Category Archives: Live Music

Spinal Tap is Touring in 2009

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One of the greatest rock movies of all time is This is Spinal Tap. If you haven’t seen it, go rent it right now! This post will still be here when you get back.

So, now, around 25 years after Spinal Tap was blowing minds all over the world, they are reuniting to tour once again. The band consists of Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer. They’ve all gone on to do many great things, including Christopher Guest’s movies Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and so on. The tour dates can be found here: http://www.unwigged.com/tour.html

Now, a little video action to help you either reminisce or learn about some awesomness. Here, Nigel Tufnel shows off some of the band’s equipment:

And here is the performance in the movie of my favorite song of theirs, Stonehenge:

Red House

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A few years back, my Dad had been watching the DVD of the Fender Stratocaster’s 50th anniversary. The concert featured a number of great guitar players, and the performances were mixed in quality. He sat me down and showed me some highlights, then he said to just sit back and enjoy this, which invitation I extend to you:

Yeah, well done Gary Moore, well done. Neither of us had heard of him, but man, that was one of the greatest covers I’ve ever seen. The man can play a mean blues guitar. I love the part around 5-8 minutes where he breaks it down and just works the guitar as it was meant to be used.

That’s all for now, I recommend watching that video on occasion, as it still gives me goosebumps every time I take 10 minutes to view it. I think Jimi would be proud to see his song treated with such respect.

Australian Pink Floyd Show Tonight

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I’m very excited about tonight’s concert I’ll be attending. The Australian Pink Floyd Show is playing at Hard Rock Live in Orlando tonight! I saw them a few years ago at the E Center in Salt Lake City and it was incredible. Tonight’s show is a performance of the full The Wall album. From AussieFloyd.com:

For The First Time In Over 25 Years Pink Floyd’s Legendary Rock Opera
THE WALL – live In concert & in its entirety
Performed by The Australian Pink Floyd Show.

The World Premiere of an amazing new stage production
including animation, lasers & inflatables
PLUS a very special ‘greatest hits’ encore

Yeah, I can’t wait! Here’s a video in poor quality that hints at the grandeur, if you will, of the production.

David Gilmour Live on PBS

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David Gilmour Live at The Royal Albert HallWell how about that! I was just flipping channels tonight and stumbled upon a gem on PBS! David Gilmour Live at the Royal Albert Hall. I just caught the last half of it I think. I first saw some of Gilmour’s latest stuff, which is alright, it hasn’t grown on me just yet. Then came the magic.

That oh so familiar sound at the beginning of Shine On You Crazy Diamond sounded, and I got very excited. Sure enough, that song kicked in and it was a good one! It was a simplified version, but done perfectly, just the way David Gilmour always does. It was cool, the guitar solo was less embellished but still had all the meat in there to keep it true to the Floyd style. David Crosby and Graham Nash were singing the harmony along with Gilmour, which was incredible.

After that, Coming Back to Life was played, and a few other great ones. One that got my arm hairs to stand up was Find The Cost Of Freedom, which is a song by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It is a short one, all acoustic, and wonderful. Gilmour’s voice with Crosby and Nash was some of the most beautiful a capella I’ve heard.

Finally, here’s PBS’s little write up on the show, it was a lucky find:

Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour is joined by David Crosby, Graham Nash and David Bowie in this December 2006 concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, featuring classic Floyd songs, plus cuts from his 2006 solo CD, “On an Island.” Included: “Arnold Layne.”