I blew it.

Or not. Depends how you look at it.

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to see one of my favourite (if not my favourite) band on concert again (I saw them last July). D and I drove to Edmonton to see Rammstein.

Once again, it was EPIC. The sound was great, the pyrotechnic was unbelievable and it was an overall great show. In Quebec, they did only 1 encore, in Edmonton, they did 2 and lo and behold, they played my favourite song: Engel. I scored floor seat and the mushpit was pretty great. It was odd to see an almost 50-50% ratio of men and women, typically, every metal concert I went to was more of 80-20%, 80 being men.



When I say I blew it, it is for the day after the show. We stayed at the Matrix hotel and the band stayed there too. D had to leave early morning to be on the base for army range training, so I was left alone. I took the elevator and guess who was in too? Paul Landers, the rhythm guitarist from Rammstein! He’s got a great smile. We played a game of check the other out and well, I didn’t do anything when I left the elevator before him. I regret that I didn’t take pictures even it would have felt awkward... I can still think about the smile though...Wouldn’t it have been nice to get to have breakfast with Rammstein... I should totally have asked him out for coffee.. (Can’t quite drink at 9 am)

Paul Landers