Just let's take our bavarian
no.1. Rock'n'Roll Band Bonfire and spice them with the freshly regrouped
Railway - God bless them. And off we go and we got this rare phenomen,
that every mouse crawls out of it's hole. I mean by that everyone, who
used to be somebody in the local scene or still is. And they meet for a
happy gathering at the posh Metropolis club.There are also individuals,
who usually are good brave family daddies for the rest of the year, but
now take the chance to be there at the spot right now. Everybody is
still somebody, although we all don't get younger than we are. But we
hope to meet each other's generation here for an exchange of memories.
V.I.P.s make it on the guestlist, the other's pay to get in of course,
but don't loose a word about it and enjoys....
On the other hand, up there on stage are two bands of the easy go luck
Rock'n'Roll cathegory, who truly take an effort for all you guys. And
they deserve some attention and a goal for their hard try to keep all
you pseudo specialists in a good and happy mood. Oh, what's up to the
guestlist, this one tonight is a case for the guiness book of records,
containing at least 5 pages. But never mind, the most important thing is,
the venue is pretty well filld and the posh audiance is waiting for
small but delicate happening, which starts off just after 8 p.m. with
Enrico Caruso in spe' a.k.a. Walter Wicha and his Railway.
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First of all we
recognize, that the recent one off show of these guys has enlightened
the new sparkle again. And going for the strategy, we are all fit, we
can still do it, and yes you're never too old for Rock'n'Roll. Whatever
the Rolling Stones can do, we can do as well. Because we're not that
old, are we?! Yes of course, we can prove it to rock the walls down here.
But it is mainly the voice singing in such high tunes, that I watch
carefully my beer glas, whether it explodes or not. And honestly, you
need the liquid tonight in here at this high temperature level at about
100 degrees in the shade, to enjoy the event.
The prologue of 'Lick It, Stick It', wakes up everybody even the very
last person in here who tends to drown in the heat lethargy. And we are
all wide awake with clever faces, and important look in the eyes to
check out Munich's former rocklegend for a second time.
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Although
noone would say that loud, but we all were there at the first
reunion gig 6 months ago, because someone would look at us strangely.
And our friends up there might get to enthusiastic.
But they are okay. Because actually, like ourselves, and mentioned
before, they are all good family daddies, who just wanna receive the
wild Rock'n'Roll feeling once again. And believe me, they don't do
too bad
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But back to
the general vibe, which causes some enthusiasm most of all at the
youngsters in the audiance, who didn't really know the band so far. They
give the band a lot of support and even more applause. Applause, also the
elderly between us give them, but rather somehow quietly. We won't show
any weak tendences, will we?! Even we luv it.-
The encore is 'Heavy Metal Fever'. The question is only, is this fever
caused by the performance or rather by the high temperature in here?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure, the Railway sitcom will think about a part 3 in
the near future. And once again, Munich's high society will be there to
check out the situation and the gig again and again and have a happy
discussion afterwards. Yes of course, we are proud of our none looser in
eternity and amen.
The real stars
of tonight do a bit easier, beeing such a long time around nonstop. In
fact it's there 20th anniversary right now. And they are Bavarias rock
export no.1. There is also another phenomen about this band when they play
live on stage. No other band gets criticised harder than this lot, but
after show, everybody wastes a lot of compliments. So what?! Do we like
them or don't we? Yes of course we do, but none of all those rock experts
here would ever confess this. Shame on you. Whatever you say or do, but on
stage Bonfire still rock their asses off for you. And at this point
everybody shakes at least his big toe. The result is, that we might be
very good in quarreling over here in Bavaria, but in the end, we are
patriots, helping each other and defend bavarian home made music. And
that's what it is. And dare you out there in the north of Germany to
complain about it. The big boss of the band and frontmann Claus shouts out
the slogan: 'I am proud of my country'. Long live patriotism. By the
way, - where did you leave your US-Southern States flag? Or have you
changed your attitude?
Never mind, the hall is moving at 'American Nights' and increases the vibe
'till Bonfires's biggest ever success 'Sweet Obsession'. Long live the
eighties and all it's spirit. Not to forget an impressing drum solo of
BamBam (not the one of the Flintstones) which shows, he still belongs to
Munich's No.1. drummers.
Apart from
that, the acoustic aspect is also underlined by the visual one. No problem,
because the guitar on the left, known as Yps, takes with his great body
care, that some girlies in the audiance get sparkling eyes. Though I
presume he took off his shirt rather because of the heat in here or not?!
Only the lead guitar on the right keeps himself a bit in the back putting
out the slogan: let the music do the talking.
Sometime during the set, the singer holds a speech about his favorite
topic - the horrible radiolandscape in Germany. But it won't be changed
for now and the near future, that's for sure. And you never know, what
comes next.
The band gets
a lot of attention tonight, most of all of some screaming the hell out -
female freaks. And you could think you are in a teenie boy band concert.
But Bonfire take it with a lot of humour.And a hot blonde on stage is
always good for the image, ain't it?!
However, the Amen in
the church is once again 'Hard On Me' and the result once more is a decent
rockshow with a lot of pepper in the arse - no tired at all or boring or
dull, including a little pyro effect in the beginning of the show by the
way, to make sure that everybody is widely awake.
In the end you see many happy faces all over the place, who did like what
they saw. But of course nobody would say that openly. We won't show any
weakness, would we?! Though we should promote our rockexport and defend
them against the rest of the world, or at least Germany. We are proud of
them and our country. And if only one of all those other's dare to
complain about anything - dare you up there.... We can get really angry.
I can only advise you all out there, go and check this band out and give
bavarian hard rock a chance for an energetic stepdance of the alps.
This here is also Rock'n'Roll and nothing else......Got me?!
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