I saw him touring
Expando in 2009 in a theater in Seattle. I liked his between-songs banter and he seemed relaxed and genuinely having a good time. Besides mostly guitar, he played some bass and harmonica then too. I wish he had played Find Out In Time from Indian Summer with its harmonica part, or his other songs from that album, Stay and Me And You. Those songs are why I bought his first solo album, Playin' It Cool. Good thing he got in the
Eagles in time for The Long Run, making a name for himself with
I Can't Tell You Why before they went on hiatus, the window for his solo albums.
Poco songs he did play in 2009 were
Keep On Tryin and
What Am I Gonna Do from From The Inside. Wish he played
I Can See Everything then.
His
fingerstyle playing on several Martins, a Taylor and others was pretty good, although I noticed that he lost the chord progression, jumping around to find the right one on a couple songs, including KOTryin. KOT, excellent vocals, as on several tunes, with nice harmonies from
Chris Farmer, a "new friend" and touring
Beach Boy. Same guy
Kroney?
Hank Linderman added harmonies too. He's a long time TBS engineer and guitarist. I had pre-concert reservations about the female backup singers (shrieky? too gospelly?), but they were just right and filled out the entertainment visually.
I think he played all of his new album,
Expando, Feed The Fire and The Shadow from FTFire, and his Eagles tunes, ICTYWhy and LWKUAlive. I've only listened to Expando once, but I'll say most songs from it were nice, especially the rockier Parachute with Linderman doing some hot Tele work, and White Boy and Friday Night. Thanks to the Expando Singers, I found myself digging the gospel tinged Secular Praise. A couple songs near the start of the show were almost childlike with lightweight bass and drum.
Wish he would have played a winner or two from
his first two albums. My request for Playin It Cool fell on deaf ears. Songs like Wrong Number, Take A Good Look Around You, Boys Night Out, Don't Give Up, etc. His third album, Tell Me The Truth, was a little too techno for me and probably his band.
Besides backup vocals, Linderman was also excellent on acoustic guitars, a Les Paul, a resonator and a ukulele that TBS' Eagles guitar tech,
Bobby Carlos, also at least *held* on stage during one song. I couldn't hear it. I don't think Carlos played a small Bo Diddley-like knockoff guitar he also had.
With a couple standing O's as proof, the 250 of us really got our
$20 worth.
My Schmit pics:
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