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To be honest, 'till yesterday, I couldn't get outta this band a lot. No, not because I didn't know 'em 'till the very day. As a musicjournalist I did of course register their history and hits etc. But as we all know, personal tastes are different, and this lot has not really been my cup of tea. But on the other hand, I always keep saying, - never judge an artist, before you haven't checked him out live on stage. How often did it happen in the past, that you luv a CD, but when you see the band live, then a dream is bursting. Or the other way round, like in this case here, - how ofter did I neclect the music, but when seeing the artist on stage, I was totally surprised in a positive sense. And that's the reason, why I tell you all out there - go and have a look at them first, before you make your final decision. And that's what I am tonight - totally surprised. Alter Bridge is, what I'd call an excellent Liveband with a rather high standard. And I presume, all these aprox. 1.100 fans here think the same way. That's why the slogan tonight is: completely sold out! Support comes from a young new Band from Hampshire, Great Britain named Enjoy Destroy.
And that's what they
are in the truest sense of the word- in my first thought : jesus wept -
they are young, ain't they?!!! The debutalbum 'Little Dreams' has yet to
come out, but therefor the same titled single will be out on feb. 18.This
here is the first visit of Enjoy Destroy in good old Germany, and these
kiddies here, take an awful hell of a lot effort to push up all those
Alter Bridge fans. Thanks god to the youthful enthusiasm, which hopefully
will stay for a long time around. Because with some more experience and a little
luck this band could maybe win a bigger goal one day.
oh yeah, and by the way
they are playing as well. All this yelling, screaming and applauding,
which rises up when they hit the stage, - I swear, some other artists get this only
for encore. It's showtime, and the venue stands on it's head.
The songmaterial is taken from two released albums so far, which is ‚One Day Remains’ (2004) und ‚Blackbird’ (2007). But that's miles enough to blow all these kids here off their socks. It's a well done mixture of the mentioned above musical styles, spiced with lots of chilly in the butt. And it's definately not just me, beeing completely enthusiastic about the show. No depri sound is dominating the vibe here, but straight rock. The first encore is done by Myles alone, and be surprised, but this is wonderful Bluesmusic played on a slideguitar. Yep, it is so nice, seeing all these youngsters here in the audiance dancing along to a tune, which developed, when not even their parents were born then. On the other hand I'm sure, Myles could have played Twinkle Twinkle little star, and the audiance would still kiss his feet. And it's the prove, that music is music, no matter what, but you've got to like it and it's got to be good music. And that's what it does in this case here - 5 times underlined with a red pen..
Alter
Bridge still belongs to sort of insiders here in Germany, as their current
album just went to pos. 55 in our charts. But this show tonight
transferred a feeling, that this band could still become really big here.
I mean - real big!!!! |
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