Heart: Alive in Seattle

I was born a few years before Heart released their first album. I loved so many of their songs, seen them in concert many times and even wrote a Commodore 64 video game called Heart where you go through a large maze finding pieces of the lyrics to Hearts songs. LOL!

I never published the video game, I was just a kid tinkering and coming up with ideas. I loved programming and I loved Heart so I called myself Heart Soft. LOL!

I'm sure you know about Heart! As for this DVD... I'm not a fan of live recordings but Heart does pretty good here. My favorite song off the whole album is Love Alive.

A beautiful song, very well done even for a live song.

The only cd I didn't really like over all these decades and all these songs was Jupiters Darling. While all the other cd's have been played thousands of times over the years I just couldn't enjoy Jupiters Darling.

Anyways, I have played this DVD about 30 times. It's a nice flash back to 2003. Nice to see my favorite band. I have lots of pictures of heart too from concerts over the years in the GTA.

I remember going to see a Heart Concert at Memorial Stadium in Seattle just after the release of their debut album. I walked out of Memorial Stadium about 5 minutes after they started playing. Why? THEIR STAGE PRESENTS! Ann Wilson had terrible Stage Presents ( In My Openion ). So much that I couldn't stand to hear any more of their concert. I stopped listening to Heart after the song "Straight On" ( around 1979 ) was introduced. After that, their lyrics sounded like they should be in Romance Novels... I pity the male musicians who were a part of Heart over the years. They obviously had no say in production or music, they just gutted it out and picked up their paychecks. Hey, its a living and a way to pay the bills, right??

Performing in their hometown of Seattle at the very end of their so-called "Summer of Love" tour in 2002, Ann and Nancy Wilson were obviously in a good mood, and this excellent concert disc captures them at the top of their rocking form. I've been seeing these gals in concert since 1977 (just saw 'em here in NYC a few years ago), and they have always delivered the goods in a live setting. This particular show not only features lots of old favorites, but also several new cuts that have not seen the light of day on a studio album yet (including the recent "Jupiter's Daughter"), and also some fine covers. The girls do a particularly fine version of Zep's "Battle of Evermore" and "Black Dog," and look very beautiful, both of them, throughout. The Seattle crowd was obviously loving the return of their hometown favorites; what a show they were treated to that night! For all fans of Ann and Nancy, this DVD is a godsend that they will want to blast over and over.