Last Saturday 2/19 we attended the Meinstein concert "Rammstein Live Exprrience", which they had set up for the group's tenth anniversary in the Salamandra room in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, a town near Barcelona.
This performance had just been postponed and was the band's first "normal" concert after more than two years of health restrictions due to Covid-19, since in the entire pandemic period they have only offered a single concert, outdoors with the public sitting on chairs with mask.
Everyone was eager for this live show , the room was just over 600 people out of a capacity of 800 which is very good for the avalanche of concerts by national bands that there are now every weekend , after all the concert postponements that have been since the beginning of the year and Meinstein were crazy to unload their blunt repressed sonic rage at this time, as both Josema the Manager and Josep the incendiary drummer told us, in a short conversation before the performance, while finished the merchandising table.
There I was able to say hello after so long to friends like Jero García and Irene Serrano Espejo, the photographer who had the session a few minutes away with the musicians, while friends like Manu from Lloret or Nacho Gracia Gavara from Zaragoza with Sandra Sassenach and We all talked about the fact that there was already a pre-concert atmosphere like before.
We rushed our beers and went to the room, without queues, without asking for a Covid certificate and without requiring a mask.... fuck the fucking paradise!!!!
The only ugly thing is that the tickets are On Line, there are no physical ones, you show a sad QR code on your mobile and enter, finally the progress...
Inside it was like crossing the gates of hellish paradise, beer in abundance, hugs, reunions, laughter, talks...pura vida!!!
I loved meeting again with Reyes Muñoz Justicia Malignos "El Presi" from Malignos MC, with the big man Rémi Prouveur who showed up by surprise and a sum and goes on, it was a night to freak out and we still didn't know what was coming our way.
Two led screens on each side of the stage covered by a curtain had the Meinstein logo announcing their tenth anniversary, they played without guest artists, they alone so they would have to play two hours minimum.
Suddenly we were seeing Meinstein or....."Great masters" in all his magnificence, in the forefront Erik Segel dressed in a butcher's leather apron flanked by the two guitarists who all seemed to have just frolicked in coal, David Sarabia Peicasat in a black 18th-century field marshal jacket, Álvaro Alvaro Cuartero Guillen in a long black frock coat with the traditional red armband and a pint of Marvel's evil Wolverine to freak out, the second row of the group was elevated on some platforms aluminum, there was the bass drummer Josep Diaz Rodriguez and behind him and his drummer the big screen, flanked by the horny keyboardist/synthesizers Manu clad in an orange jumpsuit from death row, with a lighted helmet and whose interventions of his in we laughed a lot live and the new bass player of the band Aáron who I had not seen live with Meinstein yet and damn that gives them an awesome touch, because it is a brown beast that looks like the baddest of the bad guys from the apocalyptic world of Mad Max !!!!
I got a big surprise when his second song was Asche Zu Asche, my favorite Rammstein of all time from his first album Herzleid (1995) and I thought damn how they start now, following Links 1.2.3. and it is that the room already seemed like a pissed off anthill that beat the Covid-19 cockroach to death, Rein Raus, Du Riechst so Gut, Zeig Dich, Morgenstern and the huge hits like Sehnsutch, Mein Herz Brennt, the rabid Wiener Blut , Feuer Frei with bombings and real fire that brings them so many problems with indoor venues , but that give a brutal visual spectacle and also David and Álvaro with gas masks throwing CO2 , two things stand out in this impressive direct , one the very intelligent use and distribution of lighting technology on the stage and its layout , and two the excellent choreography of each and every one of the components in their role during the concert , of mechanical movements , steps or passivity while being Unleashing sonic hell, Aaron on many occasions on his stage with the five-string bass piece looked like a Pissed off Colossus from Greek mythology.
After the song Goodbye with more bombshells they calm the show with Diamant, an intimate song in which Aáron sits in the front line with Erik and they solo the song on bass and vocals, to give way to the Top and partying part of the concert with Ich Your Dir Weh with CO2, Du Hast with everything!!!! Flames , CO2 and crossbow flares , Radio , Deutchland , and Ich Will , to finish .
There the musicians toasted with champagne on stage for the band and their audience with all that this entails, hard work, many problems and great rewards like that night.
From there they went to the encores of those who did not wait, they warned that they would no longer do pyrotechnic effects to safely open the moat to the photographers who had been evicted.
They opened with Praise Abort and continued with Haifisch in which Erik got on an inflatable boat over the audience , fell off the boat but got back up and floated above their heads , I accompanied him holding the boat until he came back on stage where little Before we got there, the bearer who was in front fell down, causing the two of us who were behind us to almost follow him, and someone's beer spilled all over my head, leaving me with Eva Longoria's "Pantenne" hair, and when I saw the boat and Erik arrive on stage I looked at my fellow costalero without knowing who he was and I told him "We already have him safe" and..... ha ha ha the costalero was Josema, Meinstein's manager who when he recognized me said "fuck this is going to kill me! !!!!" Ha ha ha what a time.
Accelerated already after all this of the boat, in the part where we were a mess an area of pogos or "Pongos" as Ana María Ana Maria Fuentes Garcia calls them
With Ausländer and Sonne I got into it like I hadn't enjoyed it for years, when I realized that even Reyes "El Presi" from the Malignos M.C. motorcycle club. he was distributing tow around there and that night was very big, it was the return to normality after too long and he was ready to do the cafre with the Meinsteins !!!!
...And so with Sonne they closed.
We went out to dinner at a nearby Chinese bar with truck engine oil in the fryer and to have a drink and listen to good music at the after party at the Gothic/Metal Demonix disco bar where we met the singer and Dj Emma Volcán and her partner on also Dj Miguel Sanchez Gonzalez to whom we look forward to seeing his great Waves sessions return to normal.
In Demonix the members of Meinstein came to have a drink and chat with their audience , we congratulated them and chatted for a while separately with some more and others less , but they all agreed with the attitude that the audience had and transmitted to them that magical night , I remember David who was very amazed, as all of them are making it known and thanking him these days on their social networks.
Meinsteins Feuer brennt schon live!!!!
JAVIER BARBA VALLEJO
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