party | Chris Isaac and the eternal rock viability
Stockton, a medium-sized city California Close to San Francisco and Sacramento, he produced two important names in modern music: Chris Isaac And Sidewalk. Two art projects that are adjacent and close in time, but could not have different philosophies. Where Pavement, Stephen Malkmus’ band, pushed all the boundaries of classic pop and rock to create something new, or at least freer, Isaac took the same corset and tied it as tightly as he could, always tightly. . What resulted was not a genre constrained and stifled by that heritage, but rather the opposite. The singer with the wig and broken nose looks like everything that came before, but few have managed to rock and roll as well. As he had been doing since entering the scene.
This Thursday, the Noches del Botánico Festival was packed with crowds who almost filled the venue. There was something of an exorcism in the air, for parents and grandparents—the forty were the smallest group of the assembled—who needed to get together for a few hours to forget what their children and grandchildren were listening to at school. Eager to return to a time, in the eighties and nineties, when all generations of the house coincided in their passion for a particular music: that which a few American masters made twenty years earlier on the basis of vocal virtuosity and mastery. synthetic. At the time when the songs Otis Redding And Roy Orbison They were in all the movies and sets The best of the soul and mixtures Jeff the Rabbit It was advertised on TV. last night It was about celebrating this immortal law that no longer existed for the younger generations. So Isaac came to serve him on a silver platter.
they started with american boywhich is a vital topic country rock One of those words where “baby” utters every three words, that caught the audience’s attention wrongly: Did you have to start dancing, the first time? Isaac had come out profusely on stage in a suit nation The azure was so brilliant that there was no way to look anywhere else. He joked, extolling the virtues of Spain and the Spaniards and introducing himself as A.S artist Humble when in reality everyone knows, he too, is facing the best he can. Immediately confirmed: when he started singing the third song, expected, an embrace song, he descended onto the track, and began singing through the audience and across the venue until he was laid out in the stands in front of the stage. Ten minutes passed and Botanical is now entirely his, like a Las Vegas casino in the hands of Elvis or Dean Martin.
The debate over whether Isaak is a One hit wonder, the one-hit star, is one of those Internet eternals. The singer knows this, which is probably why last night he immediately sent the song to blame which was the song almost everyone went to listen to: A mighty game which swept the charts in 1991 driven by, among other things, sponsorship David Lynch so is it The heart of an adventurer. The thing was almost just getting started and He hitsAs if the musicians wanted to get rid of him before anyone asked them. Hundreds of screens lit up simultaneously to record the moment, in a sort of candlelit mass, and Isaac approached her without any introduction, and began singing it almost listlessly. But as the song progressed, the artist himself seemed to realize the infinite greatness of that timeless and hopeless song. By the time she got to her last poignant verse, “Nobody Loves Nobody,” Isaac was already fully into it. That song alone is worth an entire career, and he knows that, too.
But in case anyone had any doubts, it will appear throughout the concert that the Californian and his band are much more than that round piece. They are, first of all, The ultimate rock band that’s still at their best. Which is why she shines, especially when she’s cascading Go walk thereAnd Speaking of Satan and the Pretty woman Orbison, the latter with their phones and cameras on fire again. Then more versions will arrive, the usual ones: the onlyalso from Orbison, or Can’t help falling in love that popularized ElvisDesirable moments of Isaac’s vocal bravado, great on stories like that or something like that forever bluecomposed by him and which gives the title the most critically acclaimed album of his career.
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Such was the excitement and desire of this first concert of his tour that he asked the audience to notify the babysitters that they would be home late, because jam sessions have just begun. And a lot of the basics were falling apart: with Don’t make me dream about you Bring some – or not many – improvisers to the stage, San Francisco days It was one of the most cheered by the audience, and “Spanish ”-I write it here– Spanish blue sky. You can tell how good a group of four guys have been playing together for decades – the fifth, for keyboards, is “the new” – and that they were on a TV show, The Chris Isak Show who had a certain success in the early 2000s. They play like masters, understand each other with a simple wink, improvise and change Make the list at will and allow themselves to choreograph, though to the knees of pensioners, to the beat of their songs.
Isaac and his silver tone, which is the name of the band, they get along really well, and it shows. A common comment during the ceremony was the good vibes that come from the stage at all times. Also in conclusion: for the encore, the singer changed his suit and went out in a suit that imitated a mirror ball and reflected bright rays of light. Verified again Great composer and above all arranger who he is With another piece of that idyllic atmosphere, I can do nothing (to stop me). They sang their ranchera in Spanish, The grave will be the end. And they closed with the poem Country Road is really the stuff. There was a special harmony between the splendid night of the Ciudad Universitaria, the fragrant garden that hosts the concerts and the man who looks like Ken (the one from Barbie) who has been around for years, well-combed and certainly perfumed, who said goodbye from the stage of the loyal audience. Given what has been seen, it doesn’t seem like this is the last time they will meet.
