Jeff Scott Soto – ‘One Night In Madrid’ (DVD) |
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LINE –UP:
Jeff Scott Soto –lead vocals, guitar & keyboards
Jorge Salan – lead guitar & vocals
BJ – rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards & vocals
Fernando Mainer – bass & vocals
Edu Cominato – drums & vocals
I.) Concert:
set list:
1.) “Intro”
2.) “21st Century”
3.) “Colour My XTC”
4.) “Soul Devine”
5.) “Our Song”
6.) “Drowning”
Edu drum solo
7.) “Funky Jam”
Jorge guitar solo
8.) ”Mountain”
9.) “Eyes Of Love”
10.) “Testify”
Band member intros:
11.) “Broken Man”
12.) “Hey”
13.) “Frozen”/”Crazy”
14.) Piano medley: “If This Is The End”, “Holding On”, “Nobody Said It Was going To Be Easy”, “4U”, “Just Between Us”
15.) “Gin & Tonic Sky”
JSS/Jorge workshop
16.) “I’ll Be Waiting”
Encore:
17.) “Stand Up”
18.) Funk Medley: “We Will Rock You”, “I Love Rock & Roll”, “Play That Funky Music”, “Jungle Boogie”, “ The Roof Is On Fire”, “Brick House”, “Shake Your Booty” ,”Kung Fu Fighting”, “Yo Baby Yo”, “Macho Man”, “The Right Stuff”, “Ice Ice Baby”, “Stayin’ Alive”, “Another One Bites The Dust”, “Walk This Way”
II.) Videos:
1.) “21st Century”
2.) “Gin & Tonic Sky”
3.) “Hey”
4.) “Gin & Tonic” (piano)
5.) “Believe In Me”
6.) “Eyes Of Love”
7.) “If This Is It”
8.) “Holding On”
Tribute to Marcel Jacob
III.) Goofballs:
Puerto Rican descendant Jeff Scott Soto was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 4th, 1965. While Jeff was cutting his teeth on artists such from Queen and Journey to bands of Motown such as The Jackson 5 his peers were listening to bands such as Kiss.
In late 1984, Jeff answered an open call for audition tapes by former Alcatrazz guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force featuring Jeff on vocals was released 1984. This release just featured his vocals on the songs “Now Your Ships Are Burned” & “As Above, So Below”. It was not until Malmsteen’s second solo release titled ‘Marching Out’, released August ’85 and the track “I’ll See The Light Tonight” when Jeff began paving his road to becoming one of the top premier vocalist of our generation. After leaving Rising Force Jeff bounced around from project to project the most surprising being the 1988 Kryst The Conqueror (pronounced Christ The Conqueror) which also included Jerry Only and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein of The Misfits.
In 1990 Jeff collaborated with his former Rising Force band mate, bassist Marcel Jacob and formed the European metal band called Talisman. Though Talisman did not tour extensively for this freshman release the band will in the end be one of Jeff’s greatest accomplishments. In 1992 Jeff found time to once again use an alias and sing the lead vocals for the project called Skrapp Mettle.
1992 brought Jeff together with German songwriter, guitarist Axel Rudi Pell for ‘Eternal Prisoner’. Released in 1992 ‘Eternal Prisoner’ will be the first of four studio releases the two will collaborate on. ‘Between The Walls’ (6/20/1994), ‘Black Moon Pyramid’ (11/30/1996), ‘Magic’ (1997), plus one live CD titled, ‘Made In Germany’ (1995). Throughout the nineties, though Jeff mainly split his time between the Axel Rudi Pell band & Talisman. Jeff not only found the time to recorded lead vocals for Takara releases titled, ‘Eternal Faith’ (1993), ‘Taste Of Heaven’ (1995), and ‘Blind In Paradise’ (1998). But also took the time to record the vocals on the soundtrack for the cartoon ‘Biker Mice From Mars’ (1993).
Since 1983’s ‘Threshold’ Jeff had been involved in several projects with many credits to his name both as a lead & back-up vocalist. 2003 was going to be all about Soto. The first thing for Jeff was the release of his second solo CD titled, ‘Prism’ (2002). ‘Prism’ featured a who’s who of musicians from Jeff’s career including a duet with legendary lead vocalist Glenn Hughes on the track, “I Want To Take You Higher”.
Soto began 2004 with the writing and recording of his third solo album titled, ‘Lost In Translation’. In addition, he performed at the January, 2004 NAMM show with Journey guitarist Neal Schon. This performance blossomed into a new project called Soul SirkUS. Jeff released ‘Lost In Translation’ which also featured Journey guitarist and Soul SirkUS guitarist, Neal Schon.
Soul Sirkus became Jeff’s main focus for 2005. Following the release of the band’s debut CD titled, ‘World Play’, Soul SirkUS spent all of April and May on tour, criss-crossing the United States and Europe. Jeff returned to Europe and South America for a solo tour in the fall of 2005, before returning home to begin work on his fourth solo release.
In July 2006, having just kicked off a major co-headlining tour with Def Leppard, Journey suddenly found themselves without a lead vocalist. Within a week and without the benefit of a rehearsal, Jeff found himself face to face with 20,000 screaming Journey fans. By the time the tour was over. It was official Jeff Scott Soto was the new lead vocalist for Journey.
Just one month after announcing Jeff was the official vocalist of the band, they were announcing his departure. Jeff wasted no time after his announcement and released ‘Beautiful Mess’ in 2009. While on the ‘Beautiful Mess’ tour Jeff recorded this live release titled, ‘One Night In Madrid’
Recorded live at Sala Heineken, Madrid Spain on April, 18th 2009, ‘One Night In Madrid’ is the third live release Jeff has recorded as a solo artist. The show opens with a small intro that consists of a six song pre-recorded sampler of the history of Jeff’s vocal career. This leads into Jeff’s saying, “That was then this is now.” This sentence was pre-recorded. Jeff designed the set list to open with his song “21st Century” from his ‘Beautiful Mess’ CD released 8/19/08. Over the years, I have listened to hundreds of bands live. Out of every set list I have heard this has to be the greatest opening track! Jeff you must keep it as such!!! I have the low end of my stereo turned up so the heavy bass sound on tracks like track 3 “Colour My Love XTC” sounded amazing! Jeff chose a set lit that mainly consisted of songs from his solo & Talisman years. There is a small funk jam along with the song “Mountain” connecting Edu drum solo and Jorge’s guitar solo. Please don’t get me wrong and I do not want to sound conceded however, I have seen some of the best musicians play some of the best solos. At my age solos are a waste of concert time and though I know why they are there I would prefer to see another song added to the set list. On the Piano medley it is just Jeff’s vocals & piano. This piano medley really shows the power and strength of his vocals and just how good of a vocalist he is. It’s such a beautiful thing when there is crowd participation and they drill it! Jeff opens the encore up with “Stand Up” from the 2001 Mark Wahlberg movie ‘Rockstar’. The encore ends with what could possibly be the best medley ever put together and arranged!!!!
The videos consisted of videos Frontiers Records filmed for promotional use. This is one area where Frontiers is knocking the ball out of the park in comparison to other labels. The video section consists of two versions of “Gin & Tonic” a standard video then one with just Jeff & piano. My wife worded it best; “This acoustic piano version along with the way it was filled gives you a very raw exposed look at Jeff.
Located within the video section there is a tribute video dedicated to longtime friend and band mate Marcel Jacob (bassist). Who passed away on July 21, 2009.
The Goofball section is divided up into 6 parts. Outside of the length, all six sections are pretty much the same. There’re funny as hell and well worth watching!