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Eric Bazilian & Friends Tin Angel, Philadelphia USA February 16, 2002 Audience 9+ CD-R

PHILADELPHIA '02

1. Cheap Date 2.21 * (missing beginning)
2. Miss You 3.55 *
3. Kid From Outer Space 6.10
4. Sweet Home Philadelphia 1.18
5. A Very Dull Boy 6.02
6. Young Fellow 5.19 **
7. Front Lines 7.34 **
8. I Fall 4.48 ***
9. Zombies 911 5.59 ****
10. Hold On Brother 0.57 **** (only the end)
11. Bye Bye Baby 2.25 *****
12. One of Us 8.13
13. Where Your Angels Are 6.16 ***
14. Hallelujah And Amen 3.16

Total time: 64:35

* David Cope sings
** (Phoenix sings)
*** (Se Rei sings)
**** (Phoenix raps)
***** (only 1/3 performed)

As a solo artist Eric Bazilian has recorded songs on his own and even performed them live with a band. Band members varies as he is not really touring. Only a few gigs now and then, mostly in the Philadelphia area or in Sweden. This is one of these gigs, at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia. Missing the first three songs of this set (The Big One, Driving in England, Ella Fitzgerald/Summer of '69, yes one verse of the Bryan Adams song) plus half of "Hold On Brother" and the beginning of "Cheap Date". If anyone has got a recording of these missing songs please contact me! Eric said before the show that it would be "rough". He was working out the set list at 7:20 so rather late before the show!

Maybe not a show for the "general" EB fan as it features only "Kid From Outer Space", "A Very Dull Boy", "Bye Bye Baby", "One Of Us", and "Where Your Angels Are" of his own solo work. The last song is interesting though with a female singer, and "A Very Dull Boy" is of course fun to hear live too. It works well, in what is else a rather obscure show with other artists which represent, quite mildly spoken, different styles than what is normal for Eric. If you ask me it's his own songs that makes it worth having. The die hard fan collecting versions of "One Of Us" won't be disappointed, like before with Pitea 2000 there is some improvisation included! Also, with a different band than usual all Eric's songs have a slight different sound. Eric had a new female singer (Shamsi?) who did a great job and a new drummer (don't know the name). Scott Bradoka on guitar and Fran Smith Jr on bass. Phoenix (rap singer) and David Cope sang probably as much as EB. Eric did a new song at the end called "Hallelujah And Amen", the last song on A Very Dull Boy, his new solo CD.

Once again EB and Phoenix did a rap version of All You Zombies called "Zombies 911", or rather it is more another song with extracts from Zombies. I am not sure what to think of that song. Personally I can live without it. As a fan of Eric's work I like his own stuff but the rest on this recording is not really the kind of music I normally listen to. But interesting to see how Eric changes his own songs live. He is a great live performer and in a way I don't think the step is so very far from this to his early live performance with Baby Grand almost 25 years earlier. He is still experimenting and brings his soul into the live performance just as much now as he did back then. Very good sounding recording, remastered sound. Available on one CD-R.