Traveled: 220km.
On invitation from Mungo Jerry management (thanks Peter) I drove to Antwerp / Belgium for the "Golden Years
Festival" I arrived in Antwerp around eight, I called Ray
for our appointment but it was not aloud to go backstage and Ray
didn't get the chance to come down because he needed to warm up
for the gig. So every thing I arranged with the management went
wrong... :-( First band on stage are "The Fortunes"
with there hits. Second "The Middle Of The Road"
better as we've seen before, (don't forget Sally Carr is 59 and
still sexy) the stage is getting up for Mungo Jerry, the full
UK-band except Micky Frampton. The show was great, The public
(The Sportpaleis was packed full) was full enthousiame
when the band started the first tunes and get out of there ming by "In The Summertime" very very great performance
from Ray and the band, wonderful !!. As usual for this kind of
festivals the security was bit overtight, no chance to get near
the stage for making photo's, camera's were not aloud but nobody
notist my camera. So all photo's are taken from the tribune,
from, lets say, 80 meters from the stage, lucky me I have 300mm
zoom-telemeter, not easy in the dark without flash ( I didn't
dare) as you can see the photo's are not all perfect but always
better as nothing. I tried again to get near the stage but the
security hold me and again they didn't notist my camera hidden
under my coat. Next on stage "Slade" with a great
show, as far I know all original bandmembers are still in the
band. The rest of the bands where we not interested in ( The
Troggs / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and Alvin
Stardust) Time to go out of the venue to try again to get in
contact with Ray, I call Ray but his phone was out, he called me
back later and explain there was no chance to get into the
dressingroom and he was waiting for an interview so he didn't
get the time to see us, but he made it for a chat and he signed
my programm. No problem at all, we had some drinks
and food and drove home 'round midnight.
Again a great show from Mungo Jerry, thanks to
all.
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