Trial by Fire: Live in Leningrad (Limited Edition) [Live] [Import]

Product Description
Japanese Release featuring 20bit Sbm Remastering and LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.

Tracks:

Liar
Queen In Love
Deja Vu
Far Beyond The Sun
Heaven Tonight
Dreaming (Tell Me)
You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget
Guitar Solo (Trilogy Ste Op.5/Spasebo Blues)
Crystal Ball
Black Star
Spanish Castle Magic (LP Version)

Customer Reviews:

Fret burning frenzy.......2006-08-16

Yngwie cuts loose on his first live album. Perfectly capturing the talented band at his disposal as well as the man himselfs guitar skills this is a good buy for the Yngwie fan - as is the live video of the same tour. A quick perusal of the set list shows that this material is heavily drawn from the Trilogy and Odyssey records with the instrumental staples of Black Star and Far Beyond the Sun thrown in from the debut.

I guess it all depends on your view of live albums - they rarely convert the non believer but for Yngwie fans this is probably essential. Both Malmsteen and Joe Lynn Turner sound great in their respective roles and the tunes form a pretty strong set. Of course this isn't the whole gig, Yngwie at the time bemoaning his record companys decision to only release a single disc, rather than a double.

There are no massive overdubs on this release, the crowd noise is at acceptable volumes and lastly Yngwie should be congratulated for going to the effort of touring what was still the USSR back then. A whole bunch of bureaucratic obstacles were overcome to get the tour happening and being given permission to record and film in Leningrad at the time can't of been easy. Apparently the tour ended up playing to over 250,000 people all up.

A great buy for fans, a strong live set played with passion.

Yngwie Live...........2005-06-06

The Live in Brazil '98 is many times better.

And by the way the big Yng was there 6 weeks before Bon Jovi.

I enjoy this album so much! - and I hope you will, too. :-).......2004-02-29

It's the Eighties, so be prepared to have fun listening to some excessive axework in this great live record. Yngwie plays here with the intensity you expect from a guitar hero of his magnitude, up to burning his guitar out. His performance is passionate and brilliant, even when he missed out some notes here and there - but I love that: he didn't hide his errors in order to retain the actual "taste" of the live show, and I think that's a very honest attitude.

The guy unarguably is one of the greatest guitar players of all times - yes, he is; in spite of any critic, any rumor (or fact) about his ego, any repetitive playing or anything else. :-) This album demonstrates how good he actually is, as Yngwie proudly shows all his abilities off, from the purely neoclassic shredding in "Black Star" and "Trilogy Suite", to the explicit quotes to Paganini, Bach, Beethoven and the likes all the way along, to the frantic riffing in any of his own songs with vocals, to the bluesly soloing in the Hendrix's song "Spanish Castle Magic" and in "Spacebo Blues" - at whose end he also amuses the crowd with some great feedback and guitar effects.

Furthermore, the choice of sung pieces is great. This CD contains many of the best vocal tracks of Yngwie's early solo career - mainly from "Trilogy" and "Odyssey". Joe Lynn Turner's mellow vocals seamlessly fit into Yngwie's style, yet doing far better than Mark Boals when singing those songs from the "Trilogy" album. The production honors his voice, and that's fair to his amazing performance.

Lynn is a great songwriter too. "Odyssey" (the studio album to whose tour this gig belongs to) includes a bunch of amazing material. That material is showcased in "Trial by fire" in a clean manner. I still think that the Yngwie/Lynn combination was a killer one from the songwriting point of view - just tell me: do you *really* believe that those cheesy and ridiculous love lyrics are specially worst than those others lyrics about warriors, dragons, knights, swords and kings? C'mon! :-)

By the way, going back to Joe Lynn Turner, I'd want to point out some few things about him in this review. This vocalist has been widely criticized because he aims commercialism too much, because he's mellow, because he's not aggressive enough, because he doesn't like wailing, etc. Maybe all that is true, but he has one of the greatest, cleanest, most perfectly tuned and most melodic voices ever heard in the rock genre. He also has a superb tone and a truly wide vocal range - listen carefully to his interpretation of "Liar". Isn't it GREAT? In addition, he is a master of dynamics - the enormous load of feeling that he delivers in "Dreaming" says it all! And he doesn't miss a single note in this album! This album witnesses that he can perform live as a genuine vocal god. Honestly, I believe he deserves much more recognizance for the flawlessly job he does here and in every band where he has performed (including Rainbow and Deep Purple).

Back to "Trial by Fire", this album contains an excellent choice of Yngwie Malsmteen's "hits" (if so can be said) and astonishing guitar pyrotechnics complemented with vocals of the highest quality. I strongly recommend this CD even for Yngwie newbies. Hard rockers will appreciate it too. So, go for it NOW, put it into your CD player, fasten your seatbelts and enjoy! The trip will pay off, I guarantee you that.

Incredible Live Performance. ***** 5 STAR RATING........2003-04-21

What you'll find about Yngwie J. Malmsteen is, that what he says is true: when he gets in front of a sold out crowd, watch out! His playing is more intensified live than in the studio, if you can belive that. The shining moment on this live set is, of course, the guitar solo, with the trilogy suite in there. By the time you get to the end of his solo and hear what sounds like Satan dishing out some massive melodic feedback, you just shake your head and wonder how he does it. Incredible live performance of his earlier stuff here. Don't let this one get by you. And you'll definitely give it up for the cover of Jimi Hendrix's, Spanish Castle Magic: killer job on that cover. 5 STAR MALMSTEEN RATING FROM SCRAGGY'S TOMB OF POWER METAL, USA.

Excelente album, a pesar de tener sido grabado hace años.......2003-03-08

Me imagino que originalmente salió en LP de 12" pero yo lo llegué
a conocer ya en CD. Por ser una grabación al aire libre se pierde un poco de fuerza. Es un buen trabajo si se considera que fue grabado en Leningrado, territorio de la exURSS.

Average customer rating:

This is Yngwie in the zone

Trial by Fire: Live in Leningrad
Yngwie Malmsteen
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006BGXW
Release Date: 2002-09-02

Tracks:

Liar
Queen In Love
Deja Vu
Far Beyond The Sun
Heaven Tonight
Dreaming (Tell Me)
You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget
Guitar Solo (Trilogy Suite Op 5/Spasebo Blues)
Crystal Ball
Black Star
Spanish Castle Magic (Lp Version)

Customer Reviews:

This is Yngwie in the zone.......2007-03-13

He seemed to in the zone when he played on this record. Every note was perfect and felt so passionate. Black Star on this record is a great example of how he was in the zone, it gives me the chills when I listen to it. Also, the rest of the band is represented really well. The mixing is perfect and you can hear every other instrument clearly even when this record is a live performance. Every track sound full and this would be a great choice for prime Yngwie.