Buddy Guy *sigh*

so i went for the Buddy Guy concert! :D


C got me tickets to the concert, which was organised by the One Tree Music festival.. and i totally had to go..

My aunt's come down from New York, and she's quite a partay annimull, so i decided to take her along.. so about 5 of us ended up going there together.. and oh mah gawd!
OHHH MAAAH GAAAWWD!!

i know this sounds kinda crazy but he's brilliant that man, i could fall in love with him.. really.

before the concert there were a bunch of singers from bombay who just got onto the stage and performed a bit.. really good stuff.. there was this acapella band called Conchorde who were absofuckinglutely brilliant. http://smileyourbluesaway.blogspot.com/2006/08/best-bathroom-singers-youve-ever-heard.html
how can you not like these boys?
apparently they aint together no more, what a shame! :(

i'd love to get my hands on some of their music...


getting back to Buddy Guy, i'd only heard a few songs by him, and i liked them but i'd been in a Michael Buble mood for a very long while and i hadnt heard his (BG's) songs too often..

so i was with C buying a bottle of water and when we heard them start the concert, i almost ran toward the stage, luckily we'd reached a bit early and found a place somewhere in front, so we got there and i put my stuff down, he started singing, strumming and i was a goner.. just stood there and swayed and 'wiggled my butt' and had a blast..

dressed in a simple khaki shirt and pants with this cute little hat on his head (i think its called a fedora, without the feather) and this pale yellow guitar, he just moved his fingers and mouth in such a way that i'm sure got the ladies (and gentlemen) in the audience feeling the same way a female rock fan feels, just before she takes off her underwear and flings it on stage.
he's probably around 60 but man that guys got a powerful voice, he could be heard over the electronics even when he whispered, geeez and what clarity! most singers, even if theyre that talented, mumble into the mike. and whatttta performer, crowd pleaser, babeh..

there was this ramp going up sideways the front of the stage and at one point he walked down in and came into the crowd and walked through, happily playing his guitar all along and singing.. then he went back otward the stage and ran up the ramp..

then walter trout came out and they performed together and there was this other guy on the keyboard who was brill-fuckin'-iant and another fellow on the guitar who was amazing..

there was a point when the three of them were just jamming together, walter trout, BG and the keyboardist and i just closed my eyes and let my body sway to the music until the lady behind me, who was this 'larger than average' woman in a horrible black and white lycra tshirt clinging to her 'curves' and shaking her thang, started singing on the top of her voice.. and that killed the mood for me..

at the end of the concert he came and threw a few of his picks into the crowd and i've never seen people jump like that to get them... then out came the famous polka dotted guitar and 'Mustang Sally', baby... which has got to be the sexiest song in the world, whatta hip-thrusting beat!
i loved loved loved loved being there, and to think that i was going to leave early and go dancing at Bohemia which i do almost every weekend, jeeeeez (silly Nat)
inspite of fat singing lady and other idiots who thought they could sing along with the man, and the whole crowd thing, whatta concert...

THIS was real singing, a real performance, a real live kick ass concert...

and worth way waay waaay more than the six hundred bucks it cost.


(oh for all you BG fans, my friend has taken a video of a part of the concert and i shall post the link here as soon as i can)