KIT 12 - The Aftermath

[Oliver/Keep-It-True]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EHziPa8IBA

[Re-Animator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EHziPa8IBA

Da krieg ich echt schon wieder Gänsehaut. An dieser Stelle übrigens DANKE Oli, dass Du dieses für mich und viele andere so einmalige Erlebnis hast Wirklichkeit werden lassen!!! Ich bin mir sicher, jemand anders hätte das nicht geschafft, diese Band aus ihrer "Leichenstarre" wiederzuerwecken. Jetzt fehlen eigentlich nur noch CIRITH UNGOL .

[Franko]

RIGOR MORTIS sind schon seit über einem Jahr (mehr oder weniger) wieder aktiv.

[Re-Animator]

Ja schon klar. Aber ich mein halt es hätte wohl sonst außer dem Oli niemand für nötig gehalten, sie nach Deutschland zu holen.

[Sigi]

Ja schon klar. Aber ich mein halt es hätte wohl sonst außer dem Oli niemand für nötig gehalten, sie nach Deutschland zu holen.

Davon ist auszugehen - außer vielleicht noch dem HOA.

Und lt. Bruce Corbitt hat die "RIGOR MORTIS-Re-Animation" schon 2005 angefangen.

[Metallah]

RIGOR MORTIS sind schon seit über einem Jahr (mehr oder weniger) wieder aktiv.

Schon viel länger. Jedenfalls war deren Website schon vor langer Zeit wieder aktiv und man konnte dort das Debüt bestellen. Die Band hatte sich tierisch über den Old Metal Records Release (mit dem schwarzen Cover) aufgeregt.

M.

[Franko]

Was ich eigentlich damit sagen wollte, dass man RIGOR MORTIS (zum Glück) auch eine gewisse Routine anmerkte. Da macht es gleich doppelt soviel Spass, wenn die Jungs auch auf der Bühne ordentlich Gas geben und nicht nur damit beschäfftigt sind, die Songs einigermaßen fehlerfrei runter zu zocken.

RIGOR MORTIS waren DIE Band des diesjährigen KIT für mich!

[iceman]

Gibts eigentlich schon News von Ed LaVolpe oder habe ich die nur übersehen?

Ed gehts besser, hier seine (etwas ausführliche) Message:

Hey All,
First off on behalf of all of the band and our organization we would like to thank of all of you for your royal treatment to the band and our associates this week at KIT. It was wonderful to finally meet so many of you in person and you are all such good friends. We are extremely happy and grateful for the opportunity to have played KIT…..
All of the bands that we had interaction with were awesome. The guys from Exumer and Restless were just awesome to hang with….
Basically all of the bands we interacted with were very nice….
The fans were amazing from Frank to Queen of the Reich to Florian to Rupuntzle the list just went on and on everyone being so cool...
One Sicilian Soldier's (Alexandra) story about Guilty as Charged was so moving I don't think any of us will ever get over it.
I also think I need to make some kind of statement about some of this weekend’s other events.
So many of you have sent messages of concern, and I just want to assure you all that I am ok. I am in bed and resting. We were not looking to make a big deal of this before the show and we had hoped to avoid the subject all together.
10 Days before KIT I woke up one morning experiencing the worst abdomen pain that I could ever had imagined. I spent approximately 17 hours in this state of pain that I can only describe as the worst thing I have ever felt in my life. I assumed it was something like a Kidney Stone. At about midnight of that night my wife convinced me to go to the emergency room. Long story short, after several hours of tests and a CAT Scan the Doctor informed me that my appendix was starting to rupture and I needed to have immediate surgery. A surgeon was on his way and I would be in surgery within 90 minutes.
My first reaction to the DR was that “he didn’t understand”. I needed to be on a plane to Germany in a week to play the concert I have been waiting to play for 25 years. He replied that if I didn’t have the surgery there wouldn’t be a next week. It was at this point I realized the seriousness of it all and that there was a good chance of having to cancel KIT. I never would want to do this and even if I had to go out in a wheelchair I would have. Playing KIT was important to me.
My surgeon was awesome. I explained the situation and although I did need to have the full-blown open surgery (as opposed to the laser style) he felt he could get me on that plane in a week. I spent the next week recovering an following all directions in order to get better both for KIT and in addition I have a pretty responsible job I needed to get back to. He did tell my wife that he couldn’t believe I hadn’t had problems before as my Appendix was one of the absolute worst he has ever seen.
On the Wednesday the surgeon removed all of the staples from the surgery and everything looked good to go. He gave me some instructions, which I followed. So he cleared me for the flight, as no wound infection was evident.
On Thursday upon arrival in Germany I did not feel so good. I went to the hotel and slept almost all day and continued taking the antibiotics etc…. We immediately were having an issue finding regular drinking water and ice. The Hotel only had Mineral Water and they didn’t seem to understand what we were looking for. I was supposed to drink a ton of fluids but in reality I drank very little and didn’t eat but once over the first couple of days.
On Friday Morning the day of the show I slipped coming out of the shower and it ripped the surgery wound completely open. Without going into to the gory details, it was clear to me that it was now infected. All day Friday I was in severe pain and had all kinds of surgery pads and everything on so the guitar wouldn’t hit the wound. I also didn’t want to take painkillers, as it would effect my playing. So I kind of just tried to get through it. I could barely move on stage and that is why I looked so “Stiff playing”. I went back to the hotel soon afterwards, as I needed to get back in bed.
On Saturday I knew something wasn’t right. I was dizzy and lightheaded and the infection was still raging. I got through most of the day but again didn’t eat or anything. Eventually my body had enough. The infection had built up in the surgery cavity and I needed to have an additional surgical procedure to pump the abscess in my appendix area. I remember sitting on the stairs at KIT and then waking up in the operating recovery room.
The people at the German Hospital were excellent to me and to the guys who were all concerned. They got me out of there by 1 AM and we were on a plane home a couple of hours later. I went to the surgeon here yesterday and he had upped my antibiotics and hopefully by next Monday everything will be cool and I can go back to work.
While I am very sore, I feel given a few more days I will be much stronger. The entire thing was I did way too much way too soon. I knew if we cancelled KIT that there would be a lot of people mad at us and a lot of people would have lost money. I also wanted to do this because you never know if you will get a second chance…..
Thanks to all of our fans, the bands and the people who made KIT 12 such a class Act. From the friendly security people, to the vendors, to the technicians, to Oli and Tarek themselves everyone was AWESOME….
Thanks to all of you….
I know we spoke with several promoters this weekend and we are very interested in all of your projects. Please allow me a week to recover and we will catch-up with each of you….
Special thanks to Kerstin and Andy for their help in translating to the EMTs (amongst other things) what was going on. Also thanks to those at Kreiskrankenhaus Tauberbischofsheim. They were world class in helping me….
Thanks
Ed –Exxplorer

[MetalMolli]

ui, das klingt ja doch heftiger als es zuerst erzählt wurde. gut dass er es mehr oder weniger überstanden hat.

[iceman]

Auch ich muss hier ein dickes Lob aussprechen, wie supergeil die 2 Tage wieder waren. Von den schon mehrfach erwähnten Enttäuschungen (kann man halt nie ausschliessen) waren für mich Armored Saint, NWOBHM (allen voran The Tyrant), Aska, Exxplorer die Highlights, wobei der "Rest" im minimalen Abstand folgt. Wahnsinn.
Und zu guter letzt ein extra Dankeschön für die Möglichkeit Zouille sehen und hören zu können, mir kamen am Ende fast die Tränen. Unglaublich.

Und somit kann die Vorfreude auf KIT 13, sowie die hoffentlich umfangreiche Verewigung vom KIT 12 auf DVD + LP, beginnen ))

[rapanzel]

Wieso können die Ami-Bands eigentlich nie meinen Namen richtig schreiben, haha!!!

[OldAnno]

Wieso können die Ami-Bands eigentlich nie meinen Namen richtig schreiben, haha!!!

Sei froh, daß die da drüben nicht "Die kleine Hexe" kennen, sonst hätten sie wohlmöglich noch "Rumpumpel" geschrieben... Obwohl: Das wär ja auch kaum schlimmer...
Äppler-Gruß,
Anno

[rapanzel]

Wieso können die Ami-Bands eigentlich nie meinen Namen richtig schreiben, haha!!!

Sei froh, daß die da drüben nicht "Die kleine Hexe" kennen, sonst hätten sie wohlmöglich noch "Rumpumpel" geschrieben... Obwohl: Das wär ja auch kaum schlimmer...
Äppler-Gruß,
Anno

Da haste auch wieder Recht

[Rauberer]

Wieso können die Ami-Bands eigentlich nie meinen Namen richtig schreiben, haha!!!

Sei froh, daß die da drüben nicht "Die kleine Hexe" kennen, sonst hätten sie wohlmöglich noch "Rumpumpel" geschrieben... Obwohl: Das wär ja auch kaum schlimmer...
Äppler-Gruß,
Anno

Da haste auch wieder Recht

Und endlich hab ich für den Alex einen neuen Namen

[Oliver/Keep-It-True]

http://www.google.de/url?sa=U&start=2&q ... dQ2VSz9Kqg