Rodrigo y Gabriela

Simone and I are fortunate enough to see a lot of great concerts, but perhaps the best one we've seen was Rodrigo y Gabriela last November at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. If you're not familiar with rodgab, they are former thrash rockers who bored of that scene in Mexico, moved to Ireland, and starting using their guitars as percussion instruments.

If you want Simone to arrive early for something . . . tell her it is a general admission concert. She won't be late. To give you an idea of how close we were, that's Simone clapping on the left of the picture below . . .

Here are a few pics . . .

And one with Rodrigo using a bottle of Heineken as a guitar slide . . . it would have sounded better had he used Orval.

Here's a short video of each of them playing solos . . . not great quality, but you get the idea of a) how close we were and b) how they use their guitars for percussion . . . especially in the Gabriela clip.