Hannover

Hannover was great! We had such a good time. While driving from Amsterdam to Göttingen Germany where my friends live, I got an email from Bonapostle she was going too. Always fun!
As the three of us sat at the first row, we had good sight. Before the show it's now Higway to Hell, so when you hear this song you'd better be seated! The accoustic part is to start, no press photographers allowed. Luckely! Carmine wasn't on stage then. It was fun and I had this flashback to the show in Mainz last year. Can't wait to buy the Vienna CD. Sound was very good!
Then Carmine joins in and the rest of the shows starts. Sound also very good! I didn't have to use my earplugs at all. The whole band had fun on stage. Good interaction and happy faces! What I found different and good, was that the keys were more "in the picture". More time for solo's and interaction. Some songs had new arrangements, were more rocky or had another tempo. "Look over yonders wall" was jazzy/funky and was great. Indeed no Mountain Time, but Midnight Blues is the new Mountain Time for me. It was so epic. I really loved it. Apparently some new fans behind us, somehere halfway I heard this man wondering if there was ever coming an end to the amount of guitars that were brought on stage . Also some ppl behind us were talking loud (drunk or deaf?), but it stopped after a while as my friend gave them a mean look and I strongly advised them to enjoy the entire show please...
Joe was funny. Told us that this night was special and therefore he chose his best socks to wear (best socks night, haha). One couldn't miss them: aqua blue stripes. But the funny part was that he didn't mention anything at all about the shoes (bright red with a LOT of glitters!!!).
Also told this funny story about the first time he was in Hannover at the Blues Garage. He met the owner that did great multitasking. Ticket selling, giving Joe bratwurst, announcing him on stage, bringing him all the drinks that he wanted. So there was Joe backstage very happy to play here. The owner announced Joe, Joe comes on stage and... see that there's only 13 f*cking people in the house! That 13 people off course had the best gig ever played in the Blues Garage. And also lot a thanks to the 4000 that made it to the show tonight!
At the end we had the encore. I knew we were allowed to stand up and I ran to the stage and Joe asked everybody to stand up too. It was fun off course. I found out this little boy was behind me, he was very modest and even shy. I had to tell him twice he had to stand in front of me, which he finally did. Only his eyes came over the stage and he was enjoying it very much. Joe noticed him at once when he was giving a solo at our side. He gave the boy a plectrum. Which slipped through his fingers. My friend was politely pointing at the plectrum to make sure the boy could get it. Then all of a sudden this arm came out of the audience 3 rows from the left and immediately we both put our hands over the plectrum. Than another hand wanted to grab it too! We both started to yell that it was ment for the boy, and it turned out to be the father. So there was 3 of us over the boy and plectrum to let him have it and one other to take it from him. At that moment Joe saw what was going on (or at least saw that there was something going on!), returned to the boy, bent foreward with a new plectrum and stayed as long as he was sure that it really got in his hands safely. The boy was so surprised by this (had never seen this happen before), that he wanted to give them back to Joe. But I closed his hands and explained that they were a gift and his dad told him to put them in his pocket. We spoke about it after the gig, and we all found this sooo nice of Joe! So the kid went home with two plectrums and I endend up with blood on my hands (someone scratched me during the struggle). But it was all worth it!!!
Thanks Joe and band and see you thursday again!

Thanks for the great review Bibi!
That plectrum story reminds me of the second BCC gig we attended in Anaheim. We were standing in the pit. A big press of headbangers and other fans. RikEmmetFan's daughter, about 10 years old,  was standing next to Helen. At the end of the encore Joe tossed a handful of picks towards her. One landed next to her feet and as she reached for it a man knocked her down and tried to grab it. Helen gave him a stiff arm shivver and retrieved the pick, giving it to the child while fixing him with a glare!

Don't mess with the Bonababes! Fierce as tigers!
Rick

Great review and story bibi, and wonderful the small boy got a plectrum in the end and joe noticing the scuffle    i think joe dropping songs here and there on this tour is just rotation so the're all brushed up on cos of the 80 or so planned for The 4 London shows and film shoot for the DVD

Funny story about Blues Garage ...  one of my coldest JB shows ever there .
if he played in an igloo at The North Pole with the air condition on would still be warmer than the blues garage .. Brrrrrrrr

great review bibi  and another expected 

........... Michael

JGP medley courtesy of Issy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqFesYV … mp;index=1
Shot right from the rail!
Rick

I visited also the Hannover Show. The show was great and totally different from the show I saw one year before in Berlin, therfore it was worth spending the time and the money to drive to Hannover. Unfortunately the venue was a bit shabby and the audience wasn't too enthusiastic ... but we (my father in law, my two bandmates and four other good friends) had a great time. It was the very first time for the seven others that they saw Joe live on stage, and they all agreed that we will definitively go again when Joe is somewhere in northern Germany.

Another good reason for being in Hannover was that I had the chance to meet Joe approx. three hours before the Show

Joe was short on time, his crew was still doing some setups and the soundcheck wasn't finished. But he took the time to chat with me for awhile:

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