Finally a show from Denmark with reasonable sound quality and that I attended! It's from Herning 9th of December 2010 during the Ray Cooper tour. The show is about 50 % complete, but has almost 1½ hour of music and on Bennie And The Jets there is some muffling.
Instead of talking about (or writing about) the show, I've attached this fan report which describes the whole show. The picture is from the very show!
Elton and Ray! What more to ask for? I've got tickets on row 7 on the floor, with an awesome sight to Elton and Ray. I was so excited about what the night would bring and I knew, this was going to be a night to remember.
Elton entered the stage during Aida-music at 8 pm sharp and the audience rose when they saw the shape of Elton. Elton sat down in front of the piano and started to play the hit "The One". After "The One" Elton thanked us and he said, that he was honoured to be here because it was his first time in Herning.
Elton introduced some songs from the album "Elton John", which came out 40 years ago. Elton played a powerful version of "Sixty Years On" and a beautiful rendition of "The Greatest Discovery" and right from that moment I was not in doubt: this gig would be extraordinary.
Elton introduced "Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes" and told the audience, about the conditions during the government of Ronald Reagan which did absolutely nothing for people with AIDS, which Elton called a disgrace. He played the song with emotions and anger at the same time and made a beautiful edition of the song.
Afterwards Elton talked about "The Union", which he made with his dear friend Leon Russell and started to play "When Love Is Dying" which was the first time I've heard that live. Good to hear that Elton still can make gems of his own!
The next song was "I Guess that's Why They Call It the Blues", which he made up very bluesy and added another solo between the verses. The audience couldn't stop rocking. Then Elton played "Nikita" and what a blast! The audience gave Elton a big applause, when they heard the first lines of the song. Now the hits came streaming.
"Rocket Man". Breathless! What a solo version of the song! The audience made up a loud applause for Elton and he really deserved it. Elton went back to "The Union" and started to play "Never Too Old" and I really liked that song - and the rest of the audience seemed to do as well. Elton switched out the piano sound with a bluesy, electric piano sound and started to play "Philadelphia Freedom", which I really couldn't keep clapping to. "Tiny Dancer" and "Your Song" were both phenomenal and now Ray Cooper entered the stage:
Ray Cooper appeared on stage, when Elton played "Funeral For A Friend" and we couldn't stop laughing at Ray's funny moves. "Funeral for a Friend" faded out into "Tonight. "Better off Dead" and "Levon" made the arena boiling and now people seemed to have fun. Elton played a third song from "The Union" now with Ray Cooper on percussion. Elton played the song "Gone to Shiloh", which is about the American Civil War and with Bernie Taupin's beautiful lyrics this was a very memorial moment. "Indian Sunset" showed off, that Elton's voice's still better than ever and "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself" with a western-saloon sound on the piano showed off that Elton's still at the top! Take Me To The Pilot with a 7 minute intro?! Probably one of the longest intros for that song. "Don't Let the Sun Go down on Me" was fantastic.
Now Elton asked the fans to come up in front of the stage. People ran up there and the first chord of "Bennie and the Jets" was making the entire arena screaming. Oh My God! What a rendition! Elton played the "In the Mood" part the best he could and he played it like never before with a little bit of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! Crazy Water was making the climax on the show and when he finished the song he left the stage.
Elton came back and started to sign autographs. Elton went all across the stage signing and of course I got my autograph. After that Elton thanked the audience for being so kind to him and he said that he'd always loved coming to Denmark. Elton wished us a happy Christmas and a happy new year. Then the sound of "Candle in the Wind" came into our ears. Beautiful, breath-taking, unbelievable. Elton left the stage and the concert was over.
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