Went to a nice concert a week and a half ago. It's an almost yearly deal sponsored by a local dinosaur radio station. It used to be called the Wing Zing (lots of local restaurants competing for the best wings). This year it was the Sticky Fingers show. (Lots of food trucks, we try to be like a slow little Portland OR.
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First band we saw was a local rock and roll icon who's been playing for years and years. Mrs. T's Father did a couple stints with him over the years on keyboards. I got that feeling a time or two of just enjoying being at live music. Willie looked down off the stage at one point, saw us, gave us a big smile and acknowledged us right in the middle of a guitar solo. It was just kind of sweet. Later, his head roadie came down to talk to someone in front of us, we both said hi, and he asked how Mrs. T's Dad was doing.
The next act was a local blue prodigy. Actually, he's not a prodigy anymore, he's been around a few years and the things he can do with the guitar are phenomenal. Just a 3 piece. I couldn't believe he didn't have any roadies. He was changing out and tuning his own guitars. I think the best moment for me came near the end of his show. What was probably his last song before an "encore," his effects pedal set just went away, along with all his sound. The band stopped. He ran up to the mic and said, "Show's not over, sorry, just give me a second." He bent down, and look at his gear, no way he was going to figure it out in 5 seconds. He quickly unplugs a couple cords and plugs a cable into his amp on the back row. "Looks like we're going to go old school and run a naked feed directly into the Marshall." And this raw, unprocessed, unequalized sound comes screaming out of his amp as he launches into a Zeppelin medley. He didn't get flustered, the crowd stayed with him, and I thought it was brilliant. An unscripted major F up and he just played through it.
Unfortunately, Mrs. T started to get a migraine and it was not aided by the throngs of 40-50 year olds (apparently now the target audience of this "Iconic Rock" stations) just smoking away. I was amazed how many were lighting up. I could tell she wasn't going to rally or get better, so I suggested we leave. We missed the headliner as we left after a long long time Columbus country rock band played a decent, rowdy crowd pleasing set. I saw what I came to see especially Scottie's quick recovery. So it was a good show.