Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Second Verse Same as the First!

Not much happening this week so will simply review the weekend’s Flower Power Concert Series…Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone. This is undoubtedly the best one we’ve seen so far. What a great show!! Highly entertaining, energetic, and Peter can still sing! He obviously has a huge following as there were quite a number from his fan clubs at the two shows we attended. All of them seemed to know the appropriate moments in the songs to raise their arms, shout, or whatever. In fact there was a family of 6 or 8 people (gals AND guys) who brought their own props! Peter evidently knew them from probably many previous performances and said he used to refer to them as the stalker family….ha ha ha ha!! During “Just a Little Bit Better” he stood near them and interacted with them as they held up the appropriate props at the appropriate times. They were a riot and very entertaining! The second to the last song in both shows was “I’m Henry the VIII, I Am”, and Peter got the entire audience involved singing along several times (“trillionth verse, same as the first!”). And as we all yelled out spelling H-E-N-R-Y, the “family” held up large cards with the letters on them. During the shows he’d run out into the audience while singing, handing a Herman’s Hermits CD to several of the little kids (who he said probably had no idea who he was….LOL). We thought about staying for the 3rd show, but it was 45 min. away and the line was long so we decided to head home. There seems to be no pretense with Peter Noone, and he seems to thoroughly enjoy who he is and what he’s doing. Each show was a little different, and we had a great, fun time!

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