and once again
we got a man here who belongs to the kind of artists - "we heard the
name but don't know really who he is in the first moment"- Yes of
course, our generation of musiclovers don't know this problem.Because of
course we know who Mr. Palmer-James is, and that he was one of the
founders of Supertramp, although he left the band after their debut
release already. He was also responsible for the band name, he had adopted
from a same titled novel - 'autobiography of a vagabund' written by
William Henry Davies. - Now Supertramp went to the top without Richard
Palmer-James. He got himself a name by writing all lyrics for the 3 King
Crimson albums Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black und
Red. He founded the band Munich and quit it again after 2 years. In
the Eighties he worked successfully with other artists and in 1985 there
was a brief reunion of Munich. including the album 'You Never Know'.
Later on he dedicated his work to mainly Folk- and Bluesmusic and wrote a
lot of movie music. He still luvs to play mainly the acoustic guitar and
the mandoline. Richard Palmer-James, who lives in Munich for many years
and speaks germany fluently is a man of rather quiet tunes. Blues meets
Rock'n'Roll and some folkmusic.
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Recently we have already
spotted him supporting the Hooters. Tonight the Richard Palmer-James Band
is doing a sologig at the Backstage Club in front of unfortunately much
too less people. They do start the band with an acoustic solostint of the
boss, and a song named 'Shrug' before the rest of the band is joining in.
Most of all guitarist Erch Schachtner, a brilliant musician. You can make
out easily, that this man has had a classical education. Apart from him
there are Mick Brehmen on bass and Evert van der Wal on drums. The setlist
is a mixture of everything including some King Crimson tune - 'The Baker's
Dozen'- But don't worry we do not have a too serious progressive rock
party here. There is also a neat southamerican solo stint of guitarist and
Schachtner and drummer Van d.Wal.
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I have to confess, it
always makes me a bit sad, when I watch and listen to such good musicians,
who should get the respect they deserve, but they don't.
We also hear a nice version of the Rock'n'Roll evergreen 'High Heel
Sneakers' a classic, originally by Johnny Rivers and Muddy Waters.
Over all this gig belongs to the sort of concerts, you rather enjoy
quietly with your beer and afterwards you can say: yes it's been great,
and I'll be back next time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Palmer-James
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