The Geezer Rock Tour Rolls On

Now in it's third year, the Sproule/Bonk Geezer Rock & Roll Tour stopped in at the Homestead Carnegie Library Music Hall this past Saturday night for a performance of the 1970's era hit machine, Three Dog Night, and I have to tell you, never has the term "Geezer Rock" been more applicable than seeing Three Dog Night perform in 2019.  That said, it was a really enjoyable evening and a fun concert.

Now I was never what you would call a huge Three Doig Night fan back in the day, but I knew that they had a lot of hits, and I knew that I would probably recognize more songs than I realized that I would, and damned of that was not the case.  Front man Danny Hutton talked about the band being together for fifty-one (51!!!) years, and that at their height they had twenty-one (21!!!) consecutive Top Forty hits, and that is exactly what they gave the crowd (that appeared to be a sell out, by the way) on Saturday.  Unlike some acts, Three Dog Night wasn't about to give the crowd "some of our new stuff". No sir, they sang nothing but the old stuff, the hits, and you recognized every single song that they sang.

A lot off the in-between song patter that the guys gave focused on riffs about how old they are.  Hutton said that most of their old hits are songs that you now hear as background music on movie sound tracks, at Walmarts, and "doctors' offices; especially doctors' offices."  It got a big laugh from the, shall we say, "mature" audiences.  Hutton introduced his son who was playing bass in the back up band, and he, the son, is now a middle aged man!  And God bless the guys, they did their best to groove while singing their songs, but what you saw were guys in their mid to late seventies trying to dance.  Not pretty, but, like I said, a fun concert.

Three Dog Night

Taken with my iPhone camera

As Three Dog Night went through their playlist, you just knew that there would be an encore, and you just knew what it was going to be, a rousing rendition of "Joy to the World".  

Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea

Joy to you and me

A great way to end the evening!

Oh, and one more thing.  If you live in the Pittsburgh area, and have never been to a concert at the Carnegie Library Music Hall in Homestead, make it a point to try and do so.  It's a beautiful facility, small and intimate with terrific acoustics.  A great place to see a concert.