Product: High Live [VHS]
Rating: 2.0
Sorry, not even a nice try! Bring back Kai Hansen and start over again!
OK, me being from Germany and grew up in the eighties, the prime time of Heavy Metal, my expectaions are high.I first got in contact with Helloween, when they recorded a sampler (along with Grave Digger and others)for Noise Records. I was overwhelmed, heavy, fast, agressive, everything I could ask for. Their first mini album was absolutely awesome, I say, a must have along with the following 'Walls of Jericho' album, both deserve 5 stars. When Helloween dicided to have Michael Kiske take over the vocals, it was still very good. The music became more complex and melodic, but still heavy. Than came the breaking point. Kai Hansen, the lead of Helloween left and all went down the drain. Helloween did not have a good album ever since and Kai's new bands never quite hit it big time either.Watching the DVD, along with the absolute annoying cuts in between the songs, put tears in eyes. What happend to the band I have seen and adored in several live performances. Poor, the "highlites" are 'Future world' and 'Dr. Stein', two weeker songs from their past. Michi Weikart stage performance is having a cigarette in his mouth and plays the guitar bored out of his mind. The rest tries but even the fans are somehow not to much into the concert. We can not bring the old times back, but everyone who had the chance to see the band during their 'Keeper' Tour and before that will agree, that we have lost one of the greatest and most talented bands ever come out of Germany, Europe and this planet.