Gotthard - Vienna, Austria 20.11.2012

Band: Gotthard
Venue: Gasometer C, Bank Austria Halle
City: Vienna
Country: Austria
Date: Tuesday, 20th Nov. 2012
Bootleg Title: Remember it's Steve
Taper: HighVoltage
Artwork: Yes
Recording Equipment: Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM Recorder (internal Mics)
Mic Position: underneath T-Shirt, in front of breastbone
Location: ~3rd row, about 2 m from the stage mid-left
Recorder Settings: Mic Sens low, Low Cut on, Mic Zoom Set wide
Audience: ~2.500

Lineage: Olympus LS-10 (PCM WAV 44.1kHz/16bit) internal Mics -> PC -> Nero Wave Editor -> FLAC Level 6 -> MP3

Edits: general volume adaption, equalizer, fade-in & fade out, track split, flac level 6, edited out a few audience bits between songs, special volume adaption at some points where the audience screams (too) loud!
I have not added the fades between the 2 Discs, I thought you might enjoy the concert in full - if you want to burn it to CD, you'll have to add them yourself!


Special Notes:
The second Gotthard gig for me... the first one with Nic Maeder (meaning that I had the pleasure of seeing Gotthard with Steve Lee at least once!) (However - Nic does a wonderful, brilliant job, I want to add!).
Before the gig I started to chat with a beautiful blonde girl and another one who was probably - to all appearances- her mother from Styria (Feldbach area I believe), who were standing next to me (or - I managed to be standing next to them^^) - Due to circumstances later explained I don't know who they were, but now I'd like to dedicate this recording to her!
Before "Remember it's me" Nic mentiones that it's their very first song they have written together with him as new singer had been released exactly one year before ("...so it's a bit of a special night for us"). Since then it was clear to me that the bootleg title had to consist of something with remembering Steve, the single, as well as something with the current lineup/singer (which was this song)...sometimes it just happens! After introducing Ernesto Ghezzi on keyboards, Nic announces "Together we gonna do a song ... that we'd like to dedicate to the late, great Mr. Steve Lee!" after which a minute of applause and cheers follow - just like after the song (when also Leo Leoni mentiones Steve Lee)! During "Fist in your Face" Leo Leoni plays a short bit of "Smoke on the Water". After Nic Maeder announces "Mountain Mama" Leo Leoni and the band mess around with a few tunes (AC/DC's 'Hells Bells' and 'What do you do for Money Honey' and Deep Purple's 'Burn') to which Nic reminds the band that these are good songs but not the one that he'd announced :D - During the Outro Solo by Leo you can hear him saying (through the voice box) "Vienna do you hear me?!" (twice, obviously taken from ) and then "Do you want a beer?!" after which he takes a sip himself - you can hear me saying "Cheer-IO!" and Leo, responding to the audience "Dankeschön!" before he starts "Right on". When the band was gathering for a goodbye at the front of the stage the audience conviced them they should do another song - "I guess you want another one, huh?!". During "Top of the World" when the Band members are introduced and Leo introduces Nic Maeder he says "Meine Damen und Herren ... the new kid in town ... der neue Bock... Mr. Nic Maeder!" Haha! Der neue Bock! funny! After that people in the audience start to sing "Leo! Leo! Leo!"
My parents were becoming slightly uneasy towards the end of the gig as we had to catch the last train (and before that, the last subway to bring us to the train station!) home... however, I knew what they would probably play and at which stage the band was with their set, but came the last song, (the second encore), I also started feeling slightly nervous, especially when Nic started the audience bit in the middle of the song. However, I managed to stay, but when I head the first note of the closing chord, I was on my way to the back (just before I went back you can hear me saying some goodbye words to the blonde girl I was stood next to...oh I wished there'd been time left for a good chat and some drinks...) ...and when I got there I managed to stay for the last few seconds to capture the last outro chords, too (surprisingly the sound quality stays almost at the same level), but as soon as the band was finished I was out, running to the wardrobe, collecting my stuff, and as soon as I got it I ran to the subway station... less than half a minute later after arriving there I found myself sitting in that very last subway that made me/us catch the last train home!

How to identify my recording:
Around 4:12 into "Fist in your Face" (during the outro solo) you can hear a female voice shouting "Woooooohoo!". Just before "Give me real" you can hear another female voice asking if she could pass to the front to make some photos. When "Anytime anywhere" starts Nic says "...and we'll be back...anytime..." and you can hear me shouting "Anywhere!". Before the very last encore "Top of the World" Nic asks "I guess you want another one" you can hear me replying to my mother who came to the front to say they were leafint to the undergrund station "Um 37 ist eine U-Bahn!" which means that the last underground for us would leav at 23:37 (it was probably 23:29 at the time!!!)...!

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Soundquality: audience recording with some interference from the audience (sometimes a little bit of overdrive), guitars are a bit muffled, 7,5/10
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Setlist:

Disc 1:
01 Intro (1:23)
02 Dream on (3:45)
03 Gone too far (4:15)
04 Starlight (5:53)
05 Remember it's me (3:50)
06 Sister Moon (4:14)
07 Hush (8:08)
08 One Life, one Soul (4:04)
09 The Story's over (4:49)
10 Fist in your Face (5:06)
11 Give me real (4:01)

Disc 2:
12 Drum Solo (4:26)
13 Falling (4:20)
14 Tell me (3:33)
15 Heaven (6:36)
16 Hells Bells / What do you do for Money Honey / Burn (Snippets) (1:48)
17 Mountain Mama (4:59)
18 Right on (3:53)
19 Lift 'u' up (7:41)
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20 Leo Leoni Guitar Solo (incl. Pink Panther Theme) (2:00)
21 Master of Illusion (4:39)
22 Anytime, anywhere (7:31)
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23 Top of the World (6:45)


[1h47min39sec]

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