*Photography: J.B. Gimenez Fotografia, KUBOMETAL FotografiaGlenn Hughes
, the voice of Rock, has just begun a new world tour playing classics from the bands he played with and also from his solo career, surely we don't need any introduction about his amazing career I am sure everyone knows who the man is with no doubts, for those who don't know, well shame on you! For this tour
Glenn Hughes has recruited Swedish powerhouse madman
Pontus Engborg for the drums and for the guitar duties the charismatic
Doug Aldrich, formerly guitar player with
WHITE SNAKE, DIO and
REVOLUTION SAINTS, so the ingredients for success seem to be spot on, and it was indeed because the fans were very hungry and they left the venue feeling gobsmacked!!!
The tour began in Peru and from there they flew to Sao Paulo and I had the honour to pick them up from the airport and they arrived on very good moods, very cool and charismatic people and Mr Hughes was talking and telling jokes and stories on the way to Limeira. Very cool and quite funny as well, the man is a living legend and deserves all respect from all. This time of the year we should be having a chill weather because its winter, but not really since it's fucking hot instead and people did not matte; the venue was full, actually it got sold out in the first week of the sales and 700 hundred people came from everywhere in the state and also outside the state, all hell was ready to break loose!
Brazil had six dates with Mr Hughes and the kick off was here in Limeira and at 10pm on the dot Glenn Hughes and band came forth and delivered what was to be one of the best shows here at Bar Da Montanha. An epic performance for every fan to melt way and never to forget this day, opening act was "Stormbringer"; a classic form his era with DEEP PURPLE. The crowd was going insane, for many or actually for everyone a dream coming true, these guys starting their world tour here in this humble tow at this humble bar, people could not believe it really. "Orion" was next from the 2005 album "Soul Mover" and the fans were stoked by Mr Hughes style and it was just the beginning.
It was very, very hot at the venue and the lack of air conditioning at the venue made things even hotter and steamier but that didn't seem to bother the crowd and hell broke loose with "Way Back To The Bone", a TRAPEZE song and Mr Hughes was enjoying himself at easy, " Sail Away " another PURPLE classic and some people started to cry, Mr Hughes voice is just amazing as his screams crawl up one's spine up and down and straight to the core. "Touch My Life" is another TRAPEZE song followed by "One Last Soul" by BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION closed down which seemed to be the first part of the show and straight away a guitar solo by Doug Aldrich did make sure the fans came to their knees, a very special part of the show.
Things were getting better and better with "Mistreated" by PURPLE and "Good To Be Bad" by WHITESNAKE did bring the heat to boil point, literally and "Can't Stop The Flood" from 2001 album "Building the Machine" did cool down the crowd a little and after that the powerhouse maniac good guy Mr Engborg gave the crowd some drumming lesson with his drum solo; this fella can heat the skins!!!
In the last part of the show four more songs were delivered with magic and precision, despite they have just got together they did play like their knew each other for many years and it was a great night, a great show and it is only the beginning of this mad world tour and Limeira felt very special to be the first town to have
Glenn Hughes for this tour. The final song had to be a
DEEP PURPLE song and the last song reflected well what this evening was like with
"Burn" and everyone was singing along. Everyone was ready to drink more beer and cool down a little. An amazing evening with
Glenn Hughes, Doug Aldrich and
Patrus Engborg, Hard Rock or Rock 'N' Roll still very alive and well, a very cool band guided by a very wise, eccentric and charismatic man, and the musicians chosen to be part of this tour are not only amazing musicians but most importantly great human beings, I can't describe how nice and cool they are, I am speechless, you guys rule!!!!
Setlist:
1. Stormbringer
2. Orion
3. Way Back To The Bone
4. Sail Away
5. Touch My Life
6. One Last Soul
7. Doug Aldrich's Guitar Solo
8. Mistreated
9. Good To Be Bad
10. Can't Stop The Flood
11. Pontus Engborg's Drum Solo
12. Sweet Tea
13. Addiction
14. Soul Mover
15. Black Country
16. Burn
