Didn't find the time before, sorry guys!
Lovely concert. From the three times I've seen Mike, his voice was in the best shape this time. The other times were Berlin 2012 and Hannover 2015 at the Night Of The Proms tour. Mike asked the audience who had been there in 2015 and quite a lot of hands went up. The other two concerts he was quite hoarse, this time quite clear but unfortunately way more nasal, and not always on pitch, but most of the time he was.
Jeffrey Foskett wasn't there, even though one Hannover newspaper claimed so in its concert review two days later. I was surprised that I didn't miss him, which was mainly because Brian Eichenberger was absolutely standing out. He sang extremely well, very close to Al's voice. I don't remember his voice from 2015, although he was on that tour too.
At the age of 49, I was in about the youngest fifth of the audience. 
I probably wasn't in the youngest sixth though, and I only saw one lady with a Zimmer. 
Scott Totten played a great lead guitar, I only didn't like his unmotivated strumming on "Surfer Girl", and I'm not sure that variation in the solo of "Dance, Dance, Dance" was intentional. He sang lead on one song, but though he was right on pitch I somehow didn't like the way he sang, can't say why. I felt he didn't look happy most of the time, but I could be wrong. His guitar playing was great, however, as said.
Christian Love was there, too, and he also sang very good. He sang "God Only Knows" as good as one can if you're not Carl Wilson. That is, a few years back I saw a YouTube video where he was incredible. This time around, he was "just" great. He also sang "Help me, Rhonda", on which I would have preferred Eichenberger, because he sounded so Al-like that night, but Christian Love nailed it, too. It still was my favourite sounding live version of it from the general sound, very close to the original.
The only musician that disappointed me was John Cowsill. First of all he was trying to be Charlie Watts. He played Watt's typical hi-hat omission when hitting the snare on the surf songs. Terrible!!! If you play a surf song, you play the surf beat. Boom-bada-boom-ba! He ruined those few songs for me. On the car songs though, he used the surf beat. In 2012 I found the surf songs rocked and the car songs lagged, this time it was the other way round. Wandering around during the intermission I overheard two groups of people who found he was "doing too much", which wasn't actually my issue with his playing. I also had the impression a few times he played in a shaky speed. On my way back I heard two guys speaking English with British accent who found him "incredible", but they sounded rather impressed than put off. Cowsill also sang lead on one song, and he sang so good I thought his singing talent is mostly wasted.
A "possible setlist" was published on one newspaper's homepage, and I was happy that they played way more than what was on that list. When "Good To My Baby" came on I was obviously the only one in my nearer surrounding who knew it, because everybody around me stopped singing along. It was the first tune not on the setlist, and a very welcome surprise. When that was followed by "Kiss Me, Baby", also not on the published setlist, my eyes got wet, while the others enjoyed it silently.
They did "Pisces Brother" with a loooooooooong anouncing from Mike. Probably longer than the song itself. I find that song musically as appealing as I find the lyrics appalling. Beautiful melody!
Another surprise was "Their hearts were full of spring", sung by Eichenberger, Totten, Bruce and Mike. Impressive! They sang way too fast, but incredibly tight and pitch perfect. Even Bruce sounded great on that one, even though his other vocal contributions were on the lower end qualitywise.
I was surprised how many people sang along with "Kokomo". I don't like the studio version, was surprised how pleasant it sounded live in 2012, this time it was, well, somewhere between the two. In 2015 on the proms tour they didn't play it because there was only room for eight songs there.
On "Good Vibrations", I couldn't find where sound that represented the cello triplets was coming from, none of the musicians seemed to play them. Whatever it was, it sounded great. Good Vibrations never rocked that hard I think. They played it relatively early in the second set.
Near the end they played a rocking version of "Summertime Blues", sung by Mike, better than their own 1963 version or the The Who version, with "Sum-sum-summertime" backing vocals the group stole from "Keepin' the summer alive". There was one other song in which Eichenberger sang backing vocals from another song, I think it was in "Barbara Ann", but I forgot from which song the other lines were. I'm not sure, made me laugh! During Barbara Ann, a variety of women from about 18 to 65, one of them bald, entered the stage and danced along.
One of the encores was "Rockaway Beach", a Ramones cover from Mike's upcoming album. That was a lot of fun.
That said, the whole evening was a lot of fun. Mike was in charming mood, and the performance was, except the above mentioned exceptions, great and worth the entrance. I hadn't listened to their music as much recently as in before 2015, and was reminded just how many great songs they have in their catalogue.
Any questions? I don't think I remember more details though.
I probably wasn't in the youngest sixth though, and I only saw one lady with a Zimmer. 
