Del McCoury Band @ Mystic Theatre 5/5/07

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan (Budboy) on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 01:52 pm: Edit Post

Well Since Emily Could Not Make This Show, I will Try My Best At A Review....Ha Ha!
Del & The Boys Took The Mystic Stage A Little Late On Saturday Night. They came out a little before 9PM & Went right to work with "The Traveling Teardrop Blues". They played a good long set of Del classics including: I'll Dry My Tears, 1952 Vincent, Black Jack County Chains, Get Down On Your Knees And Pray.
After about a 90 minute set Del invited out the GUESTS. I was thinking great, we are going to get a little Grisman. But Then I Got The Surprise Of My LIFE!!!! Not only did David "Dawg" Grisman come out, But he was followed by Petaluma's own Ed Neff & The Legendary "Frank Wakefield". They then went into a set of bluegrass classics with at times had 3 Mandolins soloing into the instrument mic at once followed by twin fiddle solos. Frank Wakefield was his usual ANIMATED self. His Mandolin solos were fast & solid. His banter was typically hilarious with his phrases like "Don't you give him a Hand For That Solo" & "Don't You Come To The Freight & Salvage Next Week To See Me". Grisman then lead the group with one of his "Dawg Classic Instrumentals(Dawg's Bull I Think) & his son Sam Grisman came out & played bass very well. Del Incouraged Frank to lead the last two songs in which the first was the Bill Monroe classic "Roanoke" & last was another Monroe classic "Rawhide". The blazing solos were traded back & forth amongst the fiddlers & mando players.
They all came back out for an encore & afterword left me in comlete AWE!!!!!!!!! It was an EPIC night of Bluegrass at the Mystic!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By 1st One's Named Sweeeeet Emily (Odessablue) on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 02:11 pm: Edit Post

Thanks for the review!

As predicted, I'm an idiot for missing this one but I just couldn't motivate myself into spending time driving.

Glad that you guys made it though! Sounds like a great night, the only thing I like better than 3 mandos is 2 fiddles :-) Unless of course 3 fiddles is a choice!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By JHT (John) on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 03:08 pm: Edit Post

thanks for the review.

Frank Wakefield showing up, good deal!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John J. Wood (Jjwood64) on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 03:21 pm: Edit Post

Wakefield & Gris playing alongside Ronnie...yea, baby! Glad you enjoyed the show, Dan.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Marc B (Digitunes) on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 06:44 pm: Edit Post

Sounds like a wonderful show. If I didn't have family business on the east coast I would have been there.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By JTP (Live_wire) on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 12:06 am: Edit Post

wow

sounds epic