Enjoy Mikkel
and Wicki's review of Alvin Lee's concert
in
Lillehammer, Norway - 10 May 2008:
Hi Brigitte
& Dave !
We are just
back from Lillehammer after a great trip.
A beautiful 130 km drive up from Oslo with
snow still on the mouitains even though it
was 23 degrees in the valley.
I was
lucky enough to meet Alvin and Evy in
the hotel bar the night before the show,
and he signed my 1965 ES 335 and a picture
of me holding his 1960 Strat ( see attach
). Unfortunately he couldn´t remember
having owned the ES 335 as I was
told when I bought it, but as he said
" I´ve had so many guitars so who
knows.............. " He played it
for a while which was cool too. Lots of
people wanted a piece of him, so I didn´t
get to ask him if he knew who got the Isle
of Wight 345, and other questions, but it
was of course fantastic to meet him.
The next day
he played on the main stage, and Wicki and
I was way up front. I´m happy to say that
it was one of the very best
concerts I have ever seen him
play, if not the best ! ( I have seen
7 before ). His playing was superb and he
was smiling and giving it all.As you can
see on one of the pictures he also played
blues harp and used it for slide on the
solo. He played a great selection of
his greatest hits and a couple of tunes
from his new Sagitarius.
Alvin got a
special connection with Wicki ( who had
her red dress on ) and it was great to see
him pointing directly at her when he said
" Baby I´ll play the blues for you
" and " comming to get you one
more time " in I´m Going Home.
After the last tune he threw his plecktrum
directly down to her ( a great memory )
!!!
It was the
first time I saw the drummer and the bass
player, and I think they did a great
job backing Alvin. The bass player used an
old upright bass for some tunes. Amazing
how big the trio could sound, and in my
ears much better than the 3 guitarists and
2 drummers that Dickey Betts used after
Alvin ( It must have been a tough job to
go on stage after Alvin ! ).
As you can see
my pictures are a bit graney, as I´m not
a skilled photografer, but I think it
is a pretty good effect on all us
folks over 50. Feel free to use what you
want on your great site.
I hope you are
enjoying spring in Germany and sends you
all the best from Denmark !!!
Mikkel & Wicki
Thank you Wicki and
Mikkel for sharing your review and
photos with all of us!
Nice view of
Lillehammer, Norway
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