I strongly diagree with this review, particularly with the folloing parts.
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Check out "Gypsy". This track is all over the place. The scream at the beginning is something you can mistake for another vocalist all together; very uncharacteristic of Dio. Also, we have a drum solo and this is only the third song!
The third song
on the disc. The tracklisting from the gig was chopped up so they could fit all of Holy Diver on the one disc. In reality they played Tarot Woman, followed by Sign of the Southern Cross/One Night in the City before going into holy Diver.
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"Shame On The Night" clocks in at almost seventeen minutes, with a majority of it being dedicated to some drawn out guitar solos and keyboard arrangements. This reminds me of how some of old Rainbow songs got dragged out in the live setting as well.
"Dragged out" is hardly the phrase I would use. 17 minutes - that's the song itself, split in two with a guitar solo in the middle and a reprise of the Holy Diver chorus at the end with a couple of minutes of crowd noise to round off the disc.
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The keyboard intro to "Gates of Babylon" sounds like it's being played on a cheap Casio keyboard! The string arrangements from the original are not even re-created accurately.
Now this is being unfair to Scott Warren - do you really expect him to recreate an entire string section by himself while playing the original keyboard parts at the same time?
