I gotta say that dude has a serious catalog of guitar driven pop songs. You may know about the volume of tracks with Sugar, Husker Du, solo records, but I forgot how many good songs there are. Start with the good: the drummer really held things together and powered through classics I Apologize, New Day Rising and Chartered Trips like a rock drummer should. The set list was interesting. A couple new ones, one from a solo disc, and the rest were Sugar and Husker songs. There was only one opening band, Spiral Stairs. Some friendly banter with the audience, but mostly churning out the rock songs one after another.
The bad: the bass player was a replacement at the last minute. Touring guy had to bail out 2 nights before. The dude had most of the songs down, but when he missed, he missed badly. You music guys know that look of,"oh crap I'm not sure if he goes Em7, G, F#, oh well maybe nobody will notice". The guitar tone had too much treble, needed more mid and bass beef. The show was only a little over one hour. For all the crap fees I had to pay for a ticket, another 20 minutes would have been rad. I'd say 3 out 5 stars.
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