A couple of weeks ago we attended the Daniel Lanois concert. You might not know his name but you probably at least know his production work. He put on a special concert to celebrate his induction into The Canadian Music Hall of Fame the day before. This was also a big deal because he grew up in nearby Hamilton and started his first studios there, actually working out of his parent's basement at first. His mother and other family were in the audience.
The concert was at The Great Hall. This was significant to us as Toni and I went to a concert there exactly thirty years ago and this was our first time back. The room had been totally reconfigured over the years. This particular show was in the round and the stage area simply was an old Oriental carpet in the middle of the floor jam packed with his equipment and Brian Blade's drum kit. There was also a small toy HO scale railroad track running around the drum kit. The train carried two video cameras. These were part of the documentation of the show. There were several other cameras set up along with one cameraman. All the film footage was edited into the videos below.
The show was set up in three segments. The first was Lanois as a DJ using his own tape loops and sounds with art films projected on two large screens. The second part was the concert itself with just Lanois on guitar and pedal steel and Blade on drums. For a few of the later songs he brought out a bass player but I didn't catch his name. The final part of the evening was a meet and greet and he just hung out until everyone had their face time and photos. It really felt like he was throwing a party at home for his selected friends. It was very intimate, almost like sitting around a campfire. You might be able to see that there were only a couple hundred people about three rows deep around the perimeter of his stage area.
You should view the videos at full screen as they are high quality.
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