Accept - Fast As A Shark

Accept visit Sweden for a club gig at Debaser Slussen yesterday.

It was a great evening, bumped into some nice friends like Biffen, Roger Nibeland, Tord Karlsson among few others for a beer and some great sunlight and a Accept Show. This was a real musical evening as many of the visitors was musicians or technicians, guys like Mikael Åkerfeldt & Fredrik Åkesson from Opeth, JB, Fox & Seb from Grand Magus & Pontus Norgren from Hammerfall was there so i guess these guys had grown up with Accept.

So what about the gig, well my expirations was not high at all, was more looking for chill evening with the guys, you know, take a beer and some chit chat. But hell, this was a blast. Mark Tornillo, this little guy has some voice resources and yes there is only one UDO, but Mark is doing a great job singing the classic tunes and he brings his own unique style to it. Even the new tunes sounds cool. The rest of the guys seams to have allot of fun and its nice to see that Stefan is in a great shape and doing a hell of a job behind his drums, Peter is rocking like never before and Wolf is kidding around as always. The only thing i notice that Herman is not given much space but i guess he is pleased with that position in the band. The gig in total was superb, the setlist was fat and contained 26 songs, so they rocked for approx 2½ hrs, see the setlist below. It's so nice to see that the band is back again and i wish the all the luck on the rest of the tour, if lucky we might be able to see them open up for AC/DC this summer.

Many stories was told this evening, witch i enjoyed alot. My friend Roger who has been the tech for Stefan Schwarzmann in the early days had a nice meet with him, got a real hugging party. After the show it was a meet and greet with the band so i took my chance to say hey to the guys.

Got some photos but haven't got time to process them yet, so some other time.

Todays tune "Fast as a Shark" is taken from Accepts setlist last night. This is Accepts fastest tune its very speedy and thrashy metal. The intro to the track is a snippet from a crackly old children's recording of a traditional German tune titled "Ein Heller und ein Batzen" (A Farthing and a Penny). The band thought it would make a humorous contrast with their heavy metal sound, and the fact that a young Dieter Dierks (in whose studio the album was recorded) was singing on the recording made it even more of an inside joke. The band soon found themselves in an unintended controversy, however: even though the song dated from 1830, it was a popular marching song during the Nazi era and still held that connotation for many listeners, a fact the band was unaware of at the time. "So out of a funny little idea we created somewhat of a monster," Wolf Hoffmann recalls. Enjoy!

Here is a great early version of this tune.



Here is a video from Gramercy Theatre NYC - May 08 2010



Setlist

Metal Heart
Midnight Mover
Living For Tonite
Restless And Wild
Son Of A Bitch
Losers And Winners
London Leatherboys
The Abyss
Run If You Can
Teutonic Terror
Breaker
Bulletproof
Neon Nights
Winterdreams
Classical Medley
Flash Rockin' Man
Up to Limit
Demon's Night
Turn Me On

Bass Solo

Monsterman
Burning

Encore:
Princess Of The Dawn
I'm A Rebel

Encore 2:
Fast As A Shark
Balls To The Wall

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