Vorgestern war es, BIG MAN gibt ein Konzert im
Kravis Center ! Ich wollte eigentlich nur mal wissen wie er denn so war ! So einfach scheint das gar nicht zu sein !? Ein gewisser
Bill DeYoung hat ihn schon mal angekündigt, aber über das Konzert ist nichts zu finden ! Also hab' ich die lokale Presse abgeklappert. In der
PalmBeachPost bin ich dann fündig geworden:
Sunday, November 23
'Big Man' Clemons rolls out big sound
By Sharon McDaniel, Palm Beach Post Music Writer
Sunday, November 23, 2003
WEST PALM BEACH -- With long, determined strides, he reaches center stage in no time. On go the dark glasses -- they build on the no-nonsense image: dreadlocks in a neat ponytail down his back, gold rings on tree-trunk fingers.
At 6-feet-3, 275 pounds, the former college football player warrants the nickname "Big Man."
Yet saxophonist Clarence Clemons projects a gentle, heart-of-gold nature; he's soft-spoken with his Kravis Center audience. He brings up the house lights to point out his mother. There's a sweetness in his manner toward his band members: He defers to them with obvious pride, urges them on more like a fan than a bandleader.
Then he hammers out the raw, gutsy reed sound -- half sax, half race-car rev up -- that helped to win national-treasure status for Bruce Springsteen's 30-year-old E Street Band. But Friday night at Kravis, Clemons called the tunes -- including a few by The Boss (Small Things, Paradise in the "C" and Savin' Up) -- with his 12-member classic rock-blues-funk big band, Temple of Soul.
The 90-minute show amounted to the entire play list of his latest CD, Temple of Soul -- Live in Asbury Park (2002; Volume II is due out Jan. 9). Things started well enough with Clemons' soulful Washington Bond. But not until the slow-blues wrencher Sax in the City did the evening energy lift off.
A South Florida influence new to Clemons' style a sassy Latin groove -- enlivened Jump Start My Heart with percussionist Tomas Diaz. And Big Man's singing finally found its focus in the earnest cry of a lost soul, Livin' Without You.
Guitarist-singer Billy Livesay, a Pembroke Pines resident, pulled out industrial-strength slide work for his original Under the Heat of a Full Moon and a takeoff on Springsteen's Pink Cadillac. His madman vocals matched the blinding spotlight glare off his red-and-chrome guitar in I'll Go Crazy.
But improvisations from the trinity's third soloist, violinist Athena O'Lachlainn, pushed One Step, Two Step, Sax in the City and Pink Caddy over the top.
Clemons got his big-band metal from four classy regional players on trumpet, trombone, and alto and tenor sax as well as tour regulars: bass guitarist Steve Argy, keyboardist Paul Pettitt (Hammond B4), pianist John Colby and drummer Keith Cronin.
Asbury Park-style, Clemons' magic was in the mood: upbeat, positive, like the healthy dose of sunlight. But he dedicated his encore, Another Place, to his late friend and "nephew," Mark Drewes, the suburban Boca Raton 16-year-old shot while pulling a prank Oct. 25.
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SEEYOU
Thommy
PS: Wenn Ihr noch was gefunden habt -> PM an mich!!!