After
I arrived at about 03.30 p.m. in Frankfurt glad that I wasn´t
to late for the M&G I first met Eric T. from Aachen, Sabrina from
Frankfurt and some other known faces who became friends to me during
the Tori-Tour. The hottest was certainly Rurik from Cologne.. he came
directly from the work and had still his first-class suit on.. THAT
looked fabulous ! Respect ! Somehow Rurik and I seemed to think the
same a lot of times.. In Nürnberg I thought about CD´s for
Tori and Rurik also. Now in Frankfurt I had my little blue elephant
from the ``Sendung mit der Maus´´ (``Show with the Mouse´´
- very popular show for children and even the `older ones´´
in Germany) for Tori and Rurik had a sweet little Teddybear..both plush
animals..kind of strange..but anyway.. Tori was evidently happy about
our little presents. At the M&G I showed Tori the photo of her and
Jenny from Berlin to remember Tori if she´d be so nice and play
``Alamo´´ for Jenny. Jenny had requested it yet since Berlin.
And besides that I told Tori that Jenny would fly extra from Berlin
to Frankfurt today to hear ``Alamo´´. That impressed her
pretty much. Tori asked me if I have the Lyrics for ``Alamo´´
with me and I only said that they´d be in my car. Later I ran
to the car and picked up the paper with the lyrics of the hotloved song
for Jenny out of my car and handed it out to Steve Caton with the request
to give it to Tori. I then went together with Christoph V. and Rurik
in the City to eat something. We landed at the Pizza Hut...normally
they are relatively fast..but it was just the Football-World-Championship
and Italy played this day..well..this meant that we´d to wait
a full hour for our pizzas !
After I was very near the point to burn down the whole building..ups..sorry..little
accident..we went back to the Alte Oper trying to get better tickets
(on the 09th June I only got tickets for a seat in the 17th row on the
left side at the ticket-agency). And who says it.. I got my 2nd row
Ticket although on the outer left side but that didn´t matter..
Of course I had to pay for the Ticket once again but for my luck Jenny
from Berlin needed also yet a ticket. Jenny did take the long flight
from Berlin to Frankfurt after I guess some longer discussions with
her after all pretty understanding mother (Hi Uschi !). In every case
Jenny had no Ticket and so everything fitted perfectly together..
THE CONCERT
As I always feel
a urge to get in the 1st row respectively to as close as possible to
Tori my seat in the 2nd row on the left side was of course not enough
for me..hihi.. So it meant to go on ``Seat-Hunt´´ hoping
that accidently there is a free seat more in the front and in eye-contact
with Tori (cause of forgetfullness or other reasons). Jenny and I had
extremely big luck ! 2nd row and DIRECT eye-contact to Tori..once again
I made it.. The concert was for sure one of her best e v e r !!! Alone
that Tori played ``Alamo´´ with my lyrics-paper on HER Boesendorfer
for Jenny from Berlin and yet said this before the song: ´´This
girl has come all the way from Berlin to hear this song..so I think
she deserves it !´´ was the hammer !!! Jenny was simply
blown away as Tori played ``Alamo´´..understandable..hihi..
Nice was yet also that Tori mentioned the German Toriphiles after ``iieee`´
and thanked them (this means Rurik, Eric T., Jenny, Christoph, Thomas,
Stephan, Sabrina, me and so many others) combined with an invitation
to the USA for the case we would get bored anytime (.. ) Another ingenius
thing was.. Matt D. (from USA) was before the stage at the end of the
concert and showed his crazy dance while Tori was playing ``Raspberry
Swirl Girl´´. Tori had a really huge grin on her face...
That was the missing spark... Sabrina, I and many others walked / ran
before the stage and danced around totally wild. Tori had visible fun
with us ``swirling´´ Toriphiles.. I do believe that this
was an excellent closing of Tori´s German-Tour for Tori and all
of us. I had the feeling tha Tori smiled at really e v e r y song...
The final M&G
took unfortunately place in the rain but a clever Toriphile lent Tori
his umbrella and her bodyguard Joel protected Tori with it from the
whole floody rain. Tori took a lot of time for us Toriphiles and we
all bid farewell to Tori pretty melancholy with the hope to see her
again in America. I said yet to Jon Evans (Tori´s Bassplayer)
that I try to fly in the USA to see Tori once again this year. He said
that I and the others were more than welcome to come over..
After Tori drove away in the Tourbus and we all together waved her goodbye
I talked a little with Eric T., Jenny, Rurik, Sabrina, Christoph, Matt
D. and all the other Toriphiles that I met during the Tour and who I
appreciated highly. I really try everything to see Tori in the USA..
if there´s not something in my Job or someone dies...I´m
ready for America !!! In every case I experienced one of the best times
in my entire life during this 2 weeks and 2 days that will be damn important
for me forever !!! THANK YOU TORI !!! Thanks to all the Toriphiles that
I met on the whole Tour !!! Thank you Steve Caton for the ingenius `´Pub-Tour´´
through Bonn !!! Just a HUGE THANK YOU for all and to all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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