I really enjoyed all of the new Paradox Hotel material. Each song expressed a unique feel and style ranging from the gorgeous piano-ballad, "Jealousy", to the bluesy hard rock of "Life Will Kill You". "What If God Is Alone" features one of the most infectious choruses the band has even produced thanks again to some stunning harmony vocals between Stolt, Hans Froberg, and Jonas Reingold. For the instrumental "Pioneers Of Aviation", Tomas Bodin puts on his best Keith Emerson hat to begin the tune with an incredible flurry of organ and synthesizer riffs, which eventually leads into an extended percussion jam, with Froberg joining Liliequist on his percussion kit. Reingold soon takes over with an impressive fretless bass solo before the song eventually goes into its super jazz/prog fusion main theme.

This DVD really gives you that feeling of being there. Even the breaks before each of the two encores were shown in their entirety - the first one simply scanning the excited crowd, and absorbing their wild applause before Tomas Bodin comes back out to greet them with "you are an extraordinary audience." Stolt follows with "that is something we say every night, but tonight we actually mean it" - which I am sure he probably also says every night. They ended this first encore with the Space Revolver power-ballad "A Kings Prayer", which ends with an incredible "Hey Jude" sing-along.

The second encore is preceded by time-lapsed footage of the entire stage set-up, sound-check, and tear down, which is superimposed on the screen while the crowd cheers for one last song for about four minutes. When the band returns to the stage again they are greeted with lots of calls for "Stardust We Are", and Stolt grants their wish with, "Your right, Stardust you are, and Stardust you'll get!" At "only" 12 minutes, this was a very abbreviated performance of the original 25-minute epic, and they turned it into a much heavier jam than what I remember.

Although there were some minor and major flaws with my DVD package, they did not affect the overall quality of this presentation. To start with, disc one had a major audio synchronization problem, but thankfully the U.S. distributor, Inside Out Music America, acknowledged the problem on their website, and offered a quick replacement copy. I had a new copy in less than a week. The new disc was actually mastered at a slightly higher volume level than disk two, but the sound quality was about equal after you adjusted levels between discs, and the sync problem was fixed.