Walter Trout concert on Radio 2 (UK)

I will use this as a warm up for the Shepherd's Bush show at the end of the
month.
Any other forum members going?

Jeff

Just listening to the Paul Jones show on iplayer - Walter sounds on great form, as usual........one of the best blues players around........

Off to see Walter again this time at the M Club in Crewe. Cracking venue, saw Joe there when he wasn't feeling too well. You can get right up to the stage.

A friend of mine from Liverpool went to the Crewe gig and thought Walter delivered a cracking set. He thought the venue was very good, as well. I saw Walter in Glasgow and he was in fine form. The support band for both these gigs was P.A.U.L who are  very competent. The guitarist has definite SRV influences and they have an amazing female drummer.

At Crewe, Walter also had a young guest guitarist, Mitch Hattie (Haddie?), come up and play. My friend Chris was very impressed.

Chris is also going to see Joe in Llandudno. His sense of direction's not great, so if those of you who are also going see a rather lost scouser wandering about, please look after him!

Well, David and I were there last night but where was Jeff? Couldn't see him anywhere, but then it was a bit like "Where's Wally (Waldo)?" trying to spot anyone in the crowd.

The support band were a bunch of geriatrics (yes, all right I know, I'm not far off being one myself ) called Dirty Strangers. They seemed to know only one song that was repeated about six times. Well, that's what it sounded like to me. They were like a sexagenarian version of the Sex Pistols.

Walter was his usual fun self, making faces and saying what a great audience we were etc. and shredding, shredding, shredding. I hadn't seen Walter for around three years and it may be the same before I see him again. I love Walter and have nearly all his albums and a few EPs (I think I'm only missing Deep Trout), but you can have too much of a good thing.

For me, the highlight was probably hearing Going Down. One of my faves which I never tire of hearing, whoever it's by.

Jason Ricci has been playing harmonica with Walter on some of his gigs and I hear he's pretty good. Unfortunately, Walter said he didn't want to come over (to London?) so he told him to "f*** off". Nice.

We also had nice cowinkydink. I was fourth in the queue outside and while I waited for David I got chatting to the guy who was third. After we had chatted for a while and exchanged stories about which gigs we'd been to recently, we realised we liked the same artists. Joe, Aynsley, Simon McBride, etc etc. Then the RAH concert came up and we both said we were in the front row! Amazingly it was the young guy sitting next to Shredit in seat 25!  He's in a band called Venture South http://www.myspace.com/venturesouth and they're supporting Aynsley on a couple of dates on his current tour. He's also posted here under the name Mansfield (I've been doing a bit if detective work to uncover that gem). Another small world cowinkydink.

Phil