Crosby Stills & Nash @ Olympia, Paris, Sept 28 2015

Crosby Stills & Nash @ Olympia 28 Sept 2015

with guests Chris Stills & Jimmy Buffet

Graham Nash @ Gibert Joseph store for a signing session of his new book "Wild tales"
 on saturday afternoon.

Two years after playing two shows @ Olympia on July 04th 2013 & July 05th 2013 (click on links for review), CSN is back in Paris for two shows @ the very same place , both shows are sold-out, unfortunately we couldn't go yesterday.
Graham Nash did a signing session for his book on Saturday afternoon @ Gibert Joseph store in the Latin quarter and he and Stephen played "Southern cross" @ Jimmy Buffett concert @ Cigale theatre later that night.

Concert started smoothly with "Carry on" & "Marrakesh express", first part of the show with only classics (including "Just a song before I go"), Stephen's voice is now a bit weak but the guitar playing is as good as ever. Graham and David's voice is perfect.
Band is on top including Shane Fontayne on guitar ( we saw him in the summer playing la Cigale with Jackson Browne), Russell "Russ" Kunkel on drums , Kevin McCormick on bass...
Jimmy Buffett is special guest on "Southern Cross" ( the very same song, Stephen & Graham" played on @ Cigale with Jimmy on Saturday) and for the last song of the first set Chris Stills ( Stephen's son with Veronique Samson) is playing guitar on "Bluebird".(click for video)
End of part 1.

Introducing musicians...

"Southern Cross" with Jimmy Buffet before Chris Stills joins in for "Bluebird".

After a 20 min intermission the band is back on stage with "Helplessly Hoping" then we have solo spots with Stephen Stills playing a Bob Dylan song " Girl for the north Country", Stephen introduces the song by saying that it's better that he's covering a bob Dylan song than Bob covering his song, mocking Bob's voice by singing the first verse of "Helplessly Hoping" in Bob's style.
Then Graham is playing a brand new song that he composed at the olympia during soundcheck last time the band was here : "Olympia" ( click for video) a tribute to the famous Parisian Music-hall.
then David Crosby is also playing a brand new song "Somebody Home"

New song "Olympia" played  by Graham & Shane Fontayne (written at the Olympia Theatre in Paris for the Olympia.)

Back to the classics with Chris on guitar or backing vocals for the rest of the 2nd set.

with guest Chris Stills on several songs tonight

Another great show by CSN

Week-end spécial CROSBY STILLS & NASH, cela commence dès samedi 13h avec une petite séance de dédicace avec Graham Nash pour la sortie de son livre "Wild Tales". Comme à son habitude Graham est adorable signant, en plus de son livre, tout ce qui lui est présenté. Nous avons pu nous faire dédicacer quelques vinyles d'époque.
Samedi soir c'est en compagnie de Stephen Stills que Graham rendra une petite visite à Jimmy Buffett lors de son concert à La Cigale pour une version de "Southern Cross" débridée. A voir ici.
Dimanche: premier concert de CSN, c'est complet, malheureusement nous n'avons pas pu nous y rendre.

Lundi: seconde prestation et l'Olympia affiche encore complet. le concert débute de fort belle manière avec "Carry On" avant que le groupe enchaine , tout au long de ce premier set - c'est une habitude depuis de nombreuses années, il y a toujours deux sets lors des concerts de CSN-  tous les tubes qui ont fait leur gloire. Si les voix de Graham et David sont toujours aussi cristallines celle de Stephen Stills commence à accuser le poids des années, par contre son jeu de guitare est toujours aussi fulgurant.
Après une présentation de chacun des musiciens, c'est au tour de Jimmy Buffett de rendre la pareille et d’interpréter "Southern Cross" heureusement il a laissé son short et sa chemise hawaïenne au vestiaire. Puis c'est au tour d'un autre invité d’investir la scène de l'Olympia, c'est le propre fils de Stephen, Chris qui ajoute sa guitare au "Bluebird" du Buffalo Springfield.
Petit entracte de 20 min, le début du second set est consacré aux titres en solo: Stephen avec "Helplessly Hoping" puis une reprise de Bob Dylan ("Girl from the North country"), dont il se moquera un peu en commençant à chanter, avec une voix Dylanesque, le premier couplet d'un des ses titres.
Graham Nash interprète avec Shane Fontayne une nouvelle compo écrite lors de son dernier passage dans cette salle et dédiée au Music-hall de Bruno Coquatrix. Puis c'est au tour de David Crosby de nous chanter lui aussi un titre récent. Chris Stills est de retour , à la guitare pour une version décoiffante du "Almost cut my hair" (voir plus bas en vidéo) et aux cœurs pour un final en forme d'apothéose.
Encore un excellent concert de CSN

 Merchandising

 setlist

Raven @ Maroquinerie, Paris, Sept 22 2015

Raven @ Maroquinerie, Paris, Sept 22 2015

English 80's Hard Rockers RAVEN playing a show in France at last

Thrash Metal band form UK, Raven is playing a show in France ... at last. They've only played in Paris once, opening for Kreator @ the Elysée Montmartre on May 16 1989.

Not a lot of people tonight, around 150 lunatics to attend the return of RAVEN in the french Capital.Lunatics but devoted fans who knew all the lyrics from the classic songs. A bit shocked to see that Mark, the guitar player, is weighing probably more than 200 pounds, I can remember pics of him from the late 80's when he was tall & thin.
They're giving it all on stage , running from one side of the stage to the other. Sound is rough as it was back then on their early records.
They were on the verge of making it in the late 80's but are now playing clubs so there's a feeling of sadness to see them playing in a half empty Maroquinerie. 

  We're going to many Arenas to attend concerts that we tend to forget that there is a "working class" scene where bands are probably struggling to make a decent living but are still giving everything to satisfy fans and RAVEN is one of them, so they should get respect for that.

SETLIST: (this is the setlist from a show in Germany, I guess it was the same tonight with maybe the addition of "crash bang wallop", can't remember !)
Destroy All Monsters
Hard Ride
Live at the Inferno
All for One
Rock Until You Drop
Guitar Solo
Lambs to the Slaughter
Guitar Solo
Speed of the Reflex
Mind Over Metal
Into the Jaws of Death
It's Not What You Got
Tank Treads (The Blood Runs Red)
Faster Than the Speed of Light
On and On
Encore:
Bass Solo
Break the Chain (including medley of covers from Black sabbath, AC/DC and others...)

 Merchandising

on the same night in Paris:

King Crimson @ olympia

Lou Doillon @ Album de la Semaine

Venom Inc (Mantas & Abaddon) @ Divan du Monde