Posted by Joel Weiss on May. 10, 2009, at 10:54 pm
I wasn’t really sure what to expect going into Friday’s concert at Mahaffey Theater featuring an un-costumed, un-amplified-to-11 Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer. Maybe I was thinking too hard about it? After all, when you go see a band, they play their songs. When you go see a comedian, he does his material. With Guest, McKean, and Shearer, reality lay in between — a hilarious, two-hour multimedia jaunt down memory lane complete with stories, clips, and songs predominantly from two classic film satires about seemingly disparate genres of music. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: A Mighty Wind, Annette O'Toole, Berklee College of Music, Big Bottom, Break Like The Wind, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, concert, Concert-Review, David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, Elvis, Elvis-Presley, Eugene Levy, grammy, Harry Shearer, Jay Leno, Lego, Live Earth, Mahaffey Theater, Michael McKean, Mitch and Mickey, Muppets, NBC, new york times, Nigel Tufnel, NPR, Progress Energy Center for the Arts, review, rolling-stones, Spinal Tap, Statler, Stonehenge, Storytellers, Talk of the Nation, The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, The Tonight Show, This Is Spinal Tap, Unwigged & Unplugged, VH1, Waldorf, Wembley Stadium, Wolverine, X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Posted in Concerts, Reviews, Video | No Comments »
