Thank You Wacken (Live) Kai Hansen
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Album-Release:
2017
HRA-Release:
23.06.2017
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- 1 Born Free (Live at Wacken) 04:30
- 2 Ride the Sky (Live at Wacken) 07:48
- 3 Contract Song (Live at Wacken) 06:39
- 4 Victim of Fate (Live at Wacken) 07:07
- 5 Enemies of Fun (Live at Wacken) 10:19
- 6 Fire and Ice (Live at Wacken) 07:58
- 7 Burning Bridges (Live at Wacken) 04:35
- 8 Follow the Sun (Live at Wacken) 05:08
- 9 I Want Out (Live at Wacken) 05:48
- 10 Future World (Live at Wacken) 05:21
- 11 All or Nothing (Live at Wacken) 05:55
- 12 Save Us (Live at Wacken) 05:30
Info for Thank You Wacken (Live)
German rock/metal legend Kai Hansen releases a live album later this month. From Helloween to Gamma Ray and Unisonic, Kai Hansen has been a big part of the German (and international) music scene for over thirty years (hence the XXX title of his recent studio album).
Last year at Wacken he played a one-off special show with some guest musicians. He’s no strangeer to Wacken having first played there with his band Gamma Ray in 1994, back when the festival was a tiny one, and he’s been back several times seeing it grow to the giant festival it is today. His close relationship with the festival was visible when he released the XXX album – he donated his advance for it to the Wacken foundation (A foundation formed eight years ago by the festival organisers that helps support young hard rock and heavy metal bands).
It’s slightly odd as this live album, released 9 months after the Kai Hansen and friends studio album, XXX, was actually recorded several months before the release of XXX.
As you’d expect, the live show and studio albums have a very similar track listing, with almost all the songs on the studio album also being in the live show. There are differences though – 2 of the songs on the album didn’t make it into the live show, and the live show includes some songs not on the album – four covers of Helloween songs (“Ride the sky”, “I want out” “”Save us” and “Future world”.
For the Wacken show Kai Hansen’s band was Alex Dietz (Heaven shall burn) on bass, Michael Ehre (Gamma Ray) on drums, Corvin Bahn (Crystal breed) on keyboards, Eike Freese (Dark age) on guitar, plus two backing singers – Frank Beck (Gamma Ray) and Clementine Delauney (Visions of Atlantis).
A benefit of the special show being at Wacken is that the audio and video is always great – a lot of bands have released live DVDs or albums from their Wacken sets. As always with Wacken shows, the sound is spot on, and the performance was filmed with multiple cameras and the picture quality is excellent.
It’s a great performance with a good strong setlist. The new songs sit comfortably alongside the Helloween classics, and the band perform well together.
Kai Hansen, guitar, vocals
Eike Freese, guitar
Corvin Bahn, keyboards
Alex Dietz, bass
Michael Ehré, drums
Clémentine Delauney, backing vocals
Frank Beck, backing vocals
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