| Concert Rating for this Show | | 3.6429 out of 5.0000 | | User Comments and Reviews for this Show | Taylor Hicks and the Taylor Hicks Band are the bomb!
Taylor's spring concert tour was outstanding and the summer tour has been even more unbelieveably stellar. Taylor performs his originals, songs from his label album, and some outstanding covers. The concert ends with Soul Thing another original -- now seen as a ode to Taylor's time on the road. Taylor and the band turned this wonderfully jolly song into a jam to end all jams! A rocking end to an outstanding evening. | |
| Taylor ROCKED Pompano on 8/25! He and the band put on an incredible show. I'm happy to say that I was lucky enough to be there and I will go see him any time he comes even close to my hometown. | |
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| The Hard Rock Live concert just left you wanting more and more! Rock on Taylor! Wish I could bottle the energy!! |
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The Taylor Hicks concert at Hard Rock Live was one ROCKIN' night!!!
Taylor was in fine voice from the opening number-Rockin Pneumonia to the closing Soul Thing and the band was a jammin' machine! | |
| AFTER THE POMPANO SHOW JOSH AND HIS OLD BAND PLAYED AT A BAR IN FT LAUDERDALE AND FELIX.AL,BRIAN,AND EVEN TAYLOR SHOWED UP AND JAMMED/UNBELIEVEABLE.NO ONE EVEN RECOGNIZED TAYLOR SITTING AT THE BAR IN HIS BASEBALL CAP WITH HIS HONEY.JOSH AND THE GUYS SOUNDED AMAZING.IN FACT,JOSH IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING GUITAR PLAYERS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.HE COULD BE OUT WITH HIS OWN GROUP,BUT I LOVE HIM WITH TAYLOR.LET'S HOPE THIS GOES ON FOR A LONG TIME | |
| Taylor's band is one of the best I've seen. Very talented individuals. ALL OF THEM! | |
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My Taylor Hicks at Hard Rock Live experience started a couple months ago, when tickets went on sale and SpenserJ and I discussed going to the show together. She subsequently bought the tickets for us, but as it turned out, Spense would not be able to go. So she sent the tickets (great front row seats!!) to me, and I tried to find someone else to go with me, but at the last minute, I was unsuccessful. So, I headed off to the Hard Rock by myself because I was not missing a chance to see Taylor live.
First of all, you have to understand this about the venue. It’s at Universal Studios, and it’s a GREAT venue for a concert (big stage and all that) but it’s not all that convenient to access. Those of you who have been to Universal Orlando know about the parking situation. Basically, you have to walk forever just to get from the parking garage to the CityWalk, and then the Hard Rock Cafe is behind the lake on the backside of the property, between Universal and Islands of Adventure. And of course, the Blue Man Group show started at the same time as Taylor’s show, so there were hordes of people walking to that general area when I got there. Not bad, except it was drizzling (gotta love the weather in Florida during hurricane season!). Thankfully, it was just a drizzle and not pouring down rain like it was earlier when I was getting ready. Luckily, parking in the garage is free after 6 pm, so that was no problem.
Now, I’ve never been to a concert at Hard Rock Live before, so I had no idea how the seat set-up was going to be. I knew my tickets were Center, row A, seats 1 and 2. But in a bit of selfishness, I was hoping the seat numbering would go from left to right (from the audience’s perspective) just so I could be on the left side and have a great view of Loren. Ahem. However, this was not the case, as I soon discovered. I was on the opposite side. Sniff. But, as I said, the venue itself is great for a concert. It has a big auditorium style stage, so even though I was on the opposite side, I still had a good view of Loren. And a great view of Taylor, the most important one of course. :)
So, after stopping for an adult beverage, I found my seat and settled in - right in front of the security guard - to do a little people watching for the 10 minutes or so until the show was scheduled to start. I immediately spotted some bedazzler’s and their sparkly, moving-light pins, and a few people with their handy “Taylor Hicks” shirts on. Then, enter the ladies in their short skirts and tight, low-cut tops and roses for Taylor, who had clearly already been having a bit of fun at the bar. So, as I’m taking in the spectacle of the - let’s call them “grown up bedazzlers”, all of a sudden I hear some familiar strains coming over the loudspeakers. As in, I heard this song for 13 weeks straight earlier this year. Yep, you guessed it. Taylor’s sound guy has a great sense of humor. I heard “Home” by Daughtry in the house music mix as I was waiting for the concert to start. I cracked up, especially when someone behind me says “I can’t BELIEVE they are playing this song!” However, all was soon forgotten as the lights dimmed a few minutes later, precisely at 8:00, and the intro music started. It’s almost time for the show!!
At this point, the row behind me stood up. Which of course prompted the two women right next to me to stand up. Which of course prompted me to stand up, because now I couldn’t see. The band took the stage to lots of cheers, and then Loren announced the man we were all waiting to see…. Taaaaaaaaaaylor Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicks! Here’s where things are going to get a bit fuzzy because I don’t remember the exact order of the songs (you can get the setlist from one of the fansites, I’m sure) and I don’t remember what happened during which song, but there was some fun stuff going on. Taylor was having a BLAST on stage, and it was so fun to watch him up close just letting loose and putting his all into the show.
I do remember that “Give Me Tonight” was the second song (because I was excited they did it - I love that song), and something happened at the end of the (really hot) sax player’s solo, and Taylor and Loren were cracking up. I have no idea what it was, but they were dying up there. During one of the early songs (can’t remember which one), there was a really long lead guitar solo, and the lead guitarist was kicking some major ass. I mean, this guy is GOOD, peeps. Taylor just kept looking at him with like a look of disbelief crossed with a challenging - like a “want to take this further?” - look almost, if you know what I mean. Loren kind of had the same look on his face. It was awesome (ding!). At that moment, I could tell that Taylor loves this - being on the road, performing every night, jamming with these talented musicians. And at that moment, I knew I’d never miss another opportunity to see him live if I have any sort of control over the circumstances.
Let’s see… he did several covers. I can’t remember them all, but the two that really stood out to me were “Medicated Goo” and “Don’t Let Me Down”. Both were fantastic. And yes, this is the second time I’ve gotten to see Taylor sing DLMD live, as I also saw it in Chicago on the AI tour last year. Be a jellus h8r. You know you want to. ;) He also did “Heart and Soul” but I’m not sure he did any more originals that weren’t on the album. Can’t remember for sure though.
“Heaven Knows” followed by “The Maze” was a really fun time. If some of you remember, I was pretty surprised after I saw the concert in February at Universal because I didn’t care for “Heaven Knows” live, which was disappointing because I love that song, and I actually really liked “The Maze” although I was not a fan of the song at the beginning. Well, both of the songs live are great. It was during these two songs that I really missed my dancing partners from the Chicago show.
Even though I don’t particularly care for “Just to Feel that Way” (JTFTW)as a song, Taylor sings it very well, and did not disappoint with it last night. At the end, some dude did a “bowing down to your greatness” gesture, which struck me as odd. I mean, Taylor is great… but at the end of JTFTW? I’d save that for “The Right Place”, personally. And TRP is totally deserving of it. Although Taylor once again did the “audience sing-along” for the first two lines (sigh), after he got into the meat of the song and it was just him singing, it was wonderful. That song is a gorgeous fit on him. I love it.
He closed out with “Runaround” (another one of my faves) and did a couple teases at the end of walking toward the side of the stage, then coming back until he finally walked off stage. The band finished out playing and they too left, with Loren throwing a little wave out to some people in the front row (not me though, boo. But that’s okay because my crush may have shifted to the sax player anyway. Hee!). Of course, we all cheered immensely for an encore and the guys happily obliged. I actually don’t remember what the encore song was, partially because the two ladies standing next to me started walking up to the front of the stage (there was about a 10 foot space between the front of the stage and the first row of seats). They started to walk up there, then paused and looked at the security guard, who gave his blessing. So, of course, a ton of people followed suit and there’s a big throng of people standing right in front of the stage. I guess this then prompted Taylor to tell the band “Soul Thing… Soul Thing” and they segued into that song as a 2nd encore song. Not sure if he does this in every city or not, but it was cool to get another song in Orlando and the crowd was a lot of fun, for sure.
Once the song was over, the band kept playing as Taylor made his way to the front of the stage to touch hands with fans and sign a couple things for people who had both the item they wanted signed AND a sharpie. This is when the “grown up bedazzlers” had a chance to give the roses they brought for him, which he took, then went to the middle of the stage and put in his mouth and struck a pose. Very cute. Then, he left the stage, and the band finished out the song again and they left the stage and the show was over.
General observations:
- Taylor was in great voice!
- The venue was pretty full except the back portion of the balcony.
- This band is really good and they are a great fit for Taylor.
- He seemed to be having a blast on stage… even more so than the times I saw him previously.
- The security guards in general seemed pretty laidback. The tickets said “no cameras” so I didn’t even bring one in, but there were people all over taking pics and video and weren’t being stopped by security. So there should be plenty of good video out there.
All in all, it was a great time. Taylor is such a fun live musician and I’ll definitely be at his shows in the future!
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Well, it was August 26, 2007 when I saw Taylor Hicks for the first time. Believe you me, it was worth the wait. My heart was beating like a time bomb in my chest. There he was, all 6 foot and 2 inches, that good looking MAN, Oh my goodness. He started singing I couldn't contain myself, my son starting patting me on the back to get me to calm down.
He sang, danced and smiled. Smiled, danced and sang. The songs that I remember, "Runaround" "Heaven Knows" and when he sang "The Right Place" I wanted to cry. He teased the crowd quite a bit. He sang Soul Patrol about 5 times. He pretended to shoot the guy on key board. His smiling and jumping and dancing that he did made me one happy camper. I though he wasn't going to do an encore, the band left the stage after Taylor had left but the crowd went wild, wanting more. They came back on stage Taylor sang "Long Way Home" and then "Soul Thing". It was over. I was so sad.
The buses were locked behind fences. We did go up on the side porch of "Hard Rock Cafe" and saw where the buses were parked, we just couldn't get to them.
We had good seats, like 3 steps up from the floor on the side. A nice group of Soul Patrol with us. One woman was a (shut my mouth) Chris Daughtry fan. Her little girl about 5 years old and a big Taylor fan and so she brought her daughter to see Taylor. And love Taylor she did. Every move Taylor made on stage this little girl did for us. I tried to get her to run on the stage and give Taylor a gift. We were right there at the stage steps. She was to shy for that.
The friend that drove us there, was a Daughtry fan too, but he got Tayverted. He took a lot of pictures, I don't know why he only sent me the 2 that I sent to you all yesterday.
Maybe the rest didn't turn out good. He went down to the stage near the end of the show like a lot of people did. After the band left the stage one member came out and layed down on the stage and talked to a girl. I wonder what they were cooking up?
There was a young woman, that was a little distracting, but funny in a weird way.
She would get right up close to the stage and dance and sling her hair around, trying her best to get Taylor's attention,but as far as Taylor goes, he didn't pay her any attention.
I had a great time. We got to the Disney Resort about 2pm Sat. Ate at the "Rain Forest" Saturday night. If you have kids they would enjoy this place. Every 30 minutes they darkened the restaurant and lighting and thunder clashed. I love rain storms. So I was having a good time.
Sunday we slept in, ate and headed to Universal. It was so hot out, I wasn't in the mood to go around Universal City so we went in Hard Rock and got something to drink, I gave the girl a big tip and asked if I could sit there until time for us to eat at 4pm.
I am sorry this is so long. I love Taylor even more after seeing him LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Taylor is the great entertainer. Another energy packed concert. Can't wait to see him again. | |
| You could see Taylor perform five nights a week, and you still wouldn't feel like you saw the same show twice! He's an awesome entertainer, and his interaction with his band is alone worth the price of the ticket. The energy in the venue is off the charts at a Hicks' show. I've never enjoyed a live show more than one of his. If you have the chance to see him live, go! | |
| Never get tired of seeing or hearing this man perform. I believe he will become a frontrunner in the music business, bar none.... | |
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