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bändien esiintymisjärjestys tulee olemaan Asia, Heep, Dio.
 
Asiaworld.orgin foorumilla oli oslon keikasta arvostelu. asia ja heep soittivat n. 40 min setit ja dio n. 90min. diolla oli perinteiset kitara/rumpusoolot setissään.
 
edit: Asia:lla on montakin tykkiä biisiä jos pysyttelevät progeimmissa biiseissään ja jättävät balladit vähemmälle.
 
tässäpä lainaus arviosta:
 
"Hi!
 
This was my third gig with Heep. The first was with "only" Heep playing, the last two featured other bands during a long night - this time Heep had Asia and Dio as "companions".
 
Ran into Dave a couple of times before the gig, and once after. Got to talk a bit - symphatic as usual! Charlie - I only got to wave a little hello to you when you started to prepare yourself with the "sound-work", but earlier that night you ran outside to get something to eat, being so hungry that you did not even see it was ME you almost ran into in the stairs - even less hearing me shouting CHARLIE!
 
Asia opened the night. A short but great show. I really liked their music, hearing it for the first time ever - yes it's true! A very good guitarist, and real good musicians the other guys as well. And what a sound! Not too loud and really a clear good sound that made it possible understand some of the lyrics without knowing anything of them from before.
Asia - a very good and positive surprise!
 
Next out was Heep, surprisingly short after Asia went off stage. Maybe the sound would have been better if they had waited just a few minutes more? Seems to me that with several bands playing in one night, there is a big risk for the bands after the first band to get too short time to deal with the sound. And a risk of someone to touch something that have been made ready so that it no longer works as it should. Believe that is what Dave said happened. Anyway, the sound became better after a little while, but all over the sound was not as good as with Asia. Well, our guys did as usual a great job, but with to short time IMO. These are the songs they played (maybe forgetting something and not in order): So Tired - Falling In Love - Return To fantasy - Sunrise - Easy Livin - Lady In Black - Gypsy - Sweet Lorraine - Between Two Worlds (HURRA!) - Words In A Distance - Cry Freedom.
As Bernie said to the audience: "we're gonna take a deep dive into the Heep-archives tonight". Well, as long as they dont come up with new stuff, they'll have to keep on divin to make changes in the setlists.
And I haven't got a clue what Mick was saying to us in the end in his little speach, I did not learn his kind of English at school....
 
In the end, we got a big portion of DIO! Didn't know their music either, and what shall I say? Great musicians here too, but really more than enough of the same kind of music all the time. They must have played for one hour and a half IMO - I started to wonder wether they were gonna play as long as there were people to watch?! Really, I wonder why it was necessary to give Asia and Heep 35-40 minutes each and so much time for these guys? Masturbation of guitars and drum solos still excist!
 
I start to wonder wether my next gig with Heep will happen only if they play alone with no other bands, and maybe with new music as well. There's a limit for how long it's fun to hear the same songs again, with only a couple of recirculated songs from way back. If I lived closer to the gig-places maybe, but I dont....
 
A bit disappointing that none of the Heep-guys did as the entire Asia did after the gig, mingle in the bar to chat with fans. I did not see a single man of the five come out to meet fans afterwords. Rather unusual, isn't it?
 
So all in all...not enough Heep and Asia, more than enough Dio, Heep with the less good sound that night...not meeting any of the guys...
Not disappointed completely, but more hoping for other type of gigs with Heep to come - with new songs... "