VADER – Tour Blog Day 13.-14. – “Blitz South America In Fire Tour 2015”

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Polish death metal icons VADER are currently on their “Blitz South America In Fire Tour 2015”. Check out all the tour dates and venues on the poster below. Now the band has issued the tour blog for the day 13.-14., read it here:

Day 13: OFF – James Stewart:

Me, Daniel, Augusto and Hamilcar arrived first in Quito after a 20-hour journey (some issues with flights meant that we had to travel in 2 groups). Daniel was flying business class and so could sleep well for much of the journey but the rest of us mortals had to do with standard economy class and so were pretty tired. We were met by the promoter and taken to the hotel (actually a friend’s apartment) and it was here that I was informed I would be playing a drum clinic in less than five-hours time and that 9 people had already confirmed attendance. Instead of sleeping I spent the next few hours thinking through in my head what I could prepare at such short notice.

The time arrived and we travelled to the venue (which was actually a house in the middle of the city) and I had a short time to set up and then I began. I played through a few Vader songs, explained something about my practice routine, played a few more songs, demonstrated some other styles and techniques and took some questions – In total 11 people came and they all had great questions and were listening very carefully. Everybody seemed to have a great time and I hope that everyone came away from the clinic with some new ideas and things to practice! Then we packed down, had a beer to celebrate the end of a very stressful couple of days, and I was then taken to a signing session in a nearby bar. We spoke with a lot of fans (many of whom were at the drum clinic 10 minutes earlier) and then finally retired to the apartment to eat a quick meal and rest before the next show.

Day 14: Quito – Spider:

In spite of all the problems from last day full of travelings and night walking I woke up pretty early and really rested indeed. Quito is a city built over 2800 meters above see level and I heard, that many have breathing problems, though I was feeling like a „young god”. We stayed in a very weird place in the city center called „NoLugar” and it was kind of apartment for the artists. Low quality rooms filled with arts or private stuff. Many „artistic persons” had to spend time before I guess. Me and Peter had single rooms on second floor linked to the patio, by the roof. I was admiring beautiful city view from out there. There was great weather so I decided to do laundry. I found something like laundry post on patio so I used it. I had so much fun so even my wife was laughing after I sent some pictures. „Too bad You are not as helpful in the house” – She said 😉

After accomplished mission we all were waiting for local promoter – James, to go to the city together. We left about noon. We saw several interesting places like the Ecuador President’s habitat. Finally we met on the central square , ate lunch and found some souvenirs. About 4 PM we moved to the club to make a soundcheck. I was ready for any surprises tho. It was delay because of all the problems with bad conditions in the club. It was rather pretty small club and it took time until we controlled and fixed all those problems. In the meantime I did short interview for local TV chanel. Then we drove to our new dayroom close by. We saw hundreds of police and other military units around ready for riots. The government has just changed and They were afraid of problems.

The show was damned crazy indeed! Crowd was so intense and brutal all the time. Divings, crowd surfing , mashing…. real massacre! We barely could leave stage after all.

So – in spite of all problems with hotel, backline etc the concert was so great indeed! I will never forget Fans in Ecuador. For the atmosphere , madness and Heavy Metal support! Gracias \m/