We need a thread for those of us who support musicians and live music.
I saw Sonny Rollins last night at the Orpheum Theatre last night. Definitely recommended for a good show here, the acoustics are marvelous. Probably the only thing I will miss about Vancouver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S46dhVcYWpY
"Sweet & Hot" ~ Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm & Blues - CiTR 101.9 FM podcast!
We're at this very moment hosting a concert by the Butch Thompson Trio, well known from "A Prairie Home Companion." I'm in the office counting out the tills as they do their encore number, a version of Bing Crosby's "Where The Blue Of The Night Meets The Gold Of The Day."
Hopefully they haven't left a mess for me in the Green Room. These musicians can be brutal.
The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. -- William Jennings Bryan
The last band I saw was 5280, a big band. They sound good, but IMO, should play more swing music at swing dances, and less music that sounds better as R&B.
The last performance I saw was a production of Oklahoma at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center. It was well done.
Michael Buble,......what a show.
When you go to a concert, you know how you're not really hearing the singer's voice, but an amplification of it via a multi million dollar system?
Well,......at the end of this concert, he said he wanted to sing to us not a mic,....so he put the mic in it's stand, stepped up to the edge of the stage and sang as loud as he could to over 50,000 of us.
We all heard him,....and it was perfect.
"There's nothin' more foolish than a man chasin' his hat."
Tommy Reagan....Miller's Crossing
Tears For Fears does a GREAT live concert. Saw them a couple years a go for their new album.
Rufus Wainwright (Ive seen him 4 times). Its funny, the more popular he got, the higher the ticket prices becameI would have seen him 5 times, but I couldnt do a $50 concert ticket. I can always say "I saw him when he commanded $20
Massive Attack. AMazing live, and I saw them in a fantastic venue. That is prolly the largest concert I will ever attend.
I want to see a band called Elbow, but the 'ticket fee' is 50% the ticket price! Whatever!!!
LD
The last musician I saw live was Vic Ruggiero from New York. He played at a club in LA about a week ago. He music was mostlt blues.
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Um... Easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me"
Impromptu with Katie Glassman. It was a five-piece band (fiddle, bass fiddle, piano, drums and trumpet) that played mostly 20s and 30 music in general and several songs by Django Reinhardt in particular. They played a good variety of tempos and styles, they started on time, and they sounded good. On the minus side, Glassman is just an OK singer (and she seemed to forget some of the lyrics to "Lullaby of Birdland") and the songs often went on a lot longer than 3 minutes. On the whole, though, I enjoyed the band and hope to see them again.
Last month, my husband and I went to see Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. Based out of Las Vegas, they take popular songs and the lounge-ifiy them. Terribly funny, and a very good time. They're going on a touring hiatus after this run, so I totally recommend them if you're ever in Vegas.
Mind, there is a good reason why most of their CDs have the little Parental Advisory sticker on them.
"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less." - Arthur Miller
Most recent band I saw was the Chop Tops out of Santa Cruz. They put on a really great show.
Brett, on bass, used to play for Three Bad Jacks.
The meek will inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. -J. Paul Getty
This weekend at the Hep Cats Holiday I saw the Ding Dong Daddios, Mike Sanchez and the Gents, and a really great huge Swing band, whose name I have forgotten!
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