WOW! Last night I got to experience Monte Montgomery in person. Jim turned me onto Monte, and we went to see him last night (at a casino … shh), and I’m glad I got to go. That had to be the dumbest stage & sound setup ever, but that’s a whole ‘nother story. This is about Monte.
If you’re a guitarist or a music enthusiast and not into this guy (that sounded weird, but not like that), you need to be. This guy is a freak on the guitar, and his bass player is a freak in his own right too. Just unbelievable. It’s also unbelievable that he’s working a 1988 Alvarez!
This video is from an Austin City Limits in 1999. He’s actually playing with Eric Johnson’s players (another guitarista), not his own. BTW, what was Austin wearing in 1999? Looks like 1986. This song last night went for about 12 minutes.
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Jim and I decided to go a bit earlier to the show last night so that we could get some decent seats, and we wanted to check out the big buffet at the boat. Evidently you had to have some certain casino card to get in.
It just so happened that Monte and his crew were standing in front of us in line and were turned away from the buffet just before we were.
So, as they walked away from the nice buffet bouncer lady, Jim says to her, “do you know who that is? That’s Monte Montgomery. He’s playing in the VooDoo Lounge tonight.”
She took off after him, “Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Montgomery …”
He told of his buffet experience during the show. Look like Jim got him in, too bad it didn’t work for us.
. . It’s furthermore amazing that he’s toiling a 1988 Alvarez! This video is from an Austin City Limits in 1999.