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Alive at sea

Black Country Communion has posted a video of he band’s past live performances, including one in March 2024 on board of the Keeping The Blues Alive At Sea cruise.

Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.

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Posted by Nick on Sunday, February 9th, 2025, filed under News. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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2 Comments to “Alive at sea”:

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    Uwe Hornung says:

    I know I’m regarded as the Glenn Hughes fan boy here, but this is actually excellent – just weighed as a band performance. Sure, BCC is more in a Trapeze and Zep, than in a Purple vein, and Derek Sherenian’s (tasteful) keyboarder role is more patterned after John Paul Jones than Jon Lord’s – keyboards are NOT a second lead instrument in BBC like they are in Purple, they are more a texture thing (though he sometimes does let rip, but not enough for my purploid taste buds!), but if you are willing to forgive all that, then this is a great live performance of what BCC do.

    Given that these guys don’t play together all the time, but all have “day jobs”, the band is shit-tight. And while Joe Bonamassa is obviously channeling his inner Jimmy Page (especially with all the choppy rhythm work he does), he’s inspired and in full service of the band cause.

    Glenn’s introduction of Jason Bonham at 01:33:20 is cute.

    And while we’re at it: Some refreshingly tour-de-force bass playing – and if I say so myself!

    Finally, even the ubiquitous detractors will have to admit: Not much falsetto screaming going on, Glenn is actually quite subdued and working a lot in his lower range.

    PS: They play Mistreated at 01:41:10, the only Purple song in the set. With a Telecaster!

    February 10th, 2025 at 21:07
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    MacGregor says:

    Thanks for the heads up regarding Glenn Hughes vocal Uwe, much appreciated. That first 30 minutes is rather good on all fronts. Excellent sound and Hughes certainly does sing within himself, so much better that way. A great sounding band there, so much better that down to earth sound, as a good band should be compared to their (over produced) albums. A low crowd mix too, how I like it, no over the top at mixing the audience up too high. I am at about 60 minutes in and the sound on the ocean cruiser gig(s) is a lot more hit and miss, that is ok though. Good to see and hear Joe Bonamassa playing rock music and yes that third song from the commencement of the video does have a very Zeppelin styled riff and rhythm to it. Jason Bonham’s influence there no doubt as well as Bonamassa and the other guys of course. I like Derek Sherinian’s low key keyboard approach, it works really well and I have him on the Dream Theatre album ‘Falling into Infinity’. A very versatile keyboardist indeed. I did notice a little call and response between Sherinian and Bonamassa at around the 50 minute mark, excellent. I will watch a little more tomorrow sometime. Thanks also to THS folk for posting the BCC live performances. Cheers

    February 11th, 2025 at 10:15

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