The Sunday Morning “Nobody-Asked-Me-To, But-Here-I-Go-Anyway” Concert Review – Lenny Kravitz.

(or, Why I Will Never Be A Professional Concert Reviewer…)

There just may be a brand-new “hardest working man in show business”, to fill the slot vacated by the passing of Mr. James Brown. And that man (I humbly submit) would be Lenny Kravitz…

Egads, man! What a flippin’ show! 2 hours and 10 minutes, with nary a break to catch his breath, as he alternated between guitar, keyboards, and drums to crank out an onslaught of crowd-frenzying, funk-ified rock and roll.

That might be why he appeals so much to Mrs. That Dan Guy and I. He incorporates rock, funk, soul, jazz, blues, retro, and dollops of mainstream pop to come up with a sound that inspired even us shaky-kneed old farts to get up off our seats, and dance all night long to hit after hit. That’s right – we were dancin’ our cabooses off! Hey, what they don’t find out about at the old folks home…

What can I say? A cracker-jack band, a suitcase full of hits and loads of other songs that sounded great even if they weren’t big parts of his catalogue. Plus, he lets that cracker-jack band show off – his songs morphed from the well-known radio hits everybody knows, into extended jazz/funk fusions where each individual band member got a chance to toot his own horn. Especially the sax and trumpet players… They actually HAD horns to toot…

I know, I know – I’m just gushing here – but this guy knows how to rock the house! Who else could pull off adding lyrics from “Another Brick In The Wall”, and “Billy Jean” into one of his songs, and have the whole audience singing along at the top of their lungs? The man is a funked-out ringmaster!

Jeez, I have to stop gushing here! But it’s hard, let me tell you – why, he didn’t even play his big breakout “Mr. Cab Driver” hit, and nobody could have cared less.

Well worth seeing, let me tell you. "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" Yes indeed, Mr. Kravitz, yes indeed...

Oh yeah…he had a warm-up act. Some Canadian band. It was supposed to be Sloan, who I would have loved to have seen. It wasn’t. They were OK…

Chow for now!!