Set List:
I Hear Ya Knockin'
She's Only Happy When She's Dancing
Kids Wanna Rock
Hey Honey I'm Packin' You In
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
It's Only Love
Cuts Like a Knife
Touch the Hand
Thought Id' Died and Gone to Heaven
When the Night Comes
Heat of the Night
Heaven
Everything I Do...
Run to You
Somebody
One Night Love Affair
Long Gone
There Will Never Be Another Tonight
If You Leave Me
Summer of '69
C'mon Everybody
Straight From the Heart

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Capture stills taken from the DVD:

The Show:
With the massive success of Everything I Do... and Waking Up the Neighbours, BA was hotter than hot by the last month of 1991 came around. He had one of the top albums of the year and Everything I Do... was by far and away the #1 song of the year. The band was well into the 37 show first leg of the Waking Up the World Tour which would keep them on the road through to the middle of 1993. This night was the last in Germany before moving onto other European countries such as Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

The night before playing this gig in Saarbrucken in the western side of Germany, the band made their only appearance in France at the smallest venue on the tour in Paris for one of the more unique shows on the tour.

I think what I like best about watchinig this DVD is that BA is still developing his live-chops as a headlining act. The difference between watching this show and one from a few years later is significant in terms of how he works the audience, the pacing of the set and the way he speaks to the audience. He still has some stage maturity growth that he figures out along the way around the rest of the world over the next few years. Some moments of this show make me feel as if I'm watching him perform in a club with how laid-back and chatty he is during certain moments.

The Songs:
During the Fall '91 tour, it was typical for six songs to be performed from the WUTN album: Hey Honey..., Can't Stop..., Touch the Hand, Thought I'd Died..., Everything I Do..., and There Will Never Be... . All of those songs are featured on this recording.

Rarities include the opening which is a cover song used once in a while to start off a show: I Hear You Knockin' and one of the first-ever performances of If You Leave Me.

BA adds a little bit of the Isley Brothers Shout into the middle of Long Gone

Possibly inspired from his performance in Paris the night before, BA mixes up the structure of the set list a little bit with C'mon Everybody coming AFTER Summer of '69

The Recording:
From BA's right hand side of the stage and fairly close to the stage. Compared with the Ghent '91 DVD, this show is much closer to the stage, although the colours are not as crisp.

The DVD is a B grade, but the sound is lower due a mono audio feed that has some hissing and pops throughout the recording. THe music is still clear, but it's not a stereo recording as are most 21st century audience recorded shows.

Each DVD has menus and each song is tracked correctly, although some more sloppy than others.

Disc 2 features more "blackout" moments ( particularly in the encores) once the audience is standing and more into the show. As a result, I graded part 2 of the DVD a B- while the first DVD warrants a B grade..