5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy with confidence, this is the best Ken Hensley ever!, December 5, 2009
This review is from: Blood on the Highway [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Ken Hensley - Blood On The Highway - The Exclusive Release Concert (BluRay)
Recorded live at the Fabrik in Hamburg, Germany in 2007, this special concert featured the complete Blood On The Highway album plus a selection of Uriah Heep and Ken Hensley classics. Featuring Ken Hensley on Hammond, guitar and vocals and his Live Fire band, plus special guests Jorn Lande, John Lawton, Eve Gallagher and others.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good!, December 2, 2009
This review is from: Blood on the Highway [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
This is a concert in small venue in Germany but very intrersting.First part consist of Ken Hensley's own repertoire and I must say it's very good.If you like Uriah Heep music - his material is not far from it - good old rock with cool ballads.Second part - Uriah classics - July morning,Free me,Circle of hands,Easy livin' etc. - I was raised on it so for me it was my youth all over again.Now musicians: I think Ken himself is in very good shape - his vocals can still go pretty high and clean(very reminiscent of original sound of Heepsters)It was very good idea to include one of Heep frontmans: John Lawton (Innocent Victim era) and mighty Jorn Lande - my personal favorite.They added a lot to the sound of this project - Lande -just great range and tone of his pipes and Lawton - very familiar voice from the past.
My only complaint - Lawton sung sometimes little bit to lazy (or he doesn't have his range anymore) and changed the melodic line of the vocals(for example July Morning - I think it's not a good idea to mess with classics like that).Guitar players are decent and one of them(guy from Norway) also sings and has very good voice too!
If we are talking about production I think video was shot pretty good - the picture on the big(110') screen is very dynamic and detailed.Audio although only dolby5.1
rocks!All in all very good concert not only for guys like me - remembering listening this music on vinyl.I'm giving it four stars though because I have in my library quite a few concerts that are simply amazing and I have to reserve five stars for them.Another reason is (although not their fault) absence of Glenn Hughes -
who supposed to lend his amazing voice to this project(he got stuck in the airport somewhere because of strike).Imagine how it would be with him...Nevertheless deffinitely worth recommending.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Sounds Great...No Picture, April 16, 2009
This review is from: Blood on the Highway [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
I'm also having a problem with this title. The sound is outstanding. Too bad there is no video to go along with it. I have seen others complain about the same problem so I am assuming the disks are faulty.
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