I love this band.This recording visually is flat. Its like a studio setting with an audience.BUt......Its about the music. What wonderful recording! The best rendition of "Garden of Dreams" ever.If you are here deciding to buy this or not, your obviously a fan of this band and the music is familar to you.I have seen this band live and this DVD does not capture the magic nor the humor they have. When they are not filming, their are a bit more chatty amung themselves and the audiance. Very clever personalities and obviously very bright.This is very different than the "Instant Delivery" DVD which is heavy in the new album.The Music and selection is wonderful. Thats what its about anyway!Fans buy it! If your new to this band, this is not a bad way to "Meet the Flower Kings"!4 stars. Why? 3 for its video production and 5 for the music! Video is not bad, but this is a modern recording and not up to the standard. The new one is much better in this regard. Also IM not crazy about the editing job they did. No big deal, just skip thru the "travel log" to the next song.They are an amazing band!Special edition has both the DVD and audio only cds.Its a better CD than DVD! Read more

If you only buy one Flower Kings CD, I think this is the one to get. Really strong performance, so well-recorded it sounds close to a studio album, and some of their best material. I can't give it 5 stars because while their epics do contain their best melodies, I always wish they'd dial everything back a notch -- too bombastic and overwrought for my taste. Read more

This is a fantastic prog CD.. I personally believe that this CD is the best overall put out by the Flower Kings.. Circus Brimstone is the only "weak" cut on the CD.. For you YES and early Genesis fans, this group offers a great listening experience.. I only found them thru a Pandora "tree" about 6 months ago.. Enjoy... Read more

"The Truth Will Set You Free" is Great!! The rest of the CD I don't like as much. Read more

The Bands finest album! I tend to dig epics and this album is all of that. Great retro prog sounds. Read more

EXCELLENT deal... Read more

When the released Live Around The World in in 98 I was slightly dissapointed that so many good stuff was not added to the cd's. I mean Flower Power was already released but not even one song from that album, so it letted me guess that this were all recordings from previous tours. Anyway there were some good songs on it anyway, but then this year they released Meet The Flower Kings. Absolutely awsome CD. Especially since it carries all their epics, and mostly it are the epics that are my favorite songs of this band. They made very very beautifull short sings too though. Compassion, Ghost Of Red Clouds or Corruption for example, but that all falls into none compared to Humannizzimo, Stardust We Are or Unfold The Future, and there are more songs that make me drew over and over again, that are not respresented on this recording, but what they did here is a really good effort. And Im happy with the cd. I always thought I wanted to hear a track as Humannizzimo with the Flower Kings now, with the recent line up, cos I imagined it would make the song more powerfull, and I was only close to what the song is actually sounding now. Really really good. I got addicted to the song right away, and soon to the other stuff too. So all in all I cannot agree with the previous review that songs are a mess or whatever, I think they did a fine job live. And as you once been to see a gig of the boys then you know that sometimes songs can end up in quite some impovisational escapades, but to me thats more a proof of amazing craftmanship than of failure. You should see King Crimson playing live. Read more

Very good live album. Amazing, in fact.To start off, I deducted one star only because it is a live album, with little to no audience contact. They didn't sing along, they were barely spoken to... To me, that interaction makes live albums memorable.But this live album is rediculously good nonetheless.I love the Flower Kings. I love anything and everything that Roine Stolt touches (okay, not too fond of Kaipa...). And adding my absolute favorite vocalist as backup doesn't hurt, either. Yes, Daniel Gildenlow of Pain of Salvation fame is here to contribute some guitars, keyboards and vocals. It really adds a lot to the songs.I've never been a fan of 'The Truth Will Set You Free'. It honestly just never did anything for me. Its not bad, but it just isn't phenomonal.The Garden of Dreams, however, is fantastic. The entire song is done here in amazing sequence. This is truely a masterful track, even considering the studio version was one of the greatest progressive songs of all time.Humanizzimo is another amazing track. It's the focal point of Roine Stolt's first solo album, The Flower King. And with the full band, and with Gildenlow's vocals, the song is spectacular.Circus Brimstone is kind of random, but it allows the band to show off their skills. And Silent Inferno was excellent, like the original.Stardust We Are is done in it's entirety, and very well so. It's heavier than the original, and the end is more majestic. It even has an amazing jazz improv section in the middle of it.Overall, this is an amazing live album. Despite the lack of an audience, it's a must-buy if you're a fan of intellectual music. Read more

Great progressive rock. Read more

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If you don't mind long, long, long songs, this 2CD set is for you. Note that there is also 2DVD and 2CD/2DVD combinations. The DVD editions contain interviews and such between songs. Read more

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Was können die Flower Kings schon groß falsch machen. Das Titelangebot ist riesig, das Können der Bandmitglieder ebenso - Live sind sie klasse - also eine Live CD aus dem Jahre 2003. Damals noch wie heute ist "Stardust we are" im Live-Set dabei - macht gar nix, kann man immer hören. Das neue "Numbers" von der aktuellen CD "Banks of Eden" wird uns ebenso lange erhalten bleiben, da bin ich mir sicher. Instrumentiert ist das Scheibchen hier sehr fein, Klangqualität super - aber ein klein bißchen zu glatt für eine Live-Doku. Das Stimmenproblem von Hasse, das einer meiner Vorrezensenten genannt hat, kann ich nicht hören, bin aber auch kein Musiker, der die Noten analysiert, sondern Musikliebhaber - und das kann man hier: diese Band ist eine kleine Sensation. Wenn man ihnen lang genug lauscht, dann hat man die "Großen" der 70iger hier wieder reinkarniert: Yes, Genesis, ELP, Gentle Giant! Super - ideal für Einsteiger und Sammler, aber nicht für Nörgler, die finden immer etwas. Read more