Live in Moscow [Live]

Asia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 23, 1992)
• Original Release Date: June 23, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032EV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,145 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Time Again

2. Sole Survivor

3. Don't Cry

4. Keyboard Solo [Inc. Video Killed the Radio Star]

5. Only Time Will Tell

6. Rock and Roll Dream

7. Starless

8. Book of Saturday

9. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, Pts. 1 & 2

10. The Heat Goes On

11. Go

12. Heat of the Moment

13. Open Your Eyes

14. Kari-Anne [#]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great concert in the USSR., August 17, 2002

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Chris Letempt (Marietta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live in Moscow (Audio CD)

Dont listen to the snobby reviewers here. This is a great Asia concert. The Russian audience add a really cool energy to the whole thing. John Wetton is still the frontman of Asia for me. His performance is really good. Geoff Downes also has an awesome solo including "Video Killed the Radio Star" on here!

You can tell these guys are having a ball up on stage. This was a pretty rare event back in those days of Cold War Soviet Era politics. The concert video/documentary is really good, too. This album is definitely a must for any Asia fan.

Now, if they just would have done a prog version of "Volga Boatmen"!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Live in Moscow plus Wildest Dreams, July 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live in Moscow 1990 (Audio CD)

The same live recording (different song order) as released in the original "Live in Moscow"...only this release adds "Wildest Dreams" and deletes the unreleased "Kari-Anne". That was a huge mistake in my opinion..."Kari-Anne" was one of the band's best songs, and I think "Wildest Dreams" was taken from another concert ("Live in Nottingham", I think). The album does include the two earlier Wetton band songs ("Starless" and "Book of Saturday") with their different arrangements. Also included in both versions of this live album, is the more powerful version of "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes", which is more hard hitting than in it's original release.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, February 10, 2006

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MFrost (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live in Moscow (Audio CD)

This is a really good disc. The band do a great job interpreting their hits from the 80's with a new guitarist. If you're expecting the songs to sound just like the studio versions on Asia, Alpha and Astra, you'll be disappointed. But they sound great anyway, at least if you're like me and actually like a little something different thrown in.

For the most part, that something different is Pat Thrall. No, he does not sound like Steve Howe, and yes it took me some getting used to. He definitely brings his own sound to the mix, but it's still good. The only song where I really missed the embellishments of Howe is "Only Time Will Tell," where Thrall, who is very good, takes a back seat for some reason and lets the other three carry the song while he plays mainly chords (which are very low in the mix on this song.)

Also, he makes an interesting choice on "Sole Survivor," where he only plays power chords (with a cool distortion tone) for the whole song except the end, where he lets rip with a very un-Howe like solo. I also like his solos on "Don't Cry," "Heat Of the Moment" and "Rock And Roll Dream." So I actually admire Pat Thrall for bringing his own sound to the group, although he proves he can play Howe's parts on "Time Again" (which makes his understated performance on "Only Time Will Tell" more puzzling.)