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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 24, 2006, 03:11:00 pm
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I know Jonas Grumby will be there tonight. Anybody else?
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Don't forget your funny cowboy tie and cowboy hat.
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i like hee-haw. that guy, junior, who worked at the car lot and used that as a number was great.
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Just out of curiosity, how was this show? While BR-549 is not my favorite type of music, I enjoyed what I heard from them around '96-'97.
Also, my co-worker who went said he the opener was a bluegrass band, but they didn't do solos. I've never heard of a bluegrass band that did this.
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BR549 was excellent, as usual. Perhaps not quite as good as in the past because of personnel changes. Chris Scruggs left the band, so they are down to one guitar, Chuck Mead. Donnie Herron is simply one of the best musicians on the planet. It's no wonder Dylan asked him to join his band last year. His fiddle, mandolin, and steel guitar solos are amazing, and he often alternates between those instrument on the same song. Chuck Mead did lead vocals on all songs but two, which is a switch from their two vocalist format that they had first with Gary Bennett, then with Chris Scruggs.
The opener was the Avett Brothers (I referred to them as the Manson Brothers, based on their Grizzly Adams appearance coupled with their random screams and yelps). I'll give them points for originality, but most of the time they were annoying and unlistenable. Their style is "old time" but not bluegrass, or at least that's what I read. Their music was certainly way less structured than bluegrass, and was often punctuated by screaming and yelped vocals. They seem to appeal to the college jam band type of listener.