June 3, 2007 - Eifel, Germany - Nürburgring

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General Information

Date: June 3, 2007
Location: Eifel, Germany
Venue: Nürburgring; Eifel; Germany 53520 [ Venue website ]
Box Office Number: +47 815 11 211
Additional Info: Rock Am Ring Festival 2007

Set List

• Let It Roll
• Do It For The Kids
• Sucker Train Blues
• She Mine
• Vasoline
• Fall To Pieces
• Just Sixteen
• It's So Easy
• Sex Type Thing
• She Builds Quick Machines
• Set Me Free
• Psycho Killer
• Mr. Brownstone
• Slither

Reviews (5) [ send in your own review/pictures of the Eifel show ]

Thanks to Pank: Hi folks,
got a backstage pass from a RADIO friend so i saw Slash and the mates out of the back at Rock am Ring 07 .
It was great and especially Matt and Duff gives the 80.ooo People a huge fat rock show, whilst they don´t understand what great stars standing there on the stage!
The greateest thing was, that i can call and caught Duff shortly to sign my TYRANNY Maxi CD.
Great!
See you again in March 2008 in Cologne

Thanks to Toxx: Hey guys...

I've been there, standing 5m away from Slash ... it was so great!!!!! It's definitely one of the best concerts I've ever seen, live and on TV.

In the back the crowd was totaly lame, I was the only one singing along with the new songs (which is very sad I think) and I was standing in the front as I said... but it was great!!!

I think it is very sad what idea of Germany people have now...

Still VR fucking rocked!!

Thanks to libvrtad: Saw the LiveStream version of the Rock Am Ring Gig yesterday and thought I'd write a review as I was blown away by the performance!

Waited for Good Charlotte and Evanescence to finish which were both painful performances.....! After some gibberish from a local German and another equally bad Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love version, Velvet Revolver came on stage ..... and my first obvious guess was right! They opened with LET IT ROLL! A fast belter of a song which seemed to have no impact on the crowd that was earlier cheering Good Charlotte! AMAZING! Slash's solo wasn't that audible as he was playin very close to the crowd.....

The next song was Do It For The Kids, which I thought would be a tester for Scott Weiland but he showed me and every VR fan how much his vocal abilities have improved.... a perfect version of the song, I gotta say!

The next intro, now very familiar to us VR fans, kept us ready for the new song SHE MINE, groovy riff, catchy vocal lines and Scott looking out thorugh Duff's legs as Duff stood on the monitors! LOL!!!!!!! Yeah, it was perfect!

The next song which was their first song on Contraband, Sucker Train Blues, was a very tight performance and Duff was amazing on Bass! Scott was going gr8 song after song!

The next song Vasoline, made me jump up given that I'm a big STP fan! Never got to listen to a clear version of this song whenever VR played it, but this time with the gr8 sound...... WOW! The VR touch to it and the improvisation at the latter part of the song was amazing with Scott going clean on the mic!

Scott then shouted out "Alright Now Sausage Fest! 2007!" ..... another million dollar moment! LOL!!!!!

What came next left me dazed as Scott said "The next song's from our last new album...... last album if u've heard and it's called JUST 16!" Believe me, my jaws were wide open!!!! But then, Scott corrected himself and said "From our last album and it's called Fall To Pieces"...... yeah, a sigh of relief!!! PHEW! Slash sounded amazing during the solo! And the backup vocals and a very clear Scott, made this one song hard to forget!

The next song was JUST 16 and it's my personal favourite from Libertad. The point in the song where Slash goes "Well I'm Just Sixteen" was awesome and shown through the gr8 vibe that these guys have going! The two solos in the song were mind-blowing to say the least! A killer of a song!!!

The next two songs were covers It's So Easy (GN'R) and Sex Type Thing (STP).... lemme start with It's So Easy.....whenever i've scanned through Youtube, I've always noticed a line saying "Leave this song to Axl! Leave every GN'R song to Axl!"... The guys who wrote that line were surely made to think twice and eat their words as Scott proved how amazing a vocalist he is! It kept me thinking.... "Bring any GN'R song at the table, and Scott can do it!" Yeah, he's improved a lot! The Slash solo is what I love about the song, not to mention the line "It's F***in Easy!" VR puled it off GR8!!!

Sex Type Thing was the song that defined the concert for me as the intro by Scott made me feel real good and when the song went on to the interlude, VR gave it their rendition.... they made the song sound groovier and Scott kept shouting out words like "Askin for Liberation, Motivation, Stimulation......" and then the fast chorus line brought the song to a fitting end.

Next song in, the first single off Libertad, SHE BUILDS QUICK MACHINES was intense and catchy as ever, the perfect bridge leading into the Slash solo.... aah... priceless!! Racin Bloody Beautiful is how i describe this song! Slash gave us VR fans a replay of the solo too! LOL!!

Set Me Free, which has to be the best Live song by VR ever, was perfect by its own right and what was great to see was that throughout the song Scott never used the megaphone which he used a lot(especially for this song) at previous Gigs! Slash's solo would have made a fan out of every Anti-VR guy present there! Only bad thing about this song was when the sound lowered a bit, during the middle part of the song...

Again two covers Psycho Killer (Talking Heads) and Mr. Brownstone, were out of this world! Psycho Killer was all about Scott while Mr. Brownstone was an awesome all rounder! There were lotsa covers but each one was of the quality they deserve!

And like it is a lot through VR's gigs these days.... Slither was the song that would bring to an end this perfect performance! This song left everyone asking for more, I'm sure! The solo was amazing and so was the hooting improvisation and so the song and the performance came to an end as scott left the megaphone on stage blowing the siren! VR STYLE!

All in all, the first and best VR gig i've seen live! The setlist needed more new songs but hell, we got all the covers we love! Scott Weiland will definitely keep the critics silenced as he keeps proving how great a frontman he is and how far his vocal abilities stretch out.... great from start to finish! Slash.........Well...... he was just the usual Guitar God that he is! The quality support from Matt(awesome on STT, Vasoline and Mr. Brownstone), Duff (the basslines off-a Sucker Train Blues and STT impro are still ringing in my head) and Dave (Fantastic throughout!) just goes to show how tight and Pro a band they are!

Thanks to StreetChildOfCrime: The band started with a kick-off Let It Roll. The song was absolute energy. Before Do It For The Kids Scott animated the crowed to clap their hands and then he shouted the all-known word "Went to fast I'm out of luck and I don't even give a fuck!" and the band fell into the song as hard as into Sucker Train Blues. She Mine was a great hard rock song that the people really enjoyed I think. The first cover of the day was Vasoline from the STP. Well done! I never thought the band could made such a good different version of the STP song. Fall To Pieces was good as everytime. You can think about it whatever you want but that is one of the songs in life all people like. Just Sixteen - another new song I haven't heard in a good quality before. The song rocks! It's So Easy. didn't get the crowd like times before but it was cool. Sex Type Thing was awesome. Scott and the band did a great job. Scott also animated the crowed to clap their hands together and he started singing/talking his own way. Then the band jumped into a amazing She Builds Quick Machines which is for me one of the best songs on the set. Just the energy the band brought to the audience. The same with Set Me Free that followed. Psycho Killer was totally beautiful. I didn't really had known what to think about that song but after hearing live I can't stop listen to that. The last cover of the night was the acclaimed Mr Brownstone. The last song and one of the best was Slither. The people in the front jumped up and down.

A few words about the crowd. It was lame indeed. But people don't really know much of Velvet Revolver here in Germany. But I think most of them watched and enjoyed the gig. I know it was better than two years ago. I don't mean the performance. But how the people listened to the band and the songs and the applause was great. But for me: leave the Festivals in Germany and do more club gigs. I think the fans really love to see more concerts in Germany. Not everybody can join a big festival or like the other bands/music. But anyway... ROCK AM RING was great and it was good to see the band again in a good shape!

Thanks to DavidLee: A+ live performance even with the non-familiar new material from "Libertad". The band was tight, clean and I think #1 performance of the three day festival, although some may say a tie for #1 with The Smashing Pumpkins if they are your bag. VR's setlist and performance was a very powerful mix of new material along with classic VR, GNR, and STP songs.

Their performance was also stronger than when they played at the Rock Am Ring in 2005, which I have the full video. A number of good new songs performed with "Let it Roll" a great opener and "Just Sixteen" kicking serious butt. I didn't like VR's new single and music video "She Builds Quick Machines". Looked and sounded like VR was forced by the label to do it for kids commercial mass-market appeal. However, it sounded good live in this setlist.

I particularly liked their Talking Heads cover of Psycho Killer with Slash laying down some killer slide guitar and showcasing himself to the crowd along with Scott "Beam Me Up" Weiland dead-on solid with the vocals. Looks like PK it is on the European but not North American release of the new album per the tracks lists of "Libertad" supplied by Sony/BMG/RCA. All-in-all, of the five new songs performed, I though only SBQM was somewhat weak. Looking forward to hearing the entire "Libertad" album when it's released next month. VR never goes wrong closing out a set with Mr. Brownstone and Slither, as they also did at the 2005 RAR. The backstage interview with Slash and Duff screwing with the German interviewer's head is R-n-R road life funny.