Peter Frampton and The Doobies
Posted by: twheeler <twheeler@...>
excellent. Great show.
Thanks for sharing!
~Trey
On Aug 28, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> Okay... please no one throw stones at me... I wanted to share this
> with you all (and no, I'm not off my meds and in manic phase with
> all these messages today, just have a little free time on my hands).
> I went to see Peter Frampton and The Doobie Brothers last Saturday
> night in Valdosta. It was a little warm out at first, being South
> GA and all, but once the sun started to set it wasn't bad.
>
> Frampton opened the show, which really surprised me. I thought he
> would be the headliner. That may be the case in other parts of the
> country, but that sure ain't true in South GA. As we were standing
> in line to get into the reserved seats section (I coughed up the
> extra $30 to get reserved seats) there was a guy standing in line
> behind wearing a "Harley" t-shirt with the sleeves cut off and a
> little "V" cut at the neckline, with his graying wife and her fake
> (um, well, you know) and leopard print hot pants. Definitely NOT
> how I want to see a grandmother dressed. She asked who the warm-up
> group was and I heard him say, "Some British guy. The Doobies are
> going to kick his a** off the stage." Some "British Guy"???
> You've got to be kidding...
>
> The first thing I noticed about Peter Frampton, or rather didn't
> notice, was his height. In the South GA parlance, he's a little
> feller. I noticed his hair, too, 'cause he ain't got none of that
> either. Thank goodness he wasn't trying to wear a wig to cover
> that chrome dome. He did wear a veneer over his teeth, but that
> was the ONLY thing veneer about him. The guy can still play. I
> mean jaw-dropping play. I sat there mesmerized the whole time. I
> was close enough to watch his fingers. It was amazing. The other
> thing I noticed was his gear, or lack of it. No Marshall stacks
> like in the old days. He did have some Marshall cabs on stage and
> they were mic'd. But I think his sound generation was purely
> digital. Digital pre-amp, digital effects, power amp, then to the
> cabs (if he was actually using them). But his playing was
> spectacular. Played nothing but Les Pauls. His bass player has
> been with him since the 70's and played nothing but Fender P-
> basses. The only bass amp in sight was a small combo, looked like
> maybe an Ampeg 100 watt thingy. They were fantastic. Oh, the
> other thing, one thing that I've noticed about the geriatric
> rockers is that they lose the ability to hit the high notes when
> they sing. Frampton could still sing. He sang, "Peach top, white
> tails, never fails." Still don't know what it means.
>
> There was a pretty good break in between the bands. When the
> Doobies took the stage I found out who the crowd was there to see.
> They played a good selection of their best songs and threw in a
> couple of jam songs (blues, rockers). The thing about the
> Doobies... they gave up the pretense of even having cabs on stage.
> John McFee played through a Line 6 PODxt Live floor unit (the same
> unit I use, I've e-mailed his son to see if he will share his
> patches) and even used Line 6 guitars. Pat Simmons and Tom
> Johnston both played through digital modelers as well, thought I
> couldn't really tell which ones (I couldn't see enough of
> Johnston's unit, but maybe it was a Lexicon G-major). Simmons was
> pretty gray, but still had butt-length hair. He struggled to hit
> the high notes. Johnston sang pretty well, but then again, none of
> his songs were a real vocal stretch to begin with. They only did
> one Michael McDonald song (thank goodness), Taking it to the
> Streets. Simmons sang it and did a decent McDonald imitation.
> They let their bass player and keyboard player go to town on that
> one. The best song of the entire night was "Jesus is Just
> Alright." The crowd roared when they went "doo doo doo doo doo doo
> doo doo!"
>
> It was a whole lot of fun. It was the first secular concert I've
> been to in 20 years. The air was clean, none of the pungent aroma
> that I remembered from similar concerts back in my heathen days.
>
> --
> Douglas
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> Well, there's people been talking
> Say they're worried about my soul
> But I'm here to tell you I'll keep rocking
> 'til I'm sure it's my time to roll
> -Rich Mullins "Elijah"
>
> Phil 4:13
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