Jane - Tribute to Peter Panka (2007)

After original member Peter Panka died in 2007, original Jane basist Charly Maucher, along with Fritz Randow (Eloy, Epitaph), Jon Symon's Rockballet, Jutta Weinhold band, and other friends performed live and recorded the event. Produced by Eroc (Grobschnitt), the show features 25 tracks plus backstage interviews with Jane fans Klause Meine and Rudolph Schenker (Scorpions).
During the concert the emphasis is on the tracks from the Live At Home 2-LP: the opener All My Friends (warm organ sound and wonderful bluesy guitar), Fire Water Earth & Air (beautiful work on keyboards like the string-ensemble sound and Hammond organ and tasteful solos on guitar and synthesizer), Rest Of My Life (very compelling), Daytime (melancholical undertone and strong build-up to an emotional climax with lush keyboards, sensitive guitar and heavy drums), Windows/Spain (Jane at their most progressive including lots of improvisations like an impressive part featuring a kind of 'guitar wall' supporting a psychedelic inspired synthesizer solo on the Moog Liberation), Wind (fluent with organ and propulsive guitar and drums), River (featuring former bass player Martin Hess who looks like a cross between Arthur Brown and Keith Richards), Out In The Rain (including acoustic guitar, delicate interplay between bass and a strings-sound and a moving guitar solo) and Hangman (tasteful guitarwork like early Wishbone Ash and a flashy synthesizer solo). Everything during this concert gets musically an extra dimension because of the way the musicians show their appreciation for Peter Panka, very touchy! The song Tomorrow, from the latest album with Peter Panka, sounds as a modern variation on the early Jane sound, very distinctive and tasteful and during So So Long the stage is crowded with all musicians that joined Jane on this concert like Martin Hesse, drummer Nossi Noske (once Birthcontrol), Peter Panka's daughter Denise Panka (on the socalled 'Stand-Tom') and band members of Harlis (2 songs with pleasant bluesrock between the Spencer Davis Group and Eric Clapton), Jon Symon's Rockballett Warlock (2 songs, once Peter Panka played with them in front of 100.000 spectators!) and the Jutta Weinhold Band (composition Silence, not really my cup of tea).
The Bonus Material on the 2 DVD's contains backstage footage, tour camera work during the Tribute To Peter Panka Tour 2007 from Germany and Belgium and short interviews with Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker from Scorpions, Martin Hesse and drummer Fritz Randow (Jane, once Eloy). ~Progarchives

Tracks:
dvd1:
1. Intro
2. All my Friends
3. Tomorrow
4. Fire Water Earth & Air
5. Much too Much
6. Rest of my Life
7. BMW (Harlis)
8. Bell of Bothfeld (Harlis)
9. Daytime
10. Angel of Death (Warlock Rockballett)
11. Morgan Le Fay (Warlock Rockballett)
12. Windows/Spain
13. Silence (Jutta Weihnhold Band)
14. Voice in the Wind (with Denise Panka)
15. Wind
16. Another Way (with Martin Hesse)
17. Your Circle (with Martin Hesse)
18. River
19. Drumsolo
Bonus: "Hinter Den Kulissen (backstage footage) in Germany and Belgium

dvd2:
20. Honestly
21. Out in the Rain
22. Hangman
23. Fun Time
24. So So Long
25. Welcome to the Club
Bonus: Interviews with Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker (both Scorpions) and Martin Hesse, Fritz Randow, Klaus Walz and Arndt Schulz. And … an "Easteregg!"

Personnel:
- Bass, Vocals – Charly Maucher
- Drums – Fritz Randow
- Guitar, Vocals – Arndt Schulz, Klaus Walz
- Keyboards – Werner Nadolny


Big thx to meloman67