No, not on the same stage. Been on a live music binge lately, thought I'd write about it.
Thur 3/22 Willie and Merle at Radio City. Great. Can never get enough Willie. Love that guitar sound. Like a nylon strung fretless with crazy active electronics, he just strums away all nice and in the backround and then MWAH loud as hell right through a chord change. Dynamic.
Next night, Stanley at the Blue Note. Expensive, but great. On the upright (although, interestingly, a couple tunes on an AEB that was a Fender?). Anyway, upright, drums and piano. You guys would know the other two musicians but I'm too lazy to look them up right now. Well known drummer who I think plays with Stan a lot, woman on piano and singing. It's just cool to see Stanley rip those ridiculous School Days type runs on an upright.
Another good band Sunday night for y'all south of the Mason Dixon- the North Mississippi All-Stars. Smooth bass player. Real smooth. Fun band, drew a nice crowd at Joe's Pub.
And then before this all started I saw an instrumental hard-rock (maybe metal) supergroup (as in, all members were previously part of fairly popular groups) from LA that was really good, if you're into that sort of thing. Real long, slow crescendos (sp?), pretty heavy. They're called the Red Sparowes (that's how they spell it) and you can hear some of their stuff on their website. I think Danno and FC Spoiler would like it, anyway.
Incidentally, I met my own little red sparrow at that show, and she accompanied me to Stan and took me to NM All Stars, so things are looking up in that regard. I'll try not to blow it like I blew that full step modulation at the end of the last tune.
-JT
