During the Hamburg 2001 show, they had some sound problems during the very first minutes of "Calling Elvis", and I remember there were some "special backstage pass winner guests" standing in the background of the stage, young people, and suddenly MK sent them away very gruff and looked really furious - and then a guy from the crew went to Guy's place and got some detailed instructions from Guy - always looking at MK - at least that was what I thought I interpreted then. Guy was looking into the audience all the time during the first two songs, and I think it was a very tense moment for him. Somehow the whole show was spoilt for me because MK's behaviour in those first minutes. And over and above, they skipped two songs from the earlier setlists, STP and PW, and so it was the shortest setlist of the whole tour. I was really down the next day I must admit. A few days earlier I had seen them in Munich and that show was absolutely awesome - with a thunderstorm outside the Olympiahalle during Telegraph Road (!). Very big difference.
But when I listen to the recording of that Hamburg show, I am astonished how great the part from "Junkie Doll" until "So Far Away" really is from that night - I think I was not in the right condition to enjoy it back then. Oh, and I remember a totally drunk guy, who suddenly turned up in the middle of the show from the back and decided to stand right in front of me - and he was snubbed by me and I thought, wow, at least it isn
