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29/06/96 - DE KUIP STADIUM, ROTTERDAM Review
by Louis Du Moulin (Rotterdam Press):
Bryan Adams and Melissa Etheridge versus
the bad mooded weather gods in an full ‘The Kuip’ stadium. End score:
a great victory for rocker Bryan Adams. Both Adams as his very special guest Etheridge
clearly both wanted to keep playing the game in the rainy and chilly ‘The
Kuip’ stadium. The fans clearly didn’t mind the weather and they just
kept rocking, it was Adams’s pleasure that the audience was so great. This
concert is quite different from the Rene Froger (dutch singer) concert last year
during the same time, the weather was obviously different. But thanks to the weather,
Etheridge kept saying that she really liked the audience, with sayings like ‘I
lost my heart to you dutch people’. 
Anyway Adams time now, Adams clearly had no problem
with keeping the audience warm in spirit during the first 10 songs,
it only got better and better after that. He started with the new
songs ‘The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You’ and
‘Do To You’ both from the new album called ’18 Til
I Die’ after those two songs the audience was already dancing.
In the next two hours he kept improving and improving himself the
groover from Vancouver truly showed how he could rock. Bryan Adams
(36) only improved his next door guy type.
The gap between the big time rocker and the audience
wasn’t there at all, something you would normally expect, this
was also thank to the bridge on the back of the stage which gave
fans a complete new view of a Adams show. When the ‘normal
hero’ pulled a guy upon stage and borrowed him his guitar the
audience and the big time rocker only became closer. There also
followed a short discussion about his haircut, because someone put
a banner up which read: ‘Get a new haircut!’. After 2
hours of full time rock Bryan slowed down with the lovely ballad
‘All For Love’ which he released 2 and a half years before
with Rod Stewart and Sting. So what we got was a great classic rock
show, with no limits between Bryan and the audience.
********** Interview
pre-show and review by David Kleijwegt (Rotterdam Press):
You
wake up on a Saturday morning. From your bed you walk straight to the window and
their you see a grey sky , here and there some clouds. The windows are still moist
from the rain. What does a pop singer think when he performs in ‘The Kuip’
(Feyenoord Stadium) later that evening? “My first reaction? Oh, I hope there
will show up some people today”, says the celebrated rocker Bryan Adams while
laughing, two hours before his performance in ‘The Kuip’ where –
afterwards appears – Despite the bad weather still 40.000 people attended
the show “My second reaction; a bit disappointing: It would definitely be
a better evening when the temperature was more comfortable and it stopped raining.
On the other side I have already so much experience with outdoor performances
that I already know everything’s going to be all right. “It can be much
more worse, believe me. I have given concerts while it was very cold, wet and
muddy. I remember a concert in Ireland. It was already cold, but when it started
to rain the temperature dropped for another ten degrees. My hands where stiffing
and suddenly I got a soar throat. I was happy it only lasted for a song, but that
was a really strange experience. I don’t want to experience that again.”
The career from Bryan Adams (36) can be parted in two parts.
Before the summer of ’91 he was famous for being a sympathetic rock &
roller who wrote catching tunes. The love ballad (Everything I Do) I Do It For
You changed much. Exactly five years ago the song reached the No 1 position in
The Netherlands. The song would stay there for 3 months. After that world hit
Bryan seems to be popular for his ‘slower songs’. “That only looks
that way”, he tells in his dressing room, while he puts a piece of bread
in the toaster. “I’ve written ballads for as long as I can remember,
and I still play and write rockers”. I always admired people who could both,
up-tempo and fast, like Elton John. The only thing is that ballads have more airplay
then most of the rockers do. In the ‘80’s you would hear my songs on
the radio, but those songs weren’t big hits. Before (Everything I Do) I Do
It For You I only had one big time hit. After that people would ask themselves:
Who is that guy Bryan Adams? “Did you knew most of the people don’t
know my name, but only my songs?” Story Of My Life. Not long ago I was in
a plane from Oslo to Copenhagen, the guy beside me asked me what I did for living.
I’m a singer, I said. He didn’t recognized me at all and he asked me
what songs I sung. I answered: the song Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? Was
that you?, He said flabbergasted. “Something like that always happens to
me.”, said Bryan while laughing. “Not that I have a problem with it.” 
In
‘The Kuip’ Adams shows he’s a real expert in the business. He can
make the whole audience forget the rain and bad weather. Besides to hits like
Run To You and Can’t Stop This Thing We Started there also pass some other
new songs from his new album 18 Til I Die. At the stroke of the clock, when the
concert is already rockin’ for an hour and a half, the highest moment of
the show is being reached. 
Bryan
picks a not expecting fan from the audience to sing a song with. His name is Mario,
He steals the show with bad singing as false as you would never get to know. The
audience went wild the kept screaming ‘Mario, Mario, Mario!’ on the
beat of ‘Ole, Ole, Ole’. “I really don’t know why I pick fans
from the audience. I think it has something to do with my sick sense for a laugh.
The fans know that I will pick a fan from the audience most of the time, some
of them even got these banners which says: ‘Pick me to sing with you Bryan.’
Or something like that. Well, I never pick those ones, because they are already
prepared, I like the ones who are not prepared at it at all.” “I always
watch my audience very carefully. You have those people who are just screaming
something stupid at you. Well, if you think that’s right, then why not pick
those people out of the audience and let them put themselves to a joke.”
A laughing Adams: “So also the rest of the people can watch yourself doing
stupid on the stage”
Setlist:
The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
Do To You
Kids Wanna Rock
All I Want Is You
18 Til I Die
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
This Time
Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
Touch The Hand
Cuts Like A Knife
One Night Love Affair
Somebody
It's Only Love
Everything I Do
Run To You
Audience member
There Will Never Be Another Tonight
***b-stage***
Land Of 1000 Dances
(I Wanna Be) Your Underwear
Seven Nights To Rock
Wild Thing
It Ain't A Party...If Ya Can't Come 'Round
She's Only Happy When She's Dancin'
***b-stage***
Summer Of '69
All For Love
Let's Make A Night To Remember
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