Album review : STORACE – Live And Let Live (plus bonus live CD)

Frontiers [Release date : 13.12.24]

Marc Storace’s Live and Let Live is an album born in the depths of the Covid pandemic.

Skipping through the “singer meets musician, they swap ideas” part of the plot, the album was eventually recorded with a bunch of studio professionals.

Live and Let Live was the result, but the pandemic was still upon us, and the album, subsequently released in 2022, got buried under an absence of publicity.

Still, enough people with influence heard it, and that led to support gigs touring with Kiss, The Scorpions and Alice Cooper.

Word gets around. Two years later, it’s been resurrected by those arbiters of good taste, Frontiers Music. A live CD has been added and the result will be released later this month.

The music’s got the same rhythmic heartbeat that energised seventies’ classic rock bands like Bad Company and The Faces.

‘Live and let Live’, the track, is an urgent melodic rock song, smartly agile, with a stunning barebones production design and an elegantly minimalist axe motif.

The ballad, ‘Lady Of The Night’, is a satisfyingly rough edged rock’n’roll anthem, loose limbed but laser focused. It shares a cool Hammond organ backing and a moody bassline with ‘Time Waits For No One’, creating a convincing bluesy feel to the music.

The hard rocking ‘High On Love’ and ‘Carry The Burden’ remind us that Storace spent years fronting Krokus, and the catchy arena rock ballad, ‘Broken Wings’ reminds us that Storace can do commercial just as much as he can the pure hard rock stuff.

The live album is a fine addition.

In simple terms, it’s just Storace and a bunch of rock musicians who’ve been round the block a hundred times.

The set just bristles with in-the-moment energy. These guys are loving every minute, working hard to make it sound effortless.

It’s essentially the studio album done live plus some Krokus biggies, ‘Hellraiser’, ‘Midnite Maniac’ and ‘Telephone Man’, which goes way back.

While searching for a vocalist in 1979, Chris Von Rohr and Fernando Arb heard the ‘Telephone Man’ song on a UK NWOBHM sampler. The band was Eazy Money, fronted by Storace. The rest, as they say, is history. ****

Review by Brian McGowan

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