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show review by BILLIEJOEX
Tammy!!! How are you my bluesy girl??? :-) Do you remember me? I'm the Italian guy, who went to see Eric in Milan at the "House of Blues" some months ago…
As you probably know, Eric is in Italy in these days, and yesterday I went to see him at the Nistoc Festival in Brescia. (I drove 500 kilometers, arghh!!)
The Nistoc Festival was really cool. Actually, Nistoc is on a little mountain in the north of Italy. The mountain has a lake at its feet, and I swear… the view was so cool, the air so clean, with all this grass around. It was a really nice place (look at the photos I attached).
The show was totally free (great Eric). I arrived at 9:00 PM, I turned around for a couple of minutes, then I went to a restaurant where I saw Eric was eating (with the snake hat on his head, too! ^_^). Paul and Mike were continually roaming around the restaurant, Paul most of all. I met him in the bathroom, too… He was just zipping up his pants! I say to him, "Hi, Paul!", He says to me (laughing) "Hi, man! Come on in, now it's free!"
An hour later, I met Eric beside the stage in a camper. He was talking with his body guard, and I asked him for a photo… We talked a little bit, then I embraced him.
He was kind and available, like always (What a man… A great man!).
One hour later THE show began. He started with "Treat Me Right" like with the power of a shotgun!! Initially the people were cold like always (here in Italy, Eric is virtually unknown), but by the second-third songs, all the people began to dance and scream. He continued with the classic "Flames of Love," "Write Me a Few Lines," "My Baby Got Something," "Get Along Rider," "Can't Be Satisfied," etc.… The damn microphone was way too low, but the guitar… oh man… the guitar was heavy as a machine gun!!! His left hand on the frets, right hand on the body, and all the fuckin' rest turned off!
He performed a great show like always, and he finished with "Treat Me Right" (a reprise), then he went away behind the stage, but the people were going crazy and screaming his name out loud, even when Eric was behind the stage, so he went back for 3 encores (!)… because the people called him back every time he left the stage !!!!
Oh, girl… You can understand how I felt yesterday, what it means to see Eric Sardinas in concert, what it means to look at those hands that are so fast and sure on the strings, what it means to watch that guy play guitar like a hurricane -- in a dirty yet extremely refined way at the same time, what it means to watch this alien that will go down in the history of the music as one of the greatest.
Eheheh, sorry, but I'm still much too excited from the show yesterday! I know you understand me, my girl. :-)
If you like, you can publish this as a review of the concert (but you gotta correct the grammatical errors, ehehe :-) The photos should be ready next week, you gotta wait! I'll send the photos of the old Milan concert, too. For now, I am attaching photos of the place. Take a look, it was really nice!
:-)
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