J. Patricks still Rocking
Posted By Scott on November 25, 2009
J. Patricks club/restaurant/bar is located in the Holiday Inn Perrysburg. I hadn’t been there on a Friday evening for 20 years .. maybe longer .. at least not after I got married. Anyway I saw in the paper they had entertainment and thought I check out if there was any keyboard action. I was surprised to find a good crowd and full tables by 9:30 when the music started. The people were dancing to the good old 70′s and 80′s dance rock songs like Play the Funky Music White Boy and Car Wash. The singles crowd there was definitely a plus 35 plus aged crowd with a few 60ish aged dancing couple also.
The band called Green Eyed Soul from Windsor was a male and female twosome. Both could sing great and the male played short sax riffs sometimes and keyboard the rest of the time. He was also busy starting backing tracks kept I believe on a laptop and adjusting volumes on a mixer. The backing tracks were loud and sounded good. For the most part this was pretty much a karaoke style act but a good one. They knew all the words and even little backup vocal spots and were in duet mode on some songs.
When I got there I was excited to see a Roland XP 50 keyboard on the stage which I read later came out around 1995. It looked to be maybe a 61 key keyboard. The guy would do a few stabs and a several melody note riff often at the beginning or end of a song. Most of the time he was just playing a chord it look to me with the right hand. I really couldn’t hear much keyboard over the backing track and sometimes I think he might have been hand syncing. Keepin mind he also was doing a lot of vocal at the same time.
I only stayed for first set and was disappointed that every song used a backing track so I didn’t get to hear any solo keyboarding. One thing good was is that they kept the crowd on the floor with barely a 5 second break between songs. I was very impressed by the way they came off and their energy kept the crowd going. I really need to experiment using backing tracks. My Juno Stage has a built in Song Player .. I should be all set!
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