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Date: November 24, 2004
City: Helsinki, Finland
Author: Eetu
Review
The beginning of the show was really ponmpous with Reise Reise as the opening song. Before it there was these guys in black pants, white shirts and ties who "searched" the stage with flashlights. After the opening song they combined with some powerful and fast songs, like Links, Keine Lust, Feuer Frei and Rein Raus. During Feuer Frei Till, Richard and Paul used the famous firemasks :D.
In the beginning of Rein Raus Richard yelled "Rein" several times for the crowd, and the crowd responsed pretty well, I think. Between Rein Raus and Morgenstern they played a short song of some kind. It wasn't definitely a Rammstein song, so I think it was a cover? At least it wasn't one they have recorded. At first I thought that Till said in that song something stupid, because he smiled pretty twistedly after singing it and said "Danke". The possible cover was quite short (under 2 minutes or so).
The audience wasn't very keen on Morgenstern, maybe because it's a relatively new song and people don't know it. It's a shame, still it's a great song. Then came Mein Teil and this Flake-in-the-pot-incident when chef dressed Till (without a hat this time :think ) fired with a flamethrower at the pot :lol . The crowd took it well. After Mein Teil came to of my personal favourites, Stein um Stein and Los. Before Los those "white-collar-workers" came and brought a little drum kit to the lower level of the stage for Schneider (normally Schneider was at the higher level of the stage, as known). So Rammstein looked like a soul/blues band during Los, because they all played together in a relatively small space in the lower level of the stage. Till played the mouth-organ and Flake danced funnily during those mouth-organ solos in the song. It was great. After the song Schneider 'went up' again and they played Moskau. There was a big R+ cross behind the band and it was made of very bright spots lamps.
Then there was a hit parade. Songs like Du riechst so gut, Du hast, Sehnsucht and Amerika were played. At this moment the crowd went crazy (at least at the front of the stage). During these songs they used some nice pyro's. Like little flamethrowers at attached guitarists' arms. During Du Hast they fired fire balls along some wires which were going from the top of the stage to the mixing table which was in the middle of the stalls. During Sehnsucht there were these green flames we all know and during America they blasted paper chaff on the audience. After it there was a pause, after which they played Rammstein, Sonne and Ich Will. In Rammstein Till had two massive flamethrowers in his hands and shooted fire in the air. During Sonne huge amounts of fire and light were blasted from the stage (probably as die Sonne). In Ich Will croud sang along lines 'wie sehen dich, wir hören dich' etc., you know it.
Then there was pause again. Then Ohne Dich and Stripped were played. Ohne Dich was a master ballad, and there were some few thousand (i dunno how many, but there was many :) ) lighters held in the air by the crowd... During Stripped Olli crowdsurfed with a boat to the mixing table and back.
It was a great show. One of the greatest or the greatest where I have been.