GTRJoe
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Caught Trial by Fire with Robben Ford and Michael Landau last night at the Belly Up Tavern. Interesting show. They played mostly material from their still unreleased "Trail by Fire" cd. The material was both instrumental and vocal. Robben and Michael both sang. It's interesting stuff. Not sure how to describe it really. Quirky blues rocK? Hard to say. I think it's best to just check out the music instead of me trying to describe it. I did enjoyed it.
The opening act The Grass Heat was quite good. Heavy '70's blues rock influence. Good rockin' 3 piece band.
Gear wise Robben had his usual Dumble rig. No surprises there. He mainly played his Tele. He did use his 335 on a few songs.
Michael Landau surprisingly used a pedal board plugged in to a Fender Deville. Looked like the 2X12 model. It was sitting on top of a small ext. cab. He had a couple of Strats with him a red and black one. He only played the tomato soup colored one. I couldn't get a good look at the pedal board but I did see a Arion chorus an a Maxon distortion on there. Also some sort of Boss volume pedal looking thing and a red wah.
All in all it was a very enjoyable evening.
The opening act The Grass Heat was quite good. Heavy '70's blues rock influence. Good rockin' 3 piece band.
Gear wise Robben had his usual Dumble rig. No surprises there. He mainly played his Tele. He did use his 335 on a few songs.
Michael Landau surprisingly used a pedal board plugged in to a Fender Deville. Looked like the 2X12 model. It was sitting on top of a small ext. cab. He had a couple of Strats with him a red and black one. He only played the tomato soup colored one. I couldn't get a good look at the pedal board but I did see a Arion chorus an a Maxon distortion on there. Also some sort of Boss volume pedal looking thing and a red wah.
All in all it was a very enjoyable evening.
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