Killing the Dragon
Egypt
Children of the Sea
Push
Stand Up And Shout
Rock & Roll
Dont't Talk to Strangers
Man on The Silver Mountain
Long Live Rock'n Roll
Lord of the Last Day
Fever Dreams
Mob Rules
Holy Diver
Heaven and Hell
The Last in Line
Rainbow in the Dark
We Rock |
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The place was once again the Z 7. This time a little more crowded
than Thursday, about 800+ poeple I'd guess. But still a very relaxed atmosphere
and everybody was ready to rock. It was recocnizable how dressed up most
of the people were. I mean, you find some of them at every gig but I'd say
at this place it was the majority. Especially the girls. Some looked like
rockstars themselves in their leather outfits and wild hair dressings.
Warming up was a band called Sideburn
. (See the first two pictures below). I think they are Swiss. Their music
is straight metal, reminding a lot to AC/DC, at least me. They played a full
set, about 1 hour+ and offered a good stage show, good sound with two guitars
and they got the crowd rockin'. Not exactly my glass of vodka, but qualitywise
they were absolutely acceptable.
Then it was time for Dio . Their show
started exactly the way as when they were supporting Purple in Germany (see
setlist on the left). And they were loud as always. Security even gave out
free earplugs to the audience during their first songs. Having my experiences
from the recent Dio / DP Germany tour,
I stayed away from the Jimmy side this time because his stage amps blow your
brains out and kick you right in the gutts! He is cranked up to the
max.
Well, I don't want to bore you by describing every song, I assume we all
know them. What was outstanding? We got a Simon solo, like almost all the
time, and also an extensive Doug solo. I just love his homage to Stevie Ray
which he sometimes adds to it. And he always varies it.
I must say overall, the more I see him the more I get into his playing.
I think he is pretty underrated or maybe can't show all his abilities due
to the limitations of the style of Dio's music, I don't know. |
I can only say that I was very impressed with his skills
when he sat in with Purple in Braunschweig and had an unplanned and unrehearsed
guitar duell with Steve. It was unbelievable and I felt he was playing two
classes above what he is doing in Dio. Anyway, this is all very subjective
but he convinced me big time that very night. Well, back to this show....
I was happy to hear the "extras" such as Don't Talk To Strangers,
Mob Rules, Fever Dreams, Lord Of The Last Day, The Last In Line and We Rock.
Well, that's the advantage of seeing him when he is headlining. As I must
state, he seems to be much more comfortable with that anyways, which
is natural. But what I'm trying to say is, one can feel the difference in
his acting on stage. He's just more secure from the very beginning
on, doesn't have to convince the audience first because they came to see
*him*. Makes life way easier and, obviously gives him a better mood, too.
I don't want to blame it on that fact alone but I must say this was a great
show, better than anything else I had seen on the shared tour with DP.
And also, he/they were more relaxed backstage and made lots of time for meet
'n' great and had an extreme patience for autograph seakers. Ronnie signed
really everything although it obviously hurt him big time. (He was suffering
from a shoulder injury). He was just beeing the nice and humble great little
man as always, a real sweetheart. (Still can't believe his dog hated him
for 14 years.... but that's a different story and doesn't belong here).
Okay, before I let you go and see the pictures I want to thank Dora and
Geri for their support.
God bless your hearts,
Ted Mechanic |