Sweden Rock Festival have ended
Sweden Rock Festival has now ended after 4 days of great music and fun.
We arrived on the wednesday and saw 3 bands that day (Randy Piper's Animal, Andromeda and The Australian Pink Floyd Show), but mostly took it easy and were social with friends.
Thursday:
The thursday started with a great show from Thunder, they were doing all the classics and a couple of new songs from the latest record. Low Life In High Places, Backstreet Symphony and Dirty Love were the highlights. If my memory serves me right, they didn't play Like A Satellite though...
Quiet Riot were next up, good songs but a bad day for guitarplayer Alex Rossi. We walked away from that one...
Symphony X we just heard from distance (as we took place in front row of Meat Loaf), and Russell Allen and the guys were in fine shape.
Meat Loaf did a concert that strongly survived by the good show. His voice was not in shape at all and they ended the concert with 3 covers and no Deadringer!! Sadly not as good as I expected.
Thin Lizzy did a good concert and played a lots of classics. A funny thing is that 3/4 of the band have played in Whitesnake.
Heaven & Hell ended the night tremendously. Not 1 Ozzy-song in sight, just great songs like Mob Rules, Neon Knights, The Sign Of The Southern Cross and Children Of The Sea. A great concert that sadly only lasted for 90 minutes...
Friday:
Pretty Maids did a great show and started the friday. This was the biggest surprise for me, I know they were good but not that good...
Then it was time for White Lion, or Mike Tramp's White Lion if You like. A superb show, one of the 5 best on the whole festival. Only classics and not a eye were dry during When The Children Cry...
After White Lion we went back to our house a couple of hours, the heat was mindblowing. We went back in time to see Talisman's farewell-concert, and what a concert it was! Jeff's voice was as stunning as ever. 75 minutes of superb melodic music later, Jeff, Marcel, Jamie and Brian said farewell with Talisman...
The last concert for us on the friday was Aerosmith, the biggest band ever to hit the stage on Sweden Rock Festival. They did a great concert, Steven was in great shape and sung really good. But... there's always a but.... they only played for about 100 minutes, far too short.
Saturday:
The saturday was easy for us, we only saw a couple of bands.
I (AORSweden) was fortunate enough to catch up with REO Speedwagon's press conference. The guys answered all questions with ease, even the more "trickier" ones as why the new record is so hard to get in Europe (no label yet, but shortly). The guys told us that the 6 dates they do in Europe was merely a "test" to see if there's a market for their music, I'll guess they knew a few hours later that there surely is. So hopefully they do a more extended tour next year, or earlier.
I saw a couple of songs of Soul Doctor, Tommy Heart is an amazing singer...
We waited in front row for 2 hours before REO Speedwagon started one of the 3 best concerts I've ever witnessed. Don't Let Him Go started and were followed (not directly though) by 4 new songs (that did great in the setlist) and the rest of the classics like Take It On The Run, Keep On Loving You, I Can't Fight This Feeling, That Ain't Love, Keep Pushin, Back On The Road Again, Roll With The Changes and more. 90 minutes of magic, thanks REO for a concert that we will never forget...
Pictures from REO Speedwagon's and Talisman's concert can be found here >> http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g35/AORSweden/Sweden%20Rock%202007/
See You next time around
We arrived on the wednesday and saw 3 bands that day (Randy Piper's Animal, Andromeda and The Australian Pink Floyd Show), but mostly took it easy and were social with friends.
Thursday:
The thursday started with a great show from Thunder, they were doing all the classics and a couple of new songs from the latest record. Low Life In High Places, Backstreet Symphony and Dirty Love were the highlights. If my memory serves me right, they didn't play Like A Satellite though...
Quiet Riot were next up, good songs but a bad day for guitarplayer Alex Rossi. We walked away from that one...
Symphony X we just heard from distance (as we took place in front row of Meat Loaf), and Russell Allen and the guys were in fine shape.
Meat Loaf did a concert that strongly survived by the good show. His voice was not in shape at all and they ended the concert with 3 covers and no Deadringer!! Sadly not as good as I expected.
Thin Lizzy did a good concert and played a lots of classics. A funny thing is that 3/4 of the band have played in Whitesnake.
Heaven & Hell ended the night tremendously. Not 1 Ozzy-song in sight, just great songs like Mob Rules, Neon Knights, The Sign Of The Southern Cross and Children Of The Sea. A great concert that sadly only lasted for 90 minutes...
Friday:
Pretty Maids did a great show and started the friday. This was the biggest surprise for me, I know they were good but not that good...
Then it was time for White Lion, or Mike Tramp's White Lion if You like. A superb show, one of the 5 best on the whole festival. Only classics and not a eye were dry during When The Children Cry...
After White Lion we went back to our house a couple of hours, the heat was mindblowing. We went back in time to see Talisman's farewell-concert, and what a concert it was! Jeff's voice was as stunning as ever. 75 minutes of superb melodic music later, Jeff, Marcel, Jamie and Brian said farewell with Talisman...
The last concert for us on the friday was Aerosmith, the biggest band ever to hit the stage on Sweden Rock Festival. They did a great concert, Steven was in great shape and sung really good. But... there's always a but.... they only played for about 100 minutes, far too short.
Saturday:
The saturday was easy for us, we only saw a couple of bands.
I (AORSweden) was fortunate enough to catch up with REO Speedwagon's press conference. The guys answered all questions with ease, even the more "trickier" ones as why the new record is so hard to get in Europe (no label yet, but shortly). The guys told us that the 6 dates they do in Europe was merely a "test" to see if there's a market for their music, I'll guess they knew a few hours later that there surely is. So hopefully they do a more extended tour next year, or earlier.
I saw a couple of songs of Soul Doctor, Tommy Heart is an amazing singer...
We waited in front row for 2 hours before REO Speedwagon started one of the 3 best concerts I've ever witnessed. Don't Let Him Go started and were followed (not directly though) by 4 new songs (that did great in the setlist) and the rest of the classics like Take It On The Run, Keep On Loving You, I Can't Fight This Feeling, That Ain't Love, Keep Pushin, Back On The Road Again, Roll With The Changes and more. 90 minutes of magic, thanks REO for a concert that we will never forget...
Pictures from REO Speedwagon's and Talisman's concert can be found here >> http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g35/AORSweden/Sweden%20Rock%202007/
See You next time around
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