We can now say that the summer is really run with this first major pop concert presented Wednesday in the open air - and a glorious evening! - Parc Jean-Drapeau. The American group Dave Matthews Band opened the musical summer in rallying around 10,000 spectators at the riverside.
Weather wise, nothing to say except that after these last gray days, it was good to spend the evening outside. The rays of the sun accompanied the Nigerian Femi Kuti during her performance of about 45 minutes, opening for Dave Matthews and his cronies. He deployed his Afrobeat rhythms in the right mood, what other African funk lovers will enjoy when the artist returns to Montreal in a little less than one month (July 5, at Metropolis), in Jazz Festival.
And the Dave Matthews Band? Equal to itself. A set of very competent musicians, totally invested in their performance, but rather provided a directory using. So average, in fact, that even the new songs from Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King - by far the best of the band's discography - lost their pungent flavor to the soup Louisiana funk-rock group that serves more than 15 years ago .
This Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, should be stressed is the fifth album on the group to begin in the first sales position on the Billboard charts. A feat that says less about the quality of these new songs (though very good, let us repeat) on the enthusiasm of fans of Matthews, Vermont and Maine, have made the journey to Montreal to enjoy his show.
Which started with a piece of choice for fans, Bartender (from the album Busted Stuff, 2002). A long progression of rock-pop harmonies simple - in fact, stretching over a dozen minutes on stage, one of the longest parts of the band repertoire, period. Too long, even, to start the evening: the Irish flute solo, two-thirds of the piece, soon broke the momentum of the Band, a musical group sensitive to changing trends, anti-trends since its inception in the early 90s.
On stage, seven musicians: all classic guitar-bass-drums, a trumpet player, saxophonist, a violinist and leader Matthews, guitar neck. By nature reserved, he briefly addressed the crowd, preferring to let his songs speak. Twenty in nearly 2:30, we talk about a concert generous.
A concert that has found its stride when the sun went down. Dynamic, often muscular, the concert yesterday was less a matter of success (even solid Jimi Thing, Spaceman and pretty funny the Way It Is the new album have delighted fans) than individual performances, a string of fiery solos each of these musicians, making banal compositions of small fireworks pop.
Especially this, the Dave Matthews Band: not craftsmen, but workers of pop. From the heart to work. With that, maybe the group can one day be a really good book.
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