I saw The Raconteurs play at the Ryman this past weekend. A great rock band playing great rock songs.
There was lots of stuff worth noting, but I’ll share two…
Patrick Keeler (drummer) is a force. He’s bold and he has finesse. He’s wide open but nails the details. But even more than that I was stunned at how he was simultaneously leading the band and following. Because the drummer is the engine, and he definitely was. But Jack is the leader…
Jack is both playing the show and thinking of what might work best next. Thinking of ideas in real time, in context of the night, weighing them, deciding yes or no and implementing the result. Some of them work really well, some of them are meh, sometimes there’s obvious mistakes. So the strike outs are real but so are the home runs. But he is responding to his creative voice right there on stage thinking ‘hmmm, maybe this will work…’
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