dimanche 5 juillet 2009

Crosby Stills & Nash Part 2 @ Olympia Paris July 4th 2009

Crosby Stills & Nash @ Olympia Paris
July 4th 2009
Part 2
Part1 ( click on Link )

The second part of the show was much more electric starting with " Rock & Roll Woman" from then it was hits after hits.

It's hard to believe how many great songs this band has.

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The atmosphere is also getting electric in the audience.
The band is on top form , Steven is stunning on guitar.

Funy to see how these guys seems to be such good friends on stage when they barely speak to each other the rest of the time and that they're travelling separately in their own tour bus.

CSN smoking...

Hats off

Yeah ! we Rock
Vini Vidi Vici !

Time for one more

Steven guitar hero

We were lucky to be treated with an extra song - NOT on the setlist : " Love the one you're with"

Victory





Bye Paris you've been a great audience !

" Wooden ships" :

vendredi 3 juillet 2009

Peter Von Poehl @ Institut Suedois Paris july 3rd 2009

Peter von Poehl + Olle Nyman
@ Swedish Institute Paris July 3rd 2009

The Swedish Institute is organising festivities to celebrate the Swedish European Presidency.
Tonight is free event in the gardens of the Swedish institute in the Marais district, the sun is shining and there are LOTS of people queuing in the street.
I don't think they expected that many people.More than a 1000.

Swedish artist Olle Nyman is opening the show with his cool Pop-folk. Soulfull voice à la Paul Rodgers. He's on a french label Fargo ( with Peter , Alela Diane , Joseph Arthur... )
Olle Nyman (on the right) & friend

Peter Von Poehl and his band ( 7 musicians: drums , bass , keys ,brass & cello ) all dressed in white are taking the stage at 8:30 PM for a smooth and relax 80 min gig.


I'm not too familiar with his catalogue, another swedish playing pop-folk-rock.
He has a funny way of singing and probably listened to Nick Drake a lot in his youth.
His songs are nice and soft even though he sometimes gets a little crazy with an electric guitar , headbanging a bit.
He's making the effort of speaking in French, I think he's living in Paris.
Nice atmosphere in these gardens in the heart of Paris with lots of beautiful girls , not all swedish, I've also noticed that the cello player is also hot as hell.
I don't think there was a better way of getting into July ( who ? ) with this very bucolic gig.
Peter , nice....

... guitars

The cute Maeva on cello & setlist

Mick Taylor @ New Morning Paris July 2nd 2009

Mick Taylor @ New Morning
Paris July 2nd 2009

Rehearsals
Kuma Hurada on bass ( left )

Tonight is a special concert as it's been recorded for a future DVD.

We arrived there early to see the rehearsals, Mick was already drinking and was walking very carefully, he played a couple of songs and went back to his nearby hotel.
He has lost a bit of weight since last time I saw him and has made an effort to dress decently.

A French guitar player ( or by the way he's called Joël Daydé , sorry ) opened the show with a few blues songs on acoustic and electric guitar singing mostly in English and a couple of songs in French.
The guy did a good job but some of Mick fans were calling their idol on stage, morons.
Mick came on stage late ( around 10 PM ) doing strange movements with his arms , had a chat first then took his guitar and started playing " Secret affair" .
He was in high spirit tonight speaking between songs, always with a nice sense of humour.
His guitar playing is far from being as fluent as before, it's like he's playing in slow motion and the voice is sometimes weak. Nevertheless there were some very good moments.
He even took requests ( " alabama" ) as he didn't know what to play next.
He left the stage after 4 songs ( 10 min each ) leaving his guitar player sing the next one : " Burial Ground" .

Complete setlist :
  • Secret Affair
  • Twisted Sister
  • Alabama
  • Losing my faith
  • Burial Ground (without Mick )
  • Blind Willie Mc Tell ( with Bits of All Along the watchtower )
  • Can't you hear me knocking
  • No Expectations
We were lucky to get a Bob Dylan song that he recorded for -Infadels- that wasn't used and ended on a -Bootleg series- called " Blind Willie Mc Tell".
He left the stage after 1H40 Min and came to sign a few cds to fans without forgetting to get a drink at the bar first.

" Can't you hear me knocking"

mardi 30 juin 2009

The Dead Weather @ L' Album de la Semaine Canal+ Paris June 30th 2009

The Dead Weather @ L' Album de la Semaine
Paris June 30th 2009

Setlist & Allison + Jack L on left

Last recording for the season before the holidays for the famous Canal+ TV show " L' Album de la Semaine ".
The studio is packed , around 200 people , lots of fans who were at the Cigale the day before ( see Pics and review + Videos HERE ). Thankfully it's not as hot as yesterday.
The band opened the set with the same song ( "60 ft all" ) which I think is not the best choice to start the gig with.
Anyway the band is on top form and after listening to the songs for the first time yesterday night live, I'm really getting into it and I have prefered this private show.
They 've played 10 songs ( see setlist above ) for 45 min.
They ended the gig with Jack on guitar on " enough water".
We could meet them briefly after.( see Pic )