Chick Willis, Luther"Houserocker"Johnson, Jerry McCain, Gerry Joe Weise, J.M.Garyga.
1992 CHICAGO BLUES FESTIVAL
At the Palace in St. Dizier, Saturday 7th November 1992.
EST REPUBLICAIN NEWSPAPER
"Ecstatic Blues Rocked The Palace"
An explosive, scorching atmosphere was at the packed out Palace on Saturday, in a homage to the Kings of the Blues. One hell of an evening orchestrated with feeling by the touring musicians of Chicago Blues Festival. In front of a huge ecstatic audience, Luther "Houserocker" Johnson (vocals, guitar) and fellow bluesmen had a genuine success that night. Tight rhythmed boogie, blues and Chicago shuffles, performed in the traditional vein, as they kept a good sense of humor going. Especially Jerry McCain (vocals, harmonica), and fellow Americans Chick Willis (vocals, guitar), Kip Anderson (vocals, piano), T.K.Lively (bass). Leather jackets were swinging, Santiags were tapping and blue jeans were dancing. The spectators were hypnotized as the music seeped through their ears and hearts.
"An Exceptional Musical Evening"
By the end of this exceptional musical evening, the punters begged for more, as the fans savored every last minute of these treasured blues. The audience were simply on cloud nine. Gerry Joe Weise, the support act, inflamed the Palace hall, heating up the spectators with his well played mix of compositions, arrangements and classics. Gerry Joe really knows how to play them blues. A great performance by the rhythm section, and a "bravo" to Gerry Joe Weise's stage performance done with gusto.
GERRY JOE WEISE TRIO at the 1992 SAN FRANCISCO BLUES FESTIVAL
1992 SAN FRANCISCO BLUES FESTIVAL
At the Usine in Rheims, Saturday 11th April 1992.
UNION NEWSPAPER
The San Francisco Blues Festival, known to be a festival of sophisticated blues-rock, accustomed to a West Coast lifestyle and appealing to a modern-day blues audience, arrived in town last Saturday. First on stage was Gerry Joe Weise from Australia and his trio. They "blistered the blues down" as Gerry Joe produced a quantity of excellent blues licks and solos, played on his psychedelic painted Stratocaster along with growling vocals; as the members of the San Francisco Blues Festival looked on with smiling approval. At the end of the concert, they asked Gerry Joe Weise to come up on stage for a series of jam-sessions with the West Coast alumni.
The Bobby Murray Blues Band backed up or literally illuminated : the vocalist-guitarist Maurice McKinnies in Buddy Guy style, the rockabilly frenetic blues of guitarist and vocalist Ron Thompson, the soul guitar of Freddie Hughes, and the wailing harmonica blues from Big Bones. Saturday night was the last date of the tour, so there was quite a bit of a party going on and off stage.
Gerry Joe Weise at the San Francisco Blues Festival