''Live at Sweden Rock Festival'' was the second live album by Swedish

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released on Empire Records in October 2002. It charted at number 18 the first week in Sweden. When Jeff Scott Soto, Marcel Jacob and Pontus Norgren were in Stockholm, Sweden laying vocals for their new band called '' Humanimal'', they decided to perform at the

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, Sweden, thanks to dj Dr. Rock from the Swedish Radio Rock Klassiker who persuaded the guys to perform it. They played at the Rockklassiker stage with a 2000 crowd capacity. Two nights before the festival gig,

played in Stockholm. Because of a miscommunication between Jamie, Pontus, Marcel and the guys doing the mobile recording stuff, Marcel's entire gear (bass included!) was left at the venue in Stockholm instead of travelling with everybody else’s gear down to Sölvesborg, south of Sweden, where the

takes place. Marcel wanted to leave the festival but, after looking inside the tent which was fully packed with a crowd shouting for

, he decided not to turn his back on those people. So Marcel and other people started to run around the festival area to look for a bass to be borrowed in time for the show:

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finally lent Marcel one of his bass guitars. The show went great and, since another band playing at

had a mobile hard disc recording unit, Christer Wedin managed to get the

show recorded as well. But the sound Marcel had at the show was not too exciting, severe problems with Jeff's microphone and some out of tune guitars needed some fixing. So he and Pontus went into the studio to record live together the entire show exactly the same way they would have done it on stage.

Track listing

# "Colour My XTC" # "Fabricated War" # "Mysterious (This Time It's Serious)" # "Tainted Pages" # "Tears in the Sky" # "Crazy" (

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Cover) # "Here 2Day, Gone 2Day" # "A Life" / "Dangerous" # "Body" # "I'll Be Waiting" # "Break Your Chains" # "Bass / Guitar Solo" # "All or nothing" # "

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cover) # "I Am a Viking" (

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Credits

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Jeff Scott Soto Jeff Scott Soto (born November 4, 1965) is an American rock singer of Puerto Rican descent. He is best known for being the vocalist on Yngwie Malmsteen's first two albums, and (briefly) the lead vocalist for Journey in 2006–2007. Soto also sa ...

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Pontus Norgren Karl Pontus Norgren (born 22 April 1968) is the current guitarist of the Swedish power metal band HammerFall and formerly played guitar for The Poodles. Biography Norgren replaced former HammerFall guitarist Stefan Elmgren, who decided to focu ...

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Marcel Jacob Marcel Karl Jacob (30 January 1964 – 21 July 2009), professionally known as Marcel Jacob, was a Swedish musician, best known as the founder, chief songwriter, and bassist of the hard rock band Talisman. For a brief period, he also played in th ...

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Jamie Borger Jamie Borger (born 28 May 1964) is a Swedish drummer who has played in the bands Talisman, Treat and Last Autumn's Dream. Over the years, he also has recorded with Alfonzetti, Adam Thompson, Baltimore, Human Clay, Swedish Erotica and Jeff Scott ...

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References

Talisman Official website
{{Talisman Talisman (band) albums 2001 live albums