In other 70 legends like Yes, Deep Purple or UFO prevails yes from a certain time, a clear drop in quality, albums like "Now What" or "Magnification" are just three or four steps below classics like "Machine Head" and "Close To The Edge "- why live never more than two, three songs are played from the new album and everything else with classics from the" Golden Years will be filled. " Uriah Heep, however, can also easily - as demonstrated here - fill half of the sets from the last four or five albums without the mood of doing any demolition. "Against All Odds", "Can not Take That Away", "One Minute" or "I'm Ready" can easily in addition to the monuments as "Stealin '", "Lady in Black" and "July Morning" made without that the skip button approaches. Just a pity that no longer the "Outsider" album can be heard, the title track or "The Law" would still fit well into the concept - but that seemed so until three months later.
Why only four stars because here are, is explained fairly quickly. Who Heep seen on the last tour, will agree that the Koko show in many respects a little faltering. The whole band appears to be somewhat "warm up" only to have, "Sunrise" and "Nail on the Head" for example, are just too slow and slowed the game, that's one crisp usual, and also Shaw still sounds strange breathless in the first couple of songs as if he had not caught his best day, the falsetto vocals on "Traveller in Time" even sounds pretty shaky, he can, as live proved definitely usually better.
The sound, unfortunately, can also inspire me only conditionally. Of course, one hand beautiful that all sounds very rough and natural, but compared to other Heep-Live discs such as "Live in Armenia", "Spellbinder" or "Future Echoes" may "Live at Koko" just simply keep only conditionally. And the DVD is also okay, nothing more, only stereo sound, and the camera direction is rather means creative, primarily in principle, the same camera positions (stage shot, Phil Lanzon from above, Russell Gilbrook from bottom right, Mick's guitar in close-up, Dave Rimmer is rather marginal figure), repeatedly changed by random. As have produced Marillion or Magnum with similar low budget more exciting and dynamic DVDs.
That's certainly Gemeckere at a high level, and "Koko" makes even provided also some fun, we're not talking so by a complete failure, and the complete early Seventies competition (including mE hyped wrongly last Black Sabbath excursions) blow Heep also schwächelnd still loose from the disc. With the amount of "Official Bootlegs" and live albums, available from Heep, but you have just set the bar high and I would a beginner or someone who wants only one live album of the band, in any case before the all respects superior "Live in Armenia" suggest. The fan can, however, safely access, but what I write - he has probably already!
