America @ Théatre Marigny Paris April 5th 2009

America in Paris @ Théatre Marigny
April 5th 2009

The Everly Brothers ?

NO ! AMERICA

Afetr seeing Metallica playing two sold-out shows in front of 18000 metal maniacs in Bercy a couple of days ago.
Completely different style of music and venue.
Tonight folk-rockers AMERICA are playing a sold-out gig in one of the most beautiful theatre in Paris just next to the famous Champs Elysées.
This is their last show on the European tour before heading back to... America
Lots of posh people in here.
No warm-up act and America get right into it with " Riverside " & " Ventura".
The sound is perfect and so are the harmony vocals between Gerry Beckley & Dewey bunnell, the original members ( there was a 3rd one many years ago).
They're back up by a tight band.

These guys have so many classic songs , it' hard to believe ; needless to say they've played 'em all. We also had songs for their recent album " Hear & Now " ( 2007 ) co-produced by James Iha ( former Smashing Pumpkins ).

George Martin produced seven of their records so they played " Eleanor Rigby" as a tribute to The Beatles. They also played Mamas & Papas ' " california dreaming".
The stage is very simple, there is just a huge screen in the back with projections of their album artwork or images of american landscapes to nice effects.
The 90 min show wouldn't be complete without " sandman" which made everybody stand up.
And of course their N°1 hit single on both sides of the Atlantic " A horse with no name" with the beautiful daughter of Dewey as a guest vocalist.

Great show !

Both of them were really nice and chatty when we could met them after the show at the bar

first goodbye

Goodbye for good / Setlist signed

A/S for VIPs only

PS : Thanks to Richard for his kindness

METALLICA More pics 2 Paris Bercy 2

METALLICA
More pictures
from the 2nd show in Paris Bercy
April 2nd 2009

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METALLICA More pics from Paris Bercy 1

METALLICA @ Paris Bercy 1

April 1st 2009

So many people asked me for more pictures that I asked our photographer PATRICE GUINO if he could provide us more pics for ROCKERPARIS

So here they are. Enjoy !

METALLICA Bercy 2 April 2nd 2009 ( Part 1 )

METALLICA Paris Bercy 2 April 2nd 2009 ( Part 1)

2nd Show
Click on pics for full version "clicker" sur chaque photo , svp .

The Sword was the first band on , first time i was seeing them, Lars Ulrich came to play their last song on drums. ( see video shortly )

Once again we had to endure Machine Head , it was the guitar player's birthday and their last show opening for METALLICA.

Metallica is changing their setlist every night so some nice surprises and a couple of less interesting songs
We had " Hit the lights" ," Fight fire with fire" & a song from Load " bleeding me" :-(

Same killer show even though I prefered last night.

Nice surprise as the lead singer from Saxon, Biff Byford, was here to sing " Motorcycle Man"
See video in the (Part 2 )

ALL PICTURES © GUINO PATRICE

Metallica Bercy 1 April 1st ( Part 1 )

Metallica Paris Bercy 1 ( Part 2 )

Metallica Paris Bercy 2 ( Part 2 )

Video THE SWORD + LARS ULRICH :