Tokyo Tales - Blind Guardian

Advantages: 12 great songs, great atmosphere, sound quality is really good, many pix in the booklet
Disadvantages: of course the quality of the songs is not as good as in a studio recording... so there's just one negative point: No new songs... *g*

...record their both shows in Tokyo for a livealbum. The album starts out with the intro of Blind Guardian's second album, "Follow the Blind": "Inquisition" is playd as the intro and you can already hear the fans in Tokyo screaming for their idols. As soon as the band starts off with "Banished from Sanctuary" it seems like all doors of hell break looss and the crowd just goes on partying all the time. The sound of the recording is really good and you ...
...Hansi is good at voice. He just could better up his English a bit, remarkable when announcing the next song "Journey through the dark".. *g* Then Hansi starts singing some "Oooooohhh, Oooooooohhhhh" melodies and immediately the crowd goes after him. He animates the fans to do better and better, then band whole band sets in and plays the beginning of "Traveler in time" with the crowd now singing the mighty chorus in the background of the song - Great!!! ... Read review

Advantages: Excellently captured atmoshpere and sound quality
Disadvantages: A bit short maybe?

This is a treasure from the past! Blind Guardian from their early Speed-Metal days. Recorded live on their tour following the release of 'Somewhere Far Beyond' the sound on this album seems pretty well-processed for a one-performance recording. You can hear lamost everything and there's plenty of atmosphere (and crowd participation) without any of the nasty distortion and level imbalance that these recordings often suffer from. Sit back and close ...
...Content-wise this contains the usual tracks you'd imagine they'd play from 'Somewhere...' along with old classics like 'Goodbye My Friend' and 'Welcome To Dying'. There's a difference in opinion about the final Beach Boys cover, but I quite like it actually. Despite myself almost! I wouldn't suggest this for newcomers to Blind Guardian as it's most fun when you can sing along. Better to look for something like 'Somwhere Far Beyond' or 'Battalions ... Read review