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 THE BAND
- Ronnie James Dio - Vocals
- Tony Iommi - Guitar
- Geezer Butler - Bass
- Vinny Appice - Drums
- Scott Warren - Keyboards
SET LIST
- E5150
- Mob Rules
- Children of the Sea
- I
- Sign of the Southern Cross
- Voodoo
- Drum Solo
- Computer God
- Falling off the edge of the world
- Shadow of the Wind
- Guitar Solo
- Die Young
- Heaven and Hell
- Neon Knights ( Encore)
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from FME <krasenkow@tiscali.de>
to siegler@black-sabbath.com
date Jun 18, 2007 4:24 PM
subject Black Sabbath Offenbach Hi
Joe, first of all thanks to you making such a great website about Black
sabbath, I really enjoy it. Second, Born in 1968, I grew up with
listening to Live evil first, then buying Never say die!, then maybe
Black Sabbath up to Volume 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage and the
weaker Technical Ecstasy. I bought all Albums of Black Sabbath, even if
the Seventh Star years were somehow as if I'm a idiot to buy these
albums. Headless Cross (Born Again is also very nice) was very good and
I still like Cozy Powell. We all like Ozzy, but Black Sabbath is a band,
and not stupid stuff that dies when Ozzy leaves. I went to a concert
with Tony Iommi, Neil Murray, Tony Martin and Cozy Powell in Frankfurt
years ago. Getting the chance to see Iommi-Butler-Dio-Appice in
Offenbach was incredible, and it was amazing.
The venue in Offenbach wasn't sold out, I think, because it was no
problem to get a ticket in the evening, but it was crowded with the
typical mixture of Heavy-Metal-fans, a few kids and people, who really
doesn' t look like as if they were going to a metal-concert. Maybe also
people who are earning a lot of money in Frankfurt as broker or banker
(sorry if I don' t get the vocabulary right) as well as people who were
fucked up a long time. A lot of people were wearing Wacken-Open-Air-T-Shirts.
As a longtime thrash- and deathmetal-fan it was funny to see the people,
and because the whole idea of watching the concert was growing by
talking to my former girlfriend, who is much more into techno,
electrical stuff after being a long time into AC/DC or Accept/Saxon
Style Metal in the eighties, she liked Dio, but don' t know much about
Black Sabbath, except that Ozzy was a former member of the band, she was
impressed and now would like to see another metal concert. Anyway, as
expected, Heaven and Hell really kills. I think I can't get the whole
setlist together, but they played Sign of the southern cross, Heaven and
Hell, Neon Nights, I, Computer God, Falling off the edge of the world,
Children of the Sea, Neon Knights, Voodoo, Mob rules, Die Young, Shadow
of the Wind (not in the running order). Even if I love Tony Iommi' s
guitar work, this day belonged to the the three other members. Because
the venue was filled with people but not sold out it was an extremly
relaxing atmosphere with the possibility to chant, shout, to be
headbanging, playing airguitar, listen, and still to see the show,
watching all 4 members of the band. The people loved Dio' s approach,
there were Dio!Dio!- shoutings, much more because the crowd loved the
performance of Dio with Black Sabbath and that they know that this is
heavy metal as we like than that any stupid thought that it is a Dio
concert. I enjoyed watching Geezer Butler working on his bass, this guy
is heavy metal. Watching him, I reminded his statement " I hate every
ballad, even our ballads" Really enjoyable watching him mistreating his
bass. Geezer makes the difference, I have to admit, that I forgot about
watching at Tony Iommi, who is the best metal guitar player anyway. I
didn't thought that Vinnie Appicie would be in such a good mood, that he
would impress me also, because I always thought that he maybe could be
an exchangeable drummer, not that I am such a big fan of Bill Ward , who
nethertheless has a very interesting jazzy drum style, but as a death
metal fan knowing guys like Flo Mounier or Max Kolesne, Cozy Powell and
John Bonham were the drummers I had to admire who doesn' t play
double-bass-style. And knowing the record Live Evil I knew a drum solo
is only the possibility for the other members of the band to drink some
water and relax. But on this day, I caught myself being entertained by
the thunderous drum solo. Really didn't expect that. The people highly
enjoyed singing Heaven and Hell themself, up to the point that it was
maybe scratching on Ronnies ego, but the same way as they were shouting
Dio! Dio! it was somehow as if the people were glad to have their band
Black Sabbath back on stage and their songs they want to hear and sing.
A bombastic performance by the band, great to see, light and stage
settings were as expected bombastic up to the point when Spinal Tap made
a joke out of it, but I have to say this is it, the whole impression of
musical skills, a fat sound, excellent songs, a charismatic singer, a
brilliant guitar player, an extraordinary bass player, an unexpected
good drummer, an extremly relaxed crowed that came to enjoy their heros
and the music, a brilliant show, that made the event to an unforgetable
moment. The "little white shape" stuff of Ronnie combined with death
metal growls while the "big black shape" stuff was very nice. Children
of the Sea was Amazing. I don' t mind if there were mistakes, and as a
longtime Sabbath fan, there were some, but I hope Tony will take this
with a smile, it was the night we got Black Sabbath back. An
unforgetable moment. Die Young!
from hans-georg ziegler <hgz.1@web.de>
to siegler@black-sabbath.com
date Jun 20, 2007 5:35 AM
subject heaven and hell concert review stadthalle offenbach/germany
17.06.2007
Hi joe,
just wanted to drop you a note from heaven & hell s one and only indoor
concert this summer at the stadthalle /offenbach (near Frankfurt)
Germany.
We arrived at the stadthalle at 7 pm, had a few beers and enjoyed that
special rock n roll feeling in the air...opening act for h & h was a
german band called stone the crow...They did a good job, but could nt
really get me off of my seat...
At 9 pm, the lights in the hall dimmed and the curtain rose, the intro
e5150 blasted through the amps, wow!!!! I ve been waiting for this
moment for about 25/27 years cause i didn t get the chance to see them
perform live in in the early eighties...now 2 decades later, the dream
came finally true...I had f****in goosebomps...they started the show
with the powerfull mob rules, from that point, the crowd went nuts....
followed by all their classics as you can see below...instead of the
drumsolo (i m not too much into drumsolo s) i would have prefered to
hear lady evil, which is one of my favourite songs on the h & h album or
tv crimes from the dehumanizer album...anyway toni s solo led to the
brilliant die young, great song, in rock n roll history, followed by a
tripple x extended version of heaven and hell (approx 15 minutes)
The chemistry between these four musicians is unbelievable and they
sound even better now. (even though ronnie is in his mid sixties, he
screams and yells the young bands of today to the wall, great singer and
of course a genius concerning songwriting...)The stage setup and light
show was awesome, what more to say???
After neon knights the crowd was roaring dio, dio, dio..., (i guess toni
must have been a little pissed) as we left the hall with a smile on our
faces...
The setlist was cut a little down to size, from what i heared about the
famous nyc concert, anyway,,,thanx ronnie, toni, geezer & vinnie for a
night to remember!!!! |
