I was yesterday night in the concert JTQ did in Madrid. I'll give you a
quick review.
Before JTQ a spanish group called Manteca played a couple of songs, doing
AJ/Flamenco. Nice group, 14 people on stage (electric guitar, e.bass, 2
keyboards, 2 spanish/acoustic guitars, t.sax, trumpet, slide trombon,
clarinet/flute, drums, percussion and 2 singers). They played well, but they
seemed like they havent practised together much. Beside, I suspect the guy
that controlled the sound table was deaf...
Then Mr. JT took the stage. He played very funky and groovy, talking to the
audience, making us clap, jump and sing. Their play scheme was one of their
own songs, one version. The version were: Booker T. & The MG's "Green
Onions" (thay began with these one, GREAT song!), Gil Scott Heron's "This is
your world", Led Zeppelin's "Whole lotta love" ("Now we're going to play
some R&R"), the theme from Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry", "Starsky &
Hutch", plus an "interlude" they did with the music from some TV sitcom I
didnt get to recognize... very nice. They played songs from "Living
underground" (most of them) and "In the hand of inevitable" (just two, I
think). They looked very happy playing: JT getting up and making the
audience participate, the two guys from the wind section were having their
beers while playing, they were dancing and making jokes to one another...
Cool... :-)
The gig was GREAT, but they could have played a couple of songs more, as
people was asking for a second encore (and a third, a fourth...). On the
last song thay played, JT walked down to the first row and took to the stage
10 beautiful ladies to dance while they played. He put one of the girls to
dance on top of the Hammond! Now I know why for is this organ so solid...
The suspicious thing is that when they ended, they took all the girls
backstage and no one never knew nothing else 'bout the chicks ;-)
Any group that plays with a wind section has 50% of me already won, but I
really enjoyed the show. Intense playing, great sound, def to dance... JTQ
will have me there every time they come back to Madrid.
And now, I'd like if someone can identify a song I heard after the show: it
was a funky/AJ song that was basically a funky rithym + a sitar (that indian
guitar with lots of strings that The Beatles played in some songs) playing
the melody. It was very good (at least to me and my friends). Anyone got an
idea of the group that play it and the name of the song?
Seguiremos hablando.
Un saludo,
Carlos Sanz Ramirez
acecsr@bitmailer.net
Madrid, Espana (Spain)
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Marcel Marceau, Mime
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