Rick Wakeman/NH,USA 2019

Ahead of next year’s YES Featuring ARW final tour, Rick Wakeman’s first North American solo tour in 13 years is also attracting attention. His latest live album is now available. This work includes “September 22, 2019 Delhi Performance”. This is a superb audience recording that records one act of the “GRUMPY OLD ROCK STAR TOUR” currently in progress. In 2019, Rick plans to release his solo work “CHRISTMAS PORTRAITS” following “PIANO ODYSSEY”, and is currently conducting three types of tours: “PIANO ODYSSEY 2019”, “GRUMPY OLD ROCK STAR TOUR 2019”, and “GRUMPY OLD CHRISTMAS SHOW”. . To get an idea of ​​what’s going on, let’s take a look at the schedules that have been published so far. “PIANO ODYSSEY 2019”・May 4th – July 21st: UK #1 (10 performances) “GRUMPY OLD ROCK STAR TOUR 2019”・September 21st – October 27th: North America (24 performances)←★Here ★“PIANO ODYSSEY 2019”・November 16th + 17th: UK #2 (2 performances) “CHRISTMAS PORTRAITS” scheduled to be released on November 29th》“GRUMPY OLD CHRISTMAS SHOW”・December 5th-21st: UK# 3 (12 performances) This is Rick Wakeman in 2019. The show will be held in the UK and North America, and in their home country they will be touring as “PIANO ODYSSEY 2019” and “GRUMPY OLD CHRISTMAS SHOW”, and in North America they will be touring under the title “GRUMPY OLD ROCK STAR TOUR 2019”. And, the Delhi performance of this work was the second concert of the “North American” tour, the first in 13 years. This work recorded at such a show is a masterpiece recording with a sparkling piano. After all, this work was recorded by Relayer35, who is said to be a modern master. He is a recorder who loves YES even in the progressive rock genre, and his “WHITE PLAINS 2019” by the family tour “ROYAL AFFAIR”, which became a hot topic at our store, and “BOSTON 2016” by YES Featuring ARW are also very popular. This work is the latest collection of such a famous recording artist. Anyway, it’s on and the atmosphere is crystal clear. This tour is Rick’s solo piano recital, and the touch of each note is extremely delicate, and it is clear from the moment it rises to the moment it disappears. If you listen closely with headphones, you can feel a slight sense of spatial recording, but there is no sense of distance at all, and it is on a different level from so-called rock audience recordings. What is depicted with that sound is a recital in which Rick’s personality is fully demonstrated, which is different from that of other pianists. This work is a two-disc set with 23 tracks, so it’s hard to understand, but it’s actually quite simple. We will play nostalgic 70’s trilogy numbers and classic songs, but most of them are covers of famous songs that are familiar to rock fans. Let’s sort out its contents. ●Classical/Standard・Pachelbel Concerto In D (Pachelbel)/Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)・Sweet Georgia Brown (Ben Barney)・Rock/Pops・The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever/While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Help!/Eleanor Rigby・David Bowie: Space Oddity/Life On Mars・Cat Stevens: Morning Has Broken ●Original The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine Of Aragon/Catherine Howard・Merlin The Magician “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table” ／The Dance Of A Thousand Lights “Underground Exploration: Final Chapter” ・YES: And You And I “Crisis” ／Wonderous Stories “Ultimate”… And so it goes like this. Classical songs include Canon and Swan Lake, but the main songs are the Beatles, David Bowie, and YES. These masterpieces will be performed gorgeously and vividly. This alone is different from an ordinary piano recital, but in addition, between the intervals, there are joke MCs who are good at licks. It may be difficult to understand the content unless you are good at English, but the audience burst into laughter at the jokes tied to each famous song. The atmosphere was almost like listening to a stand-up comedy, but when the performance started, the audience was so overwhelmed by the brilliant finger movements that no one could make a sound. The difference is even exhilarating. Light, brilliant, beautiful, and thoroughly enjoyable. This is a piano album that could only be created by Rick. This is a masterpiece that lets you fully enjoy the superb sound of masterful licks that hit the hearts of rock lovers. This is a must-see for rock fans who are a little put off by the words “piano recital.” Live at Tupelo Music Hall, Derry, NH, USA 22nd September 2019 TRULY PERFECT SOUND Disc 1(67:09) 1. Pachelbel Concerto In D 2. Dentist Story 3. Strawberry Fields Forever 4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5. Morning Has Broken Story 6. Morning Has Broken 7. Grandad’s Birthday Story 8. Catherine Of Aragon 9. Catherine Howard 10. David Bowie Story 11. Space Oddity 12. Life On Mars 13. Sweet Georgia Brown Story 14. Sweet Georgia Brown 15. Swan Lake Story 16. Swan Lake Disc 2(48:04) 1. Country Music Titles Story 2. And You And I 3. Wonderous Stories 4. New York John Story 5. Help! 6. Eleanor Rigby 7. Hospital Story 8. Merlin The Magician 9. Dodgy Curry Story 10. The Dance Of A Thousand Lights Rick Wakeman – grand piano, stories