Ronnie Baker Brooks Concert Part 2

The excitement built up and then Ronnie and the band came out. They just started right in with the music. Playing mostly stuff from their fantastic The Torch CD, they were great. Ronnie on lead guitar is one of the best out there. The bass player really caught my eye. He is a mean looking guy and has a very unique style of playing the base. He looks like he is sneaking around and holds his guitar very different. But man, can he play! Ronnie said something about his nickname being 'Bad Attitude' or something like that. Then he had his normal keyboard player and drummer, both are excellent. The microphone for the keyboard player did not work for both bands, but all we missed was them saying hello.

"Born in Chicago" was done quite well. I really liked 'Are you Free for Me". Ronnie showed his skills in that song. Then he said he had a special guest, and it was Jellybean Johnson. I had never heard of him, but now I am big fan. He came out and played guitar that would have made SRV and Jimi stand up and clap. Zac came over and started waving his hands to cool the guitar down! He must have jammed 10 minutes on the 1st song. They played quite a few songs, and at this point, I had felt that JB had stole the show. FYI, JB has was in Janet Jackson's band, played guitar, drums in many bands and is now mostly a composer and producer. He produced The Torch. He is also mentioned in the Are you free song. This guy can play guitar. I felt that I was at his concert and not Ronnies. But that's ok, I was there to be entertained and I was being entertained.

Well, then they went into the last song. Still with Jellybean playing guitar, Ronnie slipped on his wireless guitar and walked off the stage. At first it looked like he was walking off the stage and letting JB take over, but he had other plans. He started jamming and walking around table to table. They had spotlight following him and he went behind the bar and gave his guitar a workout. The bad news is my fantastic front row seat had became a crappy seat. But I was still in front of the speakers and it sounded great! He kept jamming and then eventually made it to the front of the stage and started to battle JB. There was no loser. Just a bunch of winners in the audience that got to see a fantastic concert.

This concert rates up there with some of the best I have ever seen, including Alvin Lee at the House of Blues, Joe Bonamassa at the Hard Rock. If you get a chance to see him do whatever it takes to go, he is awesome! Zac Harmon and Ronnie and JB are now on the famous Blues Cruise and I am sure they are giving one hell of a show there.

Next concert is the 20th of January, at the House of Blues. Robin Trower. I have seen him there twice and he puts on a pretty good show. Anxious to see what he has up his sleeves.