Johnny Winter + Edgar Winter + Robben Ford + Johnny Gallagher @ Olympia, Paris April 07 2013

Johnny Winter + Edgar Winter + Robben Ford + Johnny Gallagher @ Olympia, Paris April 07 2013

It was supposed to be a double bill concert featuring Johnny Winter & ALVIN LEE, unfortunately Alvin died a few weeks ago so the promoter turned it into a tribute show with Johnny Winter headlining and adding a few guests.
We arrived too late to see Tommy Emmanuel, gigs @ the Olympia are starting very early on sundays.
Johnny Gallagher was already on stage when we made our way into a packed Olympia. Hard to find anyone below 50.
Cool set with a nice Joe South/Jimi Hendrix cover of "Hey Joe" with Johnny singing through the microphone of his acoustic guitar, that was stuck to his mouth, interesting !

Intermission with Manu Lanvin & the blue devils in the lobby of the Olympia but we perferred to stay down the front in the main hall to get a good spot as Johnny Winter is sitting down to play the guitar.

From what I can remember Edgar Winter started to sing a song (Here's the video, That is NOT on the setlist) with JW's band, then Robben Ford joined for one song, (click for video) Edgar introduced his brother but a roadie came to the rescue by introducing JW's band which played a song before Johnny Winter walked carefully to his microphone, standing up for the first song then sitting down for the rest of the gig.
That was a "Guitar Night", Johnny might be very freil but he can still deliver his share of neat guitar licks. Lots of cover are played (Stones , Ray Charles, blues standards... see setlist below for details).
Hard to see Johnny's face at all for the whole set with his cow-boy's hat on his head but I guess the bright light might be a problem. Edgar Winter remained on stage for most of the gig playing saxophone or piano. Robben Ford was invited back on stage for a couple of songs.
Each song was played with extended guitar soli, real pleasure to see Johnny in such good spirit even though he's not talking that much betwen songs.

The uptempo long version of The Stones' "Jumping Jack Flash" being the hightlight of the show.
For the encore and the last two songs Johnny took his old guitar and we had some crazy slide.
GREAT SET !

Setlist NOT accurate, the intro consisted in 3 songs (edgar Winter singing the first one, Robben Ford on the second on guitar & the JW's band on the 3rd)

Here's a song by Bobby Womack (The Valentino's) made famous by The Rolling Stones

Ryan Roxie (Alice Cooper, Slash) @ Guitar Legend shop, Paris April 05 2013 for Gibson

Ryan Roxie (Alice Cooper, Slash) @ Guitar Legend shop, Paris April 05 2013 for Gibson

BLACK SABBATH artwork for "13" revealed

BLACK SABBATH artwork for "13" revealed

here it is

audio snippet

Razorlight @ Olympia for Rock the Gibus, Paris April 03 2013

Razorlight @ Olympia for "Rock the Gibus", Paris April 03 2013

 French bands were playing before RAZORLIGHT, I Have to say we didn't really bother watching any of them. So we stayed in the lobby where they have some nice pictures of some of the artists who played in the old Olympia theatre before it was destroyed in 1997 (Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Otis redding...).

Razorlight played very late around 11:00pm just after the jury announced the winner band of the competition.

This version of Razorlight is more rock even though their sound is still a bit "light" to me. They do have some very decent songs and are enjoyable to listen to.
They've played a couple of new songs that are sounding very unusual with just piano, percussions and saxophone (?!?)
Their short 60mi,+ set ended with their Hit song "America".
Nice behave band in front of a young and well-behaved audience (with lots of young and sexy chicks).

Thanks to Phil S for the tix

SETLIST:

 From our archives:

 RAZORLIGHT  @ Fleche d'Or on Feb 22 2011

The Rolling Stones announce American summer Tour 2013 + Hyde Park Shows in London

The Rolling Stones announce American Tour 2013 + London HYDE PARK show

And the Tour...so far

50 & COUNTING  TOUR DATES

May 02              Los Angeles    STAPLES Center      

May 5              Oakland          Oracle Arena              

May 8              San Jose          HP Pavilion                

May 11            Las Vegas       MGM Grand Garden Arena 

May 15            Anaheim          Honda Center            

May 25            Toronto           Air Canada Centre    

May 28            Chicago           United Center            

June 12            Boston            TD Garden                 

June 18            Philadelphia    Wells Fargo Center   

 + HYDE PARK July 06:

Support acts for Hyde Park are The Vaccines, The Temper Trap and Gary Clark Jr.

According to my English friend Ray a second show will be added on 13th July 2013

Joe Bonamassa @ Grand Rex, Paris April 01 2013

Joe Bonamassa @ Grand Rex, Paris April 01 2013

It's been a long time since we've been to a proper gig in Paris, we've missed D.A.D. @ Divan du Monde last week and Rival Sons @ Trabendo as we were busy.
No need to tell that the show is long sold-out.
Couldn't miss Joe Bonamassa, it's the first time we're seeing him as a solo artist, the only time we saw him was with Black Country Communion @ Bataclan last summer.
Everyone is expecting the support band to take the stage @ 8:00pm when the lights go out and the PA is playing a country version of an AC/DC song.
Nope, it's Joe and his drummer Tal Bergman sitting down to play us a 25 min acoustic set starting with Bad Company's "Seagull". Nice way to start.

Then it's time to raise the dead with some neat electric guitar for a further 2 hours, we never really took the time to listen to any of his solo records, of course we're fans of BBC.
Great lightning, very bright.
A drummer on the far right, Tal Bergman that we already saw many years ago playing with Billy Idol @ Taratata tv show in Paris, a keyboard player (?) on the far left who has almsot as many keyboards as Rick Wakeman and Carmine Rojas on bass ( he played with David Bowie for many years).
Lots of blues rock songs à la Gary Moore of course and others more heavy Rock. You can feel the blues influences , great version of "Young Man Blues" (The Who version) but you also can feel that the man is fan of classic rock as he played a instrumental medley of Whitesnake & Led Zeppelin songs among others.
He has a great voice too that can remind you of Paul Rodgers even though he told us that he almost lost his voice this morning.
That was the last show on the European Tour.
Great Gig !

setlist (TBC): from JB forum)

Acoustic set :
- Intro (country Highway to hell)
- Seagull (Paul Rodgers' Bad Company cover)
- Jelly Roll
- ???
- Athens to Athens
- ???
Electric set :
- Slow Train
- Dust bowl
- Midnight Blues (I am sure of its position in the setlist)
- Dislocated boy
- Driving towards the daylight
- Who's been talking
- Look over Yonders wall
- Young man blues
- ??? (I believe that John Henry immediately followed Young man blues)
- Ballad Of John Henry
encore:
- Asking Around for You
- Just got paid (with medley feat Whitesake/Led Zep's "dazed&confused/ )

Elliott Murphy @ Gibert Joseph, Paris March 29 2013

Elliott Murphy @ Gibert Joseph, Paris March 29 2013

free show in this record store on Bd St Michel near the Sorbonne in Paris

 Elliott Murphy playing famous Gibert Joseph record store in St Michel on the left bank to promote the new cd and new book, he's also a writter.
Same faces in the audience with Elliott, he has very dedicated fans.
30 min + acoustic show with new songs on acoustic guitar. Elliott Murphy is a great songwritter so once again we have quality songs.
Then he signed everyone's stuff.

Alan Vega @ Galerie du Jour , Agnes B, Paris March 27 2013

Alan Vega @ Galerie du Jour , Agnes B, Paris March 27 2013 6:00pm

for the release of the book "Conversation avec un Indien" + Photo exhibition