Friday Night Concert - The Brian Setzer Orchestra

Good evening, buckaroos and buckarettes. Hope y'all are ready for some swinging swing music.

Tonight's offering is the Brian Setzer Orchestra live in Montreal.

As an aside, I've seen this band twice live and they brought the house down both times. Once, one of my guitar player buds called out the song Sleepwalk towards the end of the show. To see Brian ask anyone in the band if they knew it well enough to try it was a blast. He did a few bars by himself with a big ol' smile on his face.

Anyway, glue your earbuds in and enjoy...



Y'all have a good weekend, y'all.

Friday Night Concert - Diana Krall

Time to shift to a different gear.

Mrs. Elvis Costello puts on a great show (with the legendary Peter Erskine on drums) an Union Station, which I'm going to assume, is somewhere north of here.

Get out ur earbuds or headphones and crank 'em up.



Y'all have a good weekend, y'all.

Friday Night Concert(s)

Good evening, buckaroos and buckarettes. It's time for another Friday Night Concert.

Since I was a bit too tired last Friday to post one, I'll make up for it tonight by posting two.

This first one is another classic. It's Eric Clapton's MTV Unplugged appearance.

Enjoy.




Aaaand, here's the second concert. It's Elvis, also unplugged.

For the ladies. You're welcome.





Y'all have a good weekend, y'all.

Friday Night Concert - Yessongs

Yeehaw! No, wait, I should save that for a country band.

Tonight's concert is another Golden Oldie from the heyday of progressive rock. I have this three-record set on vinyl, and have seen Yes several times live. On the Talk Tour, they brought in their discrete four-channel sound system along with an FM transmitter rig that enabled the audience to hear the mix from the monitor system. In my humble opinion, this is the second best lineup from the many stellar musicians who have played in this band since their debut in 1968. The best lineup had Bill Bruford on drums, with the Trevor Rabin lineup running a close third.

Jon Anderson - lead vocals
Chris Squire - bass guitar
Steve Howe - electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitar
Rick Wakeman - keyboards (lots of 'em)
Alan White - drums (who had replaced Bruford a few days before this tour began)

Also, sorry for the dearth of posts today, had a bunch of errands to run and a doctor's appointment. Just routine maintenance.

Anywho, get out the headphones or yur high-performance ear buds and crank 'em up.



If anybody wants to share their Yes show experiences, leave a comment or a link.

Enjoy.

Friday Night Concert - Van Halen

Since last Friday's Concert was such a rousing success, I have another one for us (hey, I watch these things too).
It's Van Halen with Sammy Hagar from their 1986 show in New Haven, Connecticut.

You know what to do.



I have a gig tonight, sort of. Y'all might remember I lost a very good drummer friend of mine to cancer around this time last year. Tonight, his widow and a whole bunch of his musical buddies are going to dedicate the stage to him at the local watering hole where he played. It'll be somewhat bittersweet, as all remembrances are.

I'm pretty sure we'll make enough joyful noise for him to hear us.

RIP, Ronnie "Byrd" Foster. You are loved and missed.