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Good evening Berlin!
Thank you very, very much!
Well, it's really a pleasure to be here with you tonight
at the wonderful Wuhlheide with grand orchestra and my band, thank you. Ahhmm...
We've arranged a great programme for you tonight.
I've just finished my new album in New York and actually I wanted to present you some of these brand new arrrangements in advance.
You feel like I should?
We've just played a rock classic by Led Zeppelin as prelude, "Kashmir", and now we continue with a piece of my Encore-CD, the "Hungarian Dance No. 5" by Johannes Brahms.
Enjoy yourself.
Thank you!
We've brought along a fantastic orchestra tonight,
please give a very warm welcome to the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt under the conduction of Franck van der Heijden.
Thank you!
We would like to continue with the soundtrack of the movie "Pirates Of The Caribbean". Thanks.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Well, I don't have the best eyes and weare contact lenses since many, many years.
Being a child I wasn't allowed to weare contacts, but some horrible horn-rimmed glasses instead
that felt so embarrassing to me that I never wore them.
Therefore, I remember very vague the time between, let's say, my 9th and 15th birthday.
Also my performances at school suffered a bit in the way I couldn't see what was written on the board.
In retrosprective, these terrible glasses were good for sth.:
since I never could see the audience during concerts I never had stage fright.
So the glasses were worth sth.
But tonight I have put on my contact lenses and I can enjoy one of my most beautiful sceneries ever with you.
Thank you very, very much!
Now we play Paul McCartney's "Live And Let Die". Thank you.
Now we play a wonderful piece by Franz Schubert called "Serenade". Thank you.
Thank you.
Some of you might already know that every year I play a piece of the Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasete on my tour.
This time I come up with sth. very special, namely a piece by Sarasate for 2 violins.
Sarasate wrote in his biography that he dreamt of performing this piece with himself.
Unfortunately the technical opportunities were not far developed back then, but tonight we gonna try it.
This is Sarasate: "Navarra". Thanks.
Thank you!
Thank you very, very much!
There are composers out there for which it takes a little longer as musician to get along with.
For the next interpretation I spent much, much time to work on, too.
I would like to play Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for you. Thanks.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
In the meanwhile, the next piece became a classic in my programme.
I just can't do it without it, my band being forced to do so either though fighting it tooth and nail for years.
As compromise we voted democratically whether to play it or not. The result was 5-1 -
against me.
But nevertheless, we play it!
This is the "Csardas" by Vittorio Monti. Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, I grew up rather isolated and till high school I had private lessons only. Yeaahhh...
wasn't bad but isolated.
Anyway, ahhm, now you confused me, I've to start thinking again.
Well, the press always calls me the coolest violonist on earth.
That makes me always laugh because my collegues from high school surely remember me in a completely different way.
I went back to public school with 16 and that was the first time I sat together with schoolmates in a class room;
a fairly unusual situation to me of course.
I still remember very well how once I had to go to the toilet in one of the first lessons.
So I told my teacher: "Sir, I must go to the toilet. But you're welcome to go on without me."
Now we play the famous "Duelling Banjos" with Marcus Wolf on the guitar.
Please welcome him! ...
M. Wolf: "Wie gehts?!" [How are you?!]
Marcus Wolf!
Well, not even 4 years ago it was the first time I played in the Royal Albert Hall in London.
We were the opening band of Jools Holland, famous English jazz pianist,
and of course our job was to get out there and rock the audience.
However, 5 min. before the beginning the organiser became rather stingy and suddenly told us:
"Listen, actually we don't want to pay you anymore!" He argued that it would be already enough to perform as opening band at a sold out concert.
Quickly our former drummer, not Jeff but someone else, left us shouting out unfriendly words.
That was very, very difficult for us, of course, especially at that evening, because some record labels were about to come.
Consequently we couldn't think of cancelling the show.
Then we thought: "What can we do about it?"
Spontaneously I took a rattle left back by the drummer, taped it directly on my foot with black tape,
went on stage, took the hand mic,
layed it down the floor close to my shoe and accompanied the piece rhythmically that way.
That evening it was like fixing problems Mission Impossible style.
I would like to demonstrate it now but we haven't prepared for that.
Or have we? Let's do it spontaneously, right?!
Do I get there?
Thank you, Jörg.
All right, according to this we play a soundtrack and that's "Mission Impossible."
Thank you.
Well, every now and then I feel like recognizing people in the audience at a concert,
former teachers, relatives, friends, sometimes celebrities. However it always turns out to be wrong.
But recently there was sitting someone in the front row who looked like Hape Kerkeling [German comedian].
After the concert: I was like sitting there with my friends in a restaurant having already forgotten the whole issue.
All of a sudden this Hape Kerkeling was entering the restaurant, taking a seat at our table.
Of course I talked to him and said: "It's sort of weird but you got some amazing resemblance to Hape Kerkeling."
And he turned around and said:
"Sweetie! [running gag, famous phrase of Kerkeling]
And you, you look like that violinist David Garrett."
Well, I guess he's right.
There's a tremendous drummer in the house tonight: Jeff Lipstein.
Jeff Lipstein!
For the next piece I'm supported by a wonderful guitarist.
It's a great pleasure to have her with us tonight.
Please give some love for Orianthi!
Thank you so much.
That's been "Child's Anthem" by Toto.
I'd like to use the opportunity to introduce my band properly.
There's John Haywood on the piano,
Jeff Lipstein on the drums,
Marcus Wolf on the guitar,
Jeff Allen doing the bass
and of course the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt under the conduction of Franck van der Heijden.
Thank you.
Because of music I started late to get attracted to girls.
That changed, however, when I went on holidays without parental control for the first time at the age of 17.
One evening I sat there on the beach with a very cute girl.
However, when she tried to kiss me I was a little surprised and literally a bit shocked.
I didn't expect that to happen so I moved back a bit and said:
"Ahm, I've got to brush my teeth at first."
Then I ran into the hotel to do so, but it turned out to have taken a bit too long,
because when I got back, she was gone.
We play sth. sad now: "Vocalise". Thank you.
Next we play the last movement of the "Peer Gynt Suite" which is supposed to be the best known piece of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
It's a pretty exciting piece, it starts very slowly and developes to a highly virtuosic, fast piece.
It challenges me every evening to play it. I especially love this type of music.
I hope you can enjoy it right as much as I will do on stage. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Well, I'm a big fan of the English rock band Queen. Are Queen supporters in the house?
For me, Queen was the perfect band: outstanding singer, fantastic riffs.
As some of you might know I already performed Queen on my last tour, it's been a ballad: "Who Wants To Live Forever?"
I'd like to play one of their creative ? pieces entitled "Bycicle Race".
Thank you.
Let's see you if you guess the next piece.
Thank you.
Our next piece is another one from our Classic Romance album
to demonstrate you once more how diverse classical works actually can be arranged.
Now we would like to play for you the wonderful "Humoresque" by Antonin Dvorak. Thanks.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
I'm very lucky to be on stage with really great musicians.
And I'm specially honoured to give my mates the chance to play sth. without me.
Now time has come ...
One of my favourite titles for classical guitar was written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz.
It's already highly virtuosic on the guitar.
Last year I rearranged it for the violin and I try to stick to that high level.
The arrangement became a bit more "Rock-alike" than the original,
but in the meanwhile it became one of my favourites on the new record.
I'd like to present you Issac Albeniz: "Asturias".
Thank you.
I'd like to tell you a short story out of my so called rock star life.
During my last tour, for the first time I was forced to take a private jet for the lack of time.
Of course I considered to travel around in one of those fancy jets and I thought to myself:
"Boy, you've made it, you're the man!"
So I was standing there at the private airport, full of expectations,
ready to enter one of those awesome Lear Jets suddenly hearing so. behind me say:
"Mr. Garrett, not this one, the one behind."
I've brought proof, could we take a look at it?
You won't believe it but I can even beat that:
for the lack of space we had no copilot.
So I got a short introduction on how to fly that piece of machine at the beginning
just if sth. unexpected might occur to the pilot.
I didn't expect that to happen at all.
To celebrate Rock 'n Roll at least on stage we now perform Metallica: "Master Of Puppets".
Thank you very, very much.
Well, for the announcement of the next piece these 2 guys here in front are a perfect sample.
Recently fallen in love, romantic. I believe the next work is yours.
Thank you.
Now Status Quo: "Rockin' All Over The World".
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Sadly but true we've come to our last performance tonight.
Well, perhaps it's only our last OFFICIAL piece of music tonight.
Any idea about how to rock Berlin?
Once again: Any idea about how to rock the Berlin Wuhlheide tonight?
This is "Thunderstruck" by ACDC!
I'd really like to play for you one of my favourite pieces by Metallica entitled "Nothing Else Matters". Thank you.
You want more?
We've prepared well for tonight.
In fact I've done a show recently and there was a guy who was like:
"Well, the 'Flight Of The Bumblebee' isn't that difficult. Almost everyone can play it!"
And then I thought to myself:
"Wait a minute, did you ever see it at close range?"
And then I played it to him and he changed his mind:
"Hmm, yeah, not very easy!"
For tonight I've sth. special for you. We've got a camera
that gives you a whole new perspective on how I "sweat" through such a piece.
Did we prepare it? Could you do it like...
Yeah that's great, that's quite good. OK.
This is "The Flight Of The Bumblebee" by Rimsky-Korsakoff. Thank you.
... in a slightly different setup!
Thank you.
Thank you very, very much.
Now we play a wonderful piece by The Beatles called "Hey Jude".