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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Backstage With Eric Singer!

On friday november 21th we went to Essen to see the show of Alice Cooper with on the drums Eric Singer.
After driving for 1 hour in rain and snow, we arrived at the Gruggahalle. First we went for something to eat and around 6 pm we were at the front of the hall, 30 minutes later the doors went open and we went directly into the hall to make sure we got a good spot, we had on the right side of the stage, first in line.

At 8 pm Whitesnake took over the stage and did a 90 minutes set, we saw them earlier this year at the Arrow Rock Festival were they opened for KISS! At 10 pm it was time for Alice Cooper, for me it was the first time I saw him live. Alice opened the show with It’s Hot Tonight. He also did a copple of songs from his new album Along Came A Spider and of course all the classic Cooper hits like, 18, Schools Out, No More Mr. Nice Guy and Poison where played. For us it was cool to see Eric on the drums, he has a different drumstyle than when he’s playing with KISS and it’s cool to see him using a double bass. During Eric’s drumsolo he got some "help" from the guitarplayers who played along with him on some extra snare drums! Alice 90 minutes horror show, including the hanging part, was very cool to watch and we have enjoyed his show.

After the show it was time for us to go backstage. In the room were some other fans, just relaxing and drinking. We wait to see what was comming. We were welcomed by Alice’s tourmanager, who directly said we had the wrong shirts on, lol. First Chuck Garrick came in, he said hi to every one and started talking to the fans. A copple of minutes later Eric came into the room and he spotted us right away and came directly to us, asking us about our KISS shirts and why the German T-shirts still have that rediculois ZZ logo, he didn’t understood it. He than saw our KISS Meet & Greet pics and wanted to see them and asked if we wanted to get them signed, of course he signed them right away, we talked some more and than he went looking for a sandwich. Eric talked to the other fans and after a while he came back and we took some photo’s with him.


We got some Alice Cooper guitarpics, including on from Eric (!) The other bandmembers dropped in and they all just mingled around the fans, talking and taking pictures with them. Eric came back to us and I asked him about the new KISS-album rumours (said they aren’t recording and that Paul was up to the idea of recording a new album) and the upcoming ESP Euro tour in Februari 2009 (said they would have a cool setlist and that Bruce would be spit fire, lol) All in all, it was very cool to experience all what happened backstage, all were relaxed and Eric took really time for us. We stayed for over 90 minutes and saw the band leaving to the tourbus. We had a great time and we’ll never forget it! All we can say, thank you to a special friend!

1 comment:

Rockhead said...

Comments are copied from my old blog!

Marina says:
9 November 2008 at 23:30 We gaan samen daar een te gekke avond hebben.Kijk er naar uit Eric weer te zien.
Reply Rockhead says:
10 November 2008 at 23:17 Als je dat maar weet
Reply remco says:
15 November 2008 at 11:23 have fun u2!
Reply kisscrazee says:
20 November 2008 at 21:38 Deze keer zal Eric geen 875€ vragen om een handtekening te ‘geven’…
Reply arthur says:
21 November 2008 at 09:43 school’s out !
Reply Ed says:
26 November 2008 at 20:40 ik heb Alice Cooper ook al 2 x live gezien, maar is me nog niet gelukt backstage te komen
Reply Bert says:
26 November 2008 at 22:41 Zo te lezen hebben jullie een mooie avond gehad!
Reply John says:
26 November 2008 at 23:07 So cool that you both met Eric backstage, great pics too!
Reply ron says:
27 November 2008 at 20:05 hadden jullie backstage kaarten gekocht?
Reply Albert says:
28 November 2008 at 17:10 Hoy Carol

Vette foto,s die je gemaakt hebt.
En heb je backstage gezeten,heb je zeker met een geluidsbox gesleept en bent toen blijven wachten zeker……….

Groet Albert
Reply Lina says:
1 December 2008 at 20:24 Fantastic Carol! You & Marina look great!
(Oh & Eric doesnt look too bad either )
Reply Orcaunna says:
1 December 2008 at 20:26 Great pix Carol! Looks like you had fun with Eric!
Reply Rockhead says:
1 December 2008 at 20:28 @ Albert; Nee we hoefden niet met een geluidsbox te slepen
We zijn allebei netjes begeleid naar de backstage erea…
Reply Linda says:
2 December 2008 at 21:09 Excellent pics Carol!
Reply George Xirocostas says:
3 December 2008 at 02:53 Once again Carol, you did a great job sharing your experience with all of us. You and Marina ROCK !!!

Regards from your brother in Australia

George Xirocostas
Reply ROSEANN says:
3 December 2008 at 06:56 HEY ROCKHEAD!! I KNEW YOU WOULD LOVE THE SHOW!! WHAT GREAT PHOTOS! IN AMERICA WE CAN’T TAKE PHOTOS AT THE CONCERTS. THEY WILL STOP YOU. HOW DO YOU DO IT ROCKHEAD? DO YOU HAVE A PRESS PASS? I ENJOYED READING THE STORY OF YOUR DAY WITH ALICE COOPER AND ERIC SINGER. DID YOU MEET ALICE? YOU’RE THE COOLEST ROCKHEAD!! HOLD ON TIGHT MARINA TO ROCKHEAD!! HE’S GOLD!! ROCK ON!!****ROSEANN
Reply chantal says:
3 December 2008 at 23:11 mooie belevenis en echt te gek om eric zo te ontmoeten
Reply * says:
15 December 2008 at 21:45 It was really nice to meet you, glad you guys had a good time. Eric remarked later on how you both looked relatively normal for Kiss fans, haha.
Reply Rockhead says:
21 November 2009 at 19:08 Het is alweer 1 jaartje geleden dat we backstage waren bij Eric Singer!
In december gaan we weer naar het concert van Alice Cooper…
Reply Rockhead says:
12 May 2010 at 23:06 Happy birthday Eric!!!