What a drag it is getting old....
Went to Walnut Creek last nite to see Bad Company....
It's great to see these guys touring together again- I'm hoping that
means Paul Rogers has given up his ambitions to be the new singer for
Queen. That just never made any sense to me....
The opening band was the Doobie Brothers. I don't know enough about the
Doobie Brothers to know or comment on how many of them on-stage that
nite were original members or anything. Michael McDonald was NOT there
but they had found a guy who sounds reasonably similar (and that's no small
feat- Micheal McDonald has the strangest voice in the universe) to sing his
songs. Overall they sounded about like they do on the records (yes I'm
old-school). And though I'm not a big fan- I must admit they had a bunch of
good songs that I'd forgotten they did. Pretty good preformance overall.
The crowd seemed to enjoy it.
After a reasonable break to set-up the stage again, Bad Co came on.
I must admit to being a bit of a Bad Company fanboy. I have all but one of their
albums (yes, on vinyl), even one pretty awful one. I think they were one of the
best 'new' groups of the 70's....
Hmmmm.... Let's just say time has not been kind to these guys.
They have apparently ditched their original bass player Boz Burrell- who I was
kind of looking forward to seeing, as he is an ex-member of another favorite
band of mine. But his replacement was competent, and the bass was never a really
major feature of the bands sound.
Singer Paul Rogers looked and sounded quite good... he hopped-around the stage some
and wandered out to the edge to shake-hands with some audience members. I like when
a performer does that.
Poor Mick Ralphs the guitarist looked kinda old and grey and paunchy and begdraggled.
They had hired-on a second guitarist, a guy from the band Heart, to fill-in a bit.
That's kinda sad- Bad Company was always a one-guitar band, and Mick Ralphs was always
just about brilliant.
The performance was kinda uneven. Some songs were spot-on, some not-so-much.
Paul Rogers completely botched the words on the firt verse of Rock N' Roll Fantasy.
The version of Seagull they played was either a 'new arrangement' or they
screwed-it-up badly. Mick sorta botched the great guitar-intro to Rock N' Roll
fantasy....
Dunno -the whole thing was kinda 'off'....
I'm glad they are up to the task of going out on tour again, not so sure how much
longer they should keep trying....
Sad.
It's great to see these guys touring together again- I'm hoping that
means Paul Rogers has given up his ambitions to be the new singer for
Queen. That just never made any sense to me....
The opening band was the Doobie Brothers. I don't know enough about the
Doobie Brothers to know or comment on how many of them on-stage that
nite were original members or anything. Michael McDonald was NOT there
but they had found a guy who sounds reasonably similar (and that's no small
feat- Micheal McDonald has the strangest voice in the universe) to sing his
songs. Overall they sounded about like they do on the records (yes I'm
old-school). And though I'm not a big fan- I must admit they had a bunch of
good songs that I'd forgotten they did. Pretty good preformance overall.
The crowd seemed to enjoy it.
After a reasonable break to set-up the stage again, Bad Co came on.
I must admit to being a bit of a Bad Company fanboy. I have all but one of their
albums (yes, on vinyl), even one pretty awful one. I think they were one of the
best 'new' groups of the 70's....
Hmmmm.... Let's just say time has not been kind to these guys.
They have apparently ditched their original bass player Boz Burrell- who I was
kind of looking forward to seeing, as he is an ex-member of another favorite
band of mine. But his replacement was competent, and the bass was never a really
major feature of the bands sound.
Singer Paul Rogers looked and sounded quite good... he hopped-around the stage some
and wandered out to the edge to shake-hands with some audience members. I like when
a performer does that.
Poor Mick Ralphs the guitarist looked kinda old and grey and paunchy and begdraggled.
They had hired-on a second guitarist, a guy from the band Heart, to fill-in a bit.
That's kinda sad- Bad Company was always a one-guitar band, and Mick Ralphs was always
just about brilliant.
The performance was kinda uneven. Some songs were spot-on, some not-so-much.
Paul Rogers completely botched the words on the firt verse of Rock N' Roll Fantasy.
The version of Seagull they played was either a 'new arrangement' or they
screwed-it-up badly. Mick sorta botched the great guitar-intro to Rock N' Roll
fantasy....
Dunno -the whole thing was kinda 'off'....
I'm glad they are up to the task of going out on tour again, not so sure how much
longer they should keep trying....
Sad.