Re:JTQ live

Alistair Law (Alistair.Law@dem.csiro.au)
Wed, 22 Oct 1997 09:54:49 +1000


Elson wrote -

>One question, especially to the UK/European listmembers - Does JT ever go
>onstage with other keyboards?
>I've seen photos of him with a Hammond B3, Rhodes, Clavinet and Minimoog
>synth, and obviously he plays them on the albums. He's a great Hammond
>player but a *killer* clavinet, Rhodes and synth player too. I will never
>be truly impressed by a JTQ show unless he's playing all those other
>keyboards as well.

I saw JTQ in Sydney a couple off years back around the time of 'inevitable'
and he used all the keyboards listed except I think he had a moog prodigy -
(maybe coz it's got memory??). They also had a 3 piece horn section, male
and female vocalists and percusion. This was one of the best shows I've
seen. The band were so personable - no rock star BS! Towards the end of the
set JT got people up on stage and girls were dancing on his Hammond - a
roadies nightmare :-). Then he started pouring drinks for audience members
from the band rider! Sorry if you missed it ;-).

Al.