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March 05, 2005
Dave Specter/Steve Freund show in Fremont
I am so glad I made it out to this show!! It was just as I remember but only better. Dave Specter is just so damn good.
He's a Chicago jewel that we had the honor of having play
right here in the bay area for a mini-tour. I just wish I would've made it to a show the was a bit longer but aaah well...my fault, I guess.
The way he and Freund interact, or communicate, with them guitars is
nuthin' short of amazing!! I was in heaven, especially when the two of them would be playing together and just bouncin' off each other, trading licks. I could have listened to that all night long and nothing else. Masterful stuff. It was heaven.
Aaaah sweet guitar gods cleanse my soul and then it happened......
it ruined the whole momentum that was goin'.
Dammit, the marquee said DAVE SPECTER AND STEVE FREUND, right??
Call me a whiner but.... driving an hour and a half for a total of an
hour, if that, of Specter was not what I intended. Hell...it was
already a short two-set night!!
If I wanted a jam, I would go out on Jam night, or to a Johnny Nitro
show. (More on that show later)
This guy comes out here ONCE A YEAR and he should not be leaving the
stage for no one, no how, NEVER!! I don't care about "Chicago tradition" we're not in Chicago and neither was Dave. He was on tour, no?
I endured sleets of rain on near white-out conditions, on a dangerous
highway for an hour and a half, sucked up a half tank of gas, hurried my ass off at a 9-hour work day with absolutely NO BREAKS just to make it on time, and this is what I get??!!
I was about to leave, I was so heart-broken, but I do love all the
local players that were up there although I was not happy about it,
at all. Dave came a long ways, as well as we did, and dammit it just ain't right.
I love ALL the locals that were up there but I can go see these fabulous players any 'ol time.
Dave should never leave the stage, when out here "on tour," for no
one, ever. He is just too damn good for that.
Sorry to offend anyone. I wasn't gonna say nuthin' and was told I
shouldn't, but I'm still reelin' over this.
Please don't be mad at me, Spencer Jarret, Chris "Kid" Andersen, Johnny Cat, James reed, and whoever else was up there. Especially you, Scott Brenton. You know I love ya all but you have to understand what a fan I am of Dave's and have been long before I even heard of Steve Freund or any of the other bay area players. Before I started steppin' out on the scene. He's one my guitar hereos.
Great to see and hear, Dave. Even if was only for an hour. I'll be listening to all of his CDs all day, hoping it will give me
that fix, but it just ain't the same. Thanks for bringing him out once again, Steve. You guys are amazing up there together. Just too damn amazing, I guess.
Just a whiny, frustrated Specter fan....
Posted by Mo at March 5, 2005 05:41 PM
Comments
ISN'T THIS SOMETHING? MY FAVORITE CHICAGO GUITARIST (DAVE SPECTER) PLAYING IN THE TOWN I
USED TO LIVE IN (ON YELLOWSTONE PARK DRIVE). DAVE
IS ONE VERY TALENTED PLAYER AND A FRIENDLY
PERSON TO BOOT, WHO APPRECIATES HIS FANS. I'VE
SEEN HIM COUNTLESS TIMES AND IT'S COOL TO KNOW
HE'S DUG BY YOU LEFT COAST TYPES, ESPECIALLY
SINCE YOU'VE GOT GUYS LIKE TOMMY CASTRO, COCO
MONTOYA & CURTIS SALGADO. TAKE CARE!
Posted by: MITCH GAWLIK at September 9, 2005 12:10 PM