Gary Clark Jr.

helplessdancer

EdsonNascimento said:

He’s about to rightfully blow up.  I think this tour is your last chance to see him at smaller places.  This is about the best album to come out from anyone in the last 5 years.  

I LOVE HYPE. thanks! i'm gonna buy the new cd today just cause of this post 

derbydave

LukinFan said:

He's on Fallon tonight! 

Thanks for the heads up...
setting my DVR now!!

Bentleyspop

RS151862 said:

He played Come Together and This Land on Stern this morning. Sounded great, and a nice interview too. 

This Land
https://youtu.be/8jj7NyrneWU

Come Together 
https://youtu.be/KUYb-V4GYZc

kramer73

derbydave said:

LukinFan said:

He's on Fallon tonight! 

Thanks for the heads up...
setting my DVR now!!

They played one of my favorite songs off of the new album.  I think that everything could have been turned up a bit though.  It's also possible that it's just that stage.

derbydave

https://youtu.be/pNnsrt-kZro

tbergs

tbergs

Bentleyspop said:

RS151862 said:

He played Come Together and This Land on Stern this morning. Sounded great, and a nice interview too. 

This Land
https://youtu.be/8jj7NyrneWU

Come Together 
https://youtu.be/KUYb-V4GYZc

I hate drawing parrallels, but that Come Together was great and reminded me a bit of when Lenny Kravitz covered American Woman in terms of taking it up a notch from the original. I honestly didn't think I would like it, but he nailed it. Thank goodness something will help push that Aerosmith version out as the most well known version outside the original. 

LukinFan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-KB729SBMg
Daily Show from last night

LukinFan

He also played an unedited version of "This Land" on the Daily Show, but I can't find a video of it. 

Daron Oshay

I cannot stop listening to this album. Every song rips. He’s always been great live of course but it didn’t translate to the first two albums in my opinion. Different story here 

Thierry Henry

Really like the album so far. Gutted I’m arriving in New Orleans the day he plays the New Orleans Jazz festival but won’t make the show in time. Not happy! 
No ireland date this summer either. 

DewieCox

Too many songs. Dig the title track and some of the fresher sounds he’s going with but anything over a dozen songs is usually a sign of bad self editing. 

I’ve gotta give at least a slight eye roll to him going the SJW route here as well. I’m all for fair treatment and if the event that conceived the title song happened more power to him. It just seems he trying to capitalize on a trend. 

kasedoug

EdsonNascimento said:

He’s about to rightfully blow up.  I think this tour is your last chance to see him at smaller places.  This is about the best album to come out from anyone in the last 5 years.  

Having seen him a dozen plus times in smaller venues, I was actually looking forward to seeing how his show would translate on bigger stages since his two SoCal shows are at the Santa Barbara and Hollywood Bowls. Bummer that both dates conflict with the weekend of Ohana. 
Still need to give the full album a listen. Like the 10 or so songs I've already seen him play live since he's been road testing some of these for a while. Low Down Rolling Stone, Pearl Cadillac, and What About Us are some of my early favorites. 

kramer73

DewieCox said:

Too many songs. Dig the title track and some of the fresher sounds he’s going with but anything over a dozen songs is usually a sign of bad self editing. 

I’ve gotta give at least a slight eye roll to him going the SJW route here as well. I’m all for fair treatment and if the event that conceived the title song happened more power to him. It just seems he trying to capitalize on a trend. 

Are you a white male?

LukinFan

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-998-gary-clark-jr

Recent interview with Gary on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Lots of great blues talk. Cool interview. 

tbergs

kasedoug said:

EdsonNascimento said:

He’s about to rightfully blow up.  I think this tour is your last chance to see him at smaller places.  This is about the best album to come out from anyone in the last 5 years.  

Having seen him a dozen plus times in smaller venues, I was actually looking forward to seeing how his show would translate on bigger stages since his two SoCal shows are at the Santa Barbara and Hollywood Bowls. Bummer that both dates conflict with the weekend of Ohana. 
Still need to give the full album a listen. Like the 10 or so songs I've already seen him play live since he's been road testing some of these for a while. Low Down Rolling Stone, Pearl Cadillac, and What About Us are some of my early favorites. 

Thanks for the heads-up. I would love to see him at Hollywood Bowl, but it's that or RHCP that night. And it seems like the tickets to Gary Clark Jr. are going to be hard to come by unless it's the secondary market.

derbydave

It's only March...
but could definitely see this record ending up in my Top 5 records of the year!!

kasedoug

tbergs said:

kasedoug said:

EdsonNascimento said:

He’s about to rightfully blow up.  I think this tour is your last chance to see him at smaller places.  This is about the best album to come out from anyone in the last 5 years.  

Having seen him a dozen plus times in smaller venues, I was actually looking forward to seeing how his show would translate on bigger stages since his two SoCal shows are at the Santa Barbara and Hollywood Bowls. Bummer that both dates conflict with the weekend of Ohana. 
Still need to give the full album a listen. Like the 10 or so songs I've already seen him play live since he's been road testing some of these for a while. Low Down Rolling Stone, Pearl Cadillac, and What About Us are some of my early favorites. 

Thanks for the heads-up. I would love to see him at Hollywood Bowl, but it's that or RHCP that night. And it seems like the tickets to Gary Clark Jr. are going to be hard to come by unless it's the secondary market.

The tickets for Gary's show at the Hollywood Bowl haven't gone on sale individually yet. The individual ticket on-sale for Bowl shows doesn't occur until early May. You can only get them as part of their 5+ show subscription series at the present moment. It's a big venue so I think the tickets will be easy to come by later. It's part of the KCRW World Festival which draws a bit of a crowd for that series, but I don't think tickets will be that tough. He typically sells out multi-night runs at the Fonda, and has played the Greek on his own, but this is his biggest headlining gig in town so far.

cincybearcat

So - his Indy show says 7:30PM.  Is there an opener on this tour?  Anyone seen him before to understand 1) When he will take the stage 2) How long his set is?  

Debating the drive on a Monday....stupid work.

DewieCox

kramer73 said:

DewieCox said:

Too many songs. Dig the title track and some of the fresher sounds he’s going with but anything over a dozen songs is usually a sign of bad self editing. 

I’ve gotta give at least a slight eye roll to him going the SJW route here as well. I’m all for fair treatment and if the event that conceived the title song happened more power to him. It just seems he trying to capitalize on a trend. 

Are you a white male?

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