Live Review 592 |
Let's
be serious, but if have to pay respect to one musician of the younger
Heavy Metal generation, then this should be honestly Tobias Sammet. And
not only for beeing a brilliant singer. Surprisingly, despite to the
fact, that his body shape is rather small and skinny, he puts out a hell
of an aura on stage. It's like Elvis meets Steven Tyler from Aerosmith,
- yeah well, something like that. In addition to that there is his big
variety, which includes next to straigth hardrocking outfit Edguy also
his sideproject Avantasia. Well,
this tour slogan is not correct, as Avantasia don't come to our town.
And so Music lovers and fans have to go all the way to the small city of
Kaufbeuren (about 1 hour drive from Munich) at - 15 C temperature. Who
the hell knows, why Mr. Sammet always tends to nicklect Munich, as he's
a true FC Bayern Munich (soccer) fan. Or does he belongs to the very few
people what difficult ground our town is for german Power Metal Bands.
With his band Edguy he recently did support the Scorpions in Munich's
biggest venue - the Olympiahalle. Well the Scorpions are standing above
those rules, as they do enjoy cultstatus. So for Edguy it's not been a
risk, but rather a welcome chance to present themselves to a wider
audiance. The rules of the management are strict - and it sounds like, our superstars are untouchable and don't you dare to talk to them.. And backstage passes, as far as you got one, are not valid tonight, only for very selected people. But well, some kind of image has to be provided...I presume so.. Every time, when I experience a hardrock event outside Munich, I can see that most of the audiance is very different to the one in our town. While watching the aprox. 2.500 fans - still wearing this Eighties jackets with the many stickers of various bands on and bang their long haired heads from one side to the other. So this is a rather amusing dejavu with a nostalgic touch and the insurance, that the german so called true metal is not dead yet. No indeed, the current Avantasia project does pull quite a few of these Eighties fans out of their homes to this place here. And there are some youngsters as well, who are curious to studay this ancient concept of Heavy Metal. The beer is flowing and temperature outside is dropping even more down minus. But in here it's nice and warm and just right for a bombastic show start at 8 p.m. for the Avantasia Show.
And as I mentioned in the beginning, it is the creator of this cyclus himself - Tobias Sammet, who deserves most of all respect. Because while True Metal heroes Jorn Lande and Michael Kiske, or the inventor of german Heavy Metal - Kai Hansen (that's how he got introduced by Toby) and Magnum's Bob Catley just appeared with interuptions, Little Toby was on stage almost all 3 hours. So did his Backing Band of course. He himself likes to comunicate with the audiance a lot, but does spare this until the last 30 minutes or so. But then he gets into a real rent a mouth mood.
Let's put it that way: people don't really take care about the whole concept saga or whatsoever.
Most important is that the huge soundcloud takes them by thunderstorm and meets their individual taste. Because up there, there are some of their Eighties heroes and some other great musicians. In my own personal opinion some of the particpants take this chance of Avantasia here to push on their own individual carriere a little. No clue whether this will help or not. After 3 times 60 minutes the show ends in a bombastic final, where everybody up there is on stage and in front.
The
only think I can really criticice are the weak sound conditions in here.
And coinciding to this phantastic journey into musical Nirvana and
beyond, some of the artists could have been dressed a little different
to give the atmosphere a better vibe. Next to Zylinder hat a ordinary
biker jacket and Jeans don't look too smart. Of course music comes first,
no doubt about that. But the eye does eat as well, as we say so. http://www.tobiassammet.com/ |