<big>Basel 2003</big>

Basel 2003

Date
14th November 2003

Venue
Festival Hall, Basel, Switzerland

Show Details
Recorded for Swiss TV programme The AVO sessions. SKOW has a great swing to it. Silver Tongue introduced as a song inspired by the Blarney Stone "if you kiss it you can bullshit everyone". Great groove to this one. At the end of KAYBD Gillan says"that was declared illegal in some states" HOP intro'd by a "short tamborine solo" followed by Gillan on his Lunch Wrapper. The easiest identifier for this gig is to listen to Lazy where Gillan introduces it "with if I look a bit squirrel like tonight or like the hunch face of Notre Dame, its because I had a couple of wisdom teeth put in earlier" alluding to root canal work Ian had done the day before (see link below). He also uses the word "fucking" a number of times during Lazy. Bananas is introduced with Gillan encouraging the Swiss not to join the EU "its an idiocracy". Star Wars is dropped from Don Aireys solo for a change. Hit the road Jack, Gunga Din appear before Black Night. Good Show.

Actual Set List
Highway Star
Strange Kind Of Woman
Silver Tongue
Knocking At Your Back Door
House Of Pain
Lazy
Bananas
Contact Lost
Doing It Tonight
Space Truckin'
I Got Your Number
The Well Dressed Guitar
Don Airey keyboard solo
Perfect Strangers
Smoke On The Water
Hush
Black Night

Bootleg
Good quality ripped from video stream. Complete show over 2 discs no faults.

Gig Reviews and other info

Root Canal
Review (German)
Review (English)

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