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Pendragon - Live In Krakow 1996

Artist: Pendragon
Title: Live In Krakow 1996
Label: Toff Records MOB5CD
Length(s): 70 minutes
Year(s) of release: 1997
Month of review: 10/1997

Line up

Nick Barrett - guitar
Peter Gee - bass
Clive Nolan - keyboards
Fudge Smith - drums

Tracks

1) As Good As Gold 7.37
2) Paintbox 7.53
3) Guardian Of My Soul 13.16
4) Back In The Spotlight 6.38
5) The Shadow 9.48
6) Leviathan 7.00
7) Masters Of Illusion 13.27
8) The Last Waltz 4.35

Summary

The CD of the movie you might call it. In view of the fact that the label has MOB instead of PEND implies that this might be an official bootleg. Anways, instead of the video you might get this CD that contains a subset of the songs on the video, making you miss the intro, March of the Torreodores, The Last Man on Earth, Nostradamus and Breaking the Spell. This is not strange since the last three tracks are available on Utrecht...the final frontier.

The music

Although you can also read some info in the video review, I'd like to note that the versions of the songs here do not differ much from the original ones and there's also not much difference in length. Still, the sound is less polished as one would expect from live albums inserting a drum solo and guitar solo here and there, but keeping the music intact, the quality of which is beyond any doubt and that manages to captivate as ever. But it can do that on the studio albums as well.

There is some 'new' music on this album: it arises when Nick invites the Polish people to sing something in Polish.

Conclusion

See above.
© Jurriaan Hage