WOW! Other than the drunk chick talking and losing her phone twice and another guy who felt he needed to sing/scream all the lyrics in my ear, it was a fantastic night.
WOW! Other than the drunk chick talking and losing her phone twice and another guy who felt he needed to sing/scream all the lyrics in my ear, it was a fantastic night.
Sorry dude, didn't know that was you
(I keed I keed) 😛
[Edited on 10/30/2014 by Brosicle]
I'm listening to the stream now - although I felt the same way when I saw the setlist - and I think it's really cool that they did some innovative things during the last show. In some ways it's too bad they couldn't have done more of that earlier, but they'd never done a piece of Little Martha into Mountain Jam that way and I don't think they had transitioned from MJ to Don't Want You No More like that either. I said the same kind of thing about the cover of Politician the other night. Obviously the biggest thing is that they played a very long and reportedly excellent show, but that spirit of mixing things up is also great.
Yesterday I had the chance to come home and listen to the show I had DVRd. Odd that after 40 some odd shows, my run would end in a man cave, but oh well. My brother was doing likewise, same as we had been following this thread the night before. His road started much earlier than mine, going back to days in Atlanta in the early 70s before I was born. He said he wished, even more than himself, that a departed friend of ours could be there. After hearing the show, I believe he was. I believe they all were.
first of all, wow.
Part of me wishes there had been a soulshine or a Layla as was originally posted somewhere, but as a tribute to the entire career, I think this was their night, and we got to be witnesses to their vision. this was really fitting, including the nods to Dickie even if he wouldn't participate. Layla would have been interesting, because we all know that unforgettable guitar work is Duane's but of course most people associate the song itself with Clapton. Jam IV from that album would have maybe been better, but where would you put it? same with soulshine... I love it. I bought a boat instead of an engagement ring and christened it and proposed to Jenny aboard the Soulshine... but I just don't know where it would have fit in this setlist. there are obviously other people with other favorites, including some featuring Chuck or Susan. But this was the show for the guys who paved the road, the founding members, and those who have made it stay radiant through the last decades, and the fans who understood the historic context of not just the event but everything that proceeded it, including their own mentors King Curtis, Elmore James, Muddy Waters... the history of American music.
It was more intense from Gregg than anybody could have guessed. The power and emotion of Butch and Jaimoe pounded through the walls of my house, while the intricacies of Marc's rhythms provided sparks incinerated by the constant and cerebral drive of Oteil's baseline....
and then there were those guitars. my god the guitar work. not just played for duane, but with him, on his own instruments. We got to hear Derek emulate more on some tracks than I have ever heard before. In some instances we got his take on Dickie's improvisations, in others, on what in the mid 70s were Dickie's take on what each thought Duane would have done with a song. and we got to hear the prodigy we watched grow up find grooves all to his own as well. We got it all.
We got to hear Warren do what only he does, filling the room and the soul with his vocals, his harmonies with Gregg, and his mastery of anything with 6 strings creating what ultimately is what I think Tom Dowd had in mind in those earliest days in Muscle Shoals, and Jacksonville, and Macon. and we got to hear them do their own thing with a freshness that made 45 years seem like 45 seconds. We got it all, and they went out each in their own way, their one way out. god bless them. He already blessed me with them, and a whole life full of family, and friends, and peaches.
[Edited on 10/30/2014 by kypeachcats]
[Edited on 10/30/2014 by kypeachcats]
[Edited on 10/30/2014 by kypeachcats]
