MR SISTER - 2006-07-27 5:57 PM

Read this about the uk,This is on the TS web site

DCT: Why did you go back to England?

JAY JAY: For a country that broke the band it was ridiculous that we hadn’t been back. I mean, it was ridiculous that we didn’t go back there back in the day after we broke out in England. You would have thought that we would have wanted to go back all the time, every year, but we didn’t for a variety of reasons. It costs money to go there and scheduling was tough, but the English fans are phenomenal, they’re great. So the fact that we hadn’t been back since when we played the Hammersmith was sad and I knew that when the band got back there the reaction would be great.

They gave us certain energy, kind of like the energy we had in the tri-state area, the energy was so fresh and the kids were so in to it. They really connected to us in a very unique way. I was always hoping to go back there and see if it was my imagination or if it was real. Did they really have this ability to connect with the band? And when we came back to England two summers ago, the reaction was unreal; it was exactly what we had remembered it to be.

We did two shows, we did the show when Brian Johnson came out and sang with us, (Whole Lotta Rosie.)”

We did the Astoria and the energy was unbelievable! Just like it was back in the day. I mean there’s a certain level of power that transcends the normal show, it’s hard to describe it but it happens over there. It happens in England and it happens in Europe in general, but in happens in England in particular. America is sterile in comparison, almost completely sterile in comparison to the animalistic nature of the fans in England and Europe. When we played the Astoria, I walked off stage like many shows since the reunion, asking myself ‘Can I stop now, have I seen enough, can I stop now’? And after the Astoria, I could have stopped because it validated everything. I got back from there and it was everything I wanted, and I could have ended there.