St. Paul & The Broken Bones @ The Egg in Albany NY. Quite an evening.
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Saw Richard Thompson last night at Memorial Hall in the Over the Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. Wow! What a venue. The beautifully renovated 1908 Theater is a fantastic place to see a concert. Beautiful room, great sight lines and excellent acoustics. Richard Thompson was outstanding. It was a solo acoustic show. Richard's guitar playing was outstanding and his lyrics and singing always pull you right in. Authentic! |
Treefort music festival in Boise Idaho a couple weeks ago. 5 days of nonstop shows all over downtown. A mini-SXSW. I saw dozens of bands. Personal fave was Jonathan Richman, who played the mainstage on Sat afternoon to a smallish crowd (I've seen him I bet 7x live). Lizzo played that nite to a giant throng and very loud PA system, so loud I listened from the street. Flaural I saw randomly and was impressed; shoegaze trance stuff, real good. Every March in Boise, it's worth the trip. |
That's too funny. I go to the Egg more often than all the others, and forgot about it. I've enjoyed many shows there. Ray Manzarek/Robby Krieger, Gregg Allman solo, Beth Hart, Keb Mo.... Great venue. Proctors these days is mostly all plays, but they do have an occasional concert. I'm 51, and If I live to retire, it won't be in Albany. The price of civilization in the Carolina's is much more civilized. (-: |
Wow! What a treat. Saw Bruce Cockburn last night at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch. It was a great show by a great artist. Super simple setup consisting of one amplified acoustic guitar and a stool in a 200 seat concert venue. If you are not familiar with Fur Peace Ranch, take a look via the link below. Fur Peace Ranch is primarily a guitar camp, run by Jorma and his wife with rotating guest guitarist/instructors. Unfortunately, I don't play. But I can dream.......... https://furpeaceranch.com/ |
I saw O.A.R. and Train with my 13 year old. O.A.R. was good. Train was meh. Both, though, had horrible sound. Too loud and way too much treble. I've been noticing this more and more lately, the sound guys are making everything almost painful to listen to. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just my area? Maybe they're going deaf and it sounds good to them? At the last event I went to (that I wanted to 😝), dj spooky was playing and it was way too boosted. I could clearly hear it clipping. I told my friend, who was helping to organize the event and he told the sound guys, but 20 minutes later it was clipping again. The idiots even set a sub on fire. They had to wheel it outside it was smoking so badly.. |
Rodney Crowell with his guitarist virtuoso Joe Robinson and talented fiddler, May 29 at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, CA. Joe did a solo opening act. His playing is beautiful and transformative. He did his rendition of "Over The Rainbow". I was in awe. Rodney and his cohorts went on to play a long, generous set. I could have seen them again the next day. |
Last Friday night I took my wife and 13 year old son to see the U2 - Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Tour show at Papa John's Stadium in Louisville, KY. One Republic opened the show. All I can say is WOW! Absolutely the best stadium show I've seen in my 40 years of going to rock concerts. U2 is the biggest band in the world for a reason. They have the art of the stadium show down. So good I'm going to go to another show this year. Next one will be floor tickets (standing room) to get a different perspective on the show. Highly recommended........ |
@reubent I did see the show and it could not have been better! Great seats and an outdoor venue so avoided all the sonic issues of an enclosed environment. The performance was just unbelievably good, starting with the fact that the musical theme was the Imperial Bedroom album which is my favorite. 2.25 hours overall that just flew by. Pete Thomas is a way better drummer than I ever realized and of course Steve Nieve is a huge and integral talent and contributor to Elvis' sound. EC actually reminds me of Springsteen in terms of performance work ethic and has a great stage presence. Would love to catch another show on this tour! |
Richard Thompson. Last Friday @ Westbrook Performing Arts Center. Played solo and only used 1 guitar for nearly 2 hours. When he played and sang Vincent Black Lightning 1952 I swore he has 15 fingers. A really great show and a great 1000 seat venue. It's at the junior high school and sponsored by the city of Westbrook. |
I saw the Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom and other Chambers Tour tonight at Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, Ohio. Awesome show. The finale of "Pump it Up" and "What's so Funny 'bout Peace, Love and Understanding" is one of the great concert moments of my life. Interestingly, I just saw Elvis's wife, Diana Krall at the same venue, just last month..... |
Good to see all the Richard Thompson love here! My wife and I arrived in Las Vegas yesterday to see tonight's Buckingham McVie show (which stars in about 5 hours). After we checked in and got dinner, we wandered over to Planet Hollywood and bought tickets to see Pitbull. Evidently he's a Big Deal these days and my bride wanted to go. It was a quick show and entertaining enough - he played 75 minutes - although I'm not sure how much more he could have gone on before it got annoying. The odd part (for me) was the large overlap between "street attitude hip-hop" (not sure that's the right genre, but it's as close as I can come up with) and traditional schmaltzy Vegas spectacle. Loud pop music, highly choreographed, big lazer production, lots of "feel blessed to be here" / thanking the audience speeches, and the requisite scantily clad, top heavy dancing girls. In a way, it wasn't much different from the Rat Pack. I guess it was very different in some ways, but it felt very much "in the Vegas tradition". Incidentally, while there wasn't a ton of musical ability on display, Pitbull's drummer is a beast. Later tonight - Lindsey and Christine. |
Lindsey and Christine. Terrific show. The new material works better/rocks harder live than on record IMO. Buckingham's voice was in much better shape than it's been in for years. McVie still has great pipes. The new rhythm section is hard edged and great on the more aggressive material. They skipped a few songs that I'd have loved to hear, but that's usually the case when the band has so much material that I love. BTW - The Wallflowers opened. Their set started slow, but picked up steam throughout. Coincidentally, given all of the Richard Thompson love recently exhibited in this thread, they covered "I Want to See The Bright Lights" and it was a high light of their set. |
Marty, have you seen any of the pics of Lindsey and Stevie when they were in The Fritz Reiner Memorial Band (original name, later shortened to merely Fritz)? They were just another local San Jose cover band, playing at local High Schools and Teen Centers like the rest of us. There are pics of her on stage in a Prom dress, with a bouffant hairdo! I saw them live only once, as the opening act at the Santa Clara (valley) Folk Rock Festival in the Summer of '68. Also on the bill were The Electric Flag (fantastic!), and The Doors, who closed the show. Maybe it was San Jose's The Doobie Brothers getting a Warner Brothers record deal that inspired them to move to L.A. in '72 or so. They've done pretty well for themselves ;-). |
Bdp I know of Fritz and the Fritz story, and I’ve seen a few photos, but I never heard them. Unfortunately. BTW, Buckingham and Nicks moved to LA after they got a deal with Polydor. Fritz auditioned, but the label just wanted the two of them. Their record flopped, but Buckingham happened to be in-house when Mick Fleetwood walked in looking for a studio and new guitar player. Fortuitous meeting. |
Saw Tift Merritt & friends last night. Always enjoy seeing her live. Her recent lp has taken some time to grow on me. Seeing her perform some of those songs live gave me a much deeper appreciation for them. Her (friends) that comprised her band were fabulous separately and especially playing together. When you experience her live, you feel like she could be your sister, down to earth, no put-ons. |