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Don Airey’s live album
Edel/earMUSIC will release Don Airey’s band Live in Hamburg in February this year. This show is from March 14, 2017, and took place at the Fabrik club in Hamburg.
The setlist contains a healthy mix of tracks from the bands Don’s been involved with over the years as well as some originals.
CD1
- Nuclear attack (originally by Gary Moore)
- Pictures of home (originally by Deep Purple)
- Shooting star
- I surrender (originally by Russ Ballard)
- Still got the blues (originally by Gary Moore)
- Desperado (originally by Colosseum II)
- The way I feel inside
- Lost boys
- Is this love (originally by Whitesnake)
CD2
- Child in time (originally by Deep Purple)
- Difficult to cure (originally by Rainbow)
- All night long (originally by Rainbow)
- Lost in Hollywood (originally by Rainbow)
- Hush (originally by Joe South)
- Since you’ve been gone (originally by Russ Ballard)
- Black night (originally by Deep Purple)
Release date, according to at least one online retailer, is penciled in as February 26, 2021.
Don Airey band are:
- Carl Sentance – vocals
- Laurence Cottle – bass
- Simon McBride – guitar
- Jon Finnigan – drums
- Don Airey – keyboards
Thanks to Yvonne for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Wow… what a great set! But nothing from his era with DP which is a bit bizzare considering its coming up to 20 years which is about a third of his working life as keyboard player 🎹
January 10th, 2021 at 10:194 of these tracks were released on the 2nd cd of the “one of a kind” solo album.
January 10th, 2021 at 13:52Great set, another recycling of others’ fame….mixed feelings
January 10th, 2021 at 17:54“Is This Love” with Airey on Whitesnake?!
January 10th, 2021 at 21:25A decent set,for sure, However,there are enough LIVE versions by the original bands already available.
January 10th, 2021 at 22:04By the way,why does Black Night keep getting trotted out in concert ??
Audience participation tune ?? That’s one song I never need to hear again.
Gimme a break … Black Night, Hush, Is this Love and Since you been gone – who needs another live-version oft one of those. Not me certainly …
And how about a tune or two from his time in DP … songs not played too much like Bananas or Rapture or something? People who come to a Don Airey show should be fans I guess that are familiar with the material and will love to hear that stuff …
@ Mike. agreed 100 %
I attended a show of the Band with a setlist quite similar though – and have to say it was well worth it, due to the performances and a good time was had by all …
January 11th, 2021 at 10:14AndreA: Don Airey played keyboards (he was credited on the sleeve/in the liner notes) on Whitesnake’s 1987 album and also specifically on Is It Love. He’s all over the album even where you don’t believe to hear keyboards: Keith Olsen, the producer, revealed in later Interviews that very little of the apparent “bass” on 1987 is actually Neil Murray, most of it is Don Airey on synth bass (unfortunately a general trend around that time, Alannah Myles’ Black Velvet “bass” intro at the beginning? A-L-L
January 11th, 2021 at 14:48K-E-Y-B-O-A-R-D-S : – ( As a bassist I cry: There should have been laws against it!!!
When I’ve seen them (2x), as mixed as the set list was covering so many bands with different singers, Carl Sentance did a fine job on all songs, Is It Love being perhaps the weakest rendition. Say what you will about DC, but he’s not easy to match on that song.
January 11th, 2021 at 18:26@7
January 12th, 2021 at 08:47Thank You Uwe Hornung!
@5 Agree! It’s time to retire Black Night from all live shows?! I will listen to this LP when it is available to me, sounds like it could be interesting?!
January 12th, 2021 at 10:24Great news!
Don’s band is a phenomenal live act and the guy still is (by far) the best in this business…
A shame they didn’t choose a 2018 or 2019 show, setlist were even more interesting but we’ll hear some fantastic thing on this cd.
January 13th, 2021 at 08:43@4: Don Airey plays all the keys on Whitesnake 1987 and also a lot on Slip of the tongue (also David Rosenthall). Don was in the late ninenties also the keyboardplayer in The Snakes (with Mickey Moody and Bernie Marsden) and later in the Company of Snakes (great live bands mainly playing old school bluesy Whitesnake stuff).
January 13th, 2021 at 23:39PS The Don Airey band played ocasionally with Stefan Berggren (Company of Snakes) as a singer and he fits much better in the band and his voice is better in the classicrock songs.
LOL, is there a heavy metal/hard rock album of the, say, last 40 years where Don did not sprinkle his magic ivories dust?! I have countless CDs where he guested. He’s as ubiquitous as Glenn Hughes!
January 20th, 2021 at 04:12I have a bootleg of this show and it is great!
January 26th, 2021 at 04:56