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Guitar legend Eric Johnson played the Saban Theater last night in Beverly Hills, CA. Johnson’s career started at the age of 15 and after being in several bands released a debut solo album in 1986 titled Tones and received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental with “Zap.” At the age of 32 Johnson had his first Guitar Player cover. Four years later Johnson released his breakthrough second album Ah Via Musicom which received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental and won Best Rock Instrumental with “Cliffs of Dover.” In total Johnson has been nominated for eight Grammys. Over the next 32 years Johnson would release another 10 albums with the most being released last year The Book of Making/ Yesterday Meets Today. Johnson was also part of the first G3 tour with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai and again in 2000 and 2006.
Johnson started the set acoustically with bassist Roscoe Beck on “Resolution.” After the first five songs Johnson moved to piano for “Song for Lynette” and guitarist/keyboardist Dave Scher and drummer Wayne Salzmann joined in. Johnson went back to guitar for the following song “Dusty” and continued with another six songs until an intermission. Johnson and his band returned for a 13 song electric set. The show totaled 2.5 hours. The electric set opened with “Manhattan” and the third song “Open Road” was dedicated to everybody’s guitar hero Jeff Beck.
Johnson continued with “Desert Rose” and an extended “Cliffs of Dover.” Johnson came back for a two song encore of “S.R.V.” and “Zap.”
Kiki Ebsen
Steve Lawrence
Scott Breadman
Laurence Juber
John Jorgensen
MoonDrop
Chris Ralles
David Blassuci
Jere S. Mendelsohn
Cara Lee
Jeff Alan Ross
Marc Mann
Bill Cinque
Peter Asher
Gary Stockdale
Trent Stroh
Christopher Allis
Sunday 1/29 at BL Dancehall in Agoura CA
electric Wings set with ‘Airfoil’ band
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The Canyon Club hosted The Foundation for Las Virgenes Schools first “Battle of the Bands” with LVUSD parent bands Dads of Distortion and Hacienda Garage Band with a special appearance by Nick_Hexum of 311 and his daughter Echo, along with.students bands CHS’s PRIMI & AHS’s Threshold with Las Virgenes Unified School District Staff band Doc Step and the Expendables. A fun, family event to support all the programs at the LVUSD schools.
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Kenny Loggins performed at the Saban Theater Friday Night (1/20). In the 70’s Loggins had already made a name for himself with his partner Jim Messina. Then in 1977 Loggins released his first solo album Celebrate Me Home, followed by Nightwatch. Loggins would then collaborate with Michael McDonald co-writing “What A Fool Believes” which won them both a Grammy for Song of the Year in 1980 and hit number 1 on the Pop chart. “This Is It,” another Loggins/McDonald collaboration, became the theme of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament from 1980-1981 and won the Grammy for Best Male Vocal Pop Performance.
In the 80’s, Loggins would go on to become the king of movie soundtracks writing/recording themes and other memorable songs for Caddyshack, Top Gun, and Footloose. Loggins would also be featured on “We Are the World” and performed at Live Aid. Loggins would continue releasing albums until 2009. In the 90’s Loggins released “Return to Pooh Corner” and performed in front of 500,000 people at “The National Mall” in Washington D.C. for Earth Day. Over the last decade Loggins and McDonald were featured on Thundercat’s “Show You the Way. Loggins would appear on Grace and Frankie, Family Guy, Archer, and in the video game Grand Theft Auto V. This past October Loggins and Messina would reunite for a historic two nights at the Hollywood Bowl.
Before Loggins took the stage a montage of his movie tracks and historic performances like Live Aid played. Loggins joined his band for “Love Has Come To Age,” before sitting down for a few acoustic songs starting with “Danny’s Sons.” The following song “Return to Pooh Corner” had a humorous story involving Loggins dating the daughter of the Disney CEO Donn Tatum at the time of having lawsuits over the original song in 1971 and then the lawsuits being called off. The hits continued with “Whenever I Call You Friend,” and his version of “What A Fool Believes,” which was released before the Doobie Brothers. Starting on song 12 the dance marathon and movie hits kicked off with “I’m Alright” from Caddyshack, followed by “Playing With the Boys” from the volleyball scene in Top Gun which has been recreated numerous times including in Family Guy. “Danger Zone” also from Top Gun and the new film Top Gun: Maverick, “Footloose” from the movie of the same name. The closing song was “Forever.” Just a few days before the show Loggins announced his farewell tour so if you missed this show you’ll have another chance to see him at the YouTube Theater October 27th.
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