{"id":4212,"date":"2017-08-18T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2017-09-02T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T12:15:34","slug":"deep-purple-alice-cooper-edgar-winter-band-woodlands-tx-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/18\/deep-purple-alice-cooper-edgar-winter-band-woodlands-tx-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Purple – Alice Cooper – Edgar Winter Band – Woodlands, TX – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Dave Clements<\/p>\n

\"deep<\/a>We went to The Woodlands Pavilion Friday night so I could hear six, maybe seven notes being played LIVE\u2026.and YES I got to hear them before the night was over. This is one more thing I get to check off my bucket list (more to follow).\u00a0 I also got so much more out of this evening of live music, compliments of Edgar Winter, Alice Cooper and Deep Purple.<\/p>\n

The hot and muggy evening actually started early<\/em>, can you believe it, when Edgar Winter and his band mates hit the stage at 6:40pm this Friday night.\u00a0 It was so refreshing to see that happen, versus a show starting 30-45 minutes late!\u00a0 Edgar Winter survived the summer sun, maybe because he was born and raised in Beaumont, and nailed all five songs on his set list that included Free Ride, Keep Playing R&R, R&R Hoochie Koo, and of course wrapping up with Frankenstein.\u00a0 The middle song of the set Tobacco Road was a song he dedicated to his late brother Johnny Winter.\u00a0 He passed away in 2014 and Edgar shared the he still misses him every day.\u00a0 This version was, by the way, a very long<\/em> Tobacco Road.\u00a0 How long was it?\u00a0 Long enough for me to take several hundred photos during the first portion of the song, walk to the security entrance to drop off my camera gear, pit stop, walk to my seat, and still listen to about 4 and a half minutes more.\u00a0 Nice to offer a tribute to his brother but maybe a bit too much as evidenced by a somewhat restless crowd.<\/p>\n

Before moving on, some impressive trivia: Edgar Winter was the first artist to put a strap on a keyboard so he, and others to follow, would not be \u2018strapped down\u2019 to a stool!\u00a0 Way to go Edgar!<\/p>\n

\"deep<\/a>Next up was Alice Cooper, who I think should have followed Deep Purple vs being in the second slot. Not that Alice Cooper\u2019s talent and career mark him as bigger or better than Deep Purple.\u00a0 It\u2019s simply that Alice Cooper provided such a sensory overload experience<\/em> that anything that followe,d other than a total eclipse of the sun, would be an emotional letdown.\u00a0 This performer is just relentless with his antics on stage.\u00a0 It is very well done, if you like the theatrics of that sort of thing.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t particular my cup of tea but I get it.\u00a0 Frankly it was equal parts stimulating, amusing and certainly fun to photograph.\u00a0 Plus Alice and I share a passion for golf so how bad can he be?\u00a0 Maybe I recognized one or two of the songs he and his bandmates played.\u00a0 However, I appeared to be the exception as many in the audience sang along to his songs..<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I\u2019d choose to go see him live again. However, if you are a fan and haven\u2019t experienced it I\u2019d highly recommend it.\u00a0 He gave his fans what they wanted\u2026and more!<\/p>\n

Deep Purple is way more my kind of music, and their song Smoke On The Water was what drove me to attend this evening. I had the song\u2019s intro stuck in my head and it had been bellowing around in there for weeks leading up to the show.\u00a0 Hearing it live was on my short list of songs I needed to hear live before I leave this world.\u00a0 It did not disappoint!\u00a0 Thank you Deep Purple.\u00a0 An added plus?\u00a0 I can now add another COLOR band to my list of bands seen live.\u00a0 How many COLOR bands have you seen? Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Jackson Browne, Cream\u2026others?<\/p>\n

\"deep<\/a>I didn\u2019t know much about Deep Purple or their music going into Friday night but I walked out at the end of the show feeling like I was much closer to being a true fan than I thought I was. I think I had read that they were one of the loudest rock bands in the history of R&R yet I didn\u2019t find that to be much of a factor, though I did have in hearing protection during the show.\u00a0 Also I didn\u2019t know as many songs in their set list as I had hoped and was surprised that one of their iconic hits Woman From Tokyo wasn\u2019t there.\u00a0\u00a0 Guess with a catalog of hits as extensive as theirs some fans were bound to be disappointed.<\/p>\n

All and all another impressive night of talented peoples taking The Woodlands stage for your listening pleasure. And once again everyone who stepped on stage that night gave us all they had and that was a lot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Until next time please remember to support live music NOW as there is NO TIME TO KILL.<\/p>\n

dwc<\/p>\n

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Written by Dave Clements We went to The Woodlands Pavilion Friday night so I could hear six, maybe seven notes being played LIVE\u2026.and YES I got to hear them before the night was over. This is one more thing I get to check off my bucket list (more to follow).\u00a0 I also got so much… <\/p>\n

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