echoes of the 60s ...

... at the weird "what the hell is this place for exactly?" V theater.

essentially it's danny gans's back-up band playing music from the 60's.  it started as "echoes of woodstock" but they expanded to have the whole decade.

this show set two personal records for me:

1. the most fun per capita in the audience of any show i've ever been to -- i counted 14 people in the audience and they were WHOOPING it up.

2. the most enthusiastic band relative to crowd size that i've ever seen.  the band -who for several years would have played to a 1500 seat sold-out audience nightly- was clearly having a good time.

the crowd was super ethnically mixed, but mostly asian.

the band was very good.  strongest when they played white standards, weakest when covering motown and sly (although they get super-bonus points for acknowledging that sly was the best part of woodstock ... something most people never mention).

the person who shall never be mentioned made a passing comment that is totally true: a show like this is one of the true strengths of vegas.  to a person everyone was there to have a good time.  no one cared about the size of the audience or was snooty about the music.  you play this same show, with this same size crowd, in any city in the US (with the possible exception of new orleans) and the response wouldn't be nearly as good (from either side of the stage).

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