Its Me wrote:
Wife and I went to see Jackson Browne last night at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA last night. It's a small, 8000 seat venue with great acoustics. When I saw the tickets go on sale I just grabbed two without doing any research on the show. It turns out it's an acoustic show with just him and Greg Leisz and an occasional appearance by some lady playing a bass (he called it a semi-acoustic show). Before then I didn't know who Greg Leisz was, but it turns out that he's quite an accomplished guitar player. It would be easier to list the famous performers he hasn't spent studio time or toured with than the ones he has.

They had 16-20 guitars on stage in a rack, and each would pick the appropriate one for the next song. Greg played slide a lot. Of course there was a piano for Jackson to play, too. It was a loose performance, playing a mix of what they wanted to play along with occasionally taking a request. Jackson's voice is still very good, and even though I didn't get to hear a couple of songs I wanted to in all their full-blown-band glory, it was a very cool show. If you're into that kind of thing I recommend it.

If you have Netflix, check out "Hired Gun". It's about session
musicians you have never heard of that have done a lot of work for many
big artists.

On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 7:38:44 PM UTC-5, Alex wrote:
Its Me wrote:
Wife and I went to see Jackson Browne last night at Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA last night. It's a small, 8000 seat venue with great acoustics.. When I saw the tickets go on sale I just grabbed two without doing any research on the show. It turns out it's an acoustic show with just him and Greg Leisz and an occasional appearance by some lady playing a bass (he called it a semi-acoustic show). Before then I didn't know who Greg Leisz was, but it turns out that he's quite an accomplished guitar player. It would be easier to list the famous performers he hasn't spent studio time or toured with than the ones he has.

They had 16-20 guitars on stage in a rack, and each would pick the appropriate one for the next song. Greg played slide a lot. Of course there was a piano for Jackson to play, too. It was a loose performance, playing a mix of what they wanted to play along with occasionally taking a request. Jackson's voice is still very good, and even though I didn't get to hear a couple of songs I wanted to in all their full-blown-band glory, it was a very cool show. If you're into that kind of thing I recommend it.

If you have Netflix, check out "Hired Gun". It's about session
musicians you have never heard of that have done a lot of work for many
big artists.

Thanks, I'll have to do that. Right now my wife is bugging me to watch the Eagles documentary that's on Netflix again. It's pretty cool, amazing the old video footage someone thought to capture. We have tickets for the Eagles in April. Too bad Glen isn't with us anymore. One of the few bands I never saw back in the day.