Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:29 am Post subject: Rodrigo y Gabriela y friends
I finally got to see Rodrigo y Gabriela Sunday night when they played a club in Ybor City. It was an amazing show. The music was amazing, but even more interesting was the way they used cameras during the performance to capture and broadcast onto a curtain behind them onstage. They had wireless cameras taped to the headstocks of their guitars, so you had a birds eye view down the strings and you could see what their hands were doing. It was a high energy show with a lot audience participation. Each section of the room was given rhythms to clap and the music was living and breathing. There were also tiny cameras attached to mic stands on stage to capture video. The sound man controled the video that was shown on the rear cutain from the soundboard in the back of the room.
There was an interesting warm-up band, The Alex Skolnick Trio. He is a great guitar player and I enjoyed his jazzy arrangements of heavy metal songs I probably wouldn't have enjoyed hearing at all. Skolnick also previewed a song or two from his next release, Veritas (Truth). About 3/4 of the way through the headline show, Skolnick joined Rodrigo and Gabriela for a few songs. I loved that part of the show -- two acoustics and Skolnick's big jazz guitar.
Rodrigo y Gabriela are heading to Europe next. _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:28 pm Post subject:
I'll be there Andrea... for 2 nights with ABB.
C U there? _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Rodrigo y Gabriela y friends
roadwarriorfortheblues wrote:
...There was an interesting warm-up band, The Alex Skolnick Trio. He is a great guitar player and I enjoyed his jazzy arrangements of heavy metal songs I probably wouldn't have enjoyed hearing at all...
Alex has been a good friend for many years, ever since the mid 90's when I teched for him over the last year of his first go around with Testament and for the Japanese leg of his brief stint with Savatage. Shortly thereafter he and I rented a house near downtown Bezerkly which we shared for almost 3 years till he moved to New York to go to Jazz college and I moved to southern Cal to start working with Robben.
He left Testament solely because he wanted to expand his musical horizons, knowledge, and abilities, and the guys in Testament steadfastly refused to let him, constantly arguing with him that there was no room in metal music for any other styles and/or influences. During our Berkley days he started experimenting with many different styles, especially Jazz for which he found a very strong interest.
One of his first solo bands was a jazz group he put together in Berkley called the Skol-Patrol and started playing locally around the bay area. He put out a brilliant independant release titled simply, "The Skol-Patrol" which featured his jazz reworkings of several 'cop show' themes and styles... "Theme For An Imaginary Cop Show", "Fox Force-5", "Probation","Theme From The Rookies", and "Theme From Starsky And Hutch".
Though known primarily as a metal-god, he is an incredibly talented, down-to-earth, warm and gentle human with a genuine love and talent for all styles of music. I'm very glad he came into, and remains, in my close circle of friends. _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:08 am Post subject:
Daved wrote:
I'll be there Andrea... for 2 nights with ABB.
C U there?
Yes, I'm going to Wanee this year. And to the Tampa Bay Bluesfest the weekend before. I guess I never outgrew spring break!
Interesting story about Alex Skolnick. I think his tour with Rodigo y Gabriela went well. It was a lot of fun hearing all of them play together. _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 7:58 am Post subject:
Spring Break isn't just for college kids !
TAMPA BAY BLUES FESTIVAL
April 9, 10, & 11, 2010
Vinoy Waterfront Park
St. Petersburg, Florida
2010 Artist Line Up
Friday, April 9, 2010
•12:30 pm REBA RUSSELL
•2:30 pm SONNY LANDRETH
•4:30 pm LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS
•6:30 pm BETTYE LAVETTE
•8:30 pm JIMMIE VAUGHAN
Saturday, April 10, 2010
•12:30 pm JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR
•2:30 pm TAD ROBINSON
•4:30 pm RYAN SHAW
•6:30 pm MAGIC SLIM & THE TEARDROPS
•8:30 pm KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD
Sunday, April 11, 2010
•1:00 pm JOHN NEMETH
•2:30 pm CEDRIC BURNSIDE & LIGHTNIN' MALCOLM
•4:30 pm JOE LOUIS WALKER
•6:30 pm SHEMEKIA COPELAND
•8:30 pm JJ GREY & MOFRO
WANEE FESTIVAL
April 15, 16, 17, 2010
Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park
Live Oak, Florida
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
(Mushroom Stage)
3:00 PM Devon Allman's Honeytribe
4:30 Scrapomatic
6:15 Col. Bruce Hampton
8:00 PM Particle
10:30 George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
Friday, April 16th, 2010
(Peach Stage & Mushroom Stage)
10:30 Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio
11:00 AM The Auctioneers
11:30 7 Walkers Featuring Bill Kreutzmann and Papa Mali
12:00 PM Chuck Leavell with The Randall Bramblett Band
1:00 PM The Wailers
1:30 Oteil and Kofi Burbridge with The Lee Boys
2:30 Stephen Stills
3:00 PM North Mississippi Allstars
4:30 Bob Weir, Rob Wasserman, & Jay Lane Are Scaring the Children
5:00 PM JJ Grey and Mofro
6:30 Widespread Panic
8:30 Hot Tuna Electric
9:30 The Allman Brothers Band
12:00 AM Gov't Mule
Saturday, April 17th, 2010
(Peach Stage & Mushroom Stage)
10:30 Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio
11:30 Hill Country Revue
12:00 PM Bonobos Convergence
1:00 PM Dr. John
1:00 PM A Family Affair with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
2:30 The Word featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars
3:00 PM Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
4:30 The Black Keys
5:00 PM The Funky Meters
6:30 Widespread Panic
8:30 Johnny Winter
9:30 The Allman Brothers Band
12:00 AM Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:41 am Post subject: Tampa Bay Blues Festival
The crowd was smaller than ever, but it was good time! I saw 15 bands and there was only one I didn't like. My favorite sets were Joe Louis Walker with Murali Coryell on second guitar, Jimmie Vaughan, John Nemeth, and JJ Grey & Mofro. I bought a few CDs, including Murali Coryell's "Sugar Lips" -- sweet, soulful blues featuring three great guitarists (Murali, his Dad, Larry, and Joe Louis Walker). It's a great album! Murali has a wonderful voice, he's a great guitarist and the songs he penned for this debut release are heartfelt.
I'm looking forward to Wanee. There will be way too much music; there's no way to see even half of what will be offered. But I hope to see some bands I've never seen live, and I'm looking forward to the breakfast blues sets with Bobby Lee Rodgers _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 6:15 am Post subject: John Mayer
I saw the Battle Studies Tour last night and I loved it! I think John Mayer loves heartbreak and what it does for his music. He's touring with a great band, including two horn players and a two guitar players (McIntosh and Ryan Harris). Harris sings backup and also lead vocals on one or two songs/song intros. They played a very long Voodoo Child which the crowd loved. He also played a lot of music from his other albums -- acoustic music too. He made up some very funny song lyrics last night -- what's there not to like about John Mayer? _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject:
Ruthie Foster and her band performed last weekend at a fundraiser for the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland (half way between Tampa and Orlando). It was a lot of fun. Ruthie was great!
I'm also psyched about an upcoming festival: Riverhawk. Alison Brown will play with John R. Burr and Joe Craven (I think). Jimmy Lafave, John Jorgenson and the Lee Boys are also on the line-up. It's a camping festival, not as big as the one at Suwannee Music Park.
And, I'll be seeing Ray Davies with the Dessoff Chamber Choir at the Beacon Theatre. It's been a long time since I've seen him with the Kinks in Boston. Should be a lot of fun. I'm also going to watch the giant helium balloons get inflated the night before the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I've been to balloon festivals, but I've never been to Inflation Eve! _________________ Travelling by train of thought
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