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Post by steph on Oct 22, 2012 1:25:12 GMT 2
Back at my hotel room after the Mannheim show. They changes the setlist a bit compared to the show in Solothurn. They left out Cherokee and played Dreamer instead of Open Your Heart during the acoustic part. Joey seems to have a new favorite word in German: ausflippen, which means to freak out. I was at the front row, so I couldn't see what happened behind me, but I had the feeling the crowd woke up half way through the show with the beginning of the acoustic part. People weee very enthusiastic about Drink and a Smile and Joey said something like "thanks for the feedback", so I would translate it to a very quiet audience until then. It was only half sold (500 people), which I think is very disappointing after the promotion gigs theydid in Mainz and Kronberg, which is close to Mannheim. But I heard from a lot of people that they had trouble getting tickets to the show, which probably explains things. I know from my own experience that I couldn't buy a ticket at my local boxoffice in Frankfurt, which is just a stone's throw away. They only sold tickets to the shows in Berlin, Bochum and Strassbourg. Very strange ... Otherwise the band seemed to be enjoying themselves, Joey bumping into the Johns every now and then and having trouble with the line "I'm out late after curfew" in BOB, which caused some laughter ... To me the highlights of the evening were the acoustic part and BOB, which I really like. The only thing that seemed a little awkward to me was Joey's percussion efforts ... I would have skipped that, but that as everything else is just my persobal opinion. Good night everyone!
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Post by steph on Oct 22, 2012 1:28:32 GMT 2
Please excuse the spelling mistakes. Damn mobile phone ... *argh*
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Post by guesswho? on Oct 22, 2012 8:24:33 GMT 2
Back at my hotel room after the Mannheim show. They changes the setlist a bit compared to the show in Solothurn. They left out Cherokee and played Dreamer instead of Open Your Heart during the acoustic part. Joey seems to have a new favorite word in German: ausflippen, which means to freak out. I was at the front row, so I couldn't see what happened behind me, but I had the feeling the crowd woke up half way through the show with the beginning of the acoustic part. People weee very enthusiastic about Drink and a Smile and Joey said something like "thanks for the feedback", so I would translate it to a very quiet audience until then. It was only half sold (500 people), which I think is very disappointing after the promotion gigs theydid in Mainz and Kronberg, which is close to Mannheim. But I heard from a lot of people that they had trouble getting tickets to the show, which probably explains things. I know from my own experience that I couldn't buy a ticket at my local boxoffice in Frankfurt, which is just a stone's throw away. They only sold tickets to the shows in Berlin, Bochum and Strassbourg. Very strange ... Otherwise the band seemed to be enjoying themselves, Joey bumping into the Johns every now and then and having trouble with the line "I'm out late after curfew" in BOB, which caused some laughter ... To me the highlights of the evening were the acoustic part and BOB, which I really like. The only thing that seemed a little awkward to me was Joey's percussion efforts ... I would have skipped that, but that as everything else is just my persobal opinion. Good night everyone! Thank you for sharing this with us ! Nice they made some changes : So, they'll do the kind of tour where there's a surprise every night ! I'm very happy of this, as I'll attend 3 shows... But concerning the setlist, it's ALMOST a perfect one. because I just noticed that "Seventh sign" is missing
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Post by guesswho? on Oct 22, 2012 8:29:17 GMT 2
I've only found this video on youtube :
LLAE :
plus TFC
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Post by Fernanda on Oct 22, 2012 13:16:14 GMT 2
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Post by Eva Tomorrow on Oct 22, 2012 16:31:30 GMT 2
Steph, thanks for your report , it's great that almost every concert of the band have some forum user who is there and gives us a lot of information. I would love that all concerts were SOLD OUT, but it is very difficult to get it, what does bother me is when there are few people watching them, not for me because I continue thinking that they are great, but I believe that Europe deserve more audience. Maybe is a band that when they play in Germany must to be in Berlin or Munich, and when they play in Spain has to be Madrid or Barcelona. I think that they must play at suitable sites to its cache ... In big cities will never have an audience of 500 people ... Please don't misunderstand me :-X , I'm sure that the place where they played last night is beautiful and the people who were there enjoyed a lot but I speak from the point of view the image of the band ...
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Post by steph on Oct 22, 2012 16:53:57 GMT 2
Check out the YouTube videos of this user, they're in good quality. Here's Drink and a Smile:
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Post by steph on Oct 22, 2012 16:57:13 GMT 2
Eva Tomorrow: Mannheim is not that small. On the other side of the river is Ludwigshafen and you have the entire Rhine-Main-Region with cities such as Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt at your door all within 45 minutes car ride. So it's not a bad choice. The only problem is: If they don't sell tickets for the Mannheim show at your local boxoffice how were you supposed to know about the show?
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Post by Stein on Oct 22, 2012 17:12:11 GMT 2
Thanks for the report, setlist and links! I can't see this picture, could you please post it here? Did John Norum play the same blues song as he did in Solothurn, or was it a different one?
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Post by Eva Tomorrow on Oct 22, 2012 17:51:14 GMT 2
Eva Tomorrow: Mannheim is not that small. On the other side of the river is Ludwigshafen and you have the entire Rhine-Main-Region with cities such as Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt at your door all within 45 minutes car ride. So it's not a bad choice. The only problem is: If they don't sell tickets for the Mannheim show at your local boxoffice how were you supposed to know about the show? Ok Steph, I didn't know it ...so this city is not a good example. The theme of unsold tickets at the local boxoffice is something rare? You know the reason? That is, who controls it? Did the band or the promoter there? Because is bad for the band, In the other hand, I would like more promotion for the band, ... I know that more promotion is more money, and I don't know how much money has the band to promote themselves but I miss more publicity for them.
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