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Light My Fire live at The New Bayou on November 1st, 2008. It was a very interesting dynamic that instantly added energy to a room that needed it. Admittedly the audience at a Doors' tribute concert will be much older than a normal nightclub, even on Halloween weekend. The band was just about to wrap up its' last set about 12:40 in front of an audience of 40-somethings who were for the most part past their regular bed-time and you could tell by the energy level of the room. Then in comes a group of 20-somethings, who had just participated in a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show across the street @ the Mayfair Theatre, the last show at that venue, as it is now closed. Immediately they get into the groove as the band starts to play a really rockin’ jivin’ Doors song after just finishing an inspired but admittedly downer of a song, Jim Morrison’s apocalyptic The End. From the get-go the energy level of the room, the audience, and the band goes from semi-comatose to beyond energetic. The band who was starting to wind down their set were forced to do several encores for the new audience and they were more than happy to do so, by absorbing as much energy as they could off the newly inspired audience. All-in-all it was a good show put on by a better band than the lackluster audience deserved, until new younger blood arrived on the scene to give the audience a dose of much needed adrenaline, albeit a half-hour or so, too late. Pat Kilmartin, Ottawa writer / November 2nd, 2008 |
