mattsmith
Platinum Member
Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to take a moment to pass along Jojo Mayer's current tour in Europe including some of the harder to get places in Eastern Europe. Last night he and his band Nerve were in Turkey. The schedule for the rest of the week is at the bottom of this post. but I think the tour goes on for a couple of months including at least one gig with guitarist John McLaughlin.
This past Thursday, I was pleased to see the tune up gig at a comfortable and informal club in Bucharest called the Silver Church. I always love tune up gigs because you get to hear the guys experiment as they work out the bugs of their tour before they go to the venues where real money is paid and the higher tickets are charged. At a deal like this most people were paying the equivalent of 5-10 euro. There was a standing area so a lot of the local drummers just walked up as tight to the drums as possible and watched his clearly visible hands. It was a really nice experience. He played trad grip almost the entire time.
I really enjoyed his interaction with bassist John Davis. They fit like a glove, and when Jojo would play his fills the crowd went nuts. And because they were trying out new material the show went a lot longer than what the big ticket people will probably get. This was a good surprise considering how I originally thought everything was going to be fairly short considering how he was really just playing for a glorified bar crowd/ In other words a real pro who puts out pro effort whether it's 10,000 kings or 100 rowdy guys like us.
Because of the informal nature of the show backstage time was plentiful. The 4 or 5 main drummers in Bucharest had healthy chats with him throughout the night about all kinds of things. And he seemed genuinely interested in our activities. I had never met him but Bernhard/after asking him the week before/ was apparently gracious enough to email him and help with the introductions, because I hate to go up to established pros I don't know and just grin. Apparently he sees a lot of youtube and keeps up with everybody large and small, while continually scoping the technical styles of many, many people. But considering the quality of his famous video that was probably not a surprise.
If you are around any of these gigs you should check them out and enjoy the experience. I sure did.
25 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Aarburg Moonwalker ch – Switzerland
25 Mar 2010 Poogie Bell Band Frankfurt Musikmesse de – Germany
24 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Trondheim Dokkhuset no – Norway
23 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Marcq en Baroeul Theater 'Charcot fr – France
22 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Tbilisi Eventhall ge – Georgia
I just wanted to take a moment to pass along Jojo Mayer's current tour in Europe including some of the harder to get places in Eastern Europe. Last night he and his band Nerve were in Turkey. The schedule for the rest of the week is at the bottom of this post. but I think the tour goes on for a couple of months including at least one gig with guitarist John McLaughlin.
This past Thursday, I was pleased to see the tune up gig at a comfortable and informal club in Bucharest called the Silver Church. I always love tune up gigs because you get to hear the guys experiment as they work out the bugs of their tour before they go to the venues where real money is paid and the higher tickets are charged. At a deal like this most people were paying the equivalent of 5-10 euro. There was a standing area so a lot of the local drummers just walked up as tight to the drums as possible and watched his clearly visible hands. It was a really nice experience. He played trad grip almost the entire time.
I really enjoyed his interaction with bassist John Davis. They fit like a glove, and when Jojo would play his fills the crowd went nuts. And because they were trying out new material the show went a lot longer than what the big ticket people will probably get. This was a good surprise considering how I originally thought everything was going to be fairly short considering how he was really just playing for a glorified bar crowd/ In other words a real pro who puts out pro effort whether it's 10,000 kings or 100 rowdy guys like us.
Because of the informal nature of the show backstage time was plentiful. The 4 or 5 main drummers in Bucharest had healthy chats with him throughout the night about all kinds of things. And he seemed genuinely interested in our activities. I had never met him but Bernhard/after asking him the week before/ was apparently gracious enough to email him and help with the introductions, because I hate to go up to established pros I don't know and just grin. Apparently he sees a lot of youtube and keeps up with everybody large and small, while continually scoping the technical styles of many, many people. But considering the quality of his famous video that was probably not a surprise.
If you are around any of these gigs you should check them out and enjoy the experience. I sure did.
25 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Aarburg Moonwalker ch – Switzerland
25 Mar 2010 Poogie Bell Band Frankfurt Musikmesse de – Germany
24 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Trondheim Dokkhuset no – Norway
23 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Marcq en Baroeul Theater 'Charcot fr – France
22 Mar 2010 Jojo Mayer & Nerve Tbilisi Eventhall ge – Georgia