Doheny Blues Festival recap (Page 1 of 4)

What a fantastic day. Perfect sunny mid 70's and great music all day. Here's a clip of Joanne's Manic Depression. She had the crowd buzzing. A player standing next to me just was shaking his head saying "I never heard any woman play like that!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4I6UR9Ob50

A fab day, perfect weather again, Tal and Arlan saw my RCFP tee and gave me the high sign while they were setting up. Short set list.
Slow Train
Dust Bowl
So It's Like That
Midnight Blues
Who's Been Talking
Django
Mountain Time
Ballad of John Henry
Sloe Gin
Just Got Paid.
Joe gave a sort talk, said it was the first time back in 8 years (it was 5 really) He said this was the last stop on the Spring Tour and there was no tomorrow, so they were going to play like there was no tomorrow. They DID! One funny moment when Joe was playing Ballad Of John Henry and walked over to play the Theramin, but there was no Theramin.   He gave Carmine a shrug and funny look and kinda shuffled across the stage.
We all set up right in front of the stage with our blankets and had spots on the rail for the show. Life is good in Cali. Arlan  handed me the set list, then he came out and gave some hugs.
Take a breather and well earned rest Joe. The tour was a huge success by all accounts, including ours out here at Doheney.

Jim Suhler came over and watched the set from the side stage. George Thorogood was not what we wanted to hear after the great music all day and Jim was looking like he'd rather be somewhere else so I never got a chance to say hi since we left early.
Rick
edit: Toast of the Coast was an incredible show. Slide heaven and just music that made you move. They are touring and are a must see act if they come near. I will be putting up vids from their show. A huge wall of sound from some extremely gifted musicians!

Nice video Rick. Looks so different with trees and sky in the background when you're so used to it being really dark with brightly colored lights. It sounds like you got a nice bunch of songs. Too bad about the security, gosh they can be a pain everywhere you go. It's cool Joe hovered over in your area while playing, it seems he gravitates towards familiar faces . Looking forward to seeing the other ones you got.

+1 on Toast of the Coast. Loved Sonny Landreth's swamp rock and its decades since I saw Marcia Ball at Antone's and she rocks the keyboard and vocals. Terrance Simien seems like the guy you want to head out to a bar with after the show if you want to smile all night, and Cindy Cashdollar doesn't step out front that much but as that one guy said..she knows how to use all 16 strings on that steel guitar!

As far as George goes...you heard three songs before you left, so you heard em all...Id be surprised if George even knows more than 3 chord progressions!. They're an entertaining enough band, especially when George lets Jim Suhler come out from the shadows, which isn't often enough, but the "Pay me homage" posing gets wearing quickly. The show hasn't changed all that much since his days grinding up and down the East Coast....louder and a video backdrop, mostly saying "hooray for George" in one way or another.  Still hard for a local to leave early though, it was too nice a night and too great a weekend to cut it short!

(Email the group shot when you can!)

Im uploading a decent "Slow Train" unedited. Tonight Ill synch the better audio. Couple of flashes/dropouts because I couldn't resist switching lenses when Joe got directly in front of me. I'll steal some of Ricks video to correct that.

And you must have passed on my message...."So Its Like That" was played, mostly right in front of me!

SILT was my favorite of the set. Group foto's coming. After the guy shut the vidshoot down I got a lot of snaps of the band. That vid boss didn't bother me at all, that little extension kept the view high enough. Some of the snapshots came out pretty nice. It was very nice spending the weekend with good pals. You and Vik Rock! Paul got a good breaking-in on the ways of the hardcore.

Two sides of almost the same pic:

Heres JB Sunday, with a guest appearance by RickB and my hand between Joe's legs lol.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid … nt_count=1

99% sure that was during Just Got Paid.  Had to be last half because the video cameras are down!

And heres the reverse side of that a few seconds earlier  on the top of my page!

https://www.facebook.com/floyd87?ref=tn_tnmn

He turned out to be pretty cool though. A Bonaholic in the making.

Here's  my "Slow Train" unedited   Now that  yours is up Ill dub on my good audio and mix the videos to get rid of my dropouts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwd0BlVVreE