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ROGER
HODGSON -
OPEN THE DOOR TOUR SALA
ARENA CONTENTS
THE SCHEDULE - THE TRIP TUESDAY, MAY, 30TH, 2000 .....the day's history with a little sense of humour!! (BARCELONA). BIS team was beginning to be reunited. JORDI, from Barcelona and webmaster of this page, went to pick up JORGE, from Almería (Feelings page webmaster) at Barcelona's central railway station. It was 9:00 am
What a BIG INTELLECTUAL effort.... So, we decided to check all the planes (we did not expect Roger coming by walking....) coming from Milan. There were 8 that day. Again our intelligence surprised ourselves....he should arrive in the morning....only 4 planes. At 10:00 am,
GUILLE arrived too. He's the webmaster of BIS Guille's page. Around 12:00 am. European arrivals gate (I'm not sure about this...Barcelona's airport is a mess!!). ROGER HODGSON was there. He did look tired. We just said Hello and let them go. He was a bit surprised.... Nothing else, except eating something. 5:00 pm. BIS
team went to Plató Sant Just (TV facility). It was near to Barcelona.
You should know Martian Chronicles is a very
well known program in Spain. You can see it every day around
11:00 pm at TELECINCO, a private channel. Although its contents
are sometimes very simple, around 3 million people watch it
every day... Around 6:00 pm
Roger arrived. He looked tired and he told us how busy his schedule
was going to be during next 4 days. After talking for a while
with him and Daniella, he went inside. Roger did record "Hungry". Only 3 times were needed. We were dancing all the time and the others were looking at us....some of them asked about who was the artist. We told them if they did remember Supertramp.... It was 7:15 pm when Roger did come out. We say goodbye. He was going directly to the airport to take a flight to Madrid. We went to Jordi's
house to leave the car, took the subway and went to central
station. Our train was waiting for us. WEDNESDAY,
MAY, 31TH, 2000 .....the "RH" day always with a little
sense of humour!!
(MADRID). BIS team was arriving to Madrid at 7:00 a.m. We were not tired. The train beds were small but we were tired, so it was no problem.... We went to Jorge's house to leave our luggage...we had recieved a phone call from José Antonio. He was arriving to Madrid by car (he had left his home at 5:00 am) so we decided to meet him in the center of the city, near a big multimedia group headquarters where we knew Roger had an interview. Madrid is a big city, but is also a chaos. The center is full of offical buildings, politics, bodyguards and police, so it is not strange to see police cars driving like Schumacher to make "space" for official cars. This multimedia group is the main one in the country and one of his radio stations is placed in his headquarters....can you imagine? We were three, normally dressed (no tie....) asking the police to get in to see if there was an interview with someone. They asked us Who?...of course they did not know Roger. What about calling ? They gave us a paper with a phone number...we tried several times...no answer. Should we believe there is nobody in the spain main radio staion ? José Antonio did arrive at 11:00 am. We decided to try
to see Roger at his Hotel's door. It was not really far away
so we went there by walking. 20 minutes. And we can assure you
traffic chaos was unbelievable. 2:30 pm FANS MEETING
We had scheduled a spanish fans meeting in Madrid. We did not
know at all how many people was going to be there...but we were
confident. As we were hungry we decided to eat something in a restaurant. We talked about politics, specialising in the spanish territory but also chatting about the future of Nigeria and forthcoming elections in Peru. Then, our interest in a wide variety of subjects drove us to speak a lot about Amazon forest, Yellowstone National Park and Australian food....very interesting. Only 5 minutes were devoted to a guy named Roger Hodgsdon :-) After paying, everyone
went away and decided to meet in front of the venue at 9:00
p.m. We, Jordi, Jorge, José Antonio and Guille decided to go to Jorge's house...but after arriving there we were so nervous we decided to go to the venue to see if it was possible to say hello to Roger again.... (the THIRD time in 2 days....What was Roger thinking about 4 guys who can only say Hi Roger...see you later...?) After 2 hours of wait, we could come in. The sound check had just started and we decided to wait there in the back. It was around 8:30 pm and the sound check did finish. We wanted to be there so we did not went out. At 9:00 p.m. doors opened and the "Sala Arena" was full of people in some minutes. I would not say thousands of thousands, or even more, but it was full. AND DO YOU KNOW ONE THING? The only 3 concert posters we saw in Madrid walls were in the same venue's road, just in front of the entrance. There had not been promotion at all. All the people there were trully fans, trully Roger fans who had known there was THAT concert. We don't know if our website has helped, but we are quite optimistic about this....a lot of people came to us asking for the t-shirts and the web address, etc... At 9:15 pm lights went off and Roger's guitar began..... THE CONCERT: SORRY, WE WERE REALLY FOCUSED ON THE SHOW.... Around 11:00 pm the show finished...no words. More than 100 people
were waiting outside to see Roger and to get an autograph. Security
people from ARENA did begin to "ask" people to go
out. It's a DISCOTHEQUE so it seems they wanted to open...but
nobody came in. Only us...waiting outside. The big limousine arrived...so it was clear Roger was going to get out. But suddenly the car went to the front door. Everyone began to run fast....it's around 300 meters. At the front door, Roger was protected by 3 security people and was trying to reach his car....no way. Everyone wanted a picture and an autograph...and the more incredible, Roger was smiling all the time...signing autographs, talking with everyone....HE WAS HAPPY. After some long minutes they went away....and the ones who were there began to realize all was already over.....what a magical night!!! SALA
ARENA SPANISH REPORT by KENNETH SUAREZ CRÓNICA DEL
CONCIERTO EN LA SALA ARENA Y DE UN ENCUENTRO
POSTERIOR Yo nunca había visto a Roger ni a Supertramp. 1/4 de hora mas tarde de la hora prevista empieza a sonar la guitarra acústica de 12 cuerdas sin que Roger hubiese aún aparecido, hasta que de repente aparece desde detrás del escenario tocando la guitarra que antes se escuchaba como por arte de magia. Empezó con "The Meaning" (una de sus preferidas). La gente se volvía loca. Yo tenía una sonrisa constante que era imposible de borrar. Yo no gritaba para nada, sólo sonreía. Roger también miraba a la gente super sonriente, feliz y haciendo lentos movimientos afirmativos con la cabeza, mirándonos, saludándonos moviendo la cabeza y picando el ojo. Y todo sin parar de arpegiar con la guitarra. Una atmósfera de absoluta felicidad arropada por los extraños acordes de "The Meaning" que a su vez contrastaba con éstos. Cuando se acerca al micrófono
todo el mundo se calla y empieza a cantar. Os aseguro que esa
voz afecta demasiado a mis entrañas, y nunca se puede saber
lo que se siente cuando llevas casi 20 años enamorado de
la música y de la voz de una persona que te ha acompañado
y hecho feliz, y esa persona está ahora delante de tus
narices cantando para tí y tocando las canciones que le
pedíamos; todas esas canciones que ya forman parte importantísima
de mi vida y de la de todos los allí presentes. Además,
sólo con verle te das cuenta de que Roger es una buenísima
persona de la que emana sencillez y amabilidad. Después de estar tocando durante una hora y media hizo el típico ritual de todos los conciertos (aunque sin esforzarse mucho por hacernos creer que se iba...): despedirse para que la gente le pida que vuelva a salir a tocar dos o tres canciones más. Volvió a salir y estuvo media hora más con 3 canciones: "School", "Give a Little Bit" y la última de todo el concierto... how great the fall can be No tocó "Even in the Quietets
Moments...." -THE MEANING -HIDE IN YOUR SHELL -DREAMER -EASY DOES IT -SISTER MOONSHINE -TWO OF US -THE LOGICAL SONG -BREAKFAST IN AMERICA -TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME -LORD IS IT MINE -IT'S RAINING AGAIN -DON'T LEAVE ME NOW -SCHOOL -GIVE A LITTLE BIT -FOOL'S OVERTURE
-8 CANCIONES DE SOLOTRAMP: 2 de los discos anteriores: -IN JEOPARDY -TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE 5 del nuevo disco: -OPEN THE DOOR -LOVE IS A THOUSAND TIMES -ALONG CAME MARY -DEATH & A ZOO -SAY GOODBYE 1 canción inédita: -LONE CHILD Al final salió y menos mal que se me ocurrió llevarme la carátula del disco para que me lo dedicara, porque tuve la suerte de conseguirlo.....
a las 5 ya había terminado.
Nos encontramos con Roger cuando salia de la tienda y nos saludó,
nos dio la mano y cuando yo intenté recordarle quién
era me dijo: "Yeah...I remember you.See you here in two hours,
OK??" Esta vez tocó sólo
5 canciones porque decía que su voz no estaba preparada
para cantar, sino para las entrevistas. Pero nada, eso fué
una coña total porque volvió a cantar a la perfección.
Dos canciones del nuevo disco: "Love is a 1000 times"
y "The more I look" (esta última no la había
tocado en el concierto del miércoles) y tres de Supertramp:
"Take the Long Way Home", "Breakfast Era un sitio tan pequeño que se desarrolló todo en un atmósfera muy familiar y amistosa. Roger cantando en medio de un grupo de amigos. ¿Y quien era el cantante??? Todo el mundo era el cantante esa noche!!!".
Y la verdad es que es muy raro que toque entera "School" o "Fool's Overture", pero sabe que nosotros le hacemos las partes instrumentales. |
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