Update: My comments on the overall sound in general and especially bass guitar sound obviously angered Steve which wasn’t my intention, and it’s only my observation – Sabine from Dream Out Loud had no issues with the overall sound, on the contrary. I went back to the text and made sure to be clear that […]
I had originally planned to interview Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy for Backstage in Hamburg but my request wasn’t even answered. So I changed plans, spent the afternoon with the kids, arranged with the neighbors to take the baby monitor once they were asleep and then headed to the Markthalle. I did catch the last […]
This was probably my 10th Dream Theater concert, give or take one, and this was in the top 3, along my first ever show back in Rendsburg for the Awake tour and probably one show during my ultimate fanboy-phase. Why? Probably because I was very much looking forward to it, after liking the new album […]
This was a concert I had been looking for a lot, since Pain of Salvation (PoS) is one of my favorite bands. Summary: Beardfish started on time, with a couple of great tunes amd bass player was the unsong hero. As soon as he bandleader switched from keyboards to guitar, the songs suffered. PoS played […]