I thinks the best live album bar none.
nd i dont like the way Bruce sings on alot of songs.. it looks like he is only singing fast and doesnt listen to the instruments..he cannot match the tempo of instruments.. it sounds not like a team..more 5 individuall pieces..Sometimes it goes so fast the singing that he almost looses breath! It sounds too forced..
I thinks the best live album bar none.
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Fantastic choices RayNJ.... Btw.. that Unleashed in the East Album from Judas (superb, fantastic especially Running wild-song), I read somewhere that the vocals on that album were sung in after the live recordings,.. so Halford sings it in a studio,... Do you know what is true about this story, do you know RayNJ, or somebody else from the forum? Or is it I am telling nonsense here..please tell me, just curious to know....
Ive heard that one alot over the years, and something about Rob having a cold when it was recorded? In the past ive compared the album to the japanese bootlegs of the same era and there is not alot of difference in Robs voice at all on them, so if any additional production was done i doubt it was anything major important.
Similar thing goes for the Turbo era recorded 'Priest...Live' Despite some obvious overdubs and a little post production here and there its pretty much the real deal, i have bootlegs of that tour where Rob actually sounds alot better than on the official 'live' release, on some of those they even played Victim of Changes which sounds unbelievable!
Yeah, as Mad Dan said, the album is known as 'Unleashed In The Studio'. So it's a bit ironic that RayNJ should slag off the Maiden album for being overdubbed, then chooses an album that is notorious for being heavily overdubbed, as one of the best 'live' albums of all time!
During the recorded Tokyo shows, Rob had been suffering from partial laryngitis, therefore his vocals weren't up to the standard of their usual shows. So during the mixing session at Ringo's place, a small party of people were in attendance and at one point, Rob was seen out on the patio wearing a set of headphones and singing his vocal lines into a microphone. Word leaked out about the vocals being redone and the rumors grew to the point where it was being reported that all the instruments were redone and the audience was a canned Japanese recording dubbed in. While the rumors were unfounded, it unfortunately prompting critics to call the album 'Unleashed In The Studio' and to this day, many fans are confused about the album's integrity. A rare bootleg of the February 15 show does a lot to prove the authenticity of the performance (Rob's voice only needed minimal repairs and the audience really did have that "canned Japanese" sound) and Priest's guitarists have confirmed that the band's musical parts are legitimately 100% live:
"We touched up some of the vocals on the album, because when Rob did the album, his voice was shot. We were honest enough to admit that, but then suddenly we heard that a lot of things were touched up. But literally, it was a few vocal bits and pieces."
- Glenn Tipton, Goldmine Magazine, June 5, 1998
http://members.firstinter.net/markster/UNLEASHEDINTHEEAST.html