2007-07-10

Blisterin' Blooz



Ottawa loves Buddy Guy, and Buddy Guy loves Ottawa right back. Guy is gettin' up there - he's alleged to have taught Hendrix & Clapton a thing or three - but as the saying goes, "Age and guile beat youth and speed every time". Specially when the old guy can still (selectively) play about six times faster than any of the hot young gunslingers in his band. He pretty much blistered the Tolex right off the amps and stacks. And if his playing hadn't, his patter surely would have. In addition to being the kind of soulful gutbucket blues player you won't hear every month, Guy is a veritable poet laureate of the profane anglosaxon monosyllable. I think his first word onstage was "Shit". I stand in dropjawed awe and admiration.

And speakin' of profanity, I have this to say to that ovine herd of smirking Junior Chamber of Commerce fuckwits who decided to celebrate their coming inheritance of society by firing up large stogies in the midst of a packed and gridlocked crowd, gassing about an acre of 'em just before the music started: You're inconsiderate, foul, (ob)noxious jerks. And your Stepford wives and girlfriends, who giggled at how cute you all looked, suckin' on reeking replacement dicks? Uglier'n bucketsful of smashed assholes. Every last one of 'em. Ummm, I think that pretty much covers it....

4 comments:

Harmony said...

But, tell us what you REALLY think Coyote...

coyote said...

Ooooh, ma'am - what I really think is rather less printable...

bob said...

Were they smoking stogies, or were they just cigar papers filled with other stuff? It smelt awfully like otto's jacket at the river stage that night... it was a good show, but too much repetative wailing for my liking. I stuck for a bit and then went over to the black sheep stage to see final fantasy emo the crowd into oblivion with his violin, that was fun.

Btw, great reviews you guys, good pics too, and the white stripes kick uberass all over this city!!!!

coyote said...

There was lotsa other stuff around, Bob, but it was definitely stogies. Big, ugly, rank ones. If they'd been spliffs, that crowd woulda been leaning toward 'em rather than leaning away... and retching.