Midnight, on a Wednesday, the lead singer says stick around and have some drinks with us after the show. And I think, why couldn’t I have lived in Seattle when I was young? (I did; I couldn’t afford concert tickets.) This was the kind of concert I dreamed about attending- a new band, a small venue. I could have been right up against the stage from the beginning, shaking hands with the lead singer as he reached out, looking enviously at the old friends he kept pointing out in the crowd. And I definitely would have stayed for a drink.
Posts Tagged ‘showbox’
Great live performances – The Gracious Few
03
Dec
“It’s called rock and roll, look it up.” This slogan was repeated a couple times during the Gracious Few concert, and rock and roll it definitely was, with a bit of blues thrown in. To quote Huey Lewis and the News, “They say the heart of rock and roll is the beating” and that was definitely true here. The beat and baseline drove the music, while the guitar solos added some flash.
Toward the end, they sat down for their “untamed” section- a little swamp bluegrass, they called it. It was intimate and added a new dimension to the performance.
Great live performances – Concrete Blonde
29
Jun
Most of the time at a concert, you expect things to sound a little off from what you are used to on the albums. It’s the vagaries of being on tour, bad acoustics, and the fact that recordings can be touched up, at least a little bit.
Not so with Johnette Napoltiano. Twenty years after their Bloodletting album came out, the lead singer of Concrete Blonde sounds exactly the same live as she does on CD, and trust me, there was no lip synching involved.
They rocked the Showbox, and I was even inclined to forgive the 10:30pm start time.