Southside
Johnny and the crew were in fine form, playing for over two hours at the
sold-out (or nearly so) Alexandria music hall. I was particularly impressed
with the work of Jeff Kazee, not just on keyboards but also when he shared
vocals on several of the later songs in the show. The early part of the
performance included mostly songs I couldn’t remember hearing before (since I’m
most familiar with SSJ’s first couple of 1970s albums), but was enjoyable
nonetheless. The show really caught fire midway through with the classic “Talk
To Me”, and proceeded through “Broke Down Piece of Man” and other numbers
requested by various members of the audience. The main set ended with “I Don’t
Want to Go Home” and was followed by a first encore that included a great
version of “Love on the Wrong Side of Town”. The band then came back a second
time, sending everyone home happy with “The Fever”, which for me goes down as
the best-ever cover version of a Springsteen song. (I’ll admit that you could
make a case for Rage Against the Machine’s take on “The Ghost of Tom Joad”.)
I decided
to go with the chicken quesadilla for dinner – nicely done, although probably
not the best choice diet-wise. Traffic down (via Falls Road and MacArthur Blvd.
rather than 270 and the Maryland section of the Beltway) was actually not too
bad. On the way back, I did manage to miss the ramp from Glebe Road onto I-395,
so we stayed on Glebe through Arlington and eventually did wind up on the GW
Parkway – a scenic although not especially efficient detour.
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