Label: Moonwink
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
UPC: 667752010024
EAN: 0667752010024
ASIN: B00000I0W8
Release Date: 1996-06-04
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Artist: Gibb Droll Band
Label: Moonwink Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD UPC: 667752010024 EAN: 0667752010024 ASIN: B00000I0W8 Release Date: 1996-06-04 |
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Spirituality........2000-07-24
Gibb is hands-down the best guitar player I've ever seen live. The first time I saw him at the Bayou in Georgetown, I walked back home in a stupor. The second time at the Bayou, he did things to a guitar you'd need a booth and a roll of quarters to see anywhere else. At the Wetlands and Tramps in NYC.... I was once stopped by a random stranger on the steps of the Met because she saw my Gibb hat and said she was from North Carolina and that he was her favorite artist of all time....
The Gibb Droll Band didn't make songs -- they slammed down emotion on the stage in huge chunks of soul-killing blues, swinging jazz, and jumping texas swing. And each member of the band was a musician -- they weren't doing the usual blues band showcasing of a single member.
However...
I knew there was trouble in paradise when they opened for Edwin McCain at the Wetlands. GDB *opening* for Edwin McCain? Proof that perversity in the universe tends toward maximum. Then started the succession of bass players -- all good, but you just know trouble's around the bend. Then came the self-titled studio CD -- without the rest of the band - which, I'm sad to say, is weak, very weak, compared to the rest of his work.
Then, I'm pretty sure, GBD broke up. I don't follow them religiously, so I don't know what happened, but I heard tell Gibb was touring with VonRa, and now touring with somebody else.
All of which makes me mad, because apparently folks in general prefer no-talent run-of-the-mill chord-machines to people with an actual gift; and makes me sad because something truly wonderful and beautiful no longer exists anymore.
All of which was the long way to say: 1) pick up Dharma, Narrow Mouth Jar, and -- if you can get ahold of it -- the GDB 'Live' CD, because they're great and there ain't gonna be no more; and 2) if Gibb comes to your town (he usually does gigs from Texas to NYC, I think) go see him even without the GDB, because he's a master.
Request 'Long Black Train'. It'll send shivers down your spine.
Gibb Droll = Cool........1999-06-20
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