Retour en force de Peter Nicholls qui avait été remplacé par Paul Menel. Enregistré en allemagne en 1993 Les commentaires sont bienvenus!!! Vous pouvez acheter le DVD "Forever live"sur le site officiel du groupe; ) Enjoy!!!
That's an incredible performance of an incredible band, Pete Nicholls haunted by his character, best example of what prog rock can offer : great music, great lyrics, great musical skill, emotion .. IQ is definitely in the top 3 of the best prog bands !!
For 40 years the best Neo progg Rock band.... For 40 years their own unique melodious sound..... The best in my life (I'm 54 years old and fan from the early start in the 80s....)👌👌👌👍 PS... I still remember them, reached the Dutch Top 40 and they naild it with "Nostalgia".... From that moment on I was addicted!!
i would blast this one alot back in 1983, and was so fortunate to see them live in southampton (where IQ originaly came from) in sept 1983 -the solent suite. always a superb live act, still producing some incredibly good neo prog albums. "resistance" is my no 1 album for 2019. they havn't lost their progressive class! they've progressed into another universe of grandiosity.
I am speechless. I've been watching some of IQ's more recent stuff, I had NO IDEA Nicholls used to coordinate these kinds of theatrics. Absolutely incredible.
It's neither "shit" nor a copy of Genesis. Did you see Genesis live with Gabriel? Well I did, and they were nothing like this. Both are excellent bands.
Finally!! I am going to see this amazing band Live for the very first time next April in Quebec City for their only North american concert of 2017. Meanwhile, i can enjoy brilliant videos like this one, can't hardly wait, Thanks for posting this Gem!
It sure was! Great set list although they did not play this one (Enemy) but I love the Road of Bones songs! I'm planning to go back to Quebec for the terra incognita fest in 2 weeks, are you guys going?
Génial! J'avais jamais vu la performance live. Comme disent les autres, c'est très "génésien" comme mise en scène. Au fait, le texte ça décrit une descente aux enfers de la drogue ou quoi?
@MrCommissairejuve Dans l'édition 25e anniversaires de l'album The Wake il y un DVD qui contien une autre version mais c'est seulement la 2e partie de la pièce... Tu peus voir ce clip sur mon channel, et aussi une version moin officiel en Italie qui est au complet;) Si tu aimes abonne toi...
La vocalità di PETER NICHOLLS è un po' un qualcosa tra PETER GABRIEL e FISH !!!!!!!!! Ed anche la musica risente delle due fonti di ispirazione e cioè GENESIS e MARILLION !!!!! Ialbum di esordio degli IQ è molto bello solo un brano è un po' al di sotto ed è TROUGH THE CORRIDORS che però è piacevole !!!!!!!
This whole piece is a graphic telling of the story of someone who falls prey to the lure of drugs, tries to control but slowly but surely death creeps up on him. The cord around the arm is a reference to what heroin users use to get a vein to shoot a needle into. At the end the arms take over control (i.e. he totally succumbs to the addiction) and eventually he gets some kind of heart attack or seizure and dies. In january 1995 for the first I witnessed a performance by IQ of The Enemy Smacks and there was this girl standing in front of me at The Marquee in London (it was actually the very last gig ever at The Marquee) and she had missed that Peter had staggered on to stage in the third part (wearing the black cape) and so when he finally appeared into the lights right at the front of the stage she literally freaked out and jumped back, bumping into me. It was a spellbinding performance. Actually, almost all of the progbands of that era had some kind of theatrical performance type piece on their repertoire: Marillion had Grendel, IQ had The Enemy Smacks, Twelfth Night had Sequences and Pallas had The Ripper. That one was probably the most shocking at the time as it was the tale of a very well known serial killer at the time. Years late they finally got around filming a full performance of The Ripper. Original singer Euan Lowson made a guest appearance at this dvd shoot for this and my god, he now looks the part ... very creepy. He is playing around with a knife on stage and he even manages to cut himself for real (although accidentally) at the end ... be prepared for some gore :-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nKmvsHUL7xc.htmlh4m53s
