REMI HARRIS/MAN OF THE WORLD
Musician Pub 2nd February 2024
Wow... what a great night!! The Musician Pub was rocking tonight to a simply magnificent set by Remi Harris and Man of the World. The band play the music of the legendary Peter Green and do it brilliantly.
The band is Remi Harris (guitar) Dave Small (vocals/percussion/harp) Tom Moore (bass) and Matt Brown (drums)... four superb musicians who gel together perfectly and have a great rapport among themselves and with the audience.
Remi's guitar playing is sublime... clean, pure and fluent recreating the music of Peter Green. Singer Dave is a focal point.. a charismatic leader and great singer and percussionist... Both Tom and Matt shine on bass and drums respectively... both as an awesome rhythm section and great as musicians individually.
And what of the show... the band took the stage and with no messing around, started with a drumbeat that sounded like a pistol shot before crashing into an incredibly powerful "Black Magic Woman" which had the audience moving from the start followed by (i think) "Stop Messing Around" before slowing down for a bluesy "Love that burns"... a song that got Remi into Peter Green's music.
The next piece was "The Supernatural" from the John Mayall era which featured a superb percussion section with Dave playing the hand drums and Matt playing his kit drums with his hands... there was also a wonderful bass passage. Dave's introduction to Peter Green was "Need your love so bad" which was next up. The first half ended with a magnificent "Green Manalishi"
After this the band took a 15 minute break while the audience collectively recovered it's breath and raved about a magnificent performance.
The second half started with a set of instrumentals starting with a Freddie King piece and ending, to huge cheers, with a great performance of "Albatross". At this point Dave returned to the stage for (again, i think) Long Grey Mare". The pace picked up again with an exhilarating powerful "Rattlesnake Shake"... a couple of songs later came a beautiful reading of "Man of the World".
Remi then did the "thank you's and announced that this is the last song coming up... Without further ado he launched into the introductory riff which raised the temperature in the room again as they concluded the set with "Oh Well" which had the audience chanting the "Please dont ask me what i think of you" section at full volume...
An encore was a 'given'... and the band came back for an ecstatic "Shake your money maker" which had the full house yelling the title line repeatedly in response to Dave singing it... and before the end Tom stepped forward to deliver a really superb bass solo and.they finally finished after delivering around 2 hours of superb music to a deservedly rapturous response from the audience.
Look at the set list... all bona fide classics and all played with commitment, passion, love, musical brilliance and great spirit...
This was one of THE great Musician nights when the roof seemed sure to raise...
Magnificent
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