My buddies Buzzard, A-Bomb and I went to see Big Sugar play a free show as part of the Taste Of Edmonton food festival held at Sir Winston Churchill Park in downtown Edmonton. This would be my 16th time seeing Big Sugar in concert. What really peaked my interest in seeing Big Sugar again was that the band is back to being a three piece band. I hadn't seen Big Sugar perform as a three piece band since the 90's, for a while there the band became more a roots reggae band then the blues based rock band that I loved. Don't get me wrong, they were still great live but I was really missing the rock n' roll show that Gordie Johnson and the guys used to play. I stopped buying tickets to there shows because of this. I still saw them lots of times, but they were always free shows. The last time I had paid to see Big Sugar was in 2003 and what I really surprised me was that the last time I saw the band in concert was in 2012, so it had been a long time since I had seen them. So I was pretty pumped about seeing them again, especially as a three piece.
Big Sugar led by Gordie Johnson who in my opinion is one of the greatest guitarists in the world and so underrated, rounding out the band was Anders Drerup on bass and on drums Root Valach. The band came out rocking and very loud as Big Sugar is known to play. It was so awesome to hear the band play their style of rocking blues for an hour and a half. Playing almost the whole 1993 album Five Hundred Pounds. They also played some very rocking tunes like "All Hell For A Basement" a homage to Alberta, "Red Rover" and "Nicotina (She's All That)" from their 2001 album Brothers And Sisters, Are You Ready? again in my opinion the last really good album they have released. Their setlist was so good on this night with them also playing a few songs from the 1996 album Hemi-Vision "Diggin' A Hole" and "If I had My Way". As well as a few from the Heated album released in 1998 playing "The Scene" and "Better Get Used To It". oh ya, they also did a cover of the Traffic song "Dear Mr. Fantasy". I'm sure there were some other songs that I have forgotten, but what a fucking show. This is the Big Sugar I love, playing kick ass rock n' roll to a big audience that was eating up this version of Big Sugar. If Big Sugar continue like this I will gladly start paying to see them in concert again. This show was awesome. Good times!!!
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