We went We went to see Deep Purple last night and a partial Boston concert broke out! The show was last night at Ravinia, a very famous outdoor concert venue. Taking out seats, it seem a bit odd that the stage was packed with so much equipment. It did not seem like there would be much room for anyone to maneuver. Deep Purple's full equipment and behind all that were risers with music stands and sheet music mini lights for 30 (more on that later in post II), and then more equipment up front, for the opening band, of which I did not know there was going to be one. It was a group called Ernie and the Automatics. I had not heard of them either. They played 4 or 5 songs from their new album, sort of like straight up road house blues rock with tenor sax a la George Thorogood. Very good stuff. And then the lead singer, Brian Maes (nee Peter Wolf's House Party 5) introduced the band, the bass player was Tim Archibald (nee Peter Wolf/J. Geils) and then he told us about the lead guitarist and drummer, formerly in Boston: Barry Goudreau and Sib Hashian respectively. I was stunned and in awe. What a great surprise at a concert - to see 2/5 of one of the greatest and most elusive rock bands of All Time. Closing their opening set, they played a 5 song hits medley from the first two Boston records. It's been such a long time, I think I should be going. Opening acts are more than cyphers, I make sure to get to shows on time to catch gems like this.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Deep Purple: Concert Review II
We went We went to see Deep Purple last night and a partial Boston concert broke out! The show was last night at Ravinia, a very famous outdoor concert venue. Taking out seats, it seem a bit odd that the stage was packed with so much equipment. It did not seem like there would be much room for anyone to maneuver. Deep Purple's full equipment and behind all that were risers with music stands and sheet music mini lights for 30 (more on that later in post II), and then more equipment up front, for the opening band, of which I did not know there was going to be one. It was a group called Ernie and the Automatics. I had not heard of them either. They played 4 or 5 songs from their new album, sort of like straight up road house blues rock with tenor sax a la George Thorogood. Very good stuff. And then the lead singer, Brian Maes (nee Peter Wolf's House Party 5) introduced the band, the bass player was Tim Archibald (nee Peter Wolf/J. Geils) and then he told us about the lead guitarist and drummer, formerly in Boston: Barry Goudreau and Sib Hashian respectively. I was stunned and in awe. What a great surprise at a concert - to see 2/5 of one of the greatest and most elusive rock bands of All Time. Closing their opening set, they played a 5 song hits medley from the first two Boston records. It's been such a long time, I think I should be going. Opening acts are more than cyphers, I make sure to get to shows on time to catch gems like this.
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