JohnW63
Enlightened Member
Nice venue at Chapman College, in Orange. Took a guitar playing friend along because my wife isn't into Tommy and just guitar.
The opening act was an older couple who knew and hung around Chet Atkins. She sang and he played a pretty good guitar. My friend was impressed with him.
Tommy came on and started with a song the began slow and then just really accelerated to blazing fast. That got the crown going. He played a number of tunes I hadn't heard before and a good mix of what I would call his standards. I still like when he plays the slow ballads that are just nice tunes almost more than his impressive showman ones. He did plenty of both. He did Chet's song about his Dad, since Chet told him, a week before he died, to keep playing it. News Flash, Tommy became a US Citizen this year and is happy about it.
I was surprised at the average age of the patrons. I would peg it at 50 and above. I figured it would range wider.
Worth the price of admission, for sure. He does put on a show.
The opening act was an older couple who knew and hung around Chet Atkins. She sang and he played a pretty good guitar. My friend was impressed with him.
Tommy came on and started with a song the began slow and then just really accelerated to blazing fast. That got the crown going. He played a number of tunes I hadn't heard before and a good mix of what I would call his standards. I still like when he plays the slow ballads that are just nice tunes almost more than his impressive showman ones. He did plenty of both. He did Chet's song about his Dad, since Chet told him, a week before he died, to keep playing it. News Flash, Tommy became a US Citizen this year and is happy about it.
I was surprised at the average age of the patrons. I would peg it at 50 and above. I figured it would range wider.
Worth the price of admission, for sure. He does put on a show.