Outstanding Performance & A Great Evening!!
by MickRuby on 10/30/17River City Casino and Hotel - St LouisRating: 5 out of 5Roger Hodgson and his incredible band of excellent musicians put on an incredible performance in an intimate venue setting where the audience really connected to the musicians on stage which provided an energy that was electric! The crowd was really excited about the show, and when the opening notes were played on the opening song, "Take the Long Way Home", the audience became even more charged! The set-list was the following: "Take the Long Way Home", "School", "In Jeopardy", "Breakfast In America", Hide In Your Shell", "Along Came Mary", "The Logical Song", "Lord Is It Mine", "Death and a Zoo", "If Everyone Was Listening", "The Awakening", "Only Because of You", "Had a Dream (Sleeping With the Enemy)", "Child of Vision", "Fool's Overture", then the encore consisted of "Dreamer", and finally "Give a Little Bit".
The set-list provided the energy to begin the show very strong, then it slowed down in the middle, but then exploded at the end and through the encore. The audience was singing, and Roger encouraged everyone to sing along, and that certainly added energy to the evening! Roger's anecdotes between the songs were very interesting, and provided a good informational back-story to some of the songs with which I was less familiar (ie: "If Everyone Was Listening"). Of course there was no explanation necessary for the classic Supertramp songs which were composed by Roger, and the audience really appreciated the attention to detail the extremely talented musicians in the band paid to each complexity and nuance in every song.
In all, my wife and I had an incredible evening of excellent music that was expertly performed, and we hope Roger will come back to St. Louis as we will definitely be at any future show Roger has in our area!