‘Sorry, it’s just me’
Bryan Adams owned the St. Catharines stage with his acoustic guitar
No doubt about it. The 1,000 people who paid $150 to see Bryan Adams perform an acoustic show at Bethany Community Church Wednesday night are among the happiest in the city today.
The well-known Canadian rocker looks the same as he did when he became an international superstar in the 1980s — jeans, black shirt and short hair — and his signature raspy voice sounds the same, if not better.
The show, in support of the St. Catharines General Hospital Foundation to purchase a new digital mammography unit for the Evangelista/Adams Centre for Breast Screening, featured just Adams, his guitar and, occasionally, a harmonica.
“I don’t know if anyone was expecting a band tonight,” he said to the sold-out crowd. “Sorry, it’s just me.”
Adams, who usually plays to tens of thousands of people in stadiums across the globe, seemed at home on the small stage, right from the opening notes of Tonight We Have the Stars.
Unlike some artists who seem lost without a band (Gwen Stefani immediately comes to mind, toting around her posse of Harajuku girls), Adams owned the stage. Impressively, he simultaneously played the harmonica and guitar during some songs, including Back to You.
With only a fabric background that changed colour from lights beamed on it, Adams enthralled his audience for the entire two-hour event.
“This is how I write music,” Adams said of the acoustic gig. “It’s nice to get back to doing (the songs) like this because this is how I thought about them at first.”
The 18-song set featured many of his best-known hits, including Summer of ‘69, Let’s Make a Night to Remember, Run to You, Heaven and The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You, while the four-song encore included the Academy Award-nominated Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman and I Need Somebody.
He also threw in some new songs from his 11th studio album, appropriately entitled 11, such as Thought I’d Seen Everything and Oxygen.
Aside from being a captivating performer, Adams has a knack for romancing a love ballad, which could explain all the requests for him to take off his pants.
source: St. Catharines Standard
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