“I’m a happy idiot. What can I tell you?” This was John Sebastian, leaving the Alex Theatre in Glendale early Sunday morning after an epic Lovin’ Spoonful tribute show that lasted…
, “Joe, man, he sings all of those songs in the original keys, which I haven’t been able to do for 30 years” — and in fact, he’s done that on a regular basis, as the frontman for a post-Sebastian touring version of the Lovin’ Spoonful. So in deference to those shops Butler was afforded a few lead vocal duties of his own, including taking charge of the band’s biggest hit, “Summer in the City.”
The show began as it ended, with just Sebastian, Butler and Boone on stage. The final number was “Daydream,” but the opener was no barn-burning top 40 hit — it was Mississippi John Hurt’s “Coffee Blues,” the lyrics of which gave the group its name.
Actual ’60s contemporaries of the Spoonful were in shorter supply, but with a few notable exceptions: The Monkees’had his way with “Daydream” before Sebastian and bandmates reprised it as their acoustic encore. Moby Grape’s Peter Lewis sang one of the few songs not written by Sebastian — “Other Side of This Life,” a Fred Neil composition also covered by Jefferson Airplane.
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