Mind Over Matter festival, June 20th, 1999 by Claudia Kasper

The following is a review of Dio show on the EuroFest 99 tour. The review was originally posted to WeRock! mailing list.

From: "Claudia Kasper" (claudiaK@cybercafe.co.at)
Subject: [werock] My first Dio concert!
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 03:44:25 +0200

Hello everyone!

After placing our three small children in front of the TV to watch the "Time Machine" video (great favor) and adding some popcorn to make the event even better for them (and their babysitter) my friend and I drove 100 km south to the "Mind over Matter" festival - quite a small happening with approx. 2.000 spectators.

We got ourselves some DIO T-shirts and managed to get a place in the front row. Dio was in a good mood and played for exactly 80 minutes - there was a lot of energy in his performance that swept the audience off their feet.

Setlist:

• Evilution
• Straight through the heart
• Holy diver
• Drum Solo
• Heaven & Hell
• Rock and Roll children
• Stargazer
• Guitar Solo
• The King of Rock and Roll
• The Last in Line
• Rainbow in the dark

  After the concert we were lucky enough to identify the tourbus, so all we had to do was to wait for about two hours and then - voila - there he was: RJD!! Meeting him was really great, he is such a kind and friendly man and he seemed to enjoy talking with us fans (there were 10 people waiting for him). He told us that he will come back to Europe in February. We took some pictures and if they turn out well, I'll post them.

  Claudia