MARK FREE – Live In Paris (1993)

MARK FREE (now Marcie) is without a doubt not one of the greatest AOR / melodic hard rock singers of all time but also a ‘hired / test vocalist’ who helped to finish some of the most awesome songs from the ’80s later recorded by other artists / bands.
After his band Signal split, Free focused into a solo career recording the lovable album ‘Long Way From Love’ in 1993, and the same year embarked into a series of live gigs. One of these shows were documented by Free’s performance at The Godz 1993 festival released as bonus disc on the Frontiers Music reissue of ‘Long Way From Love’.
This ”Live In Paris” recording is captured during the same fall 1993’s European tour. This is a bootleg, and sure, we have ‘The Gods 1993~Live’, but on this show Free performs two Signal tracks not present in ‘The Gods 1993~Live’.
And the sound quality is very good.

Free’s voice is perfectly audible and he did a strong performance that night. Same for the backing band, comprising almost the complete line up of Swedish melodic rockers Snakes In Paradise whom would release an enjoyable debut album the following year.
Highly Recommended

01 – Intro / Arms Of A Stranger
02 – Does It Feel Like Love
03 – Liar
04 – Wake Up You Little Fool
05 – State Of Love
06 – Stranger Among Us
07 – The Last Time
08 – Coming Back For More
09 – Hard Heart To Break
10 – Someday You’ll Come Running
11 – Only The Strong Will Survive
12 – Who Cries Now

Mark Free – vocals
Diana Dewitt – harmony vocals
Stefan Berggren , keyboards, backing vocals
Tomas Jakobsson – guitar
Stefan Jonsson – guitar
Thomas Thorberg – bass, backing vocals
Peter Pettersen – drums

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