
EAN: 0604388626922
ASIN: B0000CESUT
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Artist: Man
Label: Voiceprint Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 604388626922 EAN: 0604388626922 ASIN: B0000CESUT Release Date: 2004-01-01 |
All's Well That Ends Well
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Progressive Rock
| Progressive
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Hard Rock
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Album Details
Two Original Albums Reissued on One CD.Customer Reviews:
There are so many others you should buy first!.......2004-06-25
Usually when a record company creates one of these two-fer's, they put together 2 similar albums. That is not the case here. These are 2 live albums that are very different and were recorded 14 years apart. Neither album comes close to Man's best.
The first CD, (All's Well That Ends Well) is from a concert in 1977. It was recorded shortly before the band broke for a long period (they got together and toured in the eighties, playing some really bad concerts and didn't release a new album until 1993). It was released as part of a contractual obligation.
The first CD is only 41 minutes long, and consists of relatively short songs by Man standards. Nothing is over 7 minutes long. The sound quality is excellent and it is difficult to tell at times that this was recorded live. Most of the songs are good, but most are played similar to what is on the studio albums. The only bad song is Hard Way to Live.
There are two pretty good tracks: Let The Good Times Roll is an old standard that Man plays in a very bluesy manner. It is different than most other Man songs. Spunk Rock is played differently than on any other album. It isn't the best version, and may be the shortest, but it is still very interesting.
The Welsch Connection (which sounds like a Steely Dan song), Ride and View and Born With a Future are all very good songs. But, I am guessing they are played just like on the studio albums. I haven't heard the studio versions, it is just my guess.
Official Bootleg comes from 1994. The CD is 78 minutes long and the sound quality is OK. Only about half of this CD is any good.
There are some very good moments on this CD. C'mon has a great, spacy 6 minute guitar introduction and is 16 minutes long. It has the nice guitar work you would expect. Just like on the 1st CD, Ride and View is a great tune. Here it is stretched out to 10 minutes. It also has a 9 minute slide guitar solo tacked on to the beginning. It has some nice moments, but also some boring moments. Bananas at 14 minutes is also very good. I never really liked this song, but it has a very nice middle section.
They play Wings Of Mercury, which is dedicated to Quicksilver's John Chipollina. Deke Leonard asks, why is it always the good ones that die, why couldn't it have been Phil Collins? Nice sentiments, but it really isn't a very good song, and they do a pretty bad job of playing. Like many of the other songs on this disc, it is just noisy and harsh.
There are many other live Man albums to get before this one. I would start with Back Into the Future, 1999 Tour Party, Live at the Rainbow or Live at Padgett's Room. Or you might want to get Quicksilver's Happy Trails.
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