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Ian Hunter - Just Another Night Live at the Rant Band
Very fine, my complaints amount to quibbles.
The set list is great, it's fun to see Ian Hunter back with Mick Ralphs. It's a well-balanced set list drawing from Mott the Hoople and Hunter's post-Hoople solo recordings. I have to take this back: the set list not just great, it's impossible to argue with it in any substantive form. Bravo!)
Hunter's voice is raspier than I remembered it, uh, THIRTY years ago, but I'm not going to complain about it. Mott has been on my radar screen since they were on "ABC's In Concert," a Friday night show where you watched on your TV and listed through your stereo FM radio. He's welcome to age, and he's aged well.
So, those quibbles. "The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nothing But the Truth" is kind of the show's centerpiece. I don't have a problem with that, it's a great tune. But the mix during the first guitar solo, by Andy York, emphasizes the drums over the guitar. When Mick Ralphs does HIS solo on the tune, suddenly the guitar is given its proper emphasis.
Second quibble: on "I Wish I Was Your Mother" (the best Bob Dylan tune Dylan never wrote), York tries to make his guitar sound like a mandolin. The two instruments aren't the same, and it's only a partial success: on the higher notes York does well with ultra-fast picking, but if you remember the Mott recording, during the chorus the mandolin went into a medium register - - this is missing from this recording. Watching York (me, for the first time), he seems very talented - - as someone who plays guitar more than mandolin, I'm surprised York couldn't make the leap the mandolin.
BUT. THESE. ARE. QUIBBLES.
This show is well recorded, it's a fine set, and I frankly have no idea why I bothered to register these quibbles in the context of what is really a fine DVD.Ian Hunter - Just Another Night Live at the Rant Band
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Unfortunately the setlist is missing from the official description of this DVD.
So here it is.. buy it.. you'll love it!
Rest In Piece
Rock'n'Roll Queen
Once Bitten Twice Shy
Twisted Steel
I Wish I Was Your Mother
Knees Of My Heart
23A Swan Hill
Irene Wilde
The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth
Rollerball
Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Roll Away The Stone
Saturday Gigs
All The Young Dudes
The Journey
Dead Man Walkin'
Just Another Night
Cleveland Rocks
Michael Picasso
Standin' In My Light
All The Way From MemphisIan Hunter - Just Another Night Live at the Rant Band
almost 5 stars
I've seen Ian everytime he's been in Cleveland since 1972.
That being said, this is perhaps his best live/DVD/VHS concert ever. Unless they unearth a video with Mick Ronson, this is it!
Ian ain't about flash, smoke pots, and fire, his songs are the reason people go to see him.
With a set that includes songs from LP 1 (R & R Queen/ Mott The Hoople) to his last studio LP (Dead Man Walking/Rant),he touches all bases.
With a crack line-up which includes Andy York and MICK RALPHS!!, they tear up a slew of classics and obscure songs---obscure only if you're a newbie to his music
Highlights--Dudes--Ian's joined onstage by his kids Tracie (what a Hottie) and Jesse
Michael Picasso--ode to Ronson
Roll Away the Stone--another appearence by Tracie
Memphis--because Ian screws up and they restart the song in true Mott The Hoople fashion
The only downer on this is the camera placement. Most everything is shot from viewer left/stage right---up and down to center stage.
This is why it gets 4 stars.
Good interview with Ian also, although a translator might be in order--lol---he's so British
New LP on the way---hopefully by SeptemberIan Hunter - Just Another Night Live at the Rant Band
"Rock and Roll's a loser's game/ it mesmerizes and I can't Explain..."
Wow...all the other reviewers here sound like they've been to the Cameron Crowe school of adjectives. Ok, truth is, I have Ian with Ronno and the "Welcome To The Club" band, so I'm in no great rush to hear his songs mangled by JC Mellonhead's guitarist. But Ralpher is on here fairly prominently, so, until IH releases stuff that he did PRE-MTV....like I said, I will wind up buying this. 6/20 - it arrived yesterday. It's wonderful to see and hear Ralpher again - and, in truth, the price you pay for this thing is justified, just to watch/hear Mick Ralphs actually play the immortal riff that IS All The Young Dudes." And Tracy is a stone HOTTIE, but somebody needs to stick a sock in that brat from "Def Leppard" & Brian May's mouths, and....oh, you know, I'm sorry ; I've said it all before: stick to pre- "Welcome To The Club" stuff.Ian Hunter - Just Another Night Live at the Rant Band
Awesome
Wow. Great DVD. Ian's looking great. It's so much fun to see these guys up there playing a mix of old and new stuff. The band sounds great and look like they're having a lot of fun, too. This is true rock and roll.Ian Hunter - Just Another Night Live at the Rant Band
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