Saturday, September 5, 2020

The MAN - Ultimate Formation (Live 2cd) review/ulasan (Naoto Shibata/Anthem side project)

As usual first in Broken Malay & then Broken English.




Rakaman Live 2019 ni ialah Naoto Shibata (bassist/kepala/penulis lagu/producer/ketua/Steve Harris kumpulan Anthem bersama band Anthem dan diselit jemputan tiga ahli band2 GALNERYUS dan CONCERTO MOON memainkan lagu2 rock barat yang beliau minat dan mungkin mempengaruhi nya zaman dulu kala.

Macam biasa, memang cekik darah dan ikat perut kalau nak tahu berita2 perihal band2 rok Jepun dan kemudian mendapatkan rilisan2 mereka. Tapi... memang seronok giler dan berbaloi bila dapat memilikinya walau pun selalu tertinggal bas.
Jadi macam aku minat giler band Anthem ni untuk aku selepas reformasi semula tahun 2000 dan dengan bertukar2 anggota sekalipun, kualiti mereka semakin hebat.

Sangat seronok terutama dengar Yukio Morikawa nyanyi live lagu2 Inggeris. Sangat bagus Inggeris nya, sebab tu memang percaturan Anthem ambil Morikawa semula dan buang Eizo Sakimoto memang berbaloi kerana penguasaan bahasa Inggeris Morikawa lebih baik. Sebab tu mereka boleh buat album Nucleus bahasa Inggeris 100%, Aku rasa Eizo kalau nyanyi kelaut la Inggerisnya. Tapi apa pun.. aku lagi minat Eizo dari Morikawa ni. Eizo suara metal. Morikawa ni suara lebih rock n roll pada telinga aku.

Aku speku, mungkin satu masa terdekat, lagi sekali pertukaran anggota bertukar ngan Eizo Sakimoto kembali dan Yukio Morikawa keluar semula. Memang nampak pattern kumpulan Anthem akan selang seli guna dua vokalis hebat ni... dan memang walaupun salah satu dah keluar band, tetap akan tampil bersama2 bila buat live show.




Hi Everyone, so happy with any Anthem or Anthem related releases.
So today lets talk about THE MAN project.
as can be identified, the A in mAn is the ANTHEM logo/font.
So that kind of give it away on the cover.
So its Naoto Shibata with his current Anthem Yukio Morikawa, Akio Shimizu and Isamu Tamaru plays the rock songs that I am sure we all are mostly familiar with.
THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC OF MOST OF US GROWING UP.

So it was recorded live last year.. so with the inlet info here goes the setlist or songs performed and the guest musicians for specific songs. 
Though I do get confused cause I heard some 2nd guitars on some songs Akio is playing alone. Anyway... here it goes, together with what I list the original performers are.

1. Hellion / Electric Eye (Judas Priest) 
2. Breaking The Law (Judas Priest)
3. Turbo Lover (Judas Priest) Anthem + Concerto Moon guitarist Narifumi Shima
4. Out In The Fields (Gary Moore)
5. July Morning (Uriah Heep) Anthem + Galneryus keyboardist Yuhki
YES near 10 minutes of it all the sweet bitterness...
6. We Rock (Dio)
7. The Look In Your Eyes (Glenn Hugles/Thrall)
BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL?? LOL!!
8  A Light In The Black (Rainbow)) Anthem + Galneryus singer Masatoshi Ono + keyboardist
9. Thunder and Lightning (Thin Lizzy)
10. Cold Sweat (Thin Lizzy) - Anthem with Concerto Moon guitarist
11. Are You Ready To Rock (MSG)
12. Doctor Doctor (UFO) - Anthem with Galneryus keyboardist
13 Burn (Deep Purple ) - Anthem with everyone
14. Iron Fist (MOTORHEAD)
15. You've Got Another Thing Coming (Judas Priest) - Anthem with everyone
16. All Night Long (Rainbow) - Anthem with Everyone

-The covers are very close to originals.
-Nice to hear superb vocals from Yukio Morikawa. I believe he has a strong command of English to be able to sing these live. ( And yes... I miss Eizo Sakimoto in Anthem. I hope he comes back soon )
-He is most spot on for Lemmy's Motorhead Iron Fist. LOL!!
-The music is amazing.... the bass, drums and of course Akio Shimizu on every song.
-The keyboards/guitars Tony Carey versus Ritchie Blackmore with Cozy Powell and Jimmy Bain instrumental section of A Light In The Black was so beautifully done here.
-I HAVE ZERO COMPLAINTS.
-My favourite Japanese rock band performing songs I grow up with and loved so much.

I wish there will be a video release too.

I found this on youtube... an upload of Hellion / Electric Eyes


rest of the packaging...







Bye...


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