Guitars & Grammer
2015-10-22 18:11:44 UTC
Heh...nothing like an equipment thread title...
I got to see and hear a Larrivee Pete Anderson guitar tonight from close
range -- middle of the second row. Played by Pete Anderson, no less. Of
course, he spent most of the two hours playing Tom Anderson custom
Telecasters. Didn't matter which guitar he played, this guy flat smokes on
ALL of 'em. Very tasty player.
The singer wasn't bad either... If you guys get a chance to catch Dwight
Yoakam's tour...DO IT!
He has the (very, very rare) ability to take you out of the concert hall and
transport you to another time and place with every song. The only other
artist I've seen who could do that consistently is Bob Dylan.
Dwight takes you to a very interesting place. I'm sure all of us have seen
those old black and white films of the classic Grand Ol Opry and Louisiana
Hayride acts -- Buck Owens, Hank Williams, etc. and marvelled at what it
must have been like to see them perform such a distinctive traditional
American form of honky-tonk music.
Unfortunately, most of us under the age of fifty never got to see it live
and certainly the pablum that comes out of Nashville today is no substitute.
It's a form of music that provides the roots for so much of pop music from
Elvis onwards...but a form of music that is all but gone in its orginal
form. I've always wondered what it must have been like. Now I know.
Dwight takes you straight to the Old Rymer Auditorium. Or more
precisely...brings that black and white footage from the Old Rymer
Auditorium to life in the 1990's in living color. Pure, unadulterated,
undiluted, full-twang, sawdust-floor, sequenced-suit honky-tonk. This is
the real thing and Dwight Yoakam deserves a lot of credit for keeping this
music alive in such a no-BS authentic way.
Just washes over you...alternating between foot-stompin dance numbers and
superb country-and-western ballads. Great band. Great songs. Great voice.
Particularly enjoyable was the five or six song solo acoustic encore he did
before bringin' the boys back out for one more full-stomp rave up. I just
sat there for the whole two hours transported back in time. Wonderful stuff.
Remarkable performer. A+
That would be "The Ryman." Did you get Dwight's permission to spell his name like that? So....you were transported back to that 3rd grade spelling class and missed the shuttle back to this time warp......I got to see and hear a Larrivee Pete Anderson guitar tonight from close
range -- middle of the second row. Played by Pete Anderson, no less. Of
course, he spent most of the two hours playing Tom Anderson custom
Telecasters. Didn't matter which guitar he played, this guy flat smokes on
ALL of 'em. Very tasty player.
The singer wasn't bad either... If you guys get a chance to catch Dwight
Yoakam's tour...DO IT!
He has the (very, very rare) ability to take you out of the concert hall and
transport you to another time and place with every song. The only other
artist I've seen who could do that consistently is Bob Dylan.
Dwight takes you to a very interesting place. I'm sure all of us have seen
those old black and white films of the classic Grand Ol Opry and Louisiana
Hayride acts -- Buck Owens, Hank Williams, etc. and marvelled at what it
must have been like to see them perform such a distinctive traditional
American form of honky-tonk music.
Unfortunately, most of us under the age of fifty never got to see it live
and certainly the pablum that comes out of Nashville today is no substitute.
It's a form of music that provides the roots for so much of pop music from
Elvis onwards...but a form of music that is all but gone in its orginal
form. I've always wondered what it must have been like. Now I know.
Dwight takes you straight to the Old Rymer Auditorium. Or more
precisely...brings that black and white footage from the Old Rymer
Auditorium to life in the 1990's in living color. Pure, unadulterated,
undiluted, full-twang, sawdust-floor, sequenced-suit honky-tonk. This is
the real thing and Dwight Yoakam deserves a lot of credit for keeping this
music alive in such a no-BS authentic way.
Just washes over you...alternating between foot-stompin dance numbers and
superb country-and-western ballads. Great band. Great songs. Great voice.
Particularly enjoyable was the five or six song solo acoustic encore he did
before bringin' the boys back out for one more full-stomp rave up. I just
sat there for the whole two hours transported back in time. Wonderful stuff.
Remarkable performer. A+