2009 Germany Tour (Essen)

[Guest]

Thanks JüZe for giving your report ...and you´ll give the next one soon again..

[Kristof]

My review ,part 2
After a unforgetable momentnat the hotel we left to the gruggahalle,we arrived there at 5pm
We wanted to go earlier,but because we know the Boys were staying also at the hotel,we waited
For them.Just immediately after we arrived Elton saw us ! We could stand under their umbrella,because its started to rain.Then i also meet Cameleon for the second time .It was nice to see him again.He was trying to join the meet and greet,but unlucky we couldn’t ,Elton went inside and no more people…we were to far in the row !No luck for the meet and greetJust over 7pm we could enter the venue together with B-fan and his wife,it was the first time i met them,even already been a few times to the same concert,very nice people.
Inside ,we didn’t found immediately the way to the Hall,then i met Juze,thanks for giving us the right dirrection and gives us a short review of the show the day before.We went up and took place just next Cameleon,he already put his Flag ready over the fences,just before the place of Matthias. A while later ,a friendly German boy was asking to the security if my son could sit frontstage,but no…A little later Alex Malec was passing,we ask again,and it was good,i took my son over the fences and he got the best place of everyone. A little later i could see the setlist,when they noticed we saw the setlist,he turned the paper,but i already took a picture.It should be something special.Pity enough they didn’t play No One Like You !

[Kristof]

It was better that my son could sit there,so i could more enjoy the show.even the people were very calm,no pushing.
It was a great show.My son could catch first 2 drumssticks of Klaus ,Pawel trow 3 plectrums to my son ,just like Matthias ,he got 2 plectrums and still got later another drumsstick from James !
Sometimes Uncle Matthias was watching my son and smilling .My son has a great time,moving the drums sticks on the rythm of the music.It was also great to see Michael playing just in front of us !
During the encores Klaus was aking the Belgian flag and walked around with it !After the show we still hang around ,getting the usb stick,…then we heard of B-fan that Pawel ,Uli and James were outside…we quiclky went outside, Uli already left,pity… Pawel was in the car ,Cameleon was waving and he came out again,A nice picture with my son together,i was happy,we couldn’t catch him at the hotel,lucky here.He still signedmy sons t-shirt.A while later James was coming ,giving a cool handshake to my son and signing all CD’s since Eye To Eye .Then we still talked for a while to B-fan and his wife,say goodbye and went back to the hotel .

[Gabi6912]

Thanks for your great review Kristof.
I am so happy for your son having an unforgettable evening.

Hey, I also was lucky enough in Strasbourg to meet Bfan and Nancy, they are really nice people, I love them as love Ron also.

[Deleted User 13688]

Kristof, wonderful review. It was warming to hear how your son was treated by the boys. Uncle Matthias? That is soooo great!! I heard James was very sick this night, so for him to hang out with your son for awhile, just proves what an awesome guy he is!!!!

[Rob64]

Hi to all fans.
Just updated my website with some real good pictures of the show in Essen.
I've been there with my wife and my two daughters (15 and 12).They loved the show, specially the pyros!
Hope you like the pics. Have fun.
http://www.bruebachweb.de

[Guest]

Thank you very much for sharing these wonderful pictures, Rob !! It was a pleasure to watch them

[Kristof]

Kristof, wonderful review. It was warming to hear how your son was treated by the boys. Uncle Matthias? That is soooo great!! I heard James was very sick this night, so for him to hang out with your son for awhile, just proves what an awesome guy he is!!!!

It was really a night to remember,even didn't meet Michael at the hotel,and Uli,saw him talking in the privat part,but he didn't came outside.I also heard that Dieter Diercks was there talking to Rudolf!
James was really nice,didn't know he was sick,thats why maybe he didn't show up anymore at the hotel later that night!But Matthias,it was so cool that he spend so much time with the fans,Michael ,Peter and Beate several calling him for having dinner,...I guess his dinner must been cold It was so for recognize us from the shop,i really hope it will be a great re opening again!

I guees to be a Scorpions you not only must be a great musician,but also have a great loyalty to the fans

[Emilie]

I enjoyed your reviews and your pictures, thanks, Kristof.... Sometimes, I would like to be the son/daughter of someone else (just kidding, don't worry ) I can imagine the joy of your son

[ScorpsDiva]

Great review Kristof ... I love this whole topic ... great reviews, great pics, etc....

Huggs

Sherry

[Gabi6912]

Hi and welcome to the forum Rob64.
Thanks for sharing your site with your pics with us.

[ScorpfanUkraine]

Gabi, welcome back to the forum!!!

[Gabi6912]

Thank you for your warm welcoming dear.

[nomis7777]

dONT KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT BEFORE/YET BUT DISSAPOINTED ABOUT THE PURCHASEOF THE MEMORY STICK WITH THE GIG ON IT, I EXPECTED THE WHOLE CONCERT TO PLAY BUT EACH TRACK IS SEPERATE, IS THERE A WAY TO PLAY IT SO I CAN HERE THE WHOLE CONCERT CONTINOUSLY ?

[ScorpfanUkraine]

dONT KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT BEFORE/YET BUT DISSAPOINTED ABOUT THE PURCHASEOF THE MEMORY STICK WITH THE GIG ON IT, I EXPECTED THE WHOLE CONCERT TO PLAY BUT EACH TRACK IS SEPERATE, IS THERE A WAY TO PLAY IT SO I CAN HERE THE WHOLE CONCERT CONTINOUSLY ?

There are a lot of various programmes which can help you to compile all the tracks in one. But the way they did it is the best in my opinion. What's wrong if every song is a seperate file? I think it's better.

[nomis7777]

Noo way, I just wanna plug it in and here the whole gig, I feel cheated at paying 20 euro for this and still have to download the encores if I can be bothered.

[ScorpfanUkraine]

Noo way, I just wanna plug it in and here the whole gig, I feel cheated at paying 20 euro for this and still have to download the encores if I can be bothered.

But you must understand that if they sold it immediately after the show they had no time to burn all of the tracks. It takes a lot of time. So they burned only 15 tracks to finnish burning all of the usb sticks till the end of the show. I think if you buy it later from their site you'll be able to hear the whole show on usb stick without downloading the rest of the songs.

[HANS33]

Noo way, I just wanna plug it in and here the whole gig, I feel cheated at paying 20 euro for this and still have to download the encores if I can be bothered.

With the original USB from the concert, the pauses between each track are quite long, it looks like my DVD player has to "think" at the beginning of every track. I think this is related to the slow connection speed from the USB that I referred to earlier. If you burn the tracks on a CD or copy on another USB, it plays more normal, with almost no pause between the tracks. I don't know much about computer stuff but I suspect the slowness is because they wanted to make it compatible with as many OS and players as possible.
I still think it's very cool to have a professional recording from a concert you actually attended yourself.
BR Hans33

[Gabi6912]

Yes Hans33, I maximally agree with you, this chance is very cool.
By the way: Hello and welcome to the forum.
You seem tobe another nice, friendly Scorpsfan.

[Bean]

Hi to all fans.
Just updated my website with some real good pictures of the show in Essen.
I've been there with my wife and my two daughters (15 and 12).They loved the show, specially the pyros!
Hope you like the pics. Have fun.
http://www.bruebachweb.de

these are FANTASTIC pictures(and I thought mine were good) Would you mind letting me know which camera you have......are you professional?..... or do you just point and click and hope for the best.(like me)... thank you
Regards