helden hat folgendes geschrieben:
Hoffentlich ist Van heute abend beim Düsseldorfer Konzert auch in guter Stimmung. Dann können sich alle Kartenbesitzer sehr, sehr glücklich schätzen!
Dem scheint wohl nicht so gewesen zu sein 
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:27:09 +0200
From: Andreas Koester
Subject: What a disappointment-Duesseldorf,13/09/03Sad but true, the concert last Saturday in Duesseldorf has reached
another low level of Van’s current performances.
Or you can say: Bad news from the chunka-chunka front!
-The show started earlier as announced, exactly at 7:45 p.m. and not at
8:00! So, no time for a beer or a walk to the toilet, if you want to get
in at the right time, you have to be in a hurry, terrible. For me, this
is an impertinence, I can’t accept.
-The god-damn clock was viewable for me, from the left side in the first
row – from the beginning and then during the whole 80! minutes. Wow, a
perfect time-management, Van leaves at 0:00!, not a minute longer,
unbelievable. Very sad also, when the time is fighting against you with
every minute!
-The setlist was dominated from an all-through chunka-chunka mediocrity.
To be honest, four/five good songs (Cleaning…, Carrying…, Northern
Muse, only a three minute version of this-the clock!, Leaves…) aren’t
worth the price of 50+ Euro tickets, and can’t be enough for a Mr.
Morrison show.
-Bright Side…, Talk…, All Work…, HITYL, Choppin’…, Ain’t That
Loving… – all in the same boring and half-warm „chunka till ya
dead-style“, average and uninspired.
So, the worst Van concert I’ve seen in the last ten years, was a huge
disappointment for me and others.
The problem is, that he „can“ if he want to, you only have to take a
look on the setlist from Frankfurt an evening before, but if he don’t
want, you have no chance. „It’s just a job“, as we all know – a tough
lesson for me, truly.
Hope, that his performances in the future will bring me back the great
joy, unique mood and this special feeling I’ve known from all over the
years, following Van „down the road“.
Andreas
Quelle:Vantrades@yahoogroups.com
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