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Bacon Brothers Setlist
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The Bacon Brothers (Kevin Bacon and Michael Bacon) returned to the Dakota Jazz Club last Wednesday, August 21st.
Unlike their last appearance, this show was strictly all-Bacon Brothers, meaning a slightly longer set and no opening band.
Again, the live band features bassist Paul Guzzone, keyboardist Joe Mennonna, guitarist Tim Quick, and drummer Frank Vilardi. Everyone in the band seems to be multi-instrumentalists, occasionally switching to the mandolin (for “Don't Lose Me Boy”), ukulele (for “Perfect Pitch”) or cajón (for “She's Easy on My Eyes”).
The brothers were in very fine form, and they were quite humble to the sold-out audience. Kevin adding, “Thank you for being here, we all know there are some places you could spend your heard-earned entertainment dollars.”
The cello was brought out for Michael Bacon to take lead on his “Interlude” song, which sets up nicely the medley to “493 Miles”.
The best story had to be for their song “Beneath Perfection”, which Kevin Bacon described as a title of a film he was working on. He thought if he wrote a song with that title, that they could use it for the movie. With his wife being pregnant, he wrote about how he felt about this and how imperfect he was “beneath perfection”, etc. Of course, at the punchline was that the filmmaker changed the title to “Tremors” (a cult-classic film that spawned four sequels and a television show).
New song “Picker” was described as a song written by Kevin Bacon about Michael Bacon, and required plenty of guitar picking.
Set closer was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover of “Don't Do Me Like That”, a song that was on the encore on their last tour. And speaking of encore, it didn’t take very long before the band came back on stage to play “Only a Good Woman”. This is followed by a medley of “Peace Dance” and Kenny Loggins cover of “Footloose”.
If you didn’t know, the latter encore song was the theme song to the box office hit movie of the same name. The movie starred Kevin Bacon as a teenager who moved to a small town that banned dancing.
Remaining tour dates:
Unlike their last appearance, this show was strictly all-Bacon Brothers, meaning a slightly longer set and no opening band.
Again, the live band features bassist Paul Guzzone, keyboardist Joe Mennonna, guitarist Tim Quick, and drummer Frank Vilardi. Everyone in the band seems to be multi-instrumentalists, occasionally switching to the mandolin (for “Don't Lose Me Boy”), ukulele (for “Perfect Pitch”) or cajón (for “She's Easy on My Eyes”).
The brothers were in very fine form, and they were quite humble to the sold-out audience. Kevin adding, “Thank you for being here, we all know there are some places you could spend your heard-earned entertainment dollars.”
The cello was brought out for Michael Bacon to take lead on his “Interlude” song, which sets up nicely the medley to “493 Miles”.
The best story had to be for their song “Beneath Perfection”, which Kevin Bacon described as a title of a film he was working on. He thought if he wrote a song with that title, that they could use it for the movie. With his wife being pregnant, he wrote about how he felt about this and how imperfect he was “beneath perfection”, etc. Of course, at the punchline was that the filmmaker changed the title to “Tremors” (a cult-classic film that spawned four sequels and a television show).
New song “Picker” was described as a song written by Kevin Bacon about Michael Bacon, and required plenty of guitar picking.
Set closer was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover of “Don't Do Me Like That”, a song that was on the encore on their last tour. And speaking of encore, it didn’t take very long before the band came back on stage to play “Only a Good Woman”. This is followed by a medley of “Peace Dance” and Kenny Loggins cover of “Footloose”.
If you didn’t know, the latter encore song was the theme song to the box office hit movie of the same name. The movie starred Kevin Bacon as a teenager who moved to a small town that banned dancing.
Remaining tour dates:
08/25/2019
Jergel's Rhythm Grille, Warrendale, PA, US
09/13/2019 – 09/15/2019 KAABOO Del Mar 2019
09/19/2019 Sony Hall, New York, NY, US
09/20/2019 Sony Hall, New York, NY, US
09/21/2019 Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT
10/03/2019 Franklin Theatre, Franklin, TN, US
10/04/2019 Franklin Theatre, Franklin, TN, US
10/05/2019 Grand Theatre, Frankfort, KY, US
10/10/2019 Gruene Hall, New Braunfels, TX, US
10/10/2019 – 10/13/2019 Gruene Music and Wine Fest 2019
10/11/2019 Billy Bob's Texas, Fort Worth, TX, US
10/12/2019 Cactus Theater, Lubbock, TX
09/13/2019 – 09/15/2019 KAABOO Del Mar 2019
09/19/2019 Sony Hall, New York, NY, US
09/20/2019 Sony Hall, New York, NY, US
09/21/2019 Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT
10/03/2019 Franklin Theatre, Franklin, TN, US
10/04/2019 Franklin Theatre, Franklin, TN, US
10/05/2019 Grand Theatre, Frankfort, KY, US
10/10/2019 Gruene Hall, New Braunfels, TX, US
10/10/2019 – 10/13/2019 Gruene Music and Wine Fest 2019
10/11/2019 Billy Bob's Texas, Fort Worth, TX, US
10/12/2019 Cactus Theater, Lubbock, TX
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The Bacon Brothers at Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis (21 August 2019) |
