REQUESTED DOCUMENT LIVE 1980 - 1983

Come on! Five stars! You'd never believe that a relatively sedate symphonic-melodic prog outfit like this could rip it up live. Oh, but they can. All the versions of their signature track completely blow the roof off, and Uwe Karpa gets to show off his chops. He is a very imaginative player, not simply a Blackmore wannabe, as maybe the early albums suggest. Again, it's a pleasure to hear everything, or almost everything, in German. Presumably it is all of the soundboard, as many of the venues AD played back then weren't exactly arenas... don't start your AD collection here, but it's still a great album. Even the monumentally boring Adonis works!