The Flower Kings -Lund,Sweden, nov. 27th

 

What was the setlist like?

Did it include "Big Puzzle"?

 

(text copied frome Dime)

 

SET 1:
1. Love Is The Only Answer (27:34)
2. There Is More To This World (11:17)
3. Retropolis (13:32)
4. Trading My Soul (7:41)
5. I Am The Sun (12:21)

SET 2:
1. Life In Motion (13:25)
2. Flight 999 Brimstone Air (4:58)
3. Babylon (3:49)
4. Hudson River Siren's Call (9:21)
5. Stardust We Are (Excerpt) (4:42)
6. What If God Is Alone (8:48)
7. The Sum Of No Reason (17:16)
8. The Blade Of Cain (5:52)

Roine Stolt - lead guitar & vocals
Hans Fröberg - vocals & rhythm guitar
Tomas Bodin - keyboards
Jonas Reingold - bass, bass pedals & backing vocals
Pat Mastelotto - drums & percussion

 

"Not a big audience unfortunately, but an enthusiastic one ! Mastelotto by now is fitting in very well indeed, which is probably why Roine felt entitled to throw in a humoristic quote of the "Red" riff during the improv section of "The Sum Of No Reason", to much laughter from the King Crimson drummer."

 

The show was both filmed and recorded, and they said that it will end up as a bootleg, or even a official live album!

 

They showed alot of humor, examples:

 

Reingold: Kan ni säga efter mig? Reingold är så jävla grym! (Reingold is so f**king great)

Audience: *Laughter* Reingold är så jävla grym!

Reingold: Vi får köra en loop på det där i slutmixen, när jag spelar bra (We'll loop that one in the final mix, in parts when i'm really good)

 

(The bass solo in Retropolis included "Horizons" by genesis )

 

Stolt: Att ni är här är enda anledningen att jag stämmer min gitarr (The fact that you're here is the only reason that i tune my guitar)

 

Stolt: Har ni någon aning om vad vi ska spela nu? (Any idea what we should play now?)

Audience: Pretty silent

Stolt: Kom igen, bara ta något! (Come on, just guess with something!)

Some guy in audience: The Flower King!!!!!!

*Laughter*

Stolt: Eftersom ni inte vet så utgår jag ifrån att ni inte har internet (Since you don't know, i guess you guys havn't got internet)

*Laughter*

Some guy in Audience: We're too old for that!

*Laughter*

Fröberg: Vi ska spela en gammal låt... 10 år gammal, så får vi se om ni känner igen den! (We're gonna play an older song, 10 years old, and we'll se if you recognize it!)

*There is more to this world*

 

*Bass struggles during Sum of no Reason*

*Band stops playing*

Some guy in audience: Reingold, du är så jävla grym!

*Laughter*

(The band started playing where they stopped, the bass struggles again. Third time, they get it)

(The song included a keyboard line from "There is more to this world" aswell as a boogie-woogie guitar line & "Rock n Roll" by Led Zeppelin)

 

I don't bother writing two laguages anymore...

Stolt: We're gonna play a song written by our keyboardist, Tomas Bodin!!!!

*Applause*

Bodin: This was written during some special moment...

Some guy in audience: A Rush!!!!

Bodin: Yeah, heh, what kind of rush?

Some guy in audience: Rush of happiness!!!!

*Laughter*

Bodin: Yeah (some talk about a fast boat, don't remember what they said, but it was funny ) This is called Flight... something.

Stolt: Flight 99

*Flight 999 Brimstone Air*

 

I'll write more later