This performance was recorded at a different time with a different guitarist. The last two songs, "Electric Chair" and "Wait" were taken off Steelheart's 1996 release titled 'Wait'. Miljenko's vocal scream at the end of "Shelia" shows why he is the ultimate lead vocalist!!! My wife stated that during the song "Mama Don't You Cry" Miljenko's vocals had her mesmerized. Hearing "She's Gone" acoustically was amazing. Accompanying Miljenko on piano and guitar these was Steelheart bassist James Ward. The first three acoustic performances "She's Gone", Shelia" and "Mama Don't You Cry" were taped in I believe Hong Kong the show was very similar to American MTV's show 'Unplugged'. I then had a premonition were unlike me there are probably a lot of Steelheart fans out there who may not know every word. As she was watching the videos, I noticed her eyes were flashing back and forth between the words and images. I just could not decide if the subtitles helped or hindered the images.
The videos are subtitled and at first, the jury had been out on that. The video section of ‘Still Hard’, as far as I know, consists of every video the band has ever done including one new one taken off Steelheart’s ‘Wait’ released in 1996. Cause there is no way they could have been bored!!! The only reason I could come up with was the language difference.
Especially, when the band consists of what could be argumentatively the greatest lead vocalist of that era! For the last song on the set list “Rock n’ Roll” Miljenko tries to get a little crowd participation, but the Japanese crowd seemed very lost.
#Steelheart love ain t easy full#
In between the sixth and seventh song of the band’s set list there is a drum/guitar solo and though they were awesome, and yes, I am fully aware solo’s were huge during this time I would have much more preferred a full song. This song was either a b-side (which, in that time was very common) or, a track that is on the Japanese release. Steelheart’s set list included a song called “Girl Gone Crazy” which, is not on the American release of their self-titled debut. Miljenko vocal screams are dead on proving why he is the ultimate vocalist. If I am not mistaken, the live footage shot from three or four different camera angles, which, leads me to believe this section of the DVD was released on VHS probably in the early nineties. The sound and picture quality are excellent even for something recorded seventeen years ago. From this vocal line up throughout the rest of the concert, the five members of Steelheart give 2 hundred and ten percent! On the second song “Like Never Before” there are a few microphone screeches this is do to engineering error and not Miljenko vocals. The entire crowd knows what song the band is opening the show with just as soon as they hear the distinct familiar Miljenko vocal scream of ”…Love…Ain’t… Easy…”. The first performance on disc one was filmed on Steelheart's Japanese tour in 1990 in support of the band's self-titled freshman release.
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