Aug 19, 2011 (13 years ago) Porterhouse London, England, United Kingdom
A splendid time was had at last night’s show from Dave ‘Bucket’ Colwell, the much-travelled and very persistent Brit guitarist who has played with Bad Company, Humble Pie, Paul Samson’s Empire and Adrian Smith & Project among many other acts. Being a ‘free’ unplugged concert, the location – a West End pub called Porterhouse – was crammed with office worker-types that didn’t seem to realise (or indeed really care) that a rock band had been engaged to play some music for them, which was bit weird. I found it quite hard to ‘zone out’ the constant buzz of chatter, but the music was great. Colwell was backed by Paul Guerin of the Quireboys and an Irish lead singer named Ronan who had a superb and extremely versatile set on tonsils. Then, again he needed them as besides some very creditable material from Colwell’s album ‘Guitars, Beers & Tears’ the set included material voiced by Paul Rodgers (Bad Co’s ‘Feel Like Making Love’, ‘Seagull’ and ‘Shooting Star’, plus ‘All Right Now’ by Free), Spike (‘Seven O’Clock’ by the QBs), Chris Robinson (the Crowes’ ‘She Talks To Angels’), Bon Scott (‘Highway To Hell’ by AC/DC), Rod Stewart (The Faces’ ‘Ooh La-la’), Dan Baird (‘Keep Your Hands To Yourself’ by the Georgia Satellites) and even Bruce Stringbean (‘Better Days’). ’Twas a first-rate evening…
By Dave Ling on daveling.co.uk
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