5 shows and 4 countries ....

Mannheim, Germany ... sitting in comfy red plush chairs with Issy, being overtired, but totally woke up (from) dreaming by the first notes of the new "Heartaches were nickels". This song has never been played better before - and I think I said that about the previous versions as well. I wish I had one of those "Great solo"-banners that one dude standing in the frontrow in Brussels had with him (which he unrolled every time he thought Joe had played a good solo, which was often) - I´d definitely have held up that banner after the outro solo, just beautiful.

Muenster, Germany ... playing Alex´ Gigiliotti guitar and making plans to steal it while he´s listening to the show ... "Just got paid" was nuts - Andre constantly yelled "JEFF BECK!!" into my ear, that man just can never shut up. He was right though ...

Paris, France ... The Olympia Theater was beautiful, legendary and fitting Joe´s fancy suit. I don´t know who chose the opening band - they were more than dreadful. A french Punk-Chanson-singer/songwriter Duo Band with a drumming woman and a "guitarplaying" guy (at least the thing he had around his neck was a guitar) - I guess the mixture says it all, nobody clapped ...
I think the audience was still dumbfounded about the opening band for the first few songs of Joe´s set, because they were merely sitting in their seats like they were watching a movie. But pretty soon the "click moment" happened and the french audience turned into raging masses that wouldn´t stop clapping, yelling and cheering until the lights went out again after the encore and the guys did a rather spontaneous wonderful version of the long gone "Asking around for you". Take us home Rick ...

Brussels, Belgium ... Waffles. All I can remember is waffles with vanilla icecream.

Oh, and "Great flood". I thought the song was worth dying for... looking at faces in the audience, they all looked like they´d start crying the next second... it was really emotional. I think the guy in the frontrow even forgot to unroll his "Great solo" banner.

Amsterdam, Netherlands Wow, the Carre - it felt like Baby Albert Hall. Meeting so many familar faces and sorely missed "family members" (talking about the witch and her editor ) and also our unbelievable "wunderkind" Leif de Leeuw made for a very hectic but great day.
There´s these three notes in "Mountain Time" that get me so much - every time, no matter how often I hear the song. I mean, the whole song is one of my all-time favourites, but these three notes ...
And as others have stated before - Bogie´s playing was just exceptionally great during the whole tour even though he had a cold. Is it maybe your anti-cold-tea, Bogie?!

Eva