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Heart - Alive in Seattle Audio CD

A fair review of the Heart "Alive in Seattle" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Heart reviews here, or go back to the Heart tabs.

Heart Band: Heart
Title: Alive in Seattle
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-06-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Crazy on You 2: Sister Wild Rose 3: Witch 4: Straight On 5: These Dreams 6: Mistral Wind 7: Alone 8: Dog and Butterfly 9: Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters 10: Battle of Evermore 11: Heaven 12: Magic Man 13: Two Faces of Eve 14: Love Alive 15: Break the Rock 16: Barracuda 17: Wild Child 18: Black Dog 19: Dreamboat Annie (Reprise)

Heart Live
After all their years in the biz of rocl-n-roll. A nice solection of some of Hearts greatest songs. The Band was awesome too! I was not at all dissapointed. Great song soletion all of the favriotes and some great Zeppelin covers. You can't go wrong on this gem. . . Jazzman3.


Awesome Seattle Show -Alive from the 'Heart' !
Robert Plant could not have had a better female compliment than Annie Wilson covering his 'Battle' and 'Black Dog'. Not only doing their smash classics,but the classic standards of Led Zep and Elton John to boot. Also many of their newer best tunes performed. The Wilson Sisters shine up their old gems and make them sparkle brillantly. Their Seattle show was almost flawless,95% perfect. This is a great live double cd recording,of one of the best classic rock bands still rocking. Don't miss this awesome show! .


Still going strong
They are still rocking and just keep getting better. I'm a big fan of Heart. This is one of their best,with some old and new this is a great CD. If you are a fan of Heart, I recommend this, you won't be disappointed.


The DEFINITIVE LIVE VERSIONS of Heart's Classics!
" These tunes were unfortunately left out of their awesome 2004 release, Jupiter's Darlings, but they can still be heard here in their gloriousness!! Wow! A Definite MUST BUY!!. This 2 CD set is chock full of Heart's greatest songs but this is not a typical live recording, this is the DEFINITIVE LIVE VERSIONS!! They have reached the heights of their talent on this LIVE CD set by doing the unthinkable! They have surpassed their original recordings and created something even more awesome! Let me just say that ANN WILSON has NEVER SOUNDED BETTER! Her singing on songs like "Love Alive" can twist my spine!! Not only does this CD contain their live classics, but it also contains some never before heard tunes and covers! Their cover of "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" by Elton John is amazingly perfect and their cover of Zep's "Battle of Evermore" proves their Queens of Rock status! New songs included are: an awesomely seductive song entitled "Heaven" (I particularly like the line : Hold on strong to me! Let me show you Let me show yow how sweet the strong can be! Wow!) also included are "Sister Wild Rose" and "Break The Rock.


Heart Sisters Deliver
This is a passionate performance and it is obvious that they are having a blast. Anne and Nancy Wilson prove in this five star performance that they still have it. Anne's voice is a little on the raspy side, as one reviewer complained, but I am into vocals that sound a bit gritty. Bonnie Rait has always had a raspy voice and that is part of its charm. Anne nails every song vocally with total command .

The song set at this show was top shelf, including wonderful performances of their hits, along with "Minstral Wind", "Love Alive", and some new material (well, new to them at the time of the show) that hold its own with the Heart classics. I enjoyed the acoustic set that includes "Alone" (originally recorded by the band, i-Ten), and a powerful take on Zepplin's "Battle of Evermore" where Nancy breaks out the mandolin.

The most fun in this performance is "Black Dog", done as part of their encore. Zepplin purists may cringe at the idea of these ladies taking on this classic, but I must say, they nailed it. Anne's vocals are Plantesque. The guitar tones are so close to the sound of Page's guitar that if you heard this and was told that Anne Wilson sang lead with Jimmy Page, you might believe it. The audience appeared stunned at first, as the band rocked hard through this classic. Wow!

Alright, now for the down side for me. The audio mix is weak. There is a tinny shrill in the ways Anne's vocals were either recorded, or compressed in the mix. The drums sound light, like drums sound on a weak studio mix of a pop song. Nancy's guitar sounds pretty good, but the lead guitar is barely audible at times, even during solos. These sound guys that feel the need to completely separate two guitars into left and right channels drive me nuts. That is not how it sounded at the show, I'm sure. The guitars at the show fill the room with power and guts. But, for us experiencing this concert at home, we get the left and right separation, which at times, washes out a great lead guitar riff. If you mix guitars 60-40 or 70-30 left-right, you still hear that the performers are on different sides of the stage, without the feeling that they are on opposite sides of the stage, when the guitars are recorded 100-0 left-right. Quit doing that!

So, bottom line is this is a five-star show with a three-star sound, and overall a four-star review.


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