Poison - Seven Days Live
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Artist: PoisonBrand: Music Video Dist
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 82 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mvd Visual
DVD Reviews of Poison - Seven Days Live
DVD Review: Not what you might expect...
Summary: 4 Stars
It took me a long time to open up to a new Poison lineup after C.C. Deville left the band, and once I did start to like the Native Tongue album, the more I started to love it. I found Richie Kotzen brought an intensity to the band that wasn't there before. If you listen to the way Bobby, Bret and Rikki play off of each other with Richie in the band, it's undeniable. He brought out the best in everyone. It's a shame how it ended, but onto the review of this dvd.
I had my suspicions that this dvd would suck, and I was half right. Richie Kotzen live is an animal to say the least. He has some great presence, and some great licks. However, I found a few things lacking with this performance. I found Bobby and Rikki were the ones holding things together, or at least trying to background vocal wise. Richie seemed too occupied with his guitar playing to hold down any kind of background vocals, except on a few songs. You'd think with a great voice like Richie has, he'd want to utilize it live, but think again. This concert was well performed by Bret, Rikki and Bobby, but Richie only really soared on the Native Tongue tracks, which he cowrote. It seemed like he didn't care about doing any justice to any of the classic Poison songs.
So now I'll do a track by track analysis, and give some thoughts on each.
The Scream-Great opening number from the Native Tongue record. They really slam with this one. I think this is one of the best performances on the dvd.
Strike Up The Band-Another great performance by all. It seems the Native Tongue stuff sounds really awesome live judging by the first 2 performances.
Ride The Wind-Man, I can't stress how awful this sounds. Bret, Bobby and Rikki do their parts fine, but Richie massacres this one. He can't even play the main riff right. It's so bad that the riff barely even sounds like the same song.
Good Love-This one kind of gets screwed up. Bret starts singing the second verse first, and then when he's supposed to sing the second verse, he repeats it again! Weird stuff. Overall though a pretty good performance, but I can't get past the vocal screwup.
Body Talk-Another great song. Richie does change some solos on the Native Tongue songs, but they're his songs, so who cares really, cuz they still sound decent.
Something To Believe In-I find Richie does a pretty good job in tapping into what the song is about. He changes the solo on this song, but for once I think he did a good job with it.
Stand-This actually sounds pretty cool live. I was surprised. Without the choir vocals it still sounds good.
Fallen Angel-I've always loved this song, but this performance is probably one of the least impressive tracks on here. Strong performance by Bret, Bobby and Rikki, though.
Look What The Cat Dragged In-Finally a song that Kotzen didn't screw up. This one slams from start to finish.
Until You Suffer Some-Another great performance. I liked that they included a good chunk from Native Tongue instead of relying heavily on the hits.
7 Days Over You-This was a great addition. I never thought they'd play this one live, but it came off well, and sounded great.
Unskinny Bop-This is probably one of the sleeper tracks. I don't remember much about this performance, so it must not have been all that great, and it's not one of my favourite songs anyway, so who cares right?
Talk Dirty To Me-This performance was okay, but again nothing special.
Every Rose Has It's Thorn-Richie again taps into the soul of this song, and also screws it up at the same time. I think it was solo #1 sounded amazong, and then solo #2 completely sucked! It goes to show you, if you try too hard you end up ruining the song.
Nothing But A Good Time-Same Ol' Same Ol' as it says in the song. I wasn't at all impressed with any of the classic hits, and I think Kotzen is to blame. They didn't have that fire that they had with C.C. and it really shows with these live performances.
I would recommend this dvd if you really love the Native Tongue album, but if you are in love with the classic lineup this dvd isn't for you. To hear Kotzen butcher the classic tunes is a bloody shame. I for one love the classic lineup, but also love the Native era lineup. I find their 2 best cd's are tied with Flesh & Blood and Native Tongue. So if you want something different check this out, but don't buy it expecting the classic songs to be played to perfection.
I give them a 4 for effort because Bret, Bobby and Rikki play their hearts out on this. It's too bad it gets ruined by Kotzen. It wouldn't be so bad if he played the hits the way they're supposed to be played, rather than putting his own stamp on them.
Description of Poison - Seven Days Live
Seven Days Live captures Poison (Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall, Rikki Rockett and Richie Kotzen) at the height of their international success with a full show recorded at Londons Hammersmith Apollo in 1993. Featuring classic tracks like Unskinny Bop, Talk DiHard Rock & Metal Music CDs
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