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THE EUROPEAN TOUR 1998
REVIEW
Review By Klaus-Peter - Aschaffenburg, Germany - 11 July 1998
Hi Manish!
I'm happy you enjoyed your trip to Germany, to get the opportunity to see this special
concert. Don't even know if this is for the Bulletin Board, Review or probably only
personal for you, this concert was a life-time experience.
I think for all of us Nip Fans this concert in Aschaffenburg was the most special,
extraordinary performance of Whitney we ever saw. It was unique. Of course, her voice was
a bit affected (but noone should wonder about that, Whitney has to face different climatic
conditions every 2 days while touring, and these cold and dusty winds in Aschaffenburg
could even bring the most healthy down). But I don't mind about the high notes she
couldn't reach, I think the unique, the golden in Nip's voice lies somewhere else. And
this magic, the force behind, was always present in this concert.
It was supposed to be the perfect, giant ending of a great European tour. And it is,
although so very different from all expectations, including Whitney's, for sure.
Yes, the unbelievable started, when the power went off. Nip still managed to entertain the
crowd of 65.000 without electricity. As we (Fanclub members) had the opportunity to be in
the very front of stage, you could hear Whitney talking without micro, she sat down to
listen to "We believe in Whitney", everything so close, personal. After that the
rest of the program seemed to be spontanous, especially for that occasion, as you could
her sing "I love the lord ... he turned the power on" and "You are so
beautiful", her way of saying "Thank you" to the patient audience. This
woman managed to entertain people without electricity, having vocal problems and still
doing powerful versions of her songs. That's what I call a true artist, a blessed singer.
But the big difference of all her shows was Whitney starting to cry, not only some tears,
she really was moved by (?). What would we, the fans, give to know the reason for her
tears. Private problems, Bobby, is she expecting a baby, the pressure of the tour, she
certainly wanted a "perfect" show like most of the others of this tour, and then
it turned out to be so different, probably all of this mixed up. Did she ever cry on stage
that way? A different show, but I prefer it to the others I saw when her voice was in
perfect shape and everything happening just as planned. Aschaffenburg could assist to
Whitney as an artist and singer, and as a "real life" woman at the same time.
I'm still moved, touched, unable to put this experience into words. The other side of this
event is the general, public reception of it. Many of the people in the audience thought
Nip's tears are part of the show. And ,as expected, the concert was mostly reviewed in the
press as some kind of disaster. It's always the same thing: they try to fit Whitney in
that cliché-box of an American mainstream singer, with calculated tears like you can find
them on TV shows. They simply don't want to know, and even change FACTS to simple lies
just to maintain this image. I feel so sorry for Whitney, hope she doesn't take these mean
words to her heart, better she never get's to know them.
Manish, I bought several papers with reviews in them, too many to translate them all. Most
of them show that the journalists don't really even know about Whitney, what's makes it
easy to write these stupid reports. Only one review is sympathatic and nice, fortunately
of one of Germanys most serious papers. I'll try to excerpt the main ideas of all and mail
them as soon as I can. I'M also about to write to one of the papers complaining the
missing profissionality in simply changing facts.
Unfortunately we couldn't meet, but I'm sure you had a big time.
Klaus-Peter
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