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May 5, 2008
Three Dog Night at The Klein
I checked out the Three Dog Night concert at The Klein in Bridgeport Friday night and I must say that I walked away sort of impressed.
When I interviewed singer Danny Hutton for the feature that ran in the Post Thursday, he mentioned a few times that the band sounds like it did on the records. He was right.
Though I’m not a big fan of Three Dog Night — I don’t own a single album by the band — I could appreciate all of the hit songs I knew from listening to AM radio growing up. Hutton and fellow singer Cory Wells both did fine work bringing these classics to life on The Klein’s stage.
In the phone interview, Hutton alerted me to a “special” thing that would happen three-quarters of the way through the concert and I’ll assume he was talking about what was the show’s obvious low point.
Wells, in the middle of “Mama Told Me (No to Come),” started talking about how some people said that it was kind of like the first rap song (it’s not). Wells then proceeded to don some bling, sunglasses and a baseball cap and launched into an updated version of the song done as a rap. I actually felt embarrassed for him. It was that bad.
But the show got back on the rails after that and finished with a rousing encore of “Joy to the World.” It was a fitting end to a rather joyful experience, especially for the longtime fans of the band in the crowd of 800 or so at The Klein.
Posted by Sean on May 5, 2008 5:54 PM
