Ever since his album came out May 2007, I've been a great fan of Jon McLaughlin's music. Do not be confused with John McLaughlin, the other guitarist. This Jon plays the electric piano (keyboard), and he gives new meaning to the piano-rock genre of music. The great thing this time is that I got to see him LIVE and to meet him in person at a small concert he held for the Indiana Colts down over in Indianapolis at the American Legion Mall.It was great to see him perform, and you all out there will agree with me but it is always different when you watch a Live concert and compare it to listening to a studio recording. Musicians tend to improvise music in the Live concerts such that they get their fans to join in the fun. It was the same here. From his lop-sided smile/grin, to his energetic and charismatic strumming of the keyboard, it was an amazing concert right here in his home state of Indiana. He was also not as tall as the photos picture him to be!
I was most impressed with his piano skills, and beautiful and inspirational music. Jon played 4 new songs from his upcoming new album, to be released in August 2008. At the same time, he played some old ones from his Indiana album, including the beautiful piano ballad Indiana, and I got it all on camera and recorded down. The only disappointing thing was that he didn't sing the song from the Disney movie Enchanted, titled So Close, but still, it was great that he performed so many songs at a free and Live concert!
For a little concert that night on the 20 June 2008 at the American Legion Mall, many fans and high school graduates turned up. Jon also played them all a nice new song about high school and that it didn't matter at all, but I didn't get the name of the song. They brought out powerful loudspeakers, when the bass rocked, you can feel it throughout your body, gives me goosebums and temporary deafness when standing next to it!
So, for the time being, an update for June 2008, one of my favourite and newest inspirational artiste out there. I will put up more on him soon.
The recording of him performing the song Indiana Live is huge, over 470MB, and in AVI format, so if anyone out there has suggestions on how to convert that into WMV or some other format where it is smaller and I can post it up here, do feel free to drop me tips in the comments section.
Allons-y
