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Pleasant: Roger Hodgson at the sold out Beethoven-hall Translation: Uwe Nessler Maybe some things are gaining quality with a distance, even if the two high out-crimped syllables “Dreamer” and the appertaining tapping of semiquaver on the e-piano can still be annoying after three and a half decades. But the times are changing – and Roger Hodgson, “The Voice of Supertramp,” is then hitting the spot however surprisingly very well in sold out Beethoven-hall. Hodgson, who just turned 59, what the enthusiastic audience caused to a “Happy Birthday” seemed to be loosen. With long hair, white shirt and white scarf he said, that it couldn´t get any better then now. In 1983, he already quit his succesful band to concentrate more on his children and so. Then he fell one day off a tree (sic) on his Californian estate and broke both wrists. Doctors foretold him at that time that he will never be able to play guitar again – and have been mistaken. Time and time again he even took up in the chamber concert the strenous 12-string, sat at the grand piano and also at the keyboard to knead this Supertramp-Sound. Supported by Aaron MacDonald, who lively switched between tenor-, alto- and soprano-saxophone, between Thin-Whistle and melodica plus vibrating bell/rattle and keyboard and also contributed a remarkable second voice. Apropos: Hodgson himself is still on top, hits the notes spotlessly clean in the highest positions, how generally the duo-performance was close to the original – except the classic “School” where the extra energy of bass, drums and e-guitar was missing. The interspersed pieces from the solo album “Open the Door” do not have to hide behind the lot of hits (“Breakfast in America,” “Give a little bit,” “The logical Song”). Thus an evening that hardly hurt but did good to a lot – if you are refraining from the price of 76 Euros for a parquetseat. |
