wow
Just got back from the King Sunny Adé show. Amazing! And I only stayed for the first set, as I was tired and having to get up early tomorrow. I think all you need to know is that there were 14 people on stage along with Adé and 7.5 of them were drummers (one guy was doubling on pedal steel and percussion). It just a rare thing to be in the presence of greatness. I was going to compare it to seeing Youssou N'Dour last year. But tonight's show had the advantage of being at the Cradle, a much more intimate venue than NCMA. So really what I'm reminded of most are a series of shows I saw back in the 80s -- within a span of a few months I saw the Damned, X, and Husker Du.
good times indeed...