Cruz Beach Boardwalk concerts 2019

[Drunk Monk]

Brian Howe. More UK 70s rock.  I read Bad Company, but it's really just Brian Howe. Another former rocker doing a lounge act.  That being said, he seemed quite aware of his cheesiness and played that with bawdy jokes and funny excuses for when he burped into the mike just before a key note 'too much bbq'.  He even made direct eye contact with me (there weren't a lot of us in the sand pit) and stuck his tongue out, which made me laugh. He invited a woman up from stage to sing with him. The first woman was fat in a U.S. flag shirt and tried to hope the barricade - total fail - fell flat on her ass.  That was funny.  She laughed too even though we were all laughing at her because it was such a fall on your ass move.  They woman who made it claimed it was her 60th birthday and only knew the chorus, and sang it flat and not in time with the band.  That was funny too.  Brian hammed it up.  He actually got me to laugh several times. Classic 4 piece back-up, another bass player who only played the top two strings (WTH? Did they only have 2-string basses in the 70s? KB, what's the sitch?).  Brian only introduced the lead guitar who pulled off a few classic solos.  Rhythm guitar and drums just kept time. If you took all of the worst aging attributes of all of DOOM, rolled them up in a ball, and distributed them across a band, it would look like this show.

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Now at our bungalow and can hear set 2 pretty clearly.  Kinda bummed I missed 'rock & roll fantasy' but I got a little reggae jam in 'feel like making love' which they actually jammed out quite a bit until the big cheesey lounge act ending.