Jeff Kazee, Rich Pagano and John Conte perform Son of Your Father at The Bitter End in New York City during their ‘EE’ Early Elton show. A complete website and Facebook page is under construction.
As the story goes, Elton’s label didn’t have the funds to send him out to tour the US with a full band, yet Elton needed to promote his imminent releases. Having decided on Dee and Nigel, Elton then rearranged the songs and vocals to fit within the limitations of his new lineup. Suddenly, a new sound emerged that was both raw and poignant. While Jeff, John and Rich have used rare video, bootleg recordings and even Elton’s own home demos in shaping their collective vision of Elton’s Trio Period, they will be blurring the lines between replication and innovation slightly, while still capturing and utilizing the spirit, mood and energy from those early tours.
Next show;
Wednesday, July 29 8:00 p.m.
The Bitter End
147 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and LaGuardia)
New York City
(212) 673-7030
Source: Vimeo.com
This is another of these projects which make me want to live in New York. We will probably never be able to see Jeff, John and Rich do this in a place over here.
Really like the sound a lot! Great video quality as well! Didn’t know Vimeo yet!
Beside: Klaus, what you have done to the website is amazing!
Henk, I couldn’t agree more! But the Internets is an amazing thing to connect… it’s a smaller world than ever…
and… ehmmm… thanx!
Klaus