Friday, June 6, 2014

Full Show Friday: John Lee Hooker- Live Montreal 1980

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's.  These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...John Lee Hooker!
Well we mentioned him yesterday in a post, so we figured lets let the boogie-woogie blues flow for real today...Here is John Lee Hooker from back in 1980 in Montreal.

The super cool Hooker is the obvious star here but his backing musicians are pretty legit in their own right. Gary Alongi rips it up on guitar during the first two insturmentals, getting the crowd worked up for the blues to come. I think after some research the bass player is Steve Gomes, and I couldn't find the drummers name, a tight trio even if they are a bit energetic for Hooker here.

John Lee takes a few songs to really get into it but dives in at the end  and is cooking by the end of the short set. How can you not dig "Boom Boom"? Pro-shot Pro Sound, so get down.... 

Enjoy, Set list below:

Instrumental #1
Instrumental #2
"It Serves Me Right to Suffer"
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"
"I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive"
"Roll Me Like You Roll a Wagon Wheel"
"Boom Boom Boom"
"I'm in the Mood"
"Look at What You Did to My Life"
"Chicken and Gravy"
"We're Gonna Do The Shout"

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