Firehouse Bring 'Em out Live

I've always dug Firehouse. With one of the greatest metal ballads of all time, Love of a Lifetime, how could you not love these guys? And the awesome tune Don't Treat Me Bad. Or what about All She Wrote? Those are just songs from the first album. More tunes followed, rockers and ballads alike. In fact, I don't think I've heard a bad Firehouse album, and I have them all. As good as these guys are recorded, though, they're on fire when it comes to performing live. They burn up the stage.

The album Bring 'Em out Live is an awesome live album. The track list, the production, the energy of the performance, all of it is top notch. As hard as these guys can rock, they are masters of the metal ballad, but that doesn't mean this is a show that will put you to sleep. They do a great job of balancing the rockers with the ballads to keep the pacing on the money. The crowd interaction is present, as it should be in a live recording, and the interaction of the band makes it a fun time.

A pulse-pounding intro leads into Overnight Sensation and straight into All She Wrote. The Osaka crowd goes crazy. They love these guys. They're with them every song, and when the band performs the stunning ballad I Live My Life for You, there's a section where the crowd delivers the chorus so perfectly and with such conviction that they might as well have been onstage. That moment is worth the price of the album by itself.

Not sure if all these songs were taken from the same show or different show, but all of the songs were performed for the Osaka crowd. It sounds like an intimate club, but again, not sure. One thing can say is that the album feels like a single concert with little or no studio interference. It's a beautiful thing.

Here's the track list:

1. "Intro"
2. "Overnight Sensation"
3. "All She Wrote"
4. "Lover's Lane"
5. "Hold Your Fire"
6. "Dream"
7. "When I Look into Your Eyes"
8. "Acid Rain"
9. "Bringing Me Down"
10. "Don't Walk Away"
11. "Love of a Lifetime"
12. "Reach for the Sky"
13. "I Live My Life for You"
14. "Here for You"
15. "Don't Treat Me Bad