It was a pretty good show and the crowd seemed to appreciate the effort. The LT Dan Band features of course Gary Sinise (who played LT Dan on Forrest Gump and currently stars in CSI:NY) on bass. Hmm, well to be honest, it is rare in a band for the bass player to be “featured”. Paul McCartney comes to mind, but Sinise is no McCartney and doesn’t make any pretense about it. No vocals, just plays the bass and handles the audience interactions between songs.
He has surrounded himself with some fairly talented musicians and vocalists and they keep it lively. Sinise has put together a solid cover band that tackles a broad spectrum of popular music and they appear to have a good time doing it. I give them props for being willing to cater to an audience ranging in age from 6 to 60 with their song selection. I trust not many folks have heard the Andrews Sisters’ “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B” and Jimi Hendrix’ “Purple Haze” in the same set!
So, it was a good time. And as always, performers who come out to entertain and support our forward deployed troops around the world deserve nothing but praise. Well done and thank you LT Dan Band!
Bass player front-men….. Paul McCartney….you sure…….he played left-handed rhythm, didn’t he…….???
but Sting played base for sure……still does….him and Sinise, that is….
Well, thanks Dennis. I suppose you are right about McCartney. It’s good to have commenters keeping you straight!
I was asking John, not telling……..see the question mark ??
But I know Sting plays bass…….. I thought I remembered McCartney only because my brother had a fairly good band back in the day and thought he was something like McCartney’s all… so… I’m just sayin…….
Well, as fate would have it I saw a music video of the Beatles last night and made it a point to count the strings on McCartney’s guitar. There were in fact six. So I guess that resolves it.