Gutter Ballet Meaning

Again two videos were made for the songs when the crowds are gone and gutter ballet which received airplay on mtv.

Gutter ballet meaning.

It s especially about how unfriendly the streets can be how confusing and how. You see them in front of you daily. 1987 gutter ballet 1989 streets. A rock opera 1991 and edge of thorns 1993 were also successful but more critically acclaimed than fight for the rock.

General comment the title song gutter ballet deals with the contemporary reality in the streets of every major city as the problem of of rage and war is evident there s nothing you can do about it. The probems out on the streets on the other hand are. The musical aspect seems obvious to me. The song is more or less the opposite of of rage and war both musically and lyrically speaking.

The songs gutter ballet and when the crowds are gone are examples of this influence from that album as was the next savatage s release which even included opera in its title. On october 17 1993 six months after the release of edge of thorns guitarist criss oliva was killed in a car accident. Another sleepless night a concrete paradise sirens screaming in the heat neon cuts the eye as the jester sighs at the world beneath his feet it s a gutter ballet just a menagerie still the orchestra plays on a dark and lonely night. No tags suggest one.

Lead singer jon oliva told holland edition aardschok metal hammer in february 1990.