Moreland & Arbucle open for George Thorgood & the Destroyers tonight at The Paramount in Huntington. 

My good friend Mr. Nut AKA Mr. Vega once gave Thorogood the highest praise possible when he told me that the band was a must see as every song was like an encore. 

The last time I saw Thorogood and band was at The Paramount and he did not disappoint providing a rollicking good time in the perfect venue for his fast paced rock and roll show.

I once heard that George Thorogood scheduled the tours around his softball schedule.

Play Ball!!

Still Bad to the Bone

Rock on

GQ

its been an interesting week. First Axel Rose fronts AC/DC at Madison Square Garden, then a trip to Scranton, Pennsylvania to catch Neil Young and the Promise of the Real at the inaugural Outlaw Festival, and now the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens Telling stories and singing songs including Carole King’s “Up on the Roof” and the Beatles “Love Me Do” at a sold out Beacon Theatre. 

All are quite different and great concerts.

More to come.

Keep on Rockin’ in the Cat’s Attic

GQ

To be honest, I went to the Don McLean concert at City Winery last night with low expectations. I knew the song “Vincent” from back in 1972 when I was twelve and collecting singles on vinyl. As s matter of fact, I remember trading my 45 of “Vincent” to a kid around the block named Vincent, for I do not know what, and he dropped and broke it while climbing a fence to head home.

Obviously the iconic song “American Pie” is the primary reason anyone first goes to a Don McLean concert but this show was surprisingly much more than that. With a first class band of Nashville session men in tow, McLean mixed in his hits like “Crying” with deep tracks like “Crossroads” from the American Pie album, country tunes, new tunes that heartened to pop songs of the 1950’s, up tempo rockers like “Tulsa Time”, and stories of his youth growing up in New Rochelle, New York. 

Mr. McLean, who turns seventy one this year, looked and sounded great. The legendary singer-songwriter has gone Bob Dylan on us by reinventing his style to a bygone era of standards and pop songs but, unlike Dylan, staying true to the original versions of his best known songs that many first time McLean show fans, like myself, appreciated hearing as we remembered them growing up.

Every once in awhile you rediscover a gifted artist who never really went away, as McLean has traveled the world several times over, but has been  somewhat forgotten in our memory banks.

Don McLean did also give the crowd what they originally came for with a rousing version of the all time classic “American Pie” which had the usually seated City Winery audience dancing and singing along in the aisles. This show was just an unexpected, for me, joyous event and I would highly recommend catching Don McLean when you can as I do not believe you will be disappointed.

And I Love You So

Rock on

GQ