SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AMERICA... - LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES

Time Flyies. Someday we´ll all can say that this performance is 20 years old... Being a huge Mr. Hackett´s fan it´s my pleasure to check that this performance is one of the highest rated of all Steve´s official live recordings. Let me tell you that having attended + 300 live shows in my life I would never forget this one. Its enormously difficult to put this as a cool track-by-track , musician - by-musician performance. Amazingly enough reading some reviews I see other people feels the same. That´s why I´m one of the very few people that finds that almost the same band liuneup performing on the restles GR I & II tour seem a little tired, compared to this one, fresh, joy to perform. I have experienced myself the real joy in this men´s faces while playing at the whole concert. I saw many attendants crying while leaving the Coliseo Theatre after the show, due to so many emotions running this whole set. It was a non-stop of so emotional music direct to the heart. And It was on yr, 2001, not 2002 as someone stated.

Still there are some friends who go "Hey I Saw you on "Watcher Of The Skyies"... yes and I still wonder what was interesting for the cameraman in filming me long seconds shared with no less than Roger King while I was trying to install my camera´s film propperly under near absence of light during that holy song intro. I was in charge of covering this show with reviews and pics for some Argentinian media. There is a Chilean boot release on CD of their show of the same tour released with a front cover of the band showered under a green light, pic courtesy of yours truly, that someone downloaded from Steves official web site The other "souvenir" I took with myself was a seemingly lifetime eardrum trauma, I suspect the fantastic "Mechanical Bride" ´s fault. Nevermind, nothing can pale the experience of attending the best performance I´ve ever saw/ heard in My life.

While considering set selection, performances and joy that this mean exude, (Five Stars) , on the downside I can say that video quality of this DVD is surprisingly poor, compared to, say, "Once above a Time" one... And so is the whole layout of the DVD... being that there were ... eghem !... Many other much better pictures available.

Trying to be enterprisingly objective, all can I say to general prog lovers is: Don´t miss this show, and try not to get distracted by the noisy and low quality video on this one. May Steve take note of all good reviews regarding this show and (fingers crossed) think about a remaster - full version of this exceptional piece of art.