I saw the Blues Explosion a couple of years ago, and it was one of the best concerts I've ever attended, utterly infectious skewed rock n roll that had me screaming.
But this time around with the "Hitmakers", he's touring a very weak albums of songs that don't have the reckless feel of classic Blues Explosion but rather a thrown-off feel. The freedom Tower album - the last with thew actual Blues Explosion - of a few years ago was a very good album, doing the legacy proud. But the Hitmakers one gives nothing much for Spencer and the band to build on in concert.
The players he's with have no character at all unlike the wild, but focussed-as-one unit, which is the Blues Explosion. They just seem like nobodies Spencer's picked up, a pick-up band.
I can't believe it after the brilliant Blues Explosion concert that got me totally fired up, but I left the Hitmakers concert before the end.
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