Anthony Snape, an Aussie freshly moved over to Nashville, with a wicked right hand, intensely meaningful lyrics and a huge set of pipes. Throughout the night The Endless Road String Quartet would jump up and play with various artists. They rocked a couple with Anthony on his last two songs.
Of course the great Antsy McClain and the Trailor Park Troubadors was a crowd pleaser. He rocked for about an hour and a half with the crowd dancing the whole time. On lead he had the master guitarist Bobby Cochran from Steppenwolf.
Pauly Zarb is a good friend of mine as well as a world class musician. He plays every instrument in the book (he plays in Antsy’s band, The Trailor Park Troubadors as well). He and his brother, Matt Zarb, started the street concert seven years ago as a way to give back to the community they had transplanted to. Here are a couple of shots of him playing a couple of the instruments he pulled out during the night.
He plays with a variety of drummers but typically has as his primary band Chris Bradley, a true southern-blues-rocker, on the electric guitar, and Stevie Hewlett, who plays a beast of a seven string Bass .
During the night my mind was never so blown as it was during Michael Kelsey’s set. I can’t even describe to you the explosion of sounds that come out of this guys guitar. Josh Brown described it to me best. He said, “it’s like a tornado whipping around the guitar”.
At one point he called up Pauly, Bobby Cochran and some of the other guys to play behind him as he free flowed a rap about everything that was going on around us. He did it to “that’s the way uh huh, uh huh, I like it”.
There other top acts as well that I didn’t get pictures of, like Pat Kirtley, Rick Price and James Dean Hicks. This was, in my opinion, by far the best line up Pauly has put together. And I must say, I am really glad he put me in as the kick-off act simply because I wouldn’t have wanted to follow any of those guys.
Peace, hope and love
2 Comments
June 30, 2009 at 2:44 pm
It sounds amazing!!! I wish I could have been there this year! 5 more days…
July 11, 2009 at 1:46 pm
It was a fun show to be a part of, thanks for the kind words
cheers
A.