So Haken came to my hometown on Saturday. It was easily the best concert I have seen of the guys and one of the best I have seen overall. My friend and I booked a VIP Upgrade, best 40 bucks I ever spent. We saw the whole soundcheck, got to chat with the guys for quite a while, I got ALL my Haken vinyls signed, not to compare with the shitty Dream Theater M&G where they gave you 25 mins of instruction what you can't do and can't ask and charged 5x the money for 1/5 of the time.
I had chatted with the band quite a few times before (it was my 4th Haken concert) and always invited them to come play in Dresden, of course I never thought they'd really do it. But when we came in at 4pm for the soundcheck, Richard actually came to me and said something like "Hey Fritz, finally in Dresden!". Very cool!
Before the concert my friend and I printed some shirts for some more friends who were joining us at the concert. Haken loved it! Richard posted the picture of us with the shirts on his Facebook wall, I'm the dude in the middle with the K.
The next day we actually showed Richard and Ray around town a little because the part of town where they played was a not very nice, and the Dresden old town is beautiful. Then we had a beer on the Old Market
Here's some pictures, I hope this works. (Yes that's Charlie & me gettin intimate)
https://ibb.co/iGYP1Qhttps://ibb.co/esumFkhttps://ibb.co/ct48T5Awesummmmm 24hs.