Maceo Parker @ Casino de Paris April 1st 2010

Maceo Parker @ Casino de Paris
Paris, April 1st 2010

After seeing The Four Tops & The Temptations for some SOUL music in this very same beautiful theatre yesterday night ( click for review & videos).
Today we're back with a vengeance for some FUNKY music with Maceo Parker.

The show is long Sold-out, the tickets were at a fair price : less than 40 euros.
French & sexy female singer Sophie Delila is opening, she's hot and has a very beautiful voice unfortunately the music she's playing sounds like Ayo and Ayo is a bit boring. But she did well.

Then we have master of the saxophone himself and former player for Mr James Brown ( as well as Martha High who's singing backing vocals ).
As you can guess lots of Funky music and lots of sax.
" We're gonna make it Funky" aww right man !
There were very good parts ( when he's playing the sax ) and some others less interesting (when there's the same rythm over and over for 15 min or when Maceo is repeating every 2 min " Give the band a round of applause") It tends to get on my nerves.

Maceo is doing a very good James Brown impersonator during the set, he even did a Ray Charles imitation that was breathless, including the voice.
Martha came to sing one down the front ( here on video).
Very Funky 2 hour set.

Maceo Parker & Martha High " think":

Metallica's "Enter Sandman" Smooth Jazz version

It's fool's day so let's have some fun

Jane's Addiction Performs first gig with Duff McKagan for Perry Farrell 51st birthday

Pic courtesy of © Todd Newman

Yesterday night at the " Les Deux" club in Los Angeles , Jane's Addiction performed for the first time with former Guns'n Roses and Velvet Revolver bass player Duff McKagan.
It was Perry Farrell 51st birthday party.

Happy Birthday Perry !!!

More Pics from the gig and Duff rehearsing with Jane's Addiction HERE

"Whole lotta love" Birthday cake HERE

The Temptations & The Four Tops @ Casino de Paris, Paris March 31 2010

The Temptations & The Four Tops
@ Casino de Paris in... Paris, March 31 2010

Soul Music , that's the way we like it, Han Han !
REAL Soul Music, not that shit from Destiny's Child & Co even though Beyonce is much more sexy than all past & present members of The Four Tops & The Temptations put together.

They may be called The Four Tops but they could be re-christened The One Top as there's only one original member : Abdul « Duke » Fakir.
The Motown Quartet from... Detroit, famous in the 60's for their Doo-wop, jazz , Soul & even disco music is still active and doing good... very good indeed.

Abdul « Duke » Fakir, if there is one...

Can't be wrong with all these HITS : "Bernadette", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", "It's the Same Old Song", "Standing in the Shadows of Love" and many others I can't remember.

shake it man !

GREAT 45 min set, I mean really GREAT !

Otis Williams ( right)

20 min intermmission to get a drink and check all the pretty girls at the bar and it's time to get back into this beautiful théatre that's nearly sold-out tonight with VERY expensive tickets ( Of Course, it's a Gérard Drouot Prod° ) between 70 & 95 Euros.

Same thing with The Temptations, there's only one original member :Otis Williams.
The Temptations are headlining which they already did when both bands played together in Paris @ the Olympia theatre a few years ago

Once again nothing can go wrong with a HITlist like they have : " My Girl", "Get ready", "I can't get next to you", "Papa was a rolling stone", "Just my Imagination", "Ball of confusion"... and many others.
It's simply unbelievable Hits after Hits...

The new guys have a great voice and the Temptations have always been one step above all the other Motown bands simply because the songs are great and they've played many different styles of music all along their career : Doo-wop, Jazz, soul, Rock Psyche, funk...

We have a winner

One of our best gig for 2010 !

"Get ready":


"My girl" & "I'm losing you":


YEAAAAHHH BABYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!

Eddie Vedder guest with The Who @ Royal Albert Hall for Teenage Cancer Trust, London March 30th 2010

Yesterday night at the Royal Albert Hall in London , The Who played the last show of this year's Teenage Cancer Trust 2010.
They played the whole of Quadrophenia ( but no encore so no oldies) Eddie Vedder guests on vocals ( as well as Tom Meighan from Kasabian ).

Lots of official Pics from the gig HERE

Here's a video with Eddie Vedder:( the first 20 seconds are the wrongway around...)

The Rodeo + Oh! Tiger Mountain @ Café de la Danse, Paris march 30th 2010

The Rodeo + Oh ! Tiger Mountain
@ Café de la Danse
Paris March 30th 2010

Back to the Café de la Danse in Bastille where we saw English youngsters and Rock'n Rollers Kitty Daisy & Lewis.
The show is starting very early with a French guy on the electric guitar on his own called Oh! Tiger Mountain , cool bluesy-Folk rock songs and dark voice unfortunately the poor guy is losing all credibility when trying to be funny between songs.

Le café de la danse is really packed when The Rodeo ( a cute french asian girl on vocals + a drummer and a guy on fiddle & keyboard) is taking the stage.
Once again the lightning is complete shit for the whole set.
I thought The rodeo was a pop band , not at all it's folk-americana.
They have cool songs but not one seems to be really catchy with a real hook.
Nice set above average.

Paul McCartney @ Jobing.com Arena, Phoenix, Arizona March 28th 2010

First American show for Paul McCartney in 2010
Rehearsals @o2 Arena in london.
Lots of changes for the setlist:
Venus And Mars
Rock Show
Jet
All My Loving
Got To Get You Into My Life
Highway
Let Me Roll It
Foxy Lady

The Long And Winding Road
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
(I Want To) Come Home
My Love

I'm Looking Through You
Every Night
Two Of Us
Blackbird
Here Today
Dance Tonight
Mrs. Vandebilt
Eleanor Rigby

Something
Letting Go
Sing The Changes
Band On The Run
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Back in the USSR
I've got a feeling
Paperback writer
A day in the life
Give peace a chance

Let it be
Live let die
Hey Jude

Day Tripper
Lady Madonna
Get back

Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Sgt. Pepper's ( reprise )
The End

"1985" from " Band on the run":

Lots of other videos from this show HERE

don't forget to have a look at our GREAT PICS from Paris' show last year
Bercy Part 1
Bercy Part 2

Lonelady + Raymonde Howard @ C'est Lenoir, Black Session # 313, Paris March 29th 2010

Lonelady + Raymonde Howard
@ Black session #313, c'est Lenoir @ Maison de la Radio
Paris March 29th 2010

First is unannounced Raymonde Howard playing for 25 min+.
She's singing , playing guitar and making live home-made loops with the guitar, there is also a drummer.
Not very attractive, sounds like she's playing the same song over and over.
Don't ask the famous Oliver Peel sitting next to me , he started sleeping , Zzzzzzzzzzzz !

Then there is Lonelady, I've heard the album this week-end and i wasn't convinced at all but sometimes after seeing a band LIVE you changed your mind.
Not this time.
There's a keyboard player ( playing silly melodies with two fingers ) and a drummer (playing the same rythm over and over), The girl is on guitar and vocals.
She has a nice voice but she's not communicating at all with the audience as she's looking constantly at what she's doing on her guitar.
The music is minimalist but boring, soooo boring.
I wanted to hang myself !

setlist: Raymonde Howard & Lonelady

Lonelady:

Revolver + Lilly Wood & the Prick @ Chorus Festival @ La Défense, March 29th 2010

Revolver + Lilly Wood & The Prick

@ Chorus Fest @ La Défense, March 29th 2010

Lilly Wood, Prick out of shot

ROCKERPARIS is back to The Chorus fest in La Défense , the business district just outside Paris.
Very unusual time for a rock concert, the first band is playing at noon.
Last time, we were here for Noah & the Whale + Fink ( click for review, Pics...)

French pop band Lilly Wood & the Prick is opening ; between pop, electro (not too much) and folk this young band is doing better and better ( dixit a couple of friends who saw them last year).
The girl on vocals has a nice voice and her english is perfect, most of their songs are pop with a touch of folk thrown in ( even disco rythm for one), a bit of electro is added in the background on a couple of others.
The songs are also more powerfull than it used to with some cool guitar licks.
Cool 10 songs set.

Then we have French Pop-Folk band Revolver heavily influenced by The Beatles.
They had a couple of hits last year in France for their first album.
We saw them in December 2009 @ a Trabendo sessions (click for review, Pics...)that wasn't recorded at the trabendo(?).

We've just found out who's the "Prick" ( from Lilly Wood) when Revolver started their set, that's the guy who's telling everybody that they cannot take Pics if not accredited.
It's a FREE festival for fuck's sake !!! get a life you cunt !

Anyway, in this beautiful round tent (like the Cabaret Sauvage) lots of young girls for Revolver playing songs from their album plus a new new one ( see setlist).
Cool set but maybe they should work on their English as the prononciation is very 'frenchy'.

Don't know why they've played " get around town" ( their hit) twice, luckily they've incorporated the song " Bo Diddley" in the middle of the latter to nice effects.

setlist

Tonight Black session with Lonelady.
see ya there

MUSE to play @ Casino de Paris on May 25th 2010

Muse @ Chatelet & reward for their hard work

The title says it all !
Rockerparis won't be there as we're all going to Clapton/Winwood @ Bercy.
Gossip are also playing Le zénith on the same night.

Check our previous reviews of
MUSE @ Théatre du chatelet Sept 8th 2009 ( with LOTS of Pics & Video)
MUSE @ Bercy ( with Video, setlist & backstage Pics when they received a double platinum record)