Strings Attached

Strings Attached Artist: Ian Hunter
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 044006771120
EAN: 0044006771120
ASIN: B0000TE692


Release Date: 2004-08-09

Strings Attached


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Tracks:

  1. Rest In Peace
  2. All Of The Good Ones Are Taken
  3. I Wish I Was Your Mother
  4. Twisted Steel
  5. Boy
  6. 23A Swan Hill
  7. Waterlow
  8. All The Young Dudes
  9. Irene Wilde
  10. Once Bitten Twice Shy

Tracks:

  1. Rollerball
  2. Ships
  3. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
  4. Michael Picasso
  5. Wash Us Away
  6. Don't Let Go
  7. All The Way From Memphis
  8. Roll Away The Stone
  9. Saturday Gigs

Album Description

Subtitled - A Very Special Night With Ian Hunter. Recorded live at the Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway in January 2002. 19 tracks. Universal.

Album Details

The Former Mott the Hoople Frontman Performs his Greatest Hits from Both his Tenure in Mott and Solo Career with Strings. "Strings Attached" Captures Ian Hunter Live at the Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway (His Adopted Home) in January 2002. The Accompanying Band Includes Andy York (Guitar), Torstein Flakne (Guitar), Kjetil Bjerkestrand (Keyboards), Sven Lindvall (Bass), Per Lindvall (Drums), and the Trondheim Soloists (Strings). The Addition of Strings to the Mix of These Intelligent Rock Favorites Adds a Very Special Dimension to Hunter's Deeply Emotional Repertoire. While his Voice is Nowhere Near the Quality it was 30 Years Ago, He More Than Compensates with Heartfelt Performances that Reflect a Life Lived Well and the Experience of Years on the Road. Few Rockers Can Pull this Type of Project off with the Grace and Passion that Hunter Posesses in his Little Finger.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Different and Wonderful.......2004-02-13

If you love ian hunter's music like I do, you'll love this dvd. He and the band, and an 18 piece orchestra put on a great show. The arrangements kind of threw me at first, but the songs, especially the ballads, lend themselves to orchestration. I was just so used to hearing "All the Way from Memphis" one way. It's not THAT different, but it took a couple of listens to appreciate it, and now I love it. I had also forgotten what a great showman ian is. He has a real way with the crowd as well as the orchestra in general; especially on Saturday Gigs. This dvd is not slick. It has an intimacy about it. It's Ian performing for a bunch of friends, which he is. The camera pans the crowd, and everybody is having a great time,including the orchestra.For me,the extras were good for one viewing only(interviews with Ian, Joe Elliott, three fans...) It's the great music, Ian, the crowd, and the orchestra obviously enjoying themselves that make it wonderful. It has a real warmth. It makes me wish I had been there.

4 out of 5 stars Shades On.......2003-12-06

Ian Hunter is, in my opinion, one of the finest songwriters of his generation.

But it has largely been a case of out of sight, out of mind in Britain since the former Mott The Hoople vocalist left to base himself in the USA almost 30 years ago.

A loyal fan base remains, however, for a man whose 'Diary of a Rock n Roll Star' is still rated by many as the best book ever written about life on the road.

Unwilling to simply rake in the bucks like some of his contemporaries via Hits of the 70s tours, Hunter remains a genuine creative force - his last album 'Rant' was arguably the best of his career.

And well before Jon Bov Jovi hit on the idea of re-arranging old favourites for strings, he travelled to Oslo in January 2002 to perform two concerts backed by a five-piece band and the Trondheimsolistene (Trondheim Soloists) to be recorded for a special DVD and CD.

Why did it take the best of two years to release them? Only a record label presumably more concerned with promoting lesser, but perhaps more commercial, talents knows the answer.

As a career retrospective it works better than expected, and there is also a sprinkling of new songs including Twisted Steel, an outsider's view of the events of 9/11 - "This wasn't sacred, this was profane. You took off, and you took aim".

Insightful, occasionally funny and above all else honest, Hunter has never been afraid to lay his feelings bare in his lyrics.

Waterlow concerns divorce and its effects on children, Ships and 23A Swan Hill deal with his turbulent relationship with his father and Michael Picasso - a tribute to former partner Mick Ronson - is one of the most moving songs ever written about bereavement.

The strings, arranged by Kjetil Bjerkestrand, add a new dimension to All The Young Dudes, David Bowie's gift to Mott.

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