Saturday of May 3, 2025 – Sala La Riviera – Madrid
A few years have passed since we enjoyed that double in the Riviera formed by White Rat and Walter Giardino’s Temple next to Ronnie Romeroand those who consider Argentines as one of the best bands with letters sung in Spanish in history, we felt a bit homeless because they were unable to enjoy live music from geniuses that, from that distant and tremendous “Electric Storm”, have only calmed our desires for their music through a digital live album and an EP thrown in the late 2024 record delivery.
In any case, I have to say that all the positive energy that had already suspended in the environment in that distant concert, today, was for being weekend, or for the hunger of RATAit multiplied by four. Spanish, Argentine, Bolivian, Venezuelans fans … Incredible the ambient that invaded you as soon as you enter a room with a great entrance, and that the tour would occupy a large number of dates distributed throughout the national territory. The thing was burning, and the widespread emotion was almost palpable to check the current health of White Rat . There is no bustle band, and maintaining the expectation while the room was filled, helped. Even when any of the pipes went out to press a rope to try sound, scandal was armed among the public … the party was seen, before the legendary formation stepped on the stage of the Riviera. Rubbing our hands we were.
After an intro in which there were already a huge amount of mobiles recording the beginning of the concert, the band jumped on stage with “Children of the storm”, which for me is the best cut of its new EP, and that made the room come down … the voice of Adrián It sounds sharp, and the Giardino guitar, which appears supported by a high sidewalk due to an injury, occupies all our attention … What a way of making a Stratocaster Eche smoke!
His combination of Fender and Marshall is overwhelming. The riff of the theme is huge, already Bars He is almost not heard due to the tremendous ambient noise generated by the crowd and his screams, while the band completed by Danilo Moschen to keyboards, Alan Fritzler To the battery and John ‘Chotas’ Paul on bass, he sounded like a cannon, powerful, powerful … like the music of White Rat He needs and demands. Incredible formation that makes video errors shown on the rear screen, by not synchronizing letters with what the band played, are a minor problem. If a new theme, it mounted that stir … indescribable when the powerful “journal of a shadow” begins to sound, with such a riff, tremendous letter … an example of how to sound powerful with a great classic, and that the strings of Walter Open each note. Of course, words are missing to define the one that looked when the band began to play “just to love you” of the debut. Turn off and let’s go. It sounds electric, furious and perfect. Bars It transmits a unique energy, and reaches the tones well, but the WalterFriends, is worthy of praise, and I will always defend him as a Top guitarist at the international level, and not in a top 10 … but one with a figure. Not only because of the skill with which he plays, the feeling he transmits, his unique sound, with which it seems that Marshall will begin to burn … but for his charisma, imposing image and poses, even sitting. If you add the being an excellent composer, as a result we find what we were seeing in the Riviera. A concert in which people get excited, jumps, shouts, sorry … everything looked around me, because the sound was passed from volume, and still, the public was heard more than the band. Awesome.
If they had decided to continue with another less known cut, the boiling would have been diminishing … but the superhit “returning home” of the incredible “the path of fire” of 2002, is a hymn that raised all kinds of passions, and thus continue with another of my favorites such as “The song of the warrior” of the same album, whose riff Walter He did it again, leave us with his mouth open. A visibly happy Bars He embroidered the issue, but mentioning Alan’s glued is also obliged, because he really deserves it. “The other face of the currency” of “the key of the secret door” also moved us and sounded wonderfully well, with the chorus sung by all in unison. Not a puncture on the set so far, well chosen projections, the thermometer that was going to burst and an unbeatable climax made the small errors of any concert, not relevant in it. Walter He was doing a lot of gestures to his coach, but if it really was because something did not finish doing well, at least in the sound of his guitar, he did not notice, because I have seen very few guitarists sound with both punch and his tonight. A true madness.
It also helps not to leave interpreting a hit after another, since “talisman” of the excellent “the forgotten kingdom”, has become one of the most emotional, celebrated and beloved times of White Rat . Not a second letter without being singing the public in communion between fans and band. I do not want to tell you in the chorus … an atmosphere that did not decline, and that I was going to generate that the band itself came above. I would have loved to hear “the boys want rock”, but the band decided to present a well received “Rock is rock!”, And the statements of intentions in the form of a song are never lacking by a formation that convinces in their arguments, and does not know to prefabricated plastic, but what they pray in this type of songs, sounds credible, transmitting message and feeling to the fan, not only of our own. Music in general.
It seems that “the forgotten kingdom” (great album of which there is also a good English version next to Doogie White… almost nothing), has marked the history of the band, because they also touch the incredible “the circle of fire”, in which there was an initial problem with the micro. Another hymn that grows over the years, and whose chorus, lyrics and development are perfect to take them to the live. We enjoyed it as dwarves, and it was the proof that White Rat He does not accommodate, and has a repertoire to crush anyone. After “nothing is easy without your love” representing the classic “Guerrero del Arco Iris”, we approached us, almost without finding out, and having spent everything like a sigh, to an exciting end like few, after a speech of the own of the own Walter claiming our bands in Spanish speech, and tell us a small portion of their current life (his wife and daughters were present at the concert), and several deafening ovations.
If we talk about deafness, say that to the own Bars It was hard for him to sing “Lover Woman”, because the public himself sang each verse of the topic higher than him. The Riff of the homonym album of 91, left us that most neoclassical atmosphere, more Malmsteen, with large doses of guitar filigree and the wild chorus, although it does not fall short either the “you are still in my dreams”, which raised the show to another level of happiness for the personnel. Finishing a show with the band starting “the legend of the fairy and the wizard” stopping at the beginning of the theme so that the public sings the entire first verse, it is priceless, and thus give us an apotheosic ending with the magical theme of the “magicians, swords and roses”, which closed a long -awaited visit, as finally enjoyed, enjoyed and lived. If they continue with more bises as “street boy”, “storm electric” or “the dream of the gypsy”, we would not have complained, of course, but you cannot ask more about the delivery offered … at all.
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After Saturday, with White RatContemplating a crazy Riviera, and an audience enjoying a band in full faculties, I doubt that we have to wait too long to return to both parties to leave our skin, voice and energy in another concert. Great not … great the return to our scenarios of the biggest band in Argentina.
Endurance RATA!!!
Text: José Rojo
Photos: Alvaro Ochoa
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