Two more I just have to mention:
- Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band at The House Of Blues on Sunset Blvd. in 1999. Lots of harmony singing and 100% acoustic instruments, all the guys standing around a single big ol’ large capsule (ribbon?) microphone. They sounded FANTASTIC!
- Throughout the 1980’s my girlfriend and I saw Dave Edmunds live quite a few times, and he was always great (his show at The Ritz in NYC in 1983 being her favorite show of all time). I liked him and his band even more than Rockpile, Dave’s 1950’s-based Rock ’n’ Roll undiluted by Nick Lowe’s 1960’s-based Power Pop.
Dave always had a great band, sidemen including guitarists Billy Bremmer (from Rockpile) and Mickey Gee (an excellent Telecaster player), pianist/singer Geraint Watkins, bassist John David, and drummer Dave Charles. Dave alone kept Rock ’n’ Roll alive in the 1970’s and 80’s. John Lennon cited Dave’s first single---a blistering reworking of the Smiley Lewis Blues song "I Hear You Knocking"---as a favorite of his at the time of it’s release (1970).
