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Joe Cocker opens for the Steve Miller Band

We arrived and headed into the Moslon Amphitheatre earlier than usual around 7:30pm or so and it still wasn’t early enough to see all of Joe Cocker’s set. We missed songs like “When The Night Comes”, “One” by U2 and “You Are So Beautiful” to name a few. No tickets were sold for the Lawn at all so the crowd was tight a grooving away in their seats to Joe Cocker and his band.

5th Row centre lends us a nice view of the stage and as I glance around to meet our family for the evening it seems it’s Mr King Can and Mike S. Hard Lemonade. This appeared to be the 45-55 crowd who hadn’t been out in a few years or that they had started the cottage party early… now as “You Can Leave Your Hat On” drifts down off the stage into our laps… people dance and look amazed at how well Mr Cocker is carrying out his set. The history of this music was hitting everyone and when A Little Help From My Friends launched it’s epic intro guitar riff… you couldn’t help feel that energy usually reserved for the “main act” -- check out a couple of minutes of it here….

The intermission proved to be entertaining itself. Dozens of people bounced around all talking to each other from row 2 all the way back to row 8 or 10. I mean the crew around us from Stoufville, Ontario were there to have a good time and there seemed to be so many I felt like we snuck into a private party and knew no one. It didn’t matter. Someones grade 7 teacher showed up and walked past us 8-10 times and a previous Toronto TV Talk Show host sat beside my wife providing some interesting behaviour from people wanting to say hello in the weirdest of ways.

Steve Miller Band

Steve Miller Band walked out on stage and right into Swingtown. He looked like “Here comes Wrangler”… a rodeo dude or something.. not a run-down-rocker out on his pension tour. It took a little adjusting for me coming off a Black Crowes experience only days before. This show had a casino type feel… a couple of more songs in and the band goes into Abracadabra… that song many part-time listeners didn’t know Steve Miller did. (more…)