THE GIG!! Watt Rotterdam 2 sept. 2008

Yeah that was the concert I hoped to see for a loooong time...
(30 years!)


Here is a website with a few photo's of the gig

wow that looks like one hell of a gig!

imagine in a small club thing like that

"wow, humanity in the house" lol

Being in front and jumping around means you don't see shit of anything happening on the stage. Standing and dancing on the front row is great, but being busy all the time with jumping around and everyone jumping on you isn't very much fun. We did it once, and, like I said, didn't see much of the things happening on stage. We've got tons of bootlegs on Iggy and Iggy & The Stooges, so the reason we go to a concert is not just to hear the music. We want to see the guy and feel the explosive energy that not only comes from the music itself, but comes from the way Iggy moves, expresses himself and everything the band does. We were on the front row, standing on the balcony only ten meters from stage. Didn't miss a thing and had all the space to dance to the music. It was, together with the Hammersmith gig in London 3 years ago, the greatest Iggy we've seen. And we've seen him (solo and with the Stooges) 11 times now.

Hejhej Lucas; sounds good too!

B-rok!! dzjeeez gooood photo's!!
and great review on yr page.
did you notice? everybody was smiling..
the whole time ..untill the end of the show

Thanks!

Ofcourse I noticed. I mean from punk point of view, it was a hippy concert with everybody happy smilling....but he lets keep this between us

But who could keep a grumpy face: It felt like they played on our birthday party. And it sounded like astrorocket, a teleport straight to 1970.

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ANYONE FOUND A RECORDING OF THE GIG(APART FROM THOSE YOUTUBE PIECES)?

What the hell is up with that setlist, End of christianity... Why in perfect hell would they play that song live? I mean, they allready choosed Trollin over ATM *RAAARH!*

I was there.
And YES I was at the front (where else?).
Is was the best gig I have seen in a long time.
I'm glad I have seen Ron one last time before he died.
I wil always remember him playing richt in front of me.

Peter Amsterdam wrote:

I was there.
And YES I was at the front (where else?).
Is was the best gig I have seen in a long time.
I'm glad I have seen Ron one last time before he died.
I wil always remember him playing richt in front of me.

oh yeh.. that was an absolute great concert!!
was there too.. front row.. in front of Ron (just a bit more to the middle)
We def. must've seen eachother. are you Broodje Torso.. on youtube?

Guess you are nr 4 from The Netherlands (and nr 3 from Amsterdam) on this forum. out of a 14 mil. people
from a small country.. we're doin pretty good

I'm not Broodje Torso but he's a good friend of mine.

I like the thought that we are here with 4 people.
And I like to see that coverband I found here when they gonna play in Amsterdam on 30 april.
I can't remember there name or where I have read about them but it was here somewhere.
Does anyone knows the name of that band?

They're called The Standin Stooges

http://www.standinstooges.com/

Thanks !

Lucas wrote:

I don't need the front to get energy from the concert.

every time I go to a concert or stooges iggy I say, this time i sit down irelax and i do not miss anything, but each time the same scene
when the IG' coming ,I
am attracted like a magnet to speakers and in 27 seconds i'm in the front ...


I can not control it

I love being at the front, that sense of involvement you get especially at gigs like The Stooges put on.

Peter Amsterdam wrote:

Thanks !

No problem!

Do you see anything that happens on stage?

Yeah you do, but everybody's got their own preferences though.

Lucas wrote:

Do you see anything that happens on stage?

In a club with a small stage (height of your breast) YES you can.....
but who cares?
It's the energie!
It's real.
If I only want a good sound than I go home and listen to their records.

ZinZin wrote:

Guess you are nr 4 from The Netherlands (and nr 3 from Amsterdam) on this forum. out of a 14 mil. people
from a small country.. we're doin pretty good

Who are those others from Holland then?
BTW...we got 16 mil. now.

Peter Amsterdam wrote:

Who are those others from Holland then?
BTW...we got 16 mil. now.

lucas - moi - joe + the standin stooge.
16 in stead of 14. hmm.. so that's why some people say it's full here

Yeah...it's getting crowded :-)

Actually, my girlfriend is also a big fan and member her (nazi girlfriend, I guess that makes me a nazi ). So it's 5