Re: chuck berry in bilbao tonight
Date: January 30, 2007 01:51
Hi all.
sweetcharmedlife wrote:
"Please post your review Jon Lasa". Here we are.
It was nearly a quarter to nine p.m. when my friend and me took the car.
From the centre of Bilbao it managed no more than fifteen minutes to reach the gate of the Bilbao Exhibition Center. We had been attending the demonstration to support the Basque Goverment and the basque Prime Minister = Lehendakaria.
I missed the first support act, the Uskis, a basque group and entered the arena in the last two songs of Auseron Brothers, from Madrid.
At 21:31, Chuck Berry took the stage playing Roll over Beethoven. About two thousand and five hundreds or three thousand people attendence.
His son on guitar. A great keyboardist, he was the band director, and his daugther Ingrid singing and blowing the harp. Lovely and she got the connection with the people.
The set list, is not the full list, but included and from the beginning to the end:
Roll over beathoven
Rock around the clock
Sweet lttle sixteen
You never can tell
Key to the higway
If you wanna dance with me
Johhny b´good
Reelin and rockin.
JBgood was the hottest moment of the night and Berry did the duck walk once.
In the end, eight girls from the audience went up onstage and danced while the band played, and Mr. Berry continued played and moving all around the stage.
The sound was very clear, sharp and good guitars. Pure r&r.
At the begining he took care of himself and his voice, but little by little was singing louder and did a great performance.
The show ended at 22:29, just after lovely 58 minutes of all the times classic R&R and a bit of blues.
People went home with a wide smile of satisfaction on our faces.
Thank you so much, Chuck, for 80 years of R&R.