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Talisman DVD Worlds Best Kept Secret
World's Best Kept Secret (2005)
World's Best Kept Secret (DVD)  

Label: Frontiers Records

 
Release Date: 21/03/2005  
by: Gabor Kleinbloesem from Strutter Magazine  
Line Up: Jeff Scott Soto - Vocals , Marcel Jacob - Bass , Howie Simon and Freddie Åkesson - Guitars, Jamie Borger - Drums
 
   
By far the ultimate DVD release on Frontiers Records, and without a doubt the best DVD release from the past few months, this Talisman DVD. The DVD contains 2 full concerts, all the Talisman videoclips and a movie that contains another bunch of live videoclips from rare Talisman performances, such as their Lokerse Feesten gig in 2003.
 
   
The 2 full concerts of Talisman are of course a pleasure to watch, because both the Stockholm Club gig and the Sweden Rock Festival performance show how good Talisman is live on stage. The Stockholm footage is better than the Sweden Rock Festival footage, but that's the only negative comment I can make about this DVD, because basically this is a perfect DVD!
   
     
The DVD also proves once again that Jeff Scott Soto is the ultimate frontman, because his stage performance is the best you can imagine. Every time Jeff is on stage it feels (for him) like he’s home, it’s where he belongs. He does not only sing at all times perfect (each and every style of music, and each and every song), but he also is giving away a great performance visual, entertaining the audience during each song. The best performance on this DVD is definitely the Stockholm Club gig, in which Jeff even sings a fantastic version of the Europe classic “Scream of anger”. “I’ll be waiting’ is featured no less than 3 times, 2 times live and the videoclip. The live performances are absolutely brilliant, up to 6 minutes long and with a break where the audience is invited to sing a long with Jeff.
   
     
And there’s the cool videoclip of “I’ll be waiting”, but also from “Just between us”, which happens to be one of the most beautiful songs on which Jeff ever sang. Disc 1 features the 2 concerts, while disc 2 contains a sort of biography on Talisman, which includes all the videoclips, rare performances and some funny backstage footage. All together a fantastic double DVD set, which contains about 3 hours of high quality material.
   
     
A must-have for fans of Jeff Scott Soto!    
(Points: 9.4 out of 10)