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when things are under a bad
star (as we call it in german), then it's sometimes persisting. This
tour had been cancelled already twice, where the reasons for this were
more up to Disturbed. But somehow it has been transmitted to the
supportact Nevermore, 'cause they were forced to cancel one show
before this one off, because of some illness of the frontman. And today
nobody really knew 'till the point, - are they gonna play or not.
Oh yes, Nevermore are going on stage, but.....!!!! - Due to the
delayed arrival of singer Warrel Dane (he had been released from
hospital in Dortmund, spending the night there, and it's a long way down
here) the start of the set has been pulled out and postbones for aprox.
40 minutes. Result of the delay: we photographers have just finished our
shooting, and 3 minutes after, - the dream is finished again. Disturbed
show no merci and wanna go on stage on scheduled time.
Short and painless -
Nevermore's sting is simply miles too short to do a decent review -
including shitty soundconditions (But that's normal for this venue) And
somehow you can still feel, that Warrel Danes is still not 100% fit yet.
I truly ask myself, whether it was a wise move to do this set here
tonight, by watching all these annoyed fans. And you've got give 'em
that. No boys, no goal tonight, although you didn't want to
dissappoint your fans again. But the bullet has shot backwards.
And then hell is on earth, at least what's up to the first 20 rows and
also what's up to the amps. -
In ancient China, people used to torture their victims with a special
method. They put 'em underneath a huge bell and made such a big noise,
that the poor fella died after a while. And this is, what I feel right
now in the photopit, holy shit!!! And yes, of course I forgot my
earplugs. That happens all the time, excspecially when the figure of the
decible goes beyond the limit.
But I gotta get through that now, at least for the lenght of 3 songs,
which seem everlasting. Fact is also, the acoustical circumstances
haven't changed since the supportband, but like I mentioned before,
that's up to the damn behated venue here, which seems to contain a sort
of spell. Obviously David Drainman's voice is repaired again. He had to
undergo surgery in august to fix his machinerie after he had his nose
broken several times in the past. Afterwards he could only breath
through his mouth - no good for singers, is it?!!! So all fixed dates
had to be cancelled. However he does apologize immidiately in the
beginning of the set to his faithful fans, who celebrate sort of Xmas in
advance to have their idols finally up there on stage.
Like
Wolfmother recently, also Disturbed belongs to this phenomens, who got
hyped from various visual music media, so money is flowing and the
popularity is rising up into the space orbit, exspecially with their
mainly very young audiance. Like mentioned before: what the farmer
doesn't know, he doesn't eat, when it's not prepared properly, no matter
what.... - And this here is certainly well prepared in form of some
coverversions of famous songs. The current one is "Land Of
Confusion" , the Genesis classic tune. I personally have nothing
against well done and somehow different coverversions, but when it
finally sounds like the original, - I mean, what is the point?
What makes me most nervoes is the fact, that those kiddies here,
probably don't even know, that this track is a coverversion and think,
it is created by Disturbed.
However and already said, -
main thing is, money is flowing in our fastliving musicbusiness. Nothing
else counts anymore.
Back to the action tonight, which is getting outta hand, overwhelmed
fans, miserable sound, - never mind - and a few nutcases causing
trouble, and getting pulled out by our tight security into the fresh
air. The highpoint is reached by exact the coverversions of "Land
Of Confusion", the show it dominated by the current album
"10.000 Fists". And those are up in the air, yeah well....
it's only about 4.000. But this is still much more than some of our
classic old hardrockers get at a show. Sad but true, or should I say,
good... at least it keeps rockmusic alive and the memory about old
classics.
Manu and I give it a go before the concert is finished to get out of the
area, before the crowd is storming out. But not before we Girls have
wished Nevermore Guitarist Jeff Loomis a happy Birthday today... So at
least we got a nice final of the evening J)))....
The Rockchicks
in Action - Happy Birthday Jeff Loomis |
