Cinderella Live At The Key Club CD

Recorded live at the Key Club, Los Angeles, California on October 2 & 3, 1998.

You've seen it over and over again since the advent of the compact disc: best-of collections or live sets from veteran rock acts getting reissued countless times, with different titles/cover artwork, but the same exact music. Such is the case with the 2004 Cinderella release, Live from the Gypsy Road. Recorded over two nights in October of 1998, the album was originally released in 1999 as Live at the Keyclub, before being issued as In Concert in 2004, and then finally being reissued for an unprecedented third time later the same year. All this leads you to wonder -- is this some sort of record for most repackagings/reissues of the same album in the shortest period of time? Regardless, all of Cinderella's greatest hits are here, and singer/guitarist Tom Keifer continues to have all his Steven Tyler-isms down pat. Included are rockers that reflect both '80s era pop-metal ("Shake Me," "Gypsy Road") and power ballads ("Nobody's Fool," "Don't Know What You Got"), as well as tracks that show Cinderella had more in common with the Stones than Bon Jovi at times (especially "Shelter Me"). For fans curious to hear if Cinderella could still cut it live in the late '90s, 'Live from the Gypsy Road' is recommended. Just be careful that you don't already own one of the aforementioned titles. ~ Greg Prato

At first one hopes that this is actually a new Cinderella release recorded on a recent reunion tour, but it's easy to get misled by the packaging. This 2004 live release is actually a reissue of 1999's Live Greatest Hits. Regardless of this fact, the band sounds just as tight here as on Night Songs. Tom Keifer's menacing vocal assault is still just as tearing as it was all those years ago, when Night Songs was the metal album du jour on MTV. In Concert is a fair and balanced career-long retrospective that will equally please die-hard fans and those just looking to reminisce with some fun about one of hair metal's most straight-ahead super rock stars. ~ Rob Theakston

Recorded live at Key Club, Hollywood, California in October 1998.

Cinderella: Tom Keifer (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Jeff Labar (vocals, gutiar); Eric Brittingham (vocals, bass); Fred Coury (vocals, drums).

Audio Mixer: Russell Fischer.

Recording information: The Key Club, Hollywood, CA (10/02/1998/10/03/1998).

Editor: Tommy Dorsey .

Cinderella: Tom Keifer, Eric Bryttingham, Jeff LaBar, Fred Coury.

Additional personnel: Charles Lawrence (vocals, keyboards).