This is exactly the same set list from the gig they played here in
Dublin last week. They started with Booker T's 'Green Onions' and then
went on to do among others, 'Absolution' 'Breakout', 'Redneck', 'Whole
lotta love into Sale of the Century (I think)', 'Dirty Harry',
'Starsky..(yawn!)' and an encore of 'Blow Up '. No vocal tracks at all
except maybe a bit of audience participation during 'Breakout'.
When it came to the encore everyone was trying to get up onstage until
JT anounced only Girls could come up and the more the merrier as far as
he was concerned!
By the way, has he given up the booze? 'cause there was no usual '7th
member of the band' that used to always be seen playing perched proudly
on top of his Hammond in the form of a litre bottle of vodka!
Oh! and Carlos I think the tune you mention is probably 'Mathar' by The
Dave Pike Set.
Top gig though, check 'em out if you can. (fun for all the family!)
Bump & Hustle,
gerry.
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>From: Carlos Sanz Ramirez[SMTP:acecsr@bitmailer.net]
>Sent: 05 July 1996 12:24
>To: acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU
>Subject: JTQ gig + Song ID
>
>Hola...
>
>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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