To be fair, I’ve no doubt Jan’s doing it at least 50% for fun – he really doesn’t do musical projects he doesn’t like. But his musicality is wasted on that material in my view.
No, he rarely plays blues scales – his core thing is chromatic European music. Keith Richards riffs don’t need anything Jan can bring to them – and Jan fans don’t need the Richards riffs.
Having said all that Col, in the video the band sound a damn sight more entertaining than the Stones did the last time they went out staggering through the hits.
This supergroup thing with top local musicians playing classic albums has been a very successful thing down here for some years. At it’s best it works really well. There’s a bunch of older rockers who are mad Stones fans and obviously grew up on their stuff. They do great shows. They get together periodically to cover an album.
Not so sure about a fixed supergroup playing a whole lot of albums especially as varied as Bruce and Sevie Wonder.
What you describe is even a thing in Northern Ireland, Junior. A specially contructed grouping of local musos have toured arts centres here doing Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ and some other ‘big’ album in the last couple of years.
I understand my old pal Ciaran Gribbin – who moved to Aus to front a version of INXS a number of years back – now does a lot of these sort of shows in Aus, fronting assemblages of musos performing other people’s albums/hits.
Here’s Ciaran on one of my things from 2007, with the still from one of his arena shows in Aus:
Two tongue-logo T-shirts … nasty.
Googled as I quite fancy Akkerman jazzing up the Stones. Not really that exciting though.
It’s a project. A Dutch “supergroup” called Legendary Albums Live who do exactly as their name suggests. Stones, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder….
Although I don’t begrudge Jan the chance to have some fun and earn some dosh.
To be fair, I’ve no doubt Jan’s doing it at least 50% for fun – he really doesn’t do musical projects he doesn’t like. But his musicality is wasted on that material in my view.
Never thought he had a blues bone in his body.
No, he rarely plays blues scales – his core thing is chromatic European music. Keith Richards riffs don’t need anything Jan can bring to them – and Jan fans don’t need the Richards riffs.
Having said all that Col, in the video the band sound a damn sight more entertaining than the Stones did the last time they went out staggering through the hits.
This supergroup thing with top local musicians playing classic albums has been a very successful thing down here for some years. At it’s best it works really well. There’s a bunch of older rockers who are mad Stones fans and obviously grew up on their stuff. They do great shows. They get together periodically to cover an album.
Not so sure about a fixed supergroup playing a whole lot of albums especially as varied as Bruce and Sevie Wonder.
What you describe is even a thing in Northern Ireland, Junior. A specially contructed grouping of local musos have toured arts centres here doing Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ and some other ‘big’ album in the last couple of years.
I understand my old pal Ciaran Gribbin – who moved to Aus to front a version of INXS a number of years back – now does a lot of these sort of shows in Aus, fronting assemblages of musos performing other people’s albums/hits.
Here’s Ciaran on one of my things from 2007, with the still from one of his arena shows in Aus: