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It’s Showtime, and nothing has changed since last time and the time before. And everything sounds so heavenly perfect. Welcome back to the eighties in every way. It starts with the mega tight leggins, and ladies-boots of Blacky Lawless and it stops with 'Wild Child' and goes beyond. Yes of course there are changes and differences to the past, most of all what's up to the splatter, ketchup blood show, the headless cross with a plasticdoll nailed to it and bouncy bones, underlining the horror clichee image. And we all have been totally stunned. Nothing was perfect then, and mistakes happened. But it was something special, something we enjoyed so much by receiving a deep impression, which we kept in our memory forever.

Today, there is only Blacky  left in the group. No  Chris Holmes anymore or any other member from the past. Therefore, the boss got himself three youngster, who could easily be his sons. The blood splatter show has been left in the past, nobody really knows why, because Blacky himself hasn't changed at all. Like I mentioned before, the spandex tights still fit him, his hairstyle is still the same lenght, though a bit thinned out over the years. And his muscles might have suffered a bit. But well, we all don't get younger with the time do we?! The paycheque are the asses from the eighties, like 'Wild Child' and 'I Wanna Be Somebody'.- Of course memory is shooting back immidiately. And I almost wanna bet, that I might be even the only one, remembering WASP from the past tonight in this place here. 

Yep, the voice still sounds the same, - very intensively and on a high level what's up to the screaming, - very unique for Blacky Lawless, and somehow.... perfect tonight. The show itself has been reduced to a minimum of extravaganza. No horror clichee anymore exept the skull figure - microphone thrown, which is named Elvis. And Elvis still has to put up with the mastro's wild whipping exspecially towards the end of the performance.- And once again the show has been reduced on this tour, missing the ultraviolet light chapter in the middle of the set impressing all those fans even more. And it was very photogenic as well, I have to admit. Other than that, Blacky pulls through the line, without a lot talking inbetween, and almost per.... - too perfect ! 

All the freaks of eighties heavy metal are grateful and show their effection  with the usual metal hello. No matter things happening up there. This is Blacky like he's always been, and Blacky is WASP and WASP is Blacky, nothing else. 'Dominator' is the title of the new album, which has been postboned to a january release because of some reasons. 
Tonight instead we get some material never been played live so far - old and new stuff. Whether this is a premiere in Munich, or in general on the tour is not clear. 

Alright probably he just wants to get everything perfect a 100 percent. He sweats, he screams, he moves with this stinging look in his eyes. And he doesn't seem to have become older in some ways for the past 30 years. He pushes himself up and pushes us up and pulls us along with the rhythm - sraight, hard and per... like a decent hardrock show should be. Unfortunately 'Fuck Like A Beast' didn't find a place of tonight's setlist. Dun' know why and whether it's because of a lack of  importance or moral reasons. Instead we receive 'Blind In Texas' as the last encore. And everything happens almost perfect, tonight, two years ago and even before that during the second era of WASP. 
And if there is a next time, Blacky and his last Command will come back for another  invasion of eighties heavy metal horror charming chlichee and styling, without splatter of course. We are not 20 anymore and it will be the same like today - including 'Wild Child' and 'Dominator'. It's all the same. And thanks to the metal god, we got Europe, where the eighties are still present and stuck and get a bit resonance. 
However, long live the perfection. We don't wanna get anything wrong or make even mistakes, don't we, because of possible inconvinience. Even it sometimes sounds like as......... okay leave it for now - 
Showtime is over, and see ya' next time... Long live the eighties.
                                                                                             
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Wasp's very first Single in 1984  almost beeing banned, but still
on of the fans favorite tunes. - Unfortunately not beeing performed
live anymore.....


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