Staying a Life

• Artist: Accept
• Rating:
• Release Date: November 20, 1990
• Type: Live, Contains explicit content
• Genre: Rock

Review

Shortly after Accept's inaugural split in 1990, Epic dusted off some live tapes and issued the group's first live full-length, Staying a Life. Although not the group's first-ever live release (it was predated five years earlier by the EP Kaizoku-Ban), Staying a Life does a faithful job of capturing Accept at the peak of their arena metal powers, circa their Metal Heart era. The proof why the German band was handed opening slots on quite a few popular mid-'80s tours (Kiss, Iron Maiden, etc.) is evident throughout -- rocking versions of "Metal Heart," "Screaming for a Love Bite," "Restless and Wild," and "London Leatherboys" surely got a few mullets headbanging on this fateful night. And of course, Accept's two best-known tracks -- "Fast as a Shark" and "Balls to the Wall" -- are included, as they close out the set. They may never have reached arena headlining status Stateside, but Staying a Life proves that Accept was on equal footing with just about any metal chart-topper from around this time -- especially when it came to the concert stage. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Metal Heart	Peter Baltes, Udo Dirkschneider, Accept, Stefan Kaufmann, Jörg Fischer, Dirk Steffens, Wolf Hoffmann, Deaffy	Accept	(5:25)
Breaker (Lyrics)	Wolf Hoffmann, Jörg Fischer, Deaffy, Accept, Udo Dirkschneider, Stefan Kaufmann, Peter Baltes	Accept
Screaming for a Love-Bite	Deaffy, Accept	Accept
Up to the Limit	Peter Baltes, Accept, Udo Dirkschneider, Deaffy	Accept
Living for Tonite	Accept	Accept
Princess of the Dawn (Lyrics)	Accept	Accept
Guitar Solo Wolf	Accept	Accept
Restless and Wild (Lyrics)	Peter Baltes, Udo Dirkschneider, Deaffy, W. Howard Hoffman, Stefan Kaufmann, Accept, Wolf Hoffmann	Accept
Son of a Bitch (Lyrics)	Accept, Peter Baltes, Udo Dirkschneider, Wolf Hoffmann, Deaffy, Jörg Fischer, Stefan Kaufmann	Accept
London Leatherboys	Wolf Hoffmann, Stefan Kaufmann, Accept, Peter Baltes, Deaffy, Udo Dirkschneider	Accept
Love Child	Deaffy, Stefan Kaufmann, Wolf Hoffmann, Udo Dirkschneider, Accept, Peter Baltes	Accept
Flash Rockin' Man (Lyrics)	Accept, Peter Baltes, W. Howard Hoffman	Accept
Dogs on Leads	Accept, Deaffy	Accept
Fast as a Shark (Lyrics)	Wolf Hoffmann, Udo Dirkschneider, Accept, Stefan Kaufmann, W. Howard Hoffman, Peter Baltes, Deaffy	Accept
Balls to the Wall (Lyrics)	Stefan Kaufmann, Peter Baltes, Udo Dirkschneider, Wolf Hoffmann, Accept	Accept

Credits

Peter Baltes (?), Andreas Kraatz (Liner Notes), Mark Weiss (Photography), Gutchie Kojima (Photography), Wolf Hoffmann (?), Sylvie Simmons (Translation), Uli Baronowsky (Mixing), Gutchie Kojima (Picture), Ulf Magnusson (Picture), Udo Dirkschneider (?), Stefan Kaufmann (Producer), Jörg Fischer (?), Ulf Magnusson (Photography)

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