April 30, 1999 - Oberwart, Austria

by Jkob - Jkob@aon.at

Both opener bands sucked. The were Austrian bands, one had a great image and bad sound, and the other had a horrible image and ok sound. During the Openers there were about 75 people there. When they were done, the crew put a carpet, tribal drums, etc on stage. Me and my friend were the only ones who recognized Roy when he was on the side of the stage, stretching, cuz he had a sweater on and nobody saw his dreads. We watched him stretch, and kept screaming "Roy" but he didnt hear us. Then, Gloria and Zyon came out and sat down next to the stage. The lights were turned down, the smoke generator was turned on, and finally they all came out, Roy first. Me and my friend were in the first row, which meant we were both standing only about 2 meters away from Max, Mikey, and Marcello. Mikey got a black mohawk BTW. Roys dreads looked so awesome, not at all like on the posters, but really really fucked up. Maxs dreads were amazing, two dreads in the back are thicker than fists!!. They didn't even move when he was jumping around on stage.

Eye For An Eye
No Hope No Fear
Spit
Bleed
Tribe
Straighthate was crossed out on setlist, they didnt play it
Bumba
Quilombo
Deftones/Nailbomb medley (Headup/?)
Discharge also crossed out, Bumklaat instead
The Song Remains Insane
Fire
No

On one of the songs, Maxs guitar broke and Roy quickly played a solo fill in till max got a new one, and they started the song over. During Bumba, Mikey and Marcello got 2 huge toms and started drummin on them, and max got an even bigger one in the middle.. It looked so awesome, like a real tribal thing. Roy looked so cool when he was drumming, the dreads were flying everywhere. During that song, max also jumped off the stage and shook hands w me and w 2 others that were next to me. There werent even that many people at the concert, only about 100 or so, but the mosh pit behind the first 2 rows was really rough. Song Remains Insane, was unbelievable, as expected. But i have to say, the favorite part of the show was when they were all drumming. Set was very short, only like 45 minutes.

After the show, me and my friend still hung around for about an hour. Mikey came out, talked with us for about 15 minutes or something like that, signed tickets, pants, etc. Since I read the thing about the rumor that Mikey will be replaced soon, I asked him if he was staying in Soulfly permanently, and he said that he was. He also waved to me during the concert. When he left, me and my friends crawled underneith a fence and got backstage. Roy was phoning somebody from america when we knocked at the door, so security kicked us out. We just ran in again, said hi to Gloria and the others wifes on the way in (they were playing cards in the tour bus, Max and Marcello were also in there), and then we saw Roy walking around inside somewhere. So we ran up to him, and we talked with him for like 10 minutes. He's really cool, his dreads look so awesome!! Love him. He signed our tickets but the pen broke halfway through. He said that they had some problems yesterday, but today in Vienna it will be better. He also promised that the setlist will be longer.

Maybe I'll write a review of todays concert too, but for now,
SOULFLY
FLY FREEE!!!!