{"id":8344,"date":"2011-08-07T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2011-08-08T00:01:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T04:01:29","slug":"the-crab-apple-singers-at-rockwood-music-hall-stage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/the-crab-apple-singers-at-rockwood-music-hall-stage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crab Apple Singers at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask who the Crab Apple Singers are, I won\u2019t fault you for not knowing, since last night was their first-ever performance. It\u2019s a spinoff of a group called The Big Apple Singers. The founder of TBAS, Evan Watson<\/a> is on an extended tour with Def Leppard. The rest of the group was itching to play, and I\u2019m certainly not the only audience member that was itching to hear them.<\/p>\n

Here is my post on the last TBAS show<\/a>. Since Evan Watson plays electric guitar for TBAS, some changes were required to constitute The Crab Apple Singers (TCAS).<\/p>\n

Greg Mayo<\/a> moved from keyboards to electric guitar.<\/p>\n

\"GregMayo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Patrick Firth<\/a> replaced Evan, but really he replaced Greg at the keyboards (grand piano and electronic).<\/p>\n

\"PatrickFirth\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Anderson<\/a> was slated to play electric bass (he\u2019s the primary bass player in TBAS, and therefore in TCAS as well). He had a late conflict and he too was replaced.<\/p>\n

Brian Killeen<\/a> played electric bass. As good as Chris is, there\u2019s no drop-off with Brian, so we\u2019ll call that an even trade.<\/p>\n

\"BrianKilleenBass\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Josh Dion<\/a> is the only member of TBAS who fulfilled the same role, drummer, in TCAS.<\/p>\n

\"JoshDionSinging\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All four members sang lead and harmony. All four did that as well as you could hope.<\/p>\n

My friends, if you weren\u2019t there, you missed a heck of a set. Every one of them was on fire on their instrument (guitar, keyboards, bass and drums). The leads were sizzling and the drums were mind-boggling.<\/p>\n

People literally got out of their seats and started to dance. Once they started, they didn\u2019t stop. Many cameras switched their focus to capture the joy of the dancers, but all ears were on the band.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been praising Greg Mayo and Patrick Firth a bunch this week, so let me just tell you that there was no letdown from their previously praise-worthy performances. They were both absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n

Brian Killeen traded his bass for Greg\u2019s guitar on one song. Brian sang lead on Cinnamon Girl (with Josh Dion singing co-lead). He took a wailing lead late in the song, showing that he\u2019s no slouch on the electric guitar. Very nicely done Brian!<\/p>\n

\"BrianKilleenGuitar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Greg tore it up on the bass, so the switch didn\u2019t cost the audience enjoyment on either instrument.<\/p>\n

I love drummers. There are good ones, great ones, and exciting<\/strong> ones. Josh is in the exciting<\/strong> category. Keep in mind that this category subsumes the great<\/strong> category as well, the excitement doesn\u2019t come at the cost of greatness. That Josh\u2019s singing produces the same type of excitement, separate from his drumming, is even more mind-boggling.<\/p>\n

\"JoshDionDrumming\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking at the faces in the crowd while Josh is ripping up the drums made me feel like I was in an old-time revival meeting. People were seeing the light.<\/p>\n

Robbie Gil<\/a> came up to close he show. He sang Feeling Alright and the band killed it supporting him. Dave Mason<\/a> closes every one of his shows with his money song<\/em>, and he\u2019d have been proud to hear Robbie sing it with TCAS backing him up. What a way to end an epic (nearly six hour!) night of music.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the set list, but there were changes. At least you can get a good sense of the type of songs they select:<\/p>\n

\"SetList\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I missed most of Robbie Gil\u2019s set, the one immediately before TCAS, because I was next door seeing Bri Arden<\/a>. Lois stayed and watched Robbie\u2019s set. She had a mutual friend text me that Greg Mayo was playing guitar on Robbie\u2019s set. I replied that I knew, but was happily committed to seeing Bri nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Then she told me (and showed me a photo) that Greg played the lap steel guitar during one number in Robbie\u2019s set. That was the only (momentary) twinge I had about my decision. Oh well, I\u2019ll just have to keep showing up at Greg\u2019s sets until he whips out the lap steel again. \"Smile\"<\/p>\n

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If you ask who the Crab Apple Singers are, I won\u2019t fault you for not knowing, since last night was their first-ever performance. It\u2019s a spinoff of a group called The Big Apple Singers. The founder of TBAS, Evan Watson is on an extended tour with Def Leppard. The rest of the group was itching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[757,715,841,1367,716,853,493],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-2","tag-brian-killeen","tag-greg-mayo","tag-josh-dion","tag-music","tag-patrick-firth","tag-robbie-gil","tag-rockwood-music-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}