BOBBY VINTON

BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

HE COULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT BUT HE WAS 8 MINUTES LATE !

IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT THIS SHOW !

Vinton, 76 in April, remains at the peak of his powers and his powers are many ! ENTERTAINER, SINGER, COMPOSER, GOOD GUY, DISPERSER OF LOVE, MUSICIAN AND PRODUCER OF ONE OF THE GREAT SHOWS OF ALL TIME. Vinton, one night at the Cannery, "OVEN", at the north Cannery Hotel Casino played to a couple thousand who loved him as much as I did.

Vinton a 60's rock musician with a host of "blue" and love songs, played them all and more during a magnificent 91 minute set that left us all wanting more.

The "oven"....an indoor-outdoor venue that remains too hot for anyone actually has the ability to close its doors for air conditioning, but that would not have allowed the large number of fans to get in so it was sort of open air and not too bad on this night. The Cannery actually plans to close the door for Paul Revere on his July 2nd gig....(probably won't be hot in July in Las Vegas anyway). Hard to believe some one with an engineering degree could plan this and even harder to believe they could sell it to some one at the Cannery !

Anyway, Bobby Vinton remains one of the great showman in the history of the world...I have seen him before and this was pretty much the same deal....great voice at 76 and he plays the sax, trumpet and clarinet (twice)...once to a hell of rendition of Rhapsody in Blue. 9 piece orchestra with strings (class)...drummer, keyboard, guitar and two backup singers. The Cannery actually provided two video screens parallel to the stage with live cameramen and nice shots....it was a lovely night to be a cameraman ! The video screens worked well.

Vinton works the crowd, shakes hands with everyone, kisses old ladies (mostly older ladies in the crowd) and spreads love throughout....I never am one for going into the audience but if ever it is a good idea this was it !

A great number of Blue songs....to include Blue Velvet, Blue on Blue and of course Roses are Red Violets are Blue where the audience traditionally brings Bobby red roses.....they did on Saturday night. Just a wonderful feeling.

Mr Lonely, written in 1964 when Bobby Vinton was a lonely soldier in Europe, played with violins and sung perfectly brings tears to my eyes and if I have heard it for the last time I am ever greatfuly for each rendition......maybe none moreso than this night....at my age I am always thinking this is the last.

Vinton does a nice set with daughter Hannah from the Phantom of the opera...a tall task which both were up to in this startling set.

Many shows and musicians just give you an uplifting feeling good read....nothing evermore so than this show.

There has been a too loud problem here....not on Saturday night anyway and not so as to kill the strings and the lyrics...quite a good sound system this night...that true for row D anyway...lots of people went to a lot of work for this show and it was very well received.

The Cannery plans to close the doors on the "oven" for Paul Revere July 2...I recommend him to the world as well as many of the shows done at this venue .....507 5757.

I could have given this over a 100 if they started on time !

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