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12/05/03 - MESSEHALLE, CHEMNITZ
Review by Petra Stauber:
I'm back to work after an exciting and one of the most fun trip
ever to Chemnitz :) should finally be working now but use my lunch
break to summarize that gig:
The venue was pretty small and they had built up
the gates pretty early. After an uneventful 4 hour waiting in the
sun, they opened the gates at 6.30 pm already (in winter they let
us always wait til 7 or 7.30 pm, does that make sense???).
We had to run"up and down" the hall 2 times before we
finally got near the stage, but we made it first row a bit left
to the center.
Bryan came on stage 10 minutes after 9. when I said Friedrichshafen
was good, then Chemnitz was fantastic!!! Although from the musical
point of view (more songs!!!!) and especially from his mood. I have
not often seen him that much smiling, grinning and joking with Mickey
and Keith. Doing his usual Tina Turner introduction for "it's
only love" he said "keith, our weapon of mass destruction…….
But don't tell Bush about it, ok!" when Keith had his soli
during that song Bryan was standing in front of Mickey and they
were shouting at each other several times, then suddenly changing
the rhythm and melody so that poor Keith was pretty busy to follow
them, what had the effect that Bryan and Mickey were laughing that
much that they could hardly go on.
Oh, they played a wonderful version of "please forgive me",
short, but sweet!
For WYG he choose a girl, who was shy and a it taciturn, only giving
one word answers. Further she said she was unemployed at the moment,
so Bryan was asking the audience about 4 times to give poor Rebecca
a job.
He did the most talking (again) before EID. He started "well,
that's probably our last tour….." making a big pause during
which I was standing there thinking if I am in the wrong movie and
might have missed the career end of Bryan ;) before he continued
"…before my new album is coming out in September"
puuuuhhh, relief
"IF I finally finish my album" (big grinning down to us)
" everybody think it's easy for a songwriter, and then you
think yourself, today we change this song, and tomorrow another"
(standing with his arms to the sky, wearing that "innocent"
look)
"maybe it would be better if someone would just give me some
ready songs and I would only sing them"
then he told, as always that this song is a guitar song and NOT
a piano song what always leads in introducing Gary. "that's
Gary Breit, he is from Toronto, you know, it's dangerous there because
of SARS. But I can assure you, Gary is ok"
right at that moment, don't know if it was planned or not, Gary
started coughing.
Bryan, looking surprised "Gary, you are ok, aren't you???"
The other "new" song is "This Time", which he
is singing without guitar but walking up and down the stage til
the remotest corner with his microphone. That song absolutely drove
the crowd wild.
During "run to you" he was joking again with Mickey. At
the end when he always marks with his arms when all the other have
to stop he did that for about 5 times and Mickey always hit the
same drum. Then Bryan started shaking his butt, Mickey doing another
drum, Bryan shaking his butt to the other side, Mickey doing another
drum sound, almost falling down of his chair because of his laughter.
Bryan "I think we start to get a bit silly now"
Encore yesterday was "have you ever really..:" with the
usual amazing intro of Keith and a latino looking and clapping Bryan.
"ola, muchas gracias amigos"
He bowed several times at each side waved, waved some more and then
finally went off.
We waited at the back entrance and soon Mickey and Keith left without
stopping.
Only 5 minutes later (we had sit down because we were prepared for
another hour wait) Bryan's Mercedes came out and ……. STOPPED.
Since it was only 11.30 pm there were about 40 people who were pushing
and shoving around his window a lot.
He was in a great mood again, but this time didn't sign any live
pics again. He doesn't say a word, just give it back to you with
a smile. I gave him the booklet of "star" instead murmuring
something like "this is my all time favourite, love the lyrics".
He was staring at it for a few seconds and then signing it.
It took me a whole day to finally check what he was drawing around
my name: it's the cover where you see his silhouette and guitar
on blue and violet background. And he was doing a bubble (like in
cartoons) around my name and 4 points leading from his mouth to
it so as if he was saying my name.
Then he started answering his mobile and had a headset in his ear
for that. Funny, because he said things like "yeah international"
or "he is more in my generation", then asking "what's
your name?" or "thank you" in between and no-one
quite knew to whom he was speaking in which moment. His small mobile
was lying on his big white pillow and because it was quite dark
you couldn't hardly see the headset.
Absolutely everyone got one autograph (took him 15 minutes) then
he drove off, waving out of the window.
Happily we went to our hotel, which was only 400 metres away, how
convenient!!!!
For me it was a great finale for the "various"
spring tours and it was great to see how much Bryan - and we - enjoyed
every single second of the show!!!
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