Kosice, Slovakia, November 22, 2006 Grade: B Time: 1 hour, 30 min. Format: DVD
Set List:
(First six songs of set missing from the DVD: Room Service / Somebody / Open Road / 18 Til I Die Let's Make a Night / Can't Stop)
Back To You (starting from just before "the bounce".)
I Think About You
Summer Of '69
Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
Everything I Do...
Cuts Like A Knife
When You're Gone
It's Only Love
This Time
Heaven
The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
Cloud Number Nine
Run To You
Please Forgive Me
When You Love Someone
Straight From The Heart
All For Love

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The Show:
While BA has ventured into Eastern Europe before on previous tours, this particular jaunt in November 2006 went deeper into Eastern Europe than ever before.

This eight show run included shows in places such as Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria...not your typical countries on a tour map. However, since the end of the Croatian war, the times are changing. I heard BA's Manager Bruce Allen on the radio after these concerts saying that the Global Positioning Systems units in the rental cars the band used in some of these parts would go dead in the middle of a drive. That's how "out of the way" some of the places are. Trying new markets is nothing new to BA.

During the ten show stretch in Eastern Europe, theSecond stop was in Kosice, Slovakia at the venue called Steel Arena which holds around 9500 which was the reported attendance for the BA show.

The Songs:
I Think About You, which was used in the acoustic section of the show back in the Summer '06 dates, has found a permanent spot for now after Back to You. A mini-unplugged double-shot if you will. Both songs done with full band backing.

When You Love Someone was dusted off the shelf for the 2006 Autumn dates in the acoustic suite that closes the show and it is featured on this recording.

The Recording:
Recorded on a hand-helf camcorder from the first row of the balcony to the BA's left of the stage. A nice vantage point to see the band and the crazies in the few 10-20 rows of the floor enjoying themselves.

The grading is a B which is to say that there are some nice spots worthy of a B+ grade in which the shot is very clear of what's happening on stage. What brings the grade down a notch comes into play due to the excessive lighting on BA's face while he's singing as it over-exposes his face which becomes a glowing white face on top of a black t-shirt. When the lights dim and are not so bright on BA, it's more enjoyable for my tastes.

The recording also features a menu and some added bonus material such as four different news reports on the concert from various news stations as well as a nice (and long...20+ minutes) photo gallery of the concert accompanied with BA music. If the quality of the photos taken for the gallery matched that of the video footage, we'd have a real gem on our hands.

There are 31 tracks on the DVD which are separated by three minute intervals.