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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Getting Boomed In Hamburg & Oberhausen!

On may 31th, almost 2 years after their European Alive 35 tour in 2008, we drove to Hamburg (Germany) to see our first (of 5) Sonic Boom Over Europe KISS Show! After a 5 hour trip we arrived in Hamburg, checked in our hotel and went to the Color Line Arena. We had VIP Experience Tickets, went to the VIP-entrance and untill the doors went open we talked to a lot of fans. Around 6 PM we got in, got our VIP Laminates and after a copple of minutes we could get a early entrance to the floor. Thanks to the early entrance we got awesome places, front row in the middle of the stage! All we now had to do was waiting untill the BOOM hit us…

And yes, at 8:59 PM we heard the announcement: "You Wanted The Best, You Got The Best…The Hottest Band On The World…KISS"!!! They opened with Modern Day Delilah with rising Gene, Paul & Tommy over Eric's drumkit! And the rock & roll party was begun, from the first song to the last one, we sang along, clapped, yelled and because of standing front row we saw everything up close! We could almost touch them. We saw Gene breaths fire and his blood spitting act up close, Paul's amazing jumps up close and we could see KISS sweat, every line of their faces, feel the heat of the flames and the "killing" smoke, lol.   

During the show, we got a lot of attention from the band, they looked us in the eyes, throwed guitarpics and more to us. We ended up with 3 Paul guitarpics, 1 Gene & Tommy guitarpic and Eric's drumstick! So you can understand this was a awesome night for us.



KISS played a set of 21 songs, during the guitarsolo of Shock Me, Tommy's guitar wasn't hooked up properly and fall off on the stage. Eric's & Tommy's duel-solo was great, especially during Eric's bazooka trick. Also they played a accoustic version of Beth, sung by Eric, for the first time since years! Besides Modern Day Delilah they played also I'm A Animal & Say Yeah (sounded so good live!) from their latest album Sonic Boom.

This is the setlist: Modern Day Delilah, Cold Gin, Let Me Go Rock `N` Roll, Firehouse (Gene breaths fire) Say Yeah, Deuce, Crazy Crazy Nights, Calling Dr. Love, Shock Me (Duelsolo Eric & Tommy) I´m An Animal, 100,000 Years, I Love It Loud (Gene spits blood) Love Gun, Black Diamond, Detroit Rock City. Encores: Beth (accoustic version) Lick It Up, Shout It Out Loud, I Was Made For Lovin You (Paul flying act), God Gave Rock And Roll To You & Rock And Roll All Night.

Around 11 PM it was all over, we had a awesome experience, what a show!
We where BOOMED by KISS

So, enjoy now a selection of more than 300 photo's I made from KISS Boomed Hamburg…

The next day, we drove about 370 KM to see KISS again in Oberhausen (Germany) First we went to the expo, spoke to a lot of fans who praise me about my weblog, thanks! At the expo all kind of merchandise was for sale, also a special priced Gene Simmons Axe Bass Guitar (used by Gene in Hamburg) including a Meet & Greet with Gene, was for sale for 2800,- Euro's. Outside the expo was the Gene Axe Van parked and we took a copple of pics with it…


At 9 PM it was time to be Boomed again and KISS performed a great show in a sold out arena in Oberhausen! They played the same setlist including the accoutic version of Beth. We stood front row again, right before Tommy! When Shout It Loud was finished all the fans keep singing Shout It Out Loud over and over. Also to hear the fans singing during the bridge part of God Give Rock & Roll To You was very cool.
Here's a pic of us @ the show in Oberhausen…

During this show Spiro made a photo of Marina's tattoo, that was posted later on KISSonline! Here it is amoung other fans tatoos…

KISS was awesome again tonight and we had a blast, 2 awesome shows in 2 days! It was time to recover from the Sonic Boom for a day, because coming up for us was KISS live @ Rock Am Ring… 

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3 comments:

Rockhead said...

Comments are copied from my old blog!

KissCrazee says:
16 March 2010 at 14:55 Hopelijk wordt Luxemburg aan de tour toegevoegd, zoals 2 jaar geleden, laat ons hopen…
Reply Rockhead says:
16 March 2010 at 22:42 @ Kisscrazee; Ja Luxemburg was gaaf 2 jaar geleden!
Reply Rockhead says:
18 March 2010 at 21:11 Over 3 maanden is het zover…KISS in Arnhem!!!
Reply John says:
18 March 2010 at 23:06 Ik tel de dagen af tot de 18e. Ik ga ook naar Graspop, maar kaarten zijn nog altijd niet te koop.
Reply KissCrazee says:
19 March 2010 at 13:58 Rockhead, spijtig dat de ‘countdown’ naar het eerste optreden van Kiss niet meer op je site staat
Reply John says:
29 March 2010 at 23:19 Ik wacht ook nog steeds totdat de verkoop voor de dagkaarten begint, wordt een beetje moe van dat wachten!
Reply kevin says:
25 April 2010 at 22:41 wish i was going. might see then this summer in the states.have fun.
Reply Gio says:
26 April 2010 at 20:35 we are going the hear the boom!! very very soon!!
Reply John says:
8 May 2010 at 17:49 Rockhead ik heb de kaarten ook binnen gekregen vandaag! Zie je daar!
Reply john says:
17 May 2010 at 23:41 wow! going for them all !!!
Reply marcel says:
19 May 2010 at 22:16 Wow, that’s nice
Reply Linda says:
24 May 2010 at 22:18 Brace yourselves!!!!!
Reply Marco says:
30 May 2010 at 14:36 Kom net terug van Praag en Berlijn .. las dat je morgen en overmorgen ook gaat …
Ik zal je vast wel zien
Reply Shona says:
30 May 2010 at 17:47 you will enjoy it hun, concert is faBULOUS!!!!!
Reply Michel says:
30 May 2010 at 22:30 Nee he….het zal toch niet gebeuren he???
Kan ik eindelijk KISS weer eens zien optreden moet ik misschien geopereerd worden aan mijn knie
Reply Arno says:
1 June 2010 at 10:40 Ze speelden BETH in Hamburg!! en hoe!! dat moet toch een verrassing en een geweldig moment zijn geweest Rockhead?
en het plezier waarmee ze spelen druipt er vanaf.

Rockhead said...

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Tokheim says:
2 June 2010 at 15:02 Ook in Oberhausen is Beth gespeeld, was echt weer een waanzinnig cool concert!
KISS op Rock Am Ring wordt a.s. donderdag 3 juni 2010 op MTV Europe LIVE uitgezonden tussen 22.00 uur en 24.00 uur, WOWWWWW hoe cool is dat!!
Reply Arie says:
2 June 2010 at 20:49 Als ze nog beter zijn dan Wembley maak dan je borst maar nat THEY ROCK! We’re traveling to Oberhausen to get BOOMED again
Reply Geert says:
3 June 2010 at 19:29 Hee mede-KISSfan(s);

Ik zoek nog vervoer naar KISS in Arnhem, vanuit(omgeving) Eindhoven, en terug. Ik kom met schmink, my seven inch….leather heels, en pak, extra vermaak voor jou dus, gratis & voor nix

Benzinegeld e.d. is geen probleem. stuur me een mailtje als je richting Arnhem langs Eindhoven komt. Of liefst nog daarvoor …

godefridus1973@hotmail.com
Groetjes;
Geert v.d. Wallen.
Reply Arno says:
4 June 2010 at 09:29 Rock am Ring via livestream was awesome!
great camerawork also. it gave me the feeling i was there thanks to the Rock am Ring audience. paul’s voice was 100%. KISS was tight and on fire for sure. what a band!! what a show.
Reply Tommy says:
4 June 2010 at 21:38 Carol,
Leuk voor jullie om te weten dat je in Oberhausen samen met Marina kort maar duidelijk op het grote scherm kwam tijdens de intro van Love Gun ( als je het ondertussen al niet mocht vernomen hebben ). Misschien via dvd op te sporen ?
Grtz.
Tommy.
Reply Rockhead says:
5 June 2010 at 02:07 @ Tommy; Thanks, we hadden hetzelf al gezien en gehoord van mensen uit de zaal…
Reply remco says:
6 June 2010 at 11:22 lekker verslag Carol, heerlijk leesvoer!
en geweldig die fotos! wow al die plectrums die jullie hebben kunnen vangen, ik ben jaloers…

OP NAAR ARNHEM!!!
Reply Bert says:
6 June 2010 at 15:21 Na je verslag te lezen te hebben kan ik niet wachten om ze in Arnhem te zien!
Reply Toby says:
6 June 2010 at 16:03 Nice!
Reply Rockhead says:
6 June 2010 at 18:10 Als er iemand is die foto’s heeft van dat wij te zien zijn op het videoscherm in Hamburg en/of Oberhausen, zou het fijn zijn als je deze wilt doormailen naar: rockheadskissweblog@hotmail.com
Reply Kevin says:
6 June 2010 at 18:17 Thats awesome, a quality post, love it
Reply Sandra says:
6 June 2010 at 18:32 Ik was ook in Oberhausen en heb jullie nog zien rondlopen op de expo. De show was geweldig en ben er dan ook bij in Arnhem.
Reply Googet says:
6 June 2010 at 21:39 Fantastic Carol!!
Reply acesmiddlefinger says:
6 June 2010 at 22:43 As always Carol,great review and pics….Thanks for sharing
Reply Hans says:
6 June 2010 at 23:49 Was an amazing night.
Reply Fatima says:
7 June 2010 at 20:18 hoi Carol,

Onwijs gaaf weer die foto’s. Dat moest wederom een schitterende ervaring zijn geweest. Mooie foto’s ook. We hopen jullie weer tegen te komen in Arnhem volgende week vrijdag. Dan is voor ons het lange wachten achter de rug. Tot die tijd: ik wil jullie alvast feliciteren met jullie voorgenomen huwelijk en dat het een mooie dag mag worden. By the way: trouwen jullie in full Kabuki make up of niet??

groetjes,

Fatima
Reply John says:
7 June 2010 at 21:47 Hoi Rockhead,
Ik zag je onlangs bij KISS in Oberhausen volgens mij. Je stond vooraan en ik heb nog een filmpje gemaakt met mijn mobiel (aardig goed gelukt) waar jij op te zien bent.

Ik heb een domme vraag aan jou. Ik stond met een paar Hollanders uit Utrecht te praten (we zagen nog de Gene van het programma mijn man heeft een hobby)- en toen had ik het met die vrouwen uit Utrecht over Paul Stanley. Hij zou volgens hun een pruik dragen en nu kort haar hebben. Weet jij dit en klopt dit? Ik zal je wel weer zien in Arnhem toch?
Reply Rockhead says:
7 June 2010 at 23:33 @ Fatima; Bedankt voor je felicitatie, KISS zal zeker een rol spelen op onze mooiste dag…

Rockhead said...

Comments are copied from my old blog!

Reply Rockhead says:
7 June 2010 at 23:35 @ John; Ja dit klopt, Paul heeft inderdaad nu kort haar en draagt een pruik tijdens de concerten.
Heb jij dat flimpje dat je hebt opgenomen op je mobiel ergens online staan? We zouden graag dit willen zien…
Reply Linda says:
7 June 2010 at 23:59 Totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply Albert says:
8 June 2010 at 00:58 Hoi Carol,

Mooie serie.
Heb je een nieuwe camera?
Reply TripleJ says:
8 June 2010 at 00:59 Hoi Carol,
Net even je weblog gelezen …. Hamburg/Oberhausen was gewoon top.
Leuk om het concertkaartje van Zwolle ’84 te zien … Heb ik ook nog ergens liggen … maruh 25 gulden … da’s nu wel ff anders …. Spreek je later @ Arnhem / Dessel. C-Ya
Reply Dennis says:
8 June 2010 at 23:40 You both rule!!!
Reply patrick says:
8 June 2010 at 23:41 coole foto’s, nog 10 dagen tot arnhem
Reply Ronald says:
13 June 2010 at 02:41 Ik was er ook bij in Hamburg en Oberhausen en het was idd een groot feest!
Reply Suus says:
23 July 2010 at 15:55 Carol! Ben jij niet de man achter het legendarische: “KISSERS PRODUCTIONS” ? Waarom is het destijds na “BOOK 3″ gestopt? Zijn deze fanzines nog te krijgen?

Hoor graag even van je!

Suus
Reply Rockhead says:
25 July 2010 at 15:05 @ Suus; Dat is lang geleden, deed het samen met een vriend. Ik heb alle exemplaren nog en er zijn in totaal 6 bladen uitgebracht…