I wanna rock and roll all night
Aug. 4th, 2009 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljwell that was fun!
I went to the waterfront festival tent yesterday afternoon. For non-Canadians, it's a bank holiday Monday across most of the country and in Halifax, it's the weekend we celebrate the founding of the city so there's concerts and activities for a four day weekend. Yesterday was the "Tribute" band concert, all local talent, all very good. I got there early and got a good seat to watch, camera in hand. First band up was a tribute to the blues with local talent Joe Murphy and the Water Street Blues Band. They are very popular and are a fixture at one of the local pubs on a Saturday, Your Father's Moustache. They played a lot of really traditional blues by greats like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc. and a couple of more modern guys, like (i forget his name) used to be in J. Geils' Band and Stevie Ray Vaughn as well. There was one older man in a blue and white shirt that was up for the first 5 or 6 tunes, each song dancing with a different woman! The man was well into his 70s and is apparently a regular at Joe Murphy's gigs.
The next band up was a Fleetwood Mac tribute. The lead singer, aka "Stevie Nicks" had the look just about right and a similar voice but her vocals were a bit harsher. For all i know, she could sound just like Stevie does before the studio magic is applied, I suppose but it was a bit off for me. Having said that, the band themselves were musically very good.
Next we have Abbey Road, a Beatles cover band. They had the wigs and the suits and the John and Paul guys even had some of the gestures down pretty well. The John guy was a bit incongruous in that he did have glasses, they weren't the little round ones but the period they were representing was before John wore specs on stage. No matter. He was singing with his eyes closed a lot but it didn't look like he was chewing gum like John usually did. Maybe that was more in his later years. The band were really good and sounded a lot like the originals though "Paul" didn't really have the high "Oooooo" bit happenin'. They had a lot of the crowd up on their feet.
Up to this point i was taking pics but other than the blues set, the pics aren't all that good because i was still a bit too far away. When the next band came on, i went up to stand by the stage and quite a few others did too so a lot of those pics are better. They weren't really as dancy. That's Love Gun, the KISS tribute. Ok, no massive amps and no explosive stage show that i saw but they had the costumes and the boots and the makeup and looked the part really well. They cloned the original KISS lineup with Ace and Peter Kriss on drums. Gene's makeup was running down his face after about 5 songs! Apparently after their break, they returned without makeup, Eighties KISS style. I was gone by then to make my bus connections but i really enjoyed what i saw of it. The last band that i missed altogether was an AC/DC tribute. That would have been good, too. I wish they wouldn't take the concerts so late (this one was on until 1 a.m.) on the last night of the long weekend, with most people having to be to work the next day. Pics are here on Flickr and they're on Facebook as well
I went to the waterfront festival tent yesterday afternoon. For non-Canadians, it's a bank holiday Monday across most of the country and in Halifax, it's the weekend we celebrate the founding of the city so there's concerts and activities for a four day weekend. Yesterday was the "Tribute" band concert, all local talent, all very good. I got there early and got a good seat to watch, camera in hand. First band up was a tribute to the blues with local talent Joe Murphy and the Water Street Blues Band. They are very popular and are a fixture at one of the local pubs on a Saturday, Your Father's Moustache. They played a lot of really traditional blues by greats like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc. and a couple of more modern guys, like (i forget his name) used to be in J. Geils' Band and Stevie Ray Vaughn as well. There was one older man in a blue and white shirt that was up for the first 5 or 6 tunes, each song dancing with a different woman! The man was well into his 70s and is apparently a regular at Joe Murphy's gigs.
The next band up was a Fleetwood Mac tribute. The lead singer, aka "Stevie Nicks" had the look just about right and a similar voice but her vocals were a bit harsher. For all i know, she could sound just like Stevie does before the studio magic is applied, I suppose but it was a bit off for me. Having said that, the band themselves were musically very good.
Next we have Abbey Road, a Beatles cover band. They had the wigs and the suits and the John and Paul guys even had some of the gestures down pretty well. The John guy was a bit incongruous in that he did have glasses, they weren't the little round ones but the period they were representing was before John wore specs on stage. No matter. He was singing with his eyes closed a lot but it didn't look like he was chewing gum like John usually did. Maybe that was more in his later years. The band were really good and sounded a lot like the originals though "Paul" didn't really have the high "Oooooo" bit happenin'. They had a lot of the crowd up on their feet.
Up to this point i was taking pics but other than the blues set, the pics aren't all that good because i was still a bit too far away. When the next band came on, i went up to stand by the stage and quite a few others did too so a lot of those pics are better. They weren't really as dancy. That's Love Gun, the KISS tribute. Ok, no massive amps and no explosive stage show that i saw but they had the costumes and the boots and the makeup and looked the part really well. They cloned the original KISS lineup with Ace and Peter Kriss on drums. Gene's makeup was running down his face after about 5 songs! Apparently after their break, they returned without makeup, Eighties KISS style. I was gone by then to make my bus connections but i really enjoyed what i saw of it. The last band that i missed altogether was an AC/DC tribute. That would have been good, too. I wish they wouldn't take the concerts so late (this one was on until 1 a.m.) on the last night of the long weekend, with most people having to be to work the next day. Pics are here on Flickr and they're on Facebook as well
