adouglas
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To-knee! Tony Levin Kingston gig photos
I went to see Tony Levin's entire US tour last night (Keegan Ales, Kingston, NY) and it was PHENOMENAL.
Lots more photos here:
http://photobucket.com/albums/a115/adouglas2001/
They uploaded in reverse order, for some reason...
We got there during sound check, which was very cool. Had to leave so that they could collect tickets properly, and once we walked in we pretty much bypassed the food they'd laid out and went right up to the stage, which was so narrow there was room for only six or seven people across the front. I'm glad I did that...I'm only 5'7" on a good day, so if I'm not in the first row I usually wind up spending the evening looking at the middle of somebody's back.
So I watched the whole show from maybe 3 feet away. I snagged Tony's set list, which was right at my feet, and had him autograph it at the end of the night.
There was another band as well, and they were great...but we'd driven a long way and bailed after two songs.
This was a terrific event. $30 got you the Tony Levin Band (which now includes his brother Peter on keyboards as well as Larry Fast playing keyboards), a really nice spread of food and free beer.
Despite it being an industrial space, the sound was great...probably a combination of the shape of the room (much longer than wide), a drop ceiling and the line of huge tuns (beer vats) down one side.
He played his Barbie-flesh SR5, a black fretless SR5 and a Grand Stick. The bass amplification was Ampeg.
I was surprised at how sparse his pedal board was...Aside from DI and switching stuff and a volume pedal, there was an EH Big Muff Pi (used a LOT), a Boss digital delay, a Boss octaver, (both used sparingly) and an Analog Man "Bi-Comprossor" compressor pedal.
I went to see Tony Levin's entire US tour last night (Keegan Ales, Kingston, NY) and it was PHENOMENAL.
Lots more photos here:
http://photobucket.com/albums/a115/adouglas2001/
They uploaded in reverse order, for some reason...
We got there during sound check, which was very cool. Had to leave so that they could collect tickets properly, and once we walked in we pretty much bypassed the food they'd laid out and went right up to the stage, which was so narrow there was room for only six or seven people across the front. I'm glad I did that...I'm only 5'7" on a good day, so if I'm not in the first row I usually wind up spending the evening looking at the middle of somebody's back.
So I watched the whole show from maybe 3 feet away. I snagged Tony's set list, which was right at my feet, and had him autograph it at the end of the night.
There was another band as well, and they were great...but we'd driven a long way and bailed after two songs.
This was a terrific event. $30 got you the Tony Levin Band (which now includes his brother Peter on keyboards as well as Larry Fast playing keyboards), a really nice spread of food and free beer.
Despite it being an industrial space, the sound was great...probably a combination of the shape of the room (much longer than wide), a drop ceiling and the line of huge tuns (beer vats) down one side.
He played his Barbie-flesh SR5, a black fretless SR5 and a Grand Stick. The bass amplification was Ampeg.
I was surprised at how sparse his pedal board was...Aside from DI and switching stuff and a volume pedal, there was an EH Big Muff Pi (used a LOT), a Boss digital delay, a Boss octaver, (both used sparingly) and an Analog Man "Bi-Comprossor" compressor pedal.
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