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We caught the Hendrix Experience show at the Rady Shell last night. 

It was really good for me, a huge Jimi Hendrix fan. 

If you are not it might have been a bit much.

There is a fluid roster of performers at the various shows on this tour, we did not see Robby Krieger or Samantha Fish.

But what we did see was mostly very, very good.

It was a gray and foggy evening down at the Convention Center. 

The blue shell juxtaposed beautifully with the monochromatic background.

Some people really got into the spirit of the thing and wore swinging sixties psychedelic duds.

I saw some cool madras bell bottoms.

The music?

I loved it. 

My favorite was Eric Johnson, so smooth, elegant and sublime. 

Kenny Wayne Shepherd was a powerhouse. 

His vocalist Noah was the best singer of the night.

Dweezil Zappa was great, the lap steel guys the slide brothers were great, Taj was great, Kingfish was great. Ayron Jones was really good.

If you are a Hendrix style gunslinger getting up on this stage you better be able to play.

Who wasn't great?

Zakk Wylde, Ozzy's ex guitar player, is not particularly to my taste.

Leslie thought we were watching Spinal Tap.

Pointy guitar shredder, metal guy, flexing, playing with his teeth and behind his neck, very hard for me and the people sitting next to me to sit through.

But I am sure some people loved him, just not my bag.

Mitch Mitchell was my all time favorite drummer. The drummer last night was not Mitch Mitchell (but who is?) in fact he had very little energy at all.

But all in all a great time with friends, was gifted upgrade seats, all good.