The closer we came to the start the noise was growing, we were doing the mexican wave and it was a great athmosphere. The band started at 9, through a teardrop in my eye I could see them enter the stage. A few words to the songs:

1 You Shook Me All Night Long - if, for whatever reason, they can not leave this song out it's the best position.
2 Stiff Upper Lip - great tune.
3 Shot Down In Flames - cool rocker.
4 Thunderstruck - same.
5 Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be - a bit too slow.
6 Hard As A Rock - a song I can do without.
7 Shoot To Thrill - a bit too slow.
8 Rock'n'Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - a lot of groove.
9 Safe In New York City - a lot faster than on CD, it blew me away.
10 Bad Boy Boogie - with SINYC the absolute highlight.
11 Hell's Bells - Malcolm changed his guitar for this song, it was a white Gretsch hollowbody, looked like a White Falcon.
12 Meltdown - not as good as expected, to be honest, it didn't work at all ;-(.
13 The Jack - like many others here I thought I'm tired of this song but live it's a killer. No tits on the screens, only a girl with a shirt "I've got the jack" - but she didn't want to show us ;-)
14 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - I really love this one.
15 Back In Black - Brian had some problems with his ear monitors, he was talking to the stage technician a lot during the song and he had to hold his hand over the ear to hear himself.
16 Highway To Hell - for me the most perfect rock song of all time.
17 Whole Lotta Rosie - a perfect, very intense version.
18 Let There Be Rock - when he was on the rising platform at the end of the ramp it was the the only time he dropped to the floor and kicked around in a circle, his famous last solo was played in a little elevator over the stage.
19 T.N.T. - one of my least favourite songs, I have to admit, but the crowd went wild.
20 For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) - only six cannons and a lot of shredded paper that was blown all over the audience, you could hardly see the stage to say goodbye to the band.

A guy entered the stage during For Those... and lifted Brian up, but Brian was smiling and singing on and on. For a short moment it even seemed as if Brian wanted to defend the guy against the security guys who were coming to get him off.

Brian is the man, from a short distance, when he was walking on the ramp you could see his age but he behaves as if he is twenty. What an great entertainer - he was constantly shaking hands, waving to the crowd, running across the stage, playing air guitar...

Angus is slowing down from tour to tour - but that is only an observation, no complaint, he is simply great. I even think, he plays more accurate now.

I'd love to hear Get It Hot, there are four more chances for me (though not much hope ;-)).

Great sound, great band, great show - I wish you all could have been there

Review by Clemens (badboy@badboyboogie.de)

Stiff Upper Lip Tour Special