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Subject: Wacken show

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VimFuego

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Date Posted: 05:05:23 08/15/02 Thu

The Wacken show ruled. They opened with A Lesson In Violence and went into Fabulous Disaster.
don't remember the order but the setlist was something like:

A Lesson In Violence
Fabulous Disaster
Last Act Of Defiance
And Then There Were None(dedicated to Paul and you couldn't even hear the guitars in the "oh oh oh oh oh" part over the crowd singing it.)
Pirahna
Bonded
Strike of the Beast
Corruption (didn't expect to hear this one, but cool)
Anger-A (new)
Throwin Down (new)

The new songs are pretty cool, kinda mid tempo though......we want some rippers! The overall sound was pretty lousy considering how damned huge that PA was. Gary's mic was off in the house PA for the whole show (we couldn't hear a word you said, and i was in the second row) It took a while for the sound man to find the guitar faders and crank them.....especially Rick's. anyways it really mattered little because we were all totally fucking hyped. i have never heard a crowd so loud....i couldn't speak after screamin every lyric i knew.

The coolest thing though was the dude in the wheelchair whose friends pushed him through the crowd (and through the foot of mud absorbing straw on the ground) to the front where he got out of the wheelchair and hung on to the front railing for dear life! WICKED! Ever better was that later his friends lifted him up and he crowd surfed!!! NO shit! Of course he ended up going right over the front and into the hands of the bouncers who probably were a little freaked to find out that the guy couldn't walk when they put him down! His wheel chair was sent over the barrier a little while later.....hahah it ruled. the crowd was the best. The band were totally sotked too. Zetro declared German metal fans the best in the world. hey! what about the 40% of the crowd who come from all over the world? (Canada here) WOA is totally a metal mecca and you should plan to attend at least once.

i took a bunch of fotos from the second row....i'll post a link when i get 'em back.

later

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