QUEENSRYCHE - The Art Of Live
July 3, 2004, 20 years ago
(Sanctuary)
For those who like the new Queensryche, this vid's for you, The Art Of Live capturing the mature version of the band and their textural songs in an appropriately grainy and sepia-toned art format. The sound is... strange, almost too clean and separated, crisp and bass-less. But Tate is an expressive frontman, quite dramatic with his hands, in good voice, and a pretty cool dresser. Personally, I'm bored by the new songs, but I'm glad 'Sign Of The Times' and 'Best I Can' made it, along with weirdly wooden versions of 'Comfortably Numb' and 'Won't Get Fooled Again', performed with various Dream Theater guys, highlight being the two-drummer barrage on the Who song. Extras include low-key interview footage and an acoustic 'Tribe' at a TV station at 6:00 AM and a photo gallery. I dunno, that sepia thing slowly bummed me out over the course of the thing, like there was a power outage in the hall. Like I say, it matches the power outage of the new album though, yet all told, it does indeed presents the band as pretty classy, as rock warriors now short-shorn and stubly and with a few extra pounds of baggage.
