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Helloween  Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy World Tour 2005-2006 |   |
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| Livecame out the 20 February 2007 - Steamhammer / SPV |
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Disc 1
1. Intro
2. The King For A 1000 Years
3. Eagle Fly Free
4. Hell Was Made In Heaven
5. Keeper Of The Seven Keys
6. A Tale That Wasn't Right
7. Mr. Torture
8. If I Could Fly
9. Power
Disc 2
1. Future World
2. The Invisible Man
3. Mrs. God
4. I Want Out
5. Dr. Stein
6. Occasion Avenue
7. Halloween |
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Helloween - "Live In Sao Paolo" (pt. 1)
Helloween's 2007 live album, "Live In Sao Paolo" is the true legacy of the '80's Keepers albums, not the joke title of the supposed third installment.
The live versions of "Keeper Of The Seven Keys" and "Eagle Fly Free" by themselves prove it. Expertly recorded, the fact that this was done in Brazil made it all the better due to the enormous crowd singing along on almost every song and not letting up on any of the cheers. Not taking anything away from the Brazilians, but you would have thought that Helloween were the German Beatles. Any fan of Helloween would be pumped up listening to this, which is why the whole concept is quite a stroke of corporate genius.
For the more discerning listener there are two points that should be made :
- One is that Helloween is excellent at taking tracks that from a studio standpoint aren't that great and turning them into better versions live. "Hell Was Made In Heaven" is a decent example, but "A Tale that Wasn't Right" comes in perfectly after the soft outtro of "Keeper…"
- Secondly, as much as it makes sense to play some of the older songs from their catalogue, it makes Andi Deris - the singer - appear less than competant. Of course, this isn't true, for he kills it on all of that tracks written during his era, most notably the opening track, "The King For A 1,000 Years", and "Power". Deris doesn't fare well on "Eagle Fly Free" though, but all that really means is that Michael Kiske, their former singer and the one who appears on the studio version, was really that good.
Still, the playing rocks and rages, with Sascha Gerstner proving during his rearranged solos on "Keeper" that he has been the best thing that has happened to Helloween in the last twenty years.
Most of the punches thrown on the first disc of "Live In Sao Paolo" are knockouts, thus adding credence to the argument that Helloween has left a real legacy in the ever expanding world of metal.
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Helloween - "Live In Sao Paolo" (pt.2)
The second CD to Helloween's 2007 release "Live In Sao Paolo" obviously follows through with the kind of intensity delivered on the first CD.
The encores, though well played, are typical and expected fanfare.
"Mrs. God" is thrown out to the crowd like a free sticker, but the other two tracks "I Want Out" and "Dr. Stein" are performed and recieved like the timeless classics that they are. As good as these two songs are, the best track on the CD is "The Invisible Man" because it hammers best the stake of Helloween's actual legacy in and to the metal world.
"Occasion Avenue" follows suit by maintaining the integrity of the original recording as well.
This is not to say that these songs are better than the tracks from the first two Keepers albums. Any song from an earlier era will always be compared to the current version, whereas the tracks from the current line-up don't have that problem. The feeling of the band wanting to play them is thus self-evident, as opposed to playing, say "Halloween" because that's what's expected. This brings us to the weakest part of the album and that is "Future World".
An argument is often made by critics that songs recorded live should be played the way they were recorded. Others counter that by stating that live versions is what makes the live album special… My point is simply this - placing the band introductions and the proverbial sing-a-long in the middle of a hit like "Future World" ruins the composition on the whole. It's nice to hear once ; but then after that it becomes annoying and is in the way. Knowing the history of Helloween's maligned sense of humor, one has to wonder if this was done on purpose, as if they were saying, "Fine, we'll play it, but because we have to we're going to do it our way."
Even though part two is second compared to the first CD, on the whole "Live In Sao Paolo" is easily Helloween's best live release to date and an enchanting heavy metal experience !
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