Band : Mr. Big
Album title : Back To Budokan
Label : Frontiers Records
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux.
Release Date : 16/10/2009
Release : CD

After their split-up in 2002, the former band members occasionally played together again in various configurations.  This gradually brought the group back together again, and, with fans demanding they join up again, they finally did.

Their first tour started in Japan, and this is were this album was recorded in June 2009 (as well as a DVD). This double album features most of their hit songs, as well as a totally new song “Next Time Around” and a cover from Argent ‘Hold Your Head Up”. Now as I’ve mentioned many times before I’m not that big a fan of live albums.  This is especially true for this album.  OK, they may have had many hits in the past, and it might be a good idea to put as many as possible on this album, but why was it really necessary to put a guitar solo, as well as a drum solo, as well as a bass solo, on the album, and on top of that also a mixed guitar-bass solo ?  Did the guys' ego step in ?
Virtuosos they might be, and good songs they might have written, but this won’t alter my opinion. 

Enough is enough, and this is a bit over the top.

65/100

Erik Morren.