Hi,
I found time to write now a bit longer review.
Me and friend came not too late, but due to a slow moving row in front of the entrance at the E-Werk , we entered when the 1st support was already playing.
Metallion wasnt so bad, and for the 1st 30min support act, they were pretty good. A bit Helloweenish imho but quite ok, and they managed to make the people in front of the stage move, yell and wave their arms, which is not too common for their role.
About Dream Evil
ok, first of, I consider it a big mistake to enter the stage with some cool outfit, coloured faces, weird clothes and such. After all the typical Saxon audience is more down to earth, and Id say Saxon isnt the best act for Dream Evil to be on tour with.
About the music, unfortunately, I got to say, they bored me. They werent bad, but simply not exiting, very simple stuff, 1000s times heard before, and average arranged. The good point was the drummer, being a musician myself, I got to say, that guy looked totally weird and crazy, but he was the best new drummer Ive seen for a long time. Dream Evil depend on that guy, he was the only one who was able to give their songs the special kick, I prolly would have fallen asleep without him on the drums.
About Saxon
I am not too sure if Jörgs playlist is all that correct. The songs are right, but the order might be a bit off imho, but it doesnt matter.
Saxon played a great show, Biff was in very very good mood. He was joking around all the time.
Not much to say, you all know how good they can be, and they had one of their even better days, which means they can knock any other band off the stage in a competition.
My friend didnt see Saxon before on stage, and I think his comment after the show says enough: Thats the first time after a concert I consider to look where the band plays tomorrow, ifs its not too far I would go there
He was simply in awe, which happened to another friend I invited to Saxon live as well. They simply seem to make people addicted once youve see them live.
Hehe
One sidenote about Jörg Michael
Ive seen him before a couple of times, with different german HM bands, and as a german myself, and also musician, you look a bit closer into the german metal musician scene. I always though Jörg is a worldclass drummer. But what was important, yesterday I saw him really enjoy playing. In the bands before he looked like doing his job, not more (nothing bad with that, he is extremely good at doing his job
). Yesterday he enjoyed the set, and was even trying to improvise
.ok, I got to admit, with Biffs habbit of disordering all songs, and playing what comes into his mind, I felt rather sorry for Jörg, but he did very very well, and gave Saxon some good, straight heavy punch whenever they played something faster. Give him another year in the band, and I bet he kicks ass.
20.000 feet with Jörg on the drums was simply awesome, but I fear that poor guy must have some practice drum in the tour bus and practice all day long to keep up with Biffs decisions.
I hope he has a bright future with Saxon, hes the best they ever had, he just needs to groove more, but that will come with time.