Search - Seru Giran :: En Vivo

Not the best Seru Giran live, but far from bad...

Manny Hernandez | Bay Area, CA | 02/06/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"If you compare this live recordindg against the one the band released earlier in its career (1982), prior to Charly Garcia going solo, or against similar recordings by Sui Generis (the first band Garcia formed back in the seventies), there is hardly going to be a doubt: this album will loose. Garcia's singing was far from the same level we all loved and hoped for, and the lyrical value of the new songs (featured on their 1992 album) was not comparable with their eighties work. However, the album serves a dual purpose: obviously it promoted the band's most recent work, which they performed on a tour all through Argentina, following the release of "Seru '92". But, it also contained some of their classics, which it is very interesting to hear with a few years of separation between their original released.



"En Vivo" provides you with an opportunity to witness the evolution in the way Pedro Aznar, David Levon, Oscar Moro and Charly Garcia approach their original compositions. Granted that the end result is not the best they've put on record, it remains as a testimony of the band's history and endurance in spite of Charly's ups and downs as a singer and a leader."

MALO

Aparato SuperSonico | Orlando, FL | 10/03/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Whereas some albums could benefit from a properly done remastering, some are simply bad and no amount of studio whizery could save it from the trash bin.

Here's a prime example: The songs are for the most part, good. However there are a couple of elements that work against any possible greatness that this CD might have possibly achieved: A lackluster performance by all memebrs of the band, including, but not limited to: Garcia forgetting the words to his own songs (I am shocked, shocked!), David Lebon allowed to perform some of his inferior compositions (Note: David tries REALLY HARD to rally the fans to sing his awful anthems. I wonder if the concertgoers - those not stoned anyway - waved their cigarrete lighters as David crooned them to puke), bad recording and mixing technicques, and the feeling that their hearts are not really into it, as they literally plod through some of their best known songs from their catalog. Clearly they only did this for the money. The Rolling Stones can get away with it because at least they hire the best backup singers, musicians, technicians and engineers they can find. While either this band or Columbia/Sony wanted to save some pesos and just record the whole thing as cheaply as possible.

This was a "reunion" type of concert. I truly expected more from these guys. The booklet is crap.

I'd recommend their 1982 "live" CD "No Llores por Mi Argentina", but I'd be doing you another disservice. That CD has gone through so many studio facelifts, you can't consider it a live album anymore. Fortunately you can find "Yo No Quiero Volverme Tan Loco" on CD nowadays. That one I wholeheartedly recommend. Seru Giran at its best, with no studio tinkering.

As for this one, skip it. You ain't missing nothin' anyways.

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