by Scorpions Truck » November 10th, 2011, 5:50 pm
Cristinutza wrote:let's try:
city was Gdansk
the electrician is Lech Wałęsa
headliner was Kylie Minogue (thanks for help Hans)
later edit:
show was named "It Started In Poland" and commemorated events from 1989 (in some east european countries comunism ended that year)
So here´s a little story from that gig we played in June 2009 in Gdansk
It happened at the ship yard and there was a huge stage built cuz there was almost 90000 people expected.
At stage left side there was a 60mter catwalk where there was some kind of red Domino Cubes, each as a symbol to the fromer communist countries in eastern Europe. The idea was that Mr Walesa tips the first domino cube which was symbolising Poland and than cube by cube all the other ones fall down - like domino.
60 mins before this should happen somebody from the polish TV Station came and said I have quickly to move the truck from the stage side, cuz the TV director was afraid of the contrast of colours. Truck is green/yellow and the domino cubes where red and it was already sundown time.
I couldn´t move the truck for there was muddy ground and so it was decided to cover the whole truck with black drapes. It looked like David Copperfield´s magic event when he covered an Oriental Express waggon and let it disappear. The local crew needed endless rolls of black drapes but the truck didn´t disappear at all even I spoke all magic phrases I´ve ever heard. It stayed where it was, just black covered. The TV director was happy his colour contrast was okay after "hiding" the truck so Mr. Walesa could tip the domino cubes with getting standing ovations.
You Rock, we Roll
) although he - we all, actually - wasn´t so sure about the result 
