When? Thu 19/06/2008
Where? cc de Steiger
RJ Mischo closes the spring season 2008 of On The Road sereen.
The Red Hot Bluesband sailed, with captain RJ Mischo on the steering wheel, under Dutch-German flag. On board two people from the North of Netherland: Hein 'Little Boogieboy' Meijer on guitar and Jan den Boer as bass player; and from Berlin: Andreas Bock on drums. This quartet had never ever played together on stage and this was clearly to see during the time of the appearance. Between the songs there were frequently too long breaks, discussions consult what to play if you have never played together before.
After an instrumental opening song R.J. informs That Benny, the sound engineer, has his occasionally his birthday today.
A spontaneous applause for the lucky one. For 'Crawling Kingsnake' R.J. is taken his position on the front of the stage, to have the close contact with the audience. From this place he also introduces his band. What follows is a mix of slow and up-tempo songs, singing songs varied by instrumental intermezzo's, this all totally completed by the mouth harp playing of R.J. and lots of smashing lead parts of Little Boogieboy. Last one mentioned may even take the front part with his own song, while R.J. is leaving the stage. On 'Try To Kill Me' the story goes, how he came to write this song, all in all apparently we are lucky, not at last R.J himself, that he still is healthy and well staying among us. With a catching Cajun medley on mouth harp we are entering the break.
The second setup starts also with an instrumental song. 'Dance Senorita Dance' sounds very cheerful, good laughing R.J. asks Little Boogieboy sing together with him the chorus. Just as in the first setup Hein is getting more often the room for extensively lead playing, for which he is gets over again spontaneous applause. Hein and Andreas disappear from under the spotlights, leaving R.J. only accompanied by Jan, playing tenderly the semi acoustic 'Steady Rolling Man'. After that Hein again is on front, proper accompanied by R.J. on mouth harp. Followed by a improvisation of a Big Walter Horton composition, and to end with Little Walter's Ýou're So Fine'.
R.J. was extremely generous in the way; he gave room to the other members of the quartet. Surely a quality passed appearance, however to be placed in the category of easy listening concerts, Not the kind of that seems so evident for a sometimes loud, not always enthusiastic public. To give the extra song a extra dimension R.J. and Hein are changing instruments, The complete band closes all sitting down with 'Got The Blues So Bad'. Nice - Leuk - Schoen...
Next appointment, after the summer break, is with Jim Suhler (VS). Because of his famous live reputations a very well seen musician in our areas.
Translation by: Bill Wessels
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