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Living Loud: Live - Debut Live Concert

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It's finally released in NTSC form and well worth the wait.For those of you who know the full background of this band and the reasons for
their formation,I'll spare you the details. For those who don't, check out The official Living Loud website or The official Bob Daisley web
site for more info. This live debut show filmed in a club in Australlia was performed the same night Steve Morse and Don Airey had just come off stage from performing a deep purple show nearby.
Lee Kerslake had just flown in from London not too many hours earlier as well. You would never know it judging by the energy, enthusiasm and proffesionalism put into this show. It's really hard to believe that the guys only played and wrote together for three weeks! Jimmy Barnes may not be your taste in vocals but there is no denying that the man can deliver loud and in key. Sound quality is excellent as well as the visual. The extras are a nice bonus. All in all a very fine tribute to Mr.Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley and the classics
they contributed to the origional Blizzard of Ozz. Buy this dvd. It's a steal at this price and will provide many hours of enjoyment of Great good old hard Rock and roll the way it should be played. Live and Loud!!

Randy was definitely a great guitarist, but this is not a Randy project, nor a tribute (IMO all the opposite), and I love Randy, but what I have read along these reviews, shows me that one more time there is a total misconception in Rock, as opposed to Jazz, than the pieces, standards, classics, etc...need to be played alike just to be even considered by the critics, let alone considered as to be great...if that were the case, then All Along the Watchtower Hendrix's version would be a total crap in comparison to Bob Dylan's...

Steve Morse is a far more complete artist and guitarist than Randy, even Randy would agree on that...and he had proved that time after time, and I do not think that his performance was due to laziness or ignorance, or lack of knowledge of the music involved, he simply chose to do something different, and it doesn't need to be alike to be good, and he proved that...period, I'm just watching it, a friend gave me a copy and I'm buying it right now...

For the rabid Randy fans, be aware that "this is a Living Loud DVD, and as such, something different"...Nobody said it was a Randy tribute or that has to be played exactly alike...if you want a Randy album, just buy it...period...

Just as a side note, read below a little of the history of the project...I do not think that the intention was Randy at all...if you ask me, it was just to hit Ozzy on the head, showing him that music is all about, and that they have the same right to play these songs "they co-wrote" the way they want to, and period...And they did it...

According to the liner notes of the self-titled album, the project was instigated by Daisley who had discussed with Kerslake the possibility of "re-doing some of the songs from the classic rock albums that they had co-written". Six of those songs, "I Don't Know", "Crazy Train", "Flying High Again", "Mr. Crowley", "Tonight" and "Over the Mountain" originally appeared on the Ozzy Osbourne albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.
Sadly enough in 2002, Ozzy re-issued both albums with Daisley and Kerslake's original performances replaced by new bass and drum tracks after both men had sued the singer for non-payment of royalties and related issues (despite playing on Diary of a Madman, Daisley and Kerslake's performances were credited to Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge for many years)...

I don't care if this singer Jimmy Barnes is a legend or whatever in Australia. Man, this guy ruined the whole enterprise. His voice is utterly unbearable, ugly, boring, uninspired. annoying. He destroyed all the Ozzy songs and even the originals soudn worse live than the studio album (where his vocal work was already very weak).

Putting Barnes along side the legends Morse, Kerslake, Daisley and Airey was a sin, a really bad musical decision.

As for Morse totally changing Rhoads solos, it's alright for me. The trouble was: the solos simply are not great, not even close to inspired. For a guitarist of Morse's caliber,it hurts me to say that the solos he created for the Ozzy songs were a disappointment.

I know this isn't much of a review but OMG how good is this DVD, The sound and picture is brilliant, the band is fantastic and Jimmy's power packed vocals are unreal.
There interpratations of the classics are wonderfull, I'm so glad there not just cloning the classic Ozzy songs note for note, how boring would that be.

I love watching this DVD and I'm sure you will too.

When I saw this DVD, I was stoked! The Blizzard of Ozz - Airey, Daisley, & Kerslake - reunited! The track listing sealed the deal; half the tunes on this DVD are from Rhoads-era Ozzy! "Tonight", "Over the Mountain", "Mr. Crowley", etc...and with guitar legend STEVE MORSE on guitar, how can you go wrong!?
Well, imagine that Morse doesn't even attempt to execute the songs as they were recorded, just plays along as though he's never heard Randy Rhoads. That's exactly what happens here. Daisley, Kerslake, & Airey are in fine form, true to their original parts. However, beloved signature Randy riffs are completely left out, often replaced by a single sustained chord! Rather than believe that Steve Morse has an ego and refused to learn someone else's parts ('cause he doesn't even come CLOSE!) I must believe that the evil, terrible, Sharon must have something to do with this fiasco (we all know the unprecedented crimes against music she is responsible for, huh?). These songs without the guitar elements that made them famous simply disappoint. No offense to Daisley and co., their contributions to the classic first two Ozzy albums are priceless, but this performance is not what I expected AT ALL...