Fan report by Phillip Schober.

The weather forecast said it would be raining on that beautiful Tuesday night when Elton played in the city centre of Wiesbaden in front of an old caste. This place had really a romantic athmosphere. Two friends of mine (from the german eltonjohnfan.de website) had their first concert today. After a "Red Piano" and a band show, this has been the third time I've seen Elton live.

Perhaps you have seen the news item here, "ZDF searches for the biggest Elton John Fan in the Wiesbaden area". I contacted them and they were delighted for having me found. I met up with the camera team and some other fans a few hours before the show started. We walked around the venue and did some interviews and took videos.

We didn't knew that Richard Fleeshman came as a support act. Even though he was amazing, nobody paid him attention. Shortly after him the intro of "Funeral For A Friend" was to be heard.

To a standion ovation the "hero of the evening" walked out on stage. "Funeral" has been a really rocking start for this show. During the first hour the emotion and feedback from the audience wasn't that much. During songs like "I Want Love" or "Skyline Pigeon" most of the people even went to the toilet or bought some drinks. I seemed to be the only one who enjoyed himself.

But at the beginning of "Are You Ready For Love", Elton said something like: "NOW I WANT SOME DANCING AROUND HERE". This one sentence was the turning point of the evening, the long awaited "stage rush" took place.

I think one of the best songs has been "Take Me To The Pilot" with a five-minute-intro and "Crocodile Rock" with the German national anthem at the beginning.

In the end we got a really awesome firework for the encore "Your Song". Without giving any autographs Elton thanked us and walked off the stage.

However, they seemed to have some technical problems this night. Elton's monitor box was broken and they changed it serveral times.

This is the setlist of the evening, as you can see, was the same as every night of this tour. The only negative thing on this evening was that all Concert Live CDs were broken. There is just some sratching noise to be found on them. Concert Live told me in an E-mail that they had technical problems and that they are about to produce new sets of CDs, wich are shipped to us for free. I deperately hope they have indeed such a great service, and I will finally get my recording.

And finally, of course the weather forcast was wrong and it didn't start to rain. And one day after the show I was able to see me on TV in the news.

Following is the complete set list of the Wiesbaden show on June 30, 2009:

• Funeral For A Friend
  
• Love Lies Bleeding
  
• Saturday Night Alright (For Fighting)
  
• Burn Down The Mission
  
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  
• I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues
  
• Daniel
  
• Honky Cat
  
• I Want Love
  
• Rocket Man
  
• Sad Songs (Say So Much)
  
• Take Me To The Pilot
  
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
  
• Tiny Dancer
  
• Sacrifice
  
• Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
  
• All The Young Girls Love Alice
  
• Candle In The Wind (solo)
  
• Skyline Pigeon
  
• Are You Ready For Love
  
• Bennie And The Jets
  
• The Bitch Is Back
  
• Crocodile Rock
  
• I’m Still Standing
  
• Your Song

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