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7-9th
March 2003 .Botanic Park. Adelaide.
Grand
Finale.
with Matthew
Barley , Drum Drum, Los De Abajo , Ernest Ranglins Band , Bob Brozman , Zulya
, Temple of Sound and a host of others .
Sunday
9th March Stage 1.
"In
a world that doesn't make too much sense, music makes a lot of sense to us
" Bob
Brozman introducing Malaxico during the Finale .
The
Lowrider Jam © Ianto F
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The
first of the "cultural mix" concerts ,
which mutated into the All Star Jam in 2004 - by its very nature (about
40 musos from different genres creating a concert from scratch in less than
48 hours whilst busy performing as well) this show was not completely
successful. In retrospect, the set was probably placed in the wrong slot as
it failed to cook up the kind of explosion of energy that a top quality headliner
would have done . As it was ,it was fun and at times moving , especially when
Andy White read his poem for peace and we observed a minutes silence (the
whole crowd went quiet apart from one drongo yelling "rock and roll"
in the middle, but otherwise , that was the only blemish ).
Highlights
in addition to those already mentioned were Lowrider, which was pretty funky
, I felt pretty sorry for Messr's Brozman and Barley , who looked pretty lost
at times trying to direct over 20 musicians as the jam session grew and grew
. Members of Cheikh Lo's band were added to the drumming section , which became
somewhat unwieldy after about 10 minutes, but then rescued itslef and achieved
respectable heights . Its interesting to note that from this session came
a collaboration between the Temple of Sound frontmen Neil Sparkes ,Count Dubulah
and Los De Abajo. The brass from Los De Abjo really propelled the Lowrider
Jam along and pulled it out of the mire a few times.
Photo
and Andy Whites poem
Setlist .
Song Of Catalonia
. A minutes silence for peace. One Word Song (featuring
Drum Drum ) , Beyond the Horizon (featuring
Zulya ) , Don't Be Afraid (featuring Andy White
), Malaxico ( featuring Los De Abajo , Bob
Brozman ) Reggae Instrumental ( featuring Ernest
Ranglins band ) , Lowrider ( featuring
Temple of Sound ).
Audience source
60 minutes.
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