Tudududa....
Went to see Walter Trout and the Radicals last Saturday in a small club. Sat at the bar all night (not to drink, although we did a bit of that too, but so we could sit down, the older ones here will understand...
) and saw a nice (almost) 2 hours of b'luuues.
Walter Trout is a great guitarist, who doesn't miss a note (but overdoes it sometimes IMHO).
It was funny to draw the comparisons with MK and co in terms of organisation. This was a small group of multi-tasking people, the first act (Ralson Bowles, I was pleasantly surprised with him) worked at the merchandise booth after the gig, together with the guitar tech (a Chuck Ainley lookalike) who also doubled as 2nd guitar and backing vocals during the gig (he even sang a song as lead vocalist but I didn't like it at all, he had a "hard-rock" type of voice which was totally out of place.)
Walter came down to sign some CDs after the gig and mingled with the crowd (but we didn't wait for him).
Can't have been more than 200 people there, I can't see how this can be worth travelling to Europe for them, even without flying private jets or sleeping in luxury hotels. Can't be for the money they're coming over here, but I am grateful they do.
Hubby took a couple of pics with his mobile.
