Wow! Yacht Rock played an awesome show last night for the the City of Woodstock--part of their summer concert series. Nice stage, good crew, good weather, and an amazing crowd!
Our first set was all BeeGees. We'd played through all the newer tunes Friday night, so everybody knew what was happening on Saturday. It also worked out well because all of those tunes are so groove oriented, the rhythm section got really locked in by the time we got to the yacht rock set. All that stuff is fun, and harmonically much hipper than I would have guessed when I was a kid.
The second set was a big yacht rock feast. Nice and easy! Nick programmed a great set list--good pacing and a couple of less played favorites mixed in with our standard stuff.
Here are a couple of excerpts. I post these as much to highlight Mark Cobb's phenomenal drumming as my own playing.
Man! Those are really fun moments. Soloing in a setting like that feels like there's electrical current flowing through me.
The crowd was estimated to be between seven and eight thousand. Incredible! Afterwards, we signed lots of autographs, which is a really bizarre thing. I'm not going to get used to that.
All that, and I was home, gear put away, and showered by midnight! Yes!
We're on the road next week with stops in Raleigh (Lincoln Theatre), Charlotte (NC Music Factory), and Ziggy's (Winston-Salem) next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Come see us!
