Hi,guys!
Here I go with my review of Mannheim's show!
The title says it all:99 in the shade & Bed Of Roses!
No,the guys didn't play 99 in the shade,
but the weather did a great cover version!
99,99,99 in the shade!But I'll skip the hours of listening to weather's song and I'll countinue with the review of the concert and the hours just before the show!Damn,Don't know maybe at 4 p.m or maybe a little bit earlier
,I saw her standin' there and I said"What the...is goin' on here!I told to myself:"I'm in love" RATT sounded through my head,black curly hair,
not too long,but I love it,blue jeans...I could go,but it won't be a review of the show...
She wore a green shirt(by the way she was the only one with green shirt I've seen that night(day)-pretty strange,anyway!"She didn't even know my name...",but I got the question in fact two and they sounded"Willst du mich heiraten?" and if the answer was "No" the 2nd one was "Möchtest du meine Frau werden,bitteeeeeeeeeee?"
:P
I did want to schock this beauty before the show...and for sure and her girlfriend(btw,her girlfriend had a great rose tattoo on his back,but who cares),but what was wrong with me...It seemed that I was crazy...
Yeah,she drove me crazy... so ****in' crazy ...Well,well,well-enough shit,"you said-you'll write a review of the concert,man!"
But,what could I do I was with 3 other girls there..."who cares,you had to ask her."..
Ok,here I go-about Live!They did a good job!
The first song was Like I Do,not good enough,but it worked for an opener!
The 3rd song was Dolphin's Cry(I love this song)I did start to sing and the rest of the crowd look at me like it was illegal and I was outlaw!Really strange feeling!
Really cool performance of Run Away,I liked it!
A word or two about the band!
Ed is a really good frontman in my opinion,but the lead guitarist sucks big time!The sound of his guitar(if we don't count the last song,where he has played with an acoustic effect) was terrible!When he's played something high it sounded like a shit!And the most important thing he couldn't(or maybe he can't play them live) play his parts good enough!The rest of the band was ok!Great version of "I Alone"! Live's time has come with the last song...I'm not pretty sure in the name of the song"Lightning Crashes???(Am I right),but it was really cool-I liked it and the rest of the crowd too(I didn't know what was wrong with these peoplethey liked a Live's song)!
Ed's words every time when he used to talk to the
people were almost the same -with other words:"we're "Live"!",!our band is called "Live"!" or "once again the name of our band is "Live"!"...anyway there were "thanks to BJ" and´of course "God Bless you(The "Great" crowd)!
Live left the stage....
It was a 30 minutes pause and all I've seen was "my girl"...I told to myself,"ok you'll ask her when the concert is over"-..."stupid asshole,ask her now"..told a 2nd voice in my head-The 3rd sounded like that "Are you Ok,my boy?" 4th voice:"Here comes the night,it's gonna be a long,long,lonely night,if you don't ask her now!"The 5th "Shut up,he is not crazy,just stay cool,man,you have your girls here..."The 3rd "99,99 in the shade...it's hot here,isn't it?"
Ok,now comes the BJ part...

Bounce-it was like every show on this tour-a great opener,with great beat if you want to clap and jump,shout and etc,but I was the only one,who knew the lyrics or what...,anyway at least the crowd tried to clap...
You give love a bad name-That one was pretty good,and NOT the same as usualWHY?-Jon said "Let's go!" instead of "You got it"-cool...like in the good ol' days before 1995!
Wild In The Streets-the first highlight,what a performance,I don't like the album version,but Ii was so great,i have no words....BTW,It didn't start with an drum solo by Tico,just Richie was too slow to change his guitars and Tico used to do something and it was great!
Livin' On A Prayer-The crowd did liked Prayer a lot,but why they didn't sing with Jon in the beginning it's still a huge mistery for me...
Everyday-I didn't think that it will work so good after the GREAT 1st part ,but it did...no more comments...
Runaway-I love this song so much,so I don't need to say more,
it was fantastic!Richie did an great improvised guitar solo -HE'S DA MAN!
One of my voices:"Am I head-banging or what?
Keep The Faith-It's my favorite live song and this night Richie did a great job as always(2 long solos-great long "hammer-on,pull-offs" part in the middle of the 2nd one,the crowd liked it),Jon did his jungle screams and put some alternate lyrics...
Wanted Dead Or Alive was after that one...well "I'm cowboy..."-man,I got a question,great song,but why they don't play Midnight rider for an example before this one...dreams.......(where is my girl,ah,still there-"I been everywhere,still I'm standing tall,I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all"
..."I got the night on my side"
In these arms-amazing version,Jon did great job...fantastic!
The song did sound awesome:
"I'd love ya,I'd please ya, I'd tell you that I'd never leave ya
and love you till the end of time,if you were in these arms tonight!No,my girl was gone..... But Where I didn't know,
It's my life-It was good for the crowd as always!
The distance-It was a much better than the studio version-a short outro solo-nothing special!It's not really a thing to look forward to
But yeah,the acoustic ending was cool!
Bed of Roses -WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT,I still can't believe,they made me and of course the rest of the people so happy!YEAH,they played it!
Undivided-a fantastic version,a little bit slower,but still great-the crowd and band were as one-Uuuunnndivided!The crowd sang the whole outro part...
"Enough,good songs it's a time for crap...",Jon didn't say that,but it's the truth
The next one was Misunderstood,I don't like it and I didn't sang on this one...but it seemed the other people really liked it and they went pretty wild
Piano solo and Joey-it was a brilliant version,the video is amazing too...
A way better than the album version,but I won't miss it,if they don't play it
the next time!
I'll be there for you-Wow-One,great long version(almost 12 minutes)-Richie was fantastic(his best solo performance this night)...the crowd too...It was awesome,the crowd kept on singing even Richie was already done,Jon came out with his acoustic for Blaze Of Glory,he listened to it for a while and said "you,still want some more ..."
he did sing the "I'll be there for you" part for a few times.It was amazing!
Blaze Of Glory-the crowd really responded to the song,even though Richie's effect wasn't too good for the slide thing(btw,Richie made a small mistake once),but in 5 words-it was a nice performance!
Hook me up-what the hell-it rocks live,man!It was one of the highlights!
Born To Be My Baby-Again nice performance,I'm almost dead,Am I alive?it' sounded so great!Nanananana...
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead -I really like the lyrics,but don't like the song too much,but it wasn't bad ,but I do think it’s overplayed.Ok,ok I don’t mind it at all!
Raise Your Hands-hightlight again,this song rocks live everytime!
80's guitar all over!

Encore 1:

These Days-no AALY !These days rules!Jon hit all the hight notes and sang great!The performance was great...
Just older-It was too long version and if you ask me I can live without it,but hey it's a way better than AALY,isn't it
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night-again very long and good version of SIBSN!In the middle of the song Jon did a great scream,-amazing!Ah,and Hugh,I couldn't believe-he can walk :P,yeah,this guy can walk...

Encore 2:

Cpt. Crash&the Beauty Queen From Mars
Bad Medicine/Shout(Medley)

It was an amazing show!
It was ONE REALLY HOT(99,99) WILD NIGHT!
After all I'm still single!I lost my "wife" during the show,but if he read this,
pm me :P hahahahahah,
No,believe me,I'm serious...
That's it!Ok guys and girls,I'll upload a few Mp3s from the show till the end of the week and I hope you'll like them...

99,99,99 in the shade....

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