Anyone else venture out to Eight Great Tuesdays to see Devon Allman's Honeytribe?
Yes, he's the son of rock legend Gregg Allman—although he kinda looks like a cross between Sammy Hagar and that dude from Nickelback.
If you've never heard him, young Mr. Allman is indeed a capable guitar player. He also seems to be one heck of a magician. In fact, Tuesday night, he made himself disappear.
Yup, right in the middle of a song, he calmly leaned into the mike and said: "Let's here some bass" (or something to that effect) and then promptly walked off stage. For like 15 minutes.
WTF?
To their credit, the other three band members (the bass player in particular) expertly jumped into an impromptu albeit seemingly endless jam. At one point or another, however, they each looked as confused as the rest of us in the crowd. Then the drummer and keyboardist also left the stage, leaving said bass player alone to entertain us all. I think he strung off every bass solo he ever learned.
Perhaps Allman may have broken a string, but even a blind man with one hand stuck in a pickle jar could restring a guitar quicker. So my initial assumption is that he had some, uh, internal plumbing issues? To put it delicately.
At any rate, when he finally rejoined his band mates, it started to pour. Sadly. So we, like the rest of the throng, picked up our folding chairs, tucked them neatly into their carry-alls and headed for the hills.
Bathroom emergencies aside, I did pick up Honeytribe's album on iTunes today. Sounds good. Hearing all the songs live would have sounded better.
Seriously. Anyone got an inside scoop on what happened?
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8 comments:
dude.. they always do a break with a long bass solo..
Devon does this disappearing act all the time. Not sure why he does this, may he wants to give his band some time to play on their own and maybe he wants a little R&R Backstage. But I have seen this many times that I have seen Honeytribe esp at a club show.
Devon has pulled this 'disappearing act' many times especially at club shows. Not sure why he does this. Maybe he just wants to give the other members of the band time to shine or maybe he just wants to get some backstage R&R. I have seen him do this many times.
Whoops sorry to post twice! Didn't realize the first one had gone through!
Ok, anon and altbarb, both of your explanations sound plausible.
Thanks for the heads up.
Although, for the sake of a much more amusing story, I'm going with irritable bowel syndrome.
Come on Bro ...IBS ? harsh ! I have no such thing :)
It's like this ...for one , the focus is usually on me and I want people to know I have a world class unit ..period ...i want them to have their time in the sun .....
Sorry for the weeks later reply, but I was standing stage left during Devon's "disappearring act," he actually was talking with people, signing autographs, taking pictures and at one point wandered out into the crowd with a beer to watch the band play! Odd...very odd, but looking around, most people didn't even realize it was him standing right there.
That may say more about the obnoxious, roving teenagers and if the crowd is actually there to see the band or just to hang out and be seen.
Thanks Devon For letting the bass player shine!Blogger,Please tell me your not complaining of the awesome solo? I never noticed anyone leaving!
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