Great "Appreciation Thread" here! I agree, this performance is definitely TOPS, and everyone did it so well! And actually, I've always been happy with the FII-material on the recent live albums:
"New Millennium", "Hollow Years", "Trial Of Tears" and the ending of "Hell's Kitchen", all on Live At Budokan, are all done so well!
Then we have the FII-cut "Raise The Knife" from Score, which was great as the live performance really added more to the song, IMO.
Then the killer performance of "Lines In The Sand" on Chaos In Motion... at least *I* think it's a killer performance of it that song!
This leaves me to wonder which FII song(s) they'll capture on the next live release... I'm hoping for "Peruvian Skies" or "Take Away My Pain '96".
-Marc.