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TIM REYNOLDS & TR3 with Rootstand
Sunday February 24th 2008
The Crofoot Ballroom
1 South Saginaw
Pontiac, 48342
Cost : $12
Dont miss out on the this great guitarist and of course one of michigans coolest jam bands who will be playing a show 2 days prior - Feb 22nd at The Cadieux Cafe in Detroit
REVIEW from Jeff Nolan of MCB:
TAKE YOUR PANTS OFF!
Tim Reynolds @ the Crofoot in Pontiac
Sunday Feb 24 by MCB contributor Jeff Nolan
Tim Reynolds is happy for Valentine’s Day. In the middle of a long sethe paused between songs to shout this at the audience in his heavy German accent. I have no idea why he felt the need to make this proclamation ten days after Valentine's day, but it made about as much sense as the music he played.
Tim Reynolds' sound could be describe as a sort of mash up of Stevie Ray Vaughn, Steve Vai, and maybe Foghat or Bob Seger. His set was mostly an excuse for him to bust out incomprehensibly fast guitar solos and mumblein broken English between songs. The musicianship of both Tim Reynolds and his band TR3 was phenomenal, but the music was overly technical and bland. As disinteresting as it all was, the sound quality in the Crofoot was great.
The show was entertaining, but for the wrong reasons. I enjoyed the bassist and his awkward attempts at dancing, listening to tim say things in between songs, and a strange, discordant selection of covers including Sex Machine, Purple Rain, and Whole Lotta Love with the Stairway To Heaven solo mixed in. I was supposed to interview TimReynolds and company for MCB, but after seeing the show I was a little creeped out and left the show in a hurry.