Copenhagen & Oslo Mindshare

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Getting down to the heart of the matter...Our boys are on the road
again.

I've been fortunate enough to get e-mail & phone calls through Bernd's
efforts on the continent. Bernd's a trouper above and beyond....I owe
him one now. Here is the e-mail about Copenhagen and I will follow with
a telephone report minutes after the show came down in Oslo.

Hi All,

Bernd asked me to forward a copy of this to you direct when I mentioned
to him that the yami server is still having problems. I think I covered
everything Bernd told me - he said it was a very good show.

Cheers,
Mark.


Subject: 
        Bernd in Copenhagen
  Date: 
        Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:28:16 +0100
  From: 
        Mark Tilson <marktil@vossnet.co.uk>
    To: 
        thewho@yami.com


Hi All,

Just got off the phone with Bernd, who told me some details about the
opening show on the European tour, which I'll try to summarise below:

It started early (around 7:30pm). The venue currently holds about 7,000
and was very nearly full. Most of the audience sat for most of the show,
even for the encores, but sang along with "Who Are You".

It was basically the Quad show most of us have already seen - encores
were WGFA, BBE, Substitute and Who Are You.

Pete played electric on the following: The Real Me, I'm One, Is it In My
Head?, I've Had Enough, 5;15, Sea and Sand, The Rock, LROM, Substitute,
WAY. 

The arrangements for Is It In My Head and Sea and Sand were slightly
different from previously, and there were a few innovations in the
screen show. The band was the same as last year, except Jody is absent
and Bernd said he missed her. Billy Nicholls plays some limited
percussion, and Bob will be delighted to know the horn section is still
there.

Guest stars were PJ Proby as the Godfather (as per UK shows last Dec)
and a new Ace Face who Bernd didn't recognise, but who did a good job.
Proby was apparently disastrous - very nervous and dropped his mic stand
at the beggining of TPMTG. His part had gone by before he recovered.
When he came on again for I've Had Enough, he forgot to bing the mic
stand altogether, and again missed his part. Pete responded by taking
the piss.

Pete dedicated WGFA to the bridge between Denmark and Sweden (apparently
politically contentious there) and the crowd loved it. He also joked
about building a bridge between Denmark and England. Roger made a crack
about coming back to Denmark in another 20 years.

That's about all the sense I can extract from my notes - hope I got it
right. Anyway, Bernd was keen to keep you all informed, and I for one
would like to thank him for taking the trouble.

Cheers,
Mark T.

My take on it is first show syndrome....they go experimental in Oslo.

Got a call from a friend of Bernd's "Dan" from Oslo. I'll preface by
saying he has seen many shows since Quad in Hyde Park.

He starts off out of breath and says "the show was amazing..best ever
since this Quad thing started."  They opened with Substitute, then I
Can't Explain...went into Quad (nothing in particular to report) closed
with Won't Get Fooled Again, Behind Blue Eyes, then a long version of
Magic Bus that tried to incorporate some jokes but came off goofy, then
I Can See for Miles and finished with Who Are You.

Back to quoting Dan..."pretty amazing..I'm exhuasted form singing and
dancing in the aisles...thanks for listening.. (and then he got a bit
choked up as I've often done discribing this band...and said) "Bye."

I think by the time this gets to the states It will be
polished....afterall according to Bill Curbishley and the band's video
director, they never recorded an inch of tape from last year except the
HBO stuff because Pete and Rog didn't think it was ready yet. I would
bet they will record the US stuff for a live album & video...just in
time for xmas.

Over & Out
Ken Guilford