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Artist:Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit
Venue:Manchester Apollo
City:  Manchester, England, UK
Date:Friday, 18 Nov 2022
Collection:  Attended     Wishlist 
Community: 1 Attended


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1Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit4.0  Rate
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russh29 ●
19th Nov 2022
 Review
I’d had the tickets for this for almost a year, a gig I was really, really looking forward to. Overall…it was hugely disappointing.

The band sounded lifeless and flat, absolutely no swing in what they were doing, almost like they were going through the motions or being held back from cutting loose by something, a very dull performance.

I’m also not much of a fan of fretw@anking, extended guitar solo’s etc. leave me utterly cold. But…I know Isbell is a very talented guitarist and I love his style of playing. Why therefore did I have to watch sideman Sadler Vaden take what seemed like endless, pointless guitar solo’s that added absolutely nothing to the songs ?

Then there was the sound. On the whole the mix was good but the drums were treated in a way that they sounded like a drum machine rather than real drums. Isbell as I’ve said is an incredibly talented guitarist, particularly to my ears on the acoustic guitar, but the mix on his acoustics was shrill and tinny and verging on painful to listen to.

Please bear in mind I’m a huge Jason Isbell fan, I have been since his days in the Drive-By Truckers, so for me to walk out of a gig of his after an hour when I’ve not had the opportunity to see him for 5 years is a big deal to me. It just felt like we were all wasting our time being somewhere none of us wanted to be. A real shame.

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