Enjoyable concert of Doghouse Sam & his Magnatones in Hasselt
Thursday 9 November Doghouse Sam & his Magnatones performed at the Muziekodroom in Hasselt, in order to present their third album Going Places. The group, famous for its interpretations of the good rhythm’n’blues vibe, knew how to keep the people connected from the first minute on.
With Sam at the right, Jack at the left and Franky behind them, the stage was crowned with a big poster with the name of the group, and the logo: a dog.
When doghouse Sam struck the first note of his guitar, people started to applaud intensely. The beginning of the concert was as strong as anybody could imagine. With a great guitar solo, the good music started.
The place was almost full, and the atmosphere was able to bring you just where the group wanted. The combination of the red, pink, blue or yellow spotlights–depending on the song-, created an environment that encouraged the contact between the public and the group.
So, as the music started , Sam began to talk with the public. He never wanted to lose the contact with them, and tried every time to keep everybody inside the concert: “Do you want more?” “Let’s have some fun” “Are you ready”. Sentences that he repeated almost at the end of every song.
But Sam, of course, wasn’t alone. With “the virtuoso Jack” playing the cello, he gave to the music an old American style. Only watching the movement of his hands was a show: the facility with which he was able to change the chords and the strings of the cello was stunning. Furthermore he made it very quick and following the rhythm at the perfection.
Drummer Franky Gomez was the one on the drums. Located in the middle of the scenario, he got the leadership at the end of some songs, because he kept playing for a while, just improvising.
“Can you feel it”? Said Sam just when he was about to start a song, while he was playing the guitar. And the public felt it. Because the group not only finished their songs with an improvisation. They started some ones with the same improvisation; this way they could connect the end of one song, with the beginning of a new one, so that the people didn’t lose their concentration on what they were hearing.
After the first part of the concert –with music kind of Indy-, they made a change in order to perform the music that they like the most. They started to preform blues.
It couldn’t be otherwise: with the blues, the spotlight turned blue. They keep playing, and the movements of everybody’s head in the public was the same: like if they were saying “oh yes” with their bodies. They loved what they were hearing.
Of course, Doghouse Sam & his Magnatones, played in this momento of blues, songs of their new album “Going places”, Even if people who were at the concert didn’t know the songs, they liked it anyway.
