Live '94

You can't touch it, hold it, smell it or taste it, and what you see and hear one second is gone the next. Live albums, however, are forever. For those in attendance, they allow the ability to relive an aural moment in time, and for the rest of us, it's the ultimate souvenir, a time-stamped milestone that captures an artist/band as they were. In Savatage's case, "Japan Live '94" captures a crucially important and significant tour for a band that, after experiencing gut-wrenching tragedy and massive personnel changes, was on undeniably shaky ground but stood tall, nonetheless. It was the first stop on a trip that ultimately forge onward to Sarajevo and Siberia - a journey that, 30 years later, has no end in sight.