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2 disc live set from British heavy metal act who were a huge influence on Metallica who based their early compositional style on Diamon Heads debut ‘Lightning to the Nations’. CD1 is a live recording from 1991 & CD2 is a video CD with 44 minutes of live footage that can be played on both DVD & CD-ROM. Tracks include ‘Hocus Pocus’, ‘Feels So Good’, she Comes Down’ & ‘To Heaven From Hell’. Recorded at Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton, Nov 21, 1991.
Slimline double jewel case.
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Live – In The Heat Of The Night [Live album by Diamond Head]
Released: 2000
Recorded: 1991
Genre: Heavy metal
Length: 71:43 + 44:00 = 115 minutes!
Label: Zoom Club Records
Live – In The Heat Of The Night is a live album by heavy metal band Diamond Head recorded at the Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall during their 1991 comeback tour. It was originally a video bootleg but was released on the insistence of their manager, Steve Guard, in 2000 in tribute to the bands live sound after their breakup after the Death and Progress album in 1994, and contains a thank-you note from vocalist Sean Harris on the inner sleeve.
This live album consists of two discs. The first is an audio recording of the show, whilst the second is video of the concert, although neither disc captures the entire show.
The album contains several unreleased songs, such as “Let Me Down Easy” and “She Comes Down” as well as a medley of cover songs at the end of disc one, which was rare for Diamond Head.
——–Disc I——–
‘Lightning To The Nations’
‘Feels Good’
‘I Can’t Help Myself’
‘In The Heat Of The Light’
‘Calling Your Name’
she Comes Down’
sucking My Love’
‘Let Me Down Easy’
‘Borrowed Time’
‘Run’
‘To Heaven From Hell’
‘Makin’ Music’
‘Home’
Medley: ‘Helpless’, ‘My Generation’ [The Who cover], ‘Oh Well’ [Peter Green / Fleetwood Mac cover], ‘Hocus Pocus'[Focus cover], ‘Riff Raff’ [AC/DC cover], & ‘Its Electric’
——Disc II———-
‘Feels Good’
‘I Can’t Help Myself’
‘In The Heat Of The Light’
‘Calling Your Name’
she Comes Down’
sucking My Love’
‘Let Me Down Easy’
‘Borrowed Time’
‘Run’
Sean Harris – Vocals
Brian Tatler – Guitar
Eddie “Chaos” Moohan – Bass guitar & backing vocals
Karl Wilcox – Drums
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N.W.O.B.H.M. pioneers Diamond Head are captured live on this 2000 release. However, the actual recording is taken from a 1991 show at Wolverhampton UK. At that point original members Sean Harris (V) and Brian Tatler (G) had reunited with plans to record a new album (“Death and Progress”- 1993).
“Live in the heat of the night” sounds as if taken straight from the mixing desk; Having said that all instruments come through clearly and are consistently audible. This release also includes a video CD with 9 out of 13 songs (which CD1 features) also poorly captured by a solo camera.
9 years past their original break up and in 1991 Harris sounds even greater a vocalist than in the 80s while Tatler has matured into a more confident guitar player unafraid to include tricky passages and solos that match perfectly the nature of the songs. Additionally the CD does not fail to include quite a few of their signature songs namely “In the heat of the night” , “Borrowed Time” and “Lightning to the nations” with the addition of newer minor hits such as “I can’t help myself” and “Run”.
Metallica’s – Garage Inc. album came out in 1998 and sold over five million copies. It contains four Diamond Head songs, and the royalties have changed my life a lot [says Diamond Head’s Brian Tatler]. I bought a house with my wife, and the constant flow of royalties mean that I no longer have to work.
“In 1998, I was visiting our drummer Karl in San Francisco, and I got a call from Lars Ulrich, who invited us to come and visit him at The Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, where Metallica were recording Garage Inc. Lars showed us around and treated us to a playback of It’s Electric, that they’d just recorded.
“Later on we drove back into San Francisco to celebrate, and l asked Lars how many copies the record would sell. And he said, ‘this is probably going to sell five million copies, based on the the last few. So the beers are on you!’
“To get four songs on a Metallica album… I’ve been very lucky there. It’s just the way it is. They did great versions of our songs. They are very tight and make it rock. They introduced Diamond Head to millions of American fans that didn’t know Diamond Head, because we had never toured the US back in the day.
“I sometimes think of some of the other NWOBHM bands that didn’t get covered. It could have been Angelwitch. It could have been Tygers Of Pan Tang. I’m just very lucky.” [Diamond Head’s Brian Tatler]
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