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It Bites: Live in Tokyo

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It Bites wasn't proggy enough or pop enough or pretty enough or even around long enough to hit it big, but damned if this was not a group with chops -- and juice. The juice is what's on full display in this recording of a Tokyo show that just happened to fall out of somebody's closet one day. And here it is, readily available for our consumption, 16 years or so after the fact.

Led by Frank Dunnery's Gabriel-esque voice and Holdsworthian fretboard wizardry and the writing talents of the band -- most notably John Beck on keyboards -- It Bites left behind a small but astonishingly durable body of work. Their best and longest song "Around the World in a Day" is conspicuously missing, but the second best, "Old Man and the Angel," is not, and that alone is worth the price of admission. "Yellow Christian" is also a standout, and the inevitable "Calling All The Heroes" and "Still Too Young To Remember" are also featured.

Check out the size of Dunnery's hands and his ease in singing over complicated guitar parts! Kind of makes one wonder why he dropped this gig so completely and took up life as a troubador and astrology expert (or some such nonsense).

John Beck's keyboard work is hard to appreciate because it's kind of lost in the mix. Unfortunately his vocals are not; I wonder if the technology is not around to sweeten those up a bit because they really take away from what is otherwise a stellar set.

I would have given this one five stars if it had included the entire set.

Desde hace algun tiempo estaba esperando poder adquirir este DVD , primero salio en sistema Pal y ahora por fin lo sacaraon en el sistena NTSC, aunque el precio es un poco elevado, vale la pena tenerlo , para todo aquellos que como yo venimos siguendole los pasos a IT BITES desde la decada del 80 y nunca tuvimos la posibilidad de ver esta banda en vivo, este trabajo es un fiel testimonio de la excelente calidad musical de la banda.


El DVD no trae extras y el sonido es estereo digital , pero la buena energia que maneja el grupo en escena hace que estos pequeños detalles se pasen por alto.

interpretan temas de sus tres trabajos en estudio mas que todo del EAT ME IN ST LOUIS Y DEL BIG LAD IN THE WINDMILL , para mi los dos mejores trabajos del grupo.

Recomendado para aquellos que deseen ver una banda con mucha musica y tecnica.