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Slade on Stage

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In my opinion the best live album ever. It has an excitement about it that comes from a band at the peak form of it's career. Masters of their craft they know how to work an audience up to a frenzy. It has a very well balanced mix of old and new tunes and a heavy rock edge. I love it and I think you will too.

Slade's third live offering is a high energy affair that is buttressed by their recent hard rock/heavy metal revival and their comeback at 1980's Reading Festival. `Slade on Stage' was recorded live at Newcastle and the rabid British fans, many of whom were small children when Slade was glitzing it up in 1972, give raucous response to such latter day Slade favs as "Rock n' Roll Preacher", "When I'm Dancing I Ain't Fighting" and "Lock Up Your Daughters". Slade may have faded into the woodwork by the end of the 70's but in the new decade they were gathering a new, younger and more of a bleeding ear audience who were currently fed on a steady diet of the NWOBHM. Part of the band's revived success was the old if you can't beat `em theory and they decided to slug it out with the young whippersnappers in their leather and chains. Old classics do make appearances and they snuggle warmly with the newer songs and there seems to be a heavier urgency to the former glam smashes of yesteryear. `Slade on Stage' is now part of the Slade Alive package so it is worth the buy just for that and for the opportunity to hear one of the all-time greatest live bands rip it up for a new generation of Britons.