Hennepin Theater Trust presents… Lenny Kravitz.
The next time you hear Lenny Kravitz is coming to town clear your calendar of what ever you are doing and get to the show. Walking in Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue was already on the stage. Everyone was already out of their seats dancing. What wonderful funky atmosphere to enjoy while coming into the venue. Caught most of their set and he can blast on the trumpet and trombone. With cheeks that of Dizzy Gillespie you now he has been on the horn for quite a while. He has a great sound and was super fun to open the show.
Lenny comes on and grooves right into Come on and Get It, Always on the Run and American Woman. Just blast us with huge guitars and sounds right off the bat. The stage is a huge triangle, and that triangle being a massive video screen. I must say, Lenny’s head looks pretty big at 30 feet high. With each song the screen and light change. It made it as if a different stage each song. It was way to cool to explain.
Still on guitar is Craig Ross and on Bass is Gayle Ann Dorsey. Last time around we caught her on the David Bowie tour. Evidently she’s got a not bad resume of tours. The next up was It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over, Mr. Cab Driver and Black and White America, which had a great photo show of Lenny and his parents. Great 70′s flashback shots. Well of course he had to get his slower hits in and that was the middle of the set. Fields of Joy, Stand By My Woman, and Believe. Lots of slow dancing in the aisles and screaming woman. Lenny had his big black shades on mist of the night. The girls really liked when he took off his black feathery shaw he had on.
Enough of the slow stuff time to kick it right back up, Stand off the new CD-which has a really good seventies goovyness to it-Rock N Roll is Dead, Rock Star City Life, Where Are We Runnin’?, Fly Away(awesome crowd singing) and then he want to know Are you Gonna Go My Way. No way can that be it. This is way to much fun. Acoustic set hits off with Puch. Again, it was suppose to be next but he went right into Let Love Rule. Lenny then decided it was time to come into the audience. Right up to us we all got to sing with him. After a trip all around the State Theater Shorty came up and blew some wicked trombone and the finally.
Overall, it was just an incredible, awesome, spiritual, groovy, and mystical show. Well done Lenny, well done!
