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June 12, 2012

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live at O2 World Hamburg

Letzten Sonntag.
DAS Konzerereignis des Jahres für mich: Nach gut 20 Jahren ist Tom Petty mit den Heartbreakers endlich wieder in Europa unterwegs und gab sich in der Hamburger O2 World die Ehre.
Es gab eine recht unspektakuläre Vorband, deren Namen ich schon wieder vergessen habe, und um Punkt 21:30 betreten der Meister und seine Mannen die Bühne und legen mit 'Listen To Her Heart' direkt los.
Das Publikum (ich eingeschlossen) ist bereits nach dem zweiten Song, 'You Wreck Me' völlig aus dem Häuschen und jubelt verzückt, als Tom Petty für den Abend eine "Long List of Songs" in Aussicht stellt und den Worten dann auch Taten folgen lässt.
19 Songs, insgesamt gute 2 Stunden, in denen man die erregende Kraft der Rockmusik so deutlich spüren konnte wie sonst selten.




Eine besonders schöne Überraschung war, als die Band als fünften Song eine Travelling-Wilburys-Nummer auspackte, das wunderschöne 'Handle With Care':



Hier die komplette Setlist:

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Setlist O2 World, Hamburg, Germany, European Tour 2012

Ihr seht schon, es gab eine mal cool-bluesige, mal rockig-dreckige Performance mit einer intrumentellen Perfektion, die ihresgleichen sucht. Hier sind eingespielte Profis am Werk, die aber in ihrer mittlerweile 36 Jahre andauernden Karriere nichts von ihrer Spielfreude verloren haben.
Mit geradezu rührender Herzlichkeit stellt Tom Petty seine Gefährten vor, das Publikum rast vor Freude, und die Musiker nehmen den Beifall gelassen-dankbar an.





Nach diesem sicher nicht nur für mich mehr als denkwürdigen Abend darf ich es wohl sagen: Tom Petty ist einfach der Allergrößte.

Die beiden anderen Videos werde ich Euch natürlich nicht vorenthalten :)

'Refugee'

'Mary Jane's Last Dance'

April 27, 2012

Fueling My Addiction.


Yesterday it was delivered...my new baby...
Limited to 300 copies and pressed in the most beautiful of vinyls...


November 23, 2011

Monster Magnet - Live at Huxley's Neue Welt Berlin, 2011-11-21

I have seen Monster Magnet live on last year's regular album release tour at Dock's Club Hamburg.
Although I have been a faithful fan for many years, it was the first Monster Magnet show for me and they did not disappoint! I definetely wanted to see them live again.
I did not expect that it would be so soon, but when I read that they were goin on tour again, this time playing exclusively the entire "Dopes To Infinity Album" - I just had to go!

To be able to watch the show in Berlin added an extra bonus to the whole thing, although I would have loved to see The Magnet at Grosse Freiheit in Hamburg.

Monster Magnet had not promised too much: They indeed performed the entire 'Dopes' album plus a couple of extra hits, such as 'Powertrip' and of course 'Space Lord'.

As this show once more proved, Monster Magnet are one of the most successful and influential bands associated with the so-called underground "stoner rock" scene.

And yet, as I heard tonight yet again, their influences span much further than that scene's foundations in '70s hard rock and metal, delving into space rock, psychedelia, and beyond......







November 22, 2011

Volbeat - Live at Sporthalle Hamburg, 2011-11-16

This was a show to remember. The acoustics were lousy as always at Sporthalle Hamburg, and after Clutch finished their brilliant, but much too short set, Volbeat took more than 45 minutes to finally appear on stage.



And they unleashed a Rock'n'Roll Hurricane! It was Danish Dynamite at it's best!











November 2, 2011

Bob Dylan & Mark Knopfler live at O2 World, Hamburg

This was a show that polarized.
A historic summit had been announced to about 10.000 visitors.
Everyone was amazed at Mark Knopfler's guitar. Of course. And they were right, the Knopfler part of the show was just as everyone expected...except...


....the song selection wasn't. The master rolled out an atmosphere of Irish Folk and Scottish Highlands, rarely looking back at Dire Straits, but 'Sailing To Philadelphia' being the highlight of his performance and closing his 75-minute set with 'Brothers In Arms' and 'So Far Away'.






After the break - a surprise! Mr. Knopfler is back on stage, assisting Mr. Dylan with 'Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat', 'Boots Of Spanish Leather', 'Things Have Changed', 'Man In The Long Black Coat' and 'The Levee's Gonna Break'.



So far, so good.
But when he left the stage and Folk-God Bob Dylan started playing without the guitar of the Dire Straits mastermind by his side, a whole lot of people left the arena, seemingly disgusted by His Bobness slashing his songs to pieces and putting them back together, always searching for the origins of pop music in dirty blues, earthy country and folk.


Waking up from drunken ecstasy after Mark Knopfler's admittedly brilliant performance people seemed to be surprised  that Bob Dylan resists any political or mainstream usurpation. He doesn't need to transform his monotonous growling into notes.


The singer barks through a set of 14 songs that makes it hard to recognize the classics, such as 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' or 'Highway 61 revisited'.

For the finale nothing special comes out of Bob Dylan's repertoire, he shreds 'All Along The Watchtower' and 'Like A Rolling Stone' as if he was trying to end those wonderful songs as soon as possible, kind of like adding fresh water and fertilizer to Jimi Hendrix' versions of them.

On The way out I could still hear people cursing. I really wonder why. If you want to hear 'Blowing In The Wind', you should stick to Joan Baez anyway.

October 13, 2011

Random Concert Shots Pt.1

Just a couple of pictures taken at various concerts this year or last year. Enjoy.

Brian Setzer's Rockabilly Riot feat. a Special Set with Slim Jim Phantom. What a great show at Große Freiheit in Hamburg! I do hope to see that again soon!
   





































Rob Zombie...a class of his own. A mesmerizing live performance, a great selection of songs from old White Zombie albums such as 'Black Sunshine' and 'Thunder Kiss '65' to his newer efforts with soon-to-be-classics in the likes of 'Mars Need Women'.



...and of course, there was The Cult:



October 11, 2011

Red Hot Chili Peppers, live at O2 World Hamburg, Oct. 9, 2011

The Red Hot Chili Peppers delivered.
They delivered a two-hour ride through almost 25 years of the band's history.
A great light show, a great selection of songs...but Josh Klinghoffer can only succeed John Frusciante, not replace him...
Setlist:
Monarchy of Roses
Can’t Stop
Tell Me Baby
Scar Tissue
Look Around
Otherside
Ethiopia
Parallel Universe
The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
Me & My Friends
Under the Bridge
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder Cover)
Californication
By the Way

Encores:
Chad & Mauro Jam
Dani California
Everybody Knows
This Is Nowhere (Neil Young Cover)
Give It Away
Final Jam
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