Noah Stone at the Hotel Cafe

This is my friend, the very gifted songwriter,

singer, producer, guitarist and photographer,

Noah Stone, who performed last night for a packed

house at the Hotel Cafe, one of my favorite clubs,

which is on Cahuenga in Hollywood.

 

I met Noah through my friend Nurit Wilde - both

are flickr friends and fine photographers.

 

Noah, who grew up in Joni Mitchell's house in

Laurel Canyon (after she moved out, I assume),

is a talented writer and performer. He did a great set

last night solo - and with a lovely singer who

harmonized on two songs. He played "Married

To A Mystery," "Paula," "Little Revolution" and other

songs that are all quite great.

 

He also had a nifty thing going where he would

trigger a sampler, and quickly and effortlessly, it

seemed, lay down vocal tracks, or a shaker or

guitar rhythm, and allow those to repeat, and then

sing and play over that. It's a techy kind of trick

that could be gimmicky if done poorly, but since he

did it so well and so fluidly it was musical and nice.

Reminded me of when Jaco used to do it on his

bass solos with Joni and with Weather Report many

moons ago.

 

I sat down right in front of the stage, and took many

photos, of which this is my first favorite.

Done