Last Friday Janis, Char, Buzzard and I went to the Roger Hodgson concert at the River Cree Casino. I never saw Supertramp in concert so seeing Roger Hodgson was going to be the next best thing. Singer-songwriter Roger Hodgson was a member of Supertramp between 1969-1983 before going solo in 1984. He wrote and co-wrote most of Supertramp's biggest hits which were performed at this show.
Roger Hodgson and his back up band played a two hour set to a sell out crowd. I was very impressed with not only how good Roger still sounds at 68 years old but also by how genuine and kind he comes across. He thanked the crowd a few times for coming out to the show on a miserable winter night, even mentioning that he had a bit of a cold, but you couldn't tell that he was under the weather. He also had a great band with him. No gimmicks, no crazy light show, just the tunes and that was cool by me.
They opened the show with "Take The Long Way Home" from Supertramp's Breakfast In America then into "School" from their biggest selling album Crime Of The Century. The evening was full of hits from them two albums. Including "Breakfast In America", "Child Of Vision", "Lord Is It Mine", "The Logical Song" and of course the song "Dreamer" which got a huge response and had the crowd singing along.
And for the encore Roger played "Give A Little Bit", again another huge hit for him and Supertramp. there were a few songs I wasn't familiar with but overall I knew the majority of them. I was very impressed with the man on sax and harmonica, he was awesome. Having seen some of these songs performed live now, I didn't realize that some parts of the songs that I thought were keyboards were actually harmonica and some parts I thought were guitar were keys. So that was kind of cool. All and all I thought it was a good concert. Good times!!!
Roger Hodgson at River Cree Casino.
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T-shirt back.
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