Take it easy
was and is the slogan, and next to the usual day to day job, new song
ideas developed and were pressed on CD. The result carried the title 'Redemption'
and came out in 2008. Last year's tour trip was sort of a vacation for
the band as well, as the risk was rather high to land on the belly
button, as we say so. But someone must have told them, that Europe is
the non plus ultra for Rock'n'Roll nowadays. The band got the answer to
that on last year's club tour, where fans showed a huge nostalgic
enthusiasm, and also people, who have heard the name for the very first
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And I do pull my hat in front of these kids, who's idols seem to be most of all bands such as Guns'n'Roses, who's big hits were written, when they weren't even born. And so I will not criticise them too hard. I mean, how should they possbilly got any experience or a hell of a practice yet. But the fact, that these six kids are stepping up there on stage, trying to perform those songs of their idols - and they are not that bad, believe me. - is simply great. Sbeks, that's what they are named, are: Martin, Verena, Alexander and three times Andreas are doing their job with so much heart, that you can actually feel this. Their program contains smash hits such as the one's of Guns'n'Roses, or t. Ihr Programm enthält etliche bekannte Gassenhauer. Das fängt bei den, eben erwähnten Guns’n’Roses an, über ‚Let Me Entertain You’ by Robbie Williams, Mighty Quinn in the Gotthard-Version, ‚I Love Rock’n’Roll’ by Joan Jett or ‚Sweet Caroline’ and ‚Rockin’All Over The World’ by Status Quo 'till ‚Centerfold’by the J.Geils Band, just to name a few.... And
believe it or not, the band even does to originals, which don't sound
bad at all.... |
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The musical new generation is about to fly free. They do it with passion, and for the luv of music, and not because they think, they are the new superstars of tomorrow. But I mean who knows... maybe the Rock Chick is about to find a corn round the corner of Regensburg one day, you never know. For the moment, Sbeks are just happy that they have got the possibillity to play live here and the chance to support Little Caesar. More Infos about Sbeks you find below the next picture.... : |
Meanwhile our Death Valles has devloped into the surface of the sun, which is just preparing fo the next erruption.
And
the fact, that not a tiny desert flea finds room to move anymore
in here, the individual comfiness gets into danger... |
It’s Show Time and after only 3 minutes it becomse clear, - Little Caesar's helium is not burned down since last year's sunstorm. Up there the fire is still burning. And this one is produced by five musicians. who are definately proving, that A) the 80s and 90s Rock'n'Roll ain't dead yet and is, as I said before, still timeless, and B) these boys of my generation are still putting every 20 year young in their pockets, as much as their energy provides. The nice thing about their music is, that it has nothing to do with trends and doesn't put any dust on. Rock'n'Roll such as Little Caesar play, belong to this sort, which is lifting the earth out of it's angle, glowing in the upper atmosphere. The Band around singer Ron Young has created a master recepy for themselves, which is sort of a ping pong effect. As known enthusiasm is infecting everybody. And so Little Caesar are immidiately getting back what they just spread out a moment ago, only to explode within the whole unit. The
setlist doesn't show any rest or break just as a ballad, but straight
forward Rock'n'Roll which couldn't be any better. It's actually not what
songs they are playing, it's rather how they perform those. The egg of
the Columbus is rocking, bursting in sparkles, pushin our adrenalin
level up to 320 and more... |
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Taking care therefore are also the two pearls 'Redemption' and the brand new baby 'American Dream', which just got to know the sunny side of the earth. Unfortunately the law of the international musical jungle still rules: what the farmer doesn't know, he won't even taste, as we say so. And so those oysters stay closed with their precious pearls inside and only insiders get a teaser. The rest of the wider musical community is pretty much too lazy to open the shell, or don't even give it a try. And my own Convincion is growing due to the fact, that there ain't actually any trends in music. Everything and I mean really everything is only a thing of right promotion. And I dare to bet, that if you put our band here on a hot rotation at 10 public radiostations and give 'em 3 title stories in established print mags, then Little Caesar would enjoy certainly an upper class status in Rockmusic again. But unfortunately it doesn't run that way. And so we have to change our mind again and say: thanks god, there are still bands around such as Little Caesar, thanks god, they are back again, and thanks god, they are standing on this stage here right at this very moment ans show us, what Rock'n'Roll is really all about. The icing of our cake is of course 'Chain Of Fools', and not to forget the adaption of 'I Wish It Would Rain', orignally recorded by the Temptations in 1967. |
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Little Caesar are: Ron Young: (Voc), Loren Mulinare (Git), Joey Brasler (Git), Fidel Paniagua (Bass) Tom Morris (Drums) whereby only guitarist Brasler is a newbe.The rest comes from the glory early ninties era, when the hair was still long and the tattoos were there to show off. Well the wild times are definately over, as Ron Young says up there tonight, but this is more considering the life style, the look and the general attitude. The music and the spirit is still the same than back then. And so it doesn't matter, when we all look like behaved midldeaged cuddly teddybears. We all don't get any younger. And what the Rolling Stones can do with almost seventy, everybody else can do, when you just got the right attitude. The drive on stage is still the same, and the temperature in here has screwed up to above the sunshine.
Never mind,
because the orgasm of last tour has indeed found a continuation, and has
even got a little more intensive. And so this evening does definately
belong to those events giving us this special little something. Let's
wait and see. how many of this sort we will get this year - counted on
one hand's fingers. |
Pre- and Aftershow
impressions can be found at the Diary |