Saw the Allman Brothers last night. The opening act was the Doobie Brothers, which my DH pointed out were playing like a State Fair act. But the Allmans, ah, the Allmans. Heaven.
They played with so much energy and life. Itw as like seeing a young band int heir prime. This was partly do to the transcendent playing of Derek Trucks, who is 29 and plays like a god, but crusty old Warren Haynes was matching Derek in musicianship and energy. We went with a friend who is a brilliant guitarist and composer (this guy [link] ), and he was blown away.
Since this is the Allmans' 40th anniversay tour, they had some guests. First was...Bruce Willis. WTF. Yeah, Ol' Bruno came out and played some pedestrian harmonica. Then the actual guests came out--Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Benmont Tench and Gregg Allman trading keyboard riffs was fabulous.
It was a glorious evening.
Why? is pretty great. I'm curious if he works any of his old cLOUDDEAD hip-hop-ish music into his current indie rock style.
Sounds fun, Scrappy! I saw the Allmans almost 20 years ago, and they were still putting on a great show then. Actually, now that I think about it, Dickey Betts wasn't at the show because he'd been arrested the night before for some drug-related infraction.
I'm curious if he works any of his old cLOUDDEAD hip-hop-ish music into his current indie rock style.
I only heard his more-current-stuff, but yeah, I think so.
I'm really planning to dancing my ass off at this show.
Sounds like so much fun, Scrappy! Warren is one of the gods in my personal music pantheon. I love him.
Saw Lucero last Saturday at Slim's. I never get tired of seeing those awesome drunken fuckup boys. They had their keyboardist back, who's really added a whole new dimension to their show, and John the Bassist, who is usually doing his best catatonic impression, was all lively and talking into the mic and shit. As they have done for every show I have seen them, they opened with "San Francisco". Bless.
Opening for Lucero was Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears, who I will wholeheartedly recommend for any fans of James Brown, The Blues Brothers, etc. Between the two acts, they almost made me want to move to Tennessee to be closer to them.
OK, this blew me away: one guy wrote Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue", Dr Hook and the Medicine Show's "Cover of the Rolling Stone" and the Irish Rovers hit, 'The Unicorn".
And do you know who that guy was?
Yeah, I just read about him.
But now I forgot his name.
Heh, Tom S -- you were one of the guys that I thought might get that on the first go.
I also didn't know that Shel's friendship with Jean Sheppard partly inspired the Boy Named Sue song.
They had their keyboardist back
Rick Steff? I so heart him. Totally sweet guy, in addition to being a kickass keyboardist (not too shabby on the accordion, either).
It's been eight months or so since I saw them live, waaaay too long. ::glares in direction of Memphis:: It was Roy's birthday and they covered "Jump" by Van Halen. High-larious.
