Post by John on Nov 1, 2004 18:49:28 GMT -5
tell us your best u.d.o. concert and why it was that way!
mine is kind of a long story so i'll try to keep it short. back in the day, 1999 and 2000 the udo site was completely dead and through other sites on the internet, mainly joe's and jerry's, i heard that they were coming to the u.s. but only to the eastern part. so since i'm from ohio and my parents were still living there, i bought my tickets through ticket master and flew back to see 3 shows. 1 show, the cincinnati show, i gave up so i could see my cousin and go to an amusement park, thinking, no problem, i can still catch the other 2 shows. it turns out that they were both cancelled and it was not posted anywhere on the website. so i emailed frank about 1000 times and said some not so nice stuff to him. well, months later, the band came back to finish touring the rest of the u.s. so frank called my cell phone to tell me that we could all meet on the tour bus in san diego!! kick ass!!! so my family was going there the same week anyway to take my son to disneyland and legoland so the timing was perfect!! sure enough, my wife and i showed up at the club, knocked on the tour bus door and frank let us in where we talked to everyone in the band plus the bass player from saxon was on the bus as well. we were there for about an hour or so. i was so frigging nervous, i didn't know what the hell to say and i'm sure i asked some dumbass questions, but it was a great time and after u.d.o. played their set, i talked to udo and igor for a long time again. udo asked me if i was so upset with the website if i'd run it for them and of course i said sure, so i did updates for a while until the management took it back over, but it was awesome to see and talk to udo himself so close and for such a long time!!! never had i dreamed of such a thing happening. it was awesome and even my wife thought it was great. plus the refridgerator in the bus was stocked top to bottom, front to back with beer, and the band, except lorenzo, smoked cigarettes like a chimney. but you couldn't smoke in the club so i guess they were stock piling the nicotine! it was an awesome night. i have it on video and still pictures. and oh yeah, by the way, the band kicked frigging ass at the show!! i had no idea stefan was that good of a guitar player, fitty ruled the stage, igor was a madman and udo had an aura(?) around him that just sucked everyone toward him. cheers for reading this whole thing and not falling asleep!!!
mine is kind of a long story so i'll try to keep it short. back in the day, 1999 and 2000 the udo site was completely dead and through other sites on the internet, mainly joe's and jerry's, i heard that they were coming to the u.s. but only to the eastern part. so since i'm from ohio and my parents were still living there, i bought my tickets through ticket master and flew back to see 3 shows. 1 show, the cincinnati show, i gave up so i could see my cousin and go to an amusement park, thinking, no problem, i can still catch the other 2 shows. it turns out that they were both cancelled and it was not posted anywhere on the website. so i emailed frank about 1000 times and said some not so nice stuff to him. well, months later, the band came back to finish touring the rest of the u.s. so frank called my cell phone to tell me that we could all meet on the tour bus in san diego!! kick ass!!! so my family was going there the same week anyway to take my son to disneyland and legoland so the timing was perfect!! sure enough, my wife and i showed up at the club, knocked on the tour bus door and frank let us in where we talked to everyone in the band plus the bass player from saxon was on the bus as well. we were there for about an hour or so. i was so frigging nervous, i didn't know what the hell to say and i'm sure i asked some dumbass questions, but it was a great time and after u.d.o. played their set, i talked to udo and igor for a long time again. udo asked me if i was so upset with the website if i'd run it for them and of course i said sure, so i did updates for a while until the management took it back over, but it was awesome to see and talk to udo himself so close and for such a long time!!! never had i dreamed of such a thing happening. it was awesome and even my wife thought it was great. plus the refridgerator in the bus was stocked top to bottom, front to back with beer, and the band, except lorenzo, smoked cigarettes like a chimney. but you couldn't smoke in the club so i guess they were stock piling the nicotine! it was an awesome night. i have it on video and still pictures. and oh yeah, by the way, the band kicked frigging ass at the show!! i had no idea stefan was that good of a guitar player, fitty ruled the stage, igor was a madman and udo had an aura(?) around him that just sucked everyone toward him. cheers for reading this whole thing and not falling asleep!!!
Wow! I haven't ever talked to Udo or Stefan. But on October 12th I had a talk with Igor after the show in "freezing" 
cold with Metalheart and one of our friends and another guy from Helsinki. (UDO show was in Helsinki, Finland.). 
but i seen accept 3 time's 
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