Alive! (Turbo album)

Alive!
Live album by Turbo
Released	1988 (Poland)
Recorded	December 30, 1986; April 3, 1987; Katowice
Genre	Thrash metal, heavy metal
Length	37:16
Label	Tonpress, Metal Mind Productions
Turbo chronology

Last updated March 08, 2019

Alive! is the first live album by the Polish heavy metal band Turbo. It was released in 1988 through Tonpress.^[1] The album was recorded on December 30, 1986, and April 3, 1987, at Metalmania '87 and Metal Battle '86 (Spodek, Katowice).^[2] The cover art was created by Jerzy Kurczak.^[3]

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin.

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.

Turbo is a Polish heavy metal band. It was started in January 1980, in Poznań, by Henryk Tomczak. Turbo has been described as one of the most important bands in Polish heavy metal. Turbo's most famous album is Kawaleria Szatana, considered an opus of Polish heavy metal. The band is best known for the tracks "Dorosłe Dzieci", "Jaki był ten dzień", "Żołnierz fortuny" and "Wszystko będzie ok".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Seans z wampirem"	6:39
2.	"Kawaleria szatana cz. I"	3:39
3.	"Ostatni grzeszników płacz"	3:48
4.	"Syn burzy"	4:57
5.	"Ostatni wojownik"	9:36
6.	"Żołnierz fortuny"	4:33
7.	"Anioł zła"	4:03

Bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
8.	"Planeta śmierci (Metalmania 88')"	-
9.	"Kawaleria Szatana cz. 2 (Metalmania 87'/Metal Battle 86')"	-
10.	"Koń trojański (Metalmania 87'/Metal Battle 86')"	-
11.	"Bogini chaosu (Metalmania 87'/Metal Battle 86')"	-
12.	"Berud's Sword (Metalmania 88')"	-
13.	"Breaking The Law (Jarocin 88')"	-
14.	"AIDS (Metalmania 89')"	-
15.	"Pieśń Sybilii (Metalmania 89')"	-

Personnel

Wojciech Hoffmann - guitar
Grzegorz Kupczyk - vocal
Andrzej Łysów - guitar
Bogusz Rutkiewicz - bass guitar
Tomasz Goehs - drums
Robert "Litza" Friedrich - guitar (tracks 14 and 15)

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Release history

Year	Label	Format	Country	Out of print?	Notes
1988	Tonpress	LP	Poland	Yes	Original LP release
1990	Metal Mind Productions	CD	Poland	Yes	CD reissue
2001	Metal Mind Productions	CD	Poland	Yes	CD reissue; bonus track
2008	Metal Mind Productions	CD	Poland	No	CD reissue (Anthology 1980-2008); different track list; bonus tracks

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References

↑ "Turbo on Encyclopaedia Metallum". September 10, 2009.
↑ "Turbo on Archiwum Polskiego Rocka". September 10, 2009.
↑ "Turbo official website". September 10, 2009. Archived from the original on 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2009-09-10.

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[Web-1] "Turbo on Encyclopaedia Metallum". September 10, 2009.

[2] "Turbo on Archiwum Polskiego Rocka". September 10, 2009.

[3] "Turbo official website". September 10, 2009. Archived from the original on 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2009-09-10.