Richie live in Berlin - Huxleys 22.06.14
 

6TH show .... here we go
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Sound checking TAKING A CHANCE ON THE WIND
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Line is getting longer for The Real Sambora in Berlin
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SET LIST

A SONG FOR YOU
BURN THAT CANDLE DOWN
NOWADAYS
LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME
STRANGER IN THIS TOWN
ROSIE (intro)
EVERY ROAD LEADS HOME TO YOU
SUGAR DADDY (guitar played us being signed and going to HardRock Cafe BER)
YOU DONT KNOW (Orianthi song)
STORYBOOK LOVE
I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU
SEVEN YEARS GONE
LEARNING HOW TO FLY WITH A BROKEN WING
GET UP, STAND UP (intro)
THESE DAYS

ENCORE 1:

LEAN ON ME (with all 5 finalists of the opening act contest in Berlin)
LIVIN' ON A PRAYER
TAKING A CHANCE ON THE WIND

ENCORE 2:

THE ANSWER
BAD COMPANY (intro)
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

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Aldi must have some good offers on...

Automatic potato peeler 20 quid!

Unless he is doing a cover, these shows are becoming predictable.

At least they have not played Who Says... ;)

I actually thought this was the attendance for a second. :eek:

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The guitar player of my band, who is a huge Richie fan (and adored the 2012 show in Berlin!), just wrote that he couldn't wait for it to end after the first 20 minutes.

The points he mentioned:
- Richie screwed lyrics all over the place
- Rosie must've been a total mess
- the middle part of the set was a big lull (something we know from recent Jovi years)

That's depressing to hear :(
I had hoped that the shows would improve with practice.

Who Says > Sugar Daddy.

While I enjoyed the show, he's right about screwing up the lyrics, be it forgetting words/entire lines, coming in too late, etc. Rosie was strange because he said something like people are always requesting songs and that he doesn't remember the songs he wrote and that he's gonna mess it up :confused:

And Richie definitely had a few before the show, if not completely drunk, he was basically babbling when talking to the audience or had a drunk "ring" to his voice for most of the time, and made comments and jokes that are creepy even for Richie :-( He also made a remark about him becoming too skinny so that his pants always fall down (he had to pull them up a couple of times, one time even joking if someone would like to come up and do it for him) - and that while becoming all fat and bloated again. Just sad :-(

Other than that, the playing seemed way better than in the clips I've seen from the previous shows, didn't notice any big mistakes, much improvisation, good tracking of licks and solos between Orianthi and him. His voice was also pretty good for the most part. Sound was great, as was the band. The drummer especially ;-) Storybook Love sounded great live! :-)

What really pissed me off is him constantly having a go at Jon during these shows (yesterday at least twice as far as I remember). I was really mad at him after Learning How To Fly, because after the line in the first verse "Guess I got fooled by a famous face" he said "Guess by who" and grinned. F*ck off, Richie, you just don't treat people that enabled you to do what you do today like that, even if you had a fight or are drunk. Just not classy in any way...

So mixed emotions for me I guess ;-)