Taupo Summer Concert
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 2:57 pm
Bonny Tyler
good band - great blues guitarist - pretty good overall but that is one shattered larynx that breaks a lot!
Alan Parsons Live Project
Wow!. This is what a well rehearsed band of great players can do! Parsons' mix of thematic instrumentals and accessible melodies and lyrics writ large for live. A wonderful set....hard to fault. Every member shone...some nice extended Les Paul wailing, ....just great music!
Ice House...(really Iva Davies plus friends...)
this was good as well. The usual second guitarist broke his wrist a couple of weeks ago so they brought in another player Michael Paynter to fill in...and he is very good. Great voice and a tough guitar style.
Davies is singing and playing well....and has dropped all the teen posiness that marred him for me in his middle period.
My band toured as support for the first Flowers/Icehouse tour back in 1981 and they were a fantastic live act then.
overall a great day...very hot, no shade, 4 minutes burn time...ahh we love kiwi summers.
One interesting thing: For their first 3 times on stage the MCs were mispronouncing Taupo (which of course I cant spell properly here as the system doesnt do macrons...and Taupoo just looks silly). Any way after a couple of hours of hearing them say Towe Poh they suddenly came out and started saying it correctly (Toe Paw for those who dont know). Clearly someone told them off.
Bonny Tyler got it right first time - turns out she owns a farm and a building in Taupo!.
good band - great blues guitarist - pretty good overall but that is one shattered larynx that breaks a lot!
Alan Parsons Live Project
Wow!. This is what a well rehearsed band of great players can do! Parsons' mix of thematic instrumentals and accessible melodies and lyrics writ large for live. A wonderful set....hard to fault. Every member shone...some nice extended Les Paul wailing, ....just great music!
Ice House...(really Iva Davies plus friends...)
this was good as well. The usual second guitarist broke his wrist a couple of weeks ago so they brought in another player Michael Paynter to fill in...and he is very good. Great voice and a tough guitar style.
Davies is singing and playing well....and has dropped all the teen posiness that marred him for me in his middle period.
My band toured as support for the first Flowers/Icehouse tour back in 1981 and they were a fantastic live act then.
overall a great day...very hot, no shade, 4 minutes burn time...ahh we love kiwi summers.
One interesting thing: For their first 3 times on stage the MCs were mispronouncing Taupo (which of course I cant spell properly here as the system doesnt do macrons...and Taupoo just looks silly). Any way after a couple of hours of hearing them say Towe Poh they suddenly came out and started saying it correctly (Toe Paw for those who dont know). Clearly someone told them off.
Bonny Tyler got it right first time - turns out she owns a farm and a building in Taupo!.