Jimmie Lee:

Jimmie Lee Vaughan / Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tavastia 9.7.1984

This was the very first time I saw a concert in Tavastia, Helsinki, the best ever rock venue in Finland. I knew the place, a popular student restaurant, since I was studying in Helsinki University of Technology. Harry, my colleague with whom I share a good (!) taste of music, asked me to come along (thanks Harry). I'll ever envy him of being in the first legendary Fab T-Birds concert in Tavastia some time ago.

But this is still one of the best gigs I'll ever to see. The expectations were high after the successful "T-Bird Rhythtm'" , a bullseye of the Rhythm and the Blues. Disc jockey heated the audience playing only CCR. The supporting act, a Finnish R&B classic Bad Sign raised our feeling before the BAND. T-Birds steamed two hours, giving everything to their enthusiastic audience. Those sounds...

After the first encore, superbly performed "Can't Tear it Up Enuff". Jimmie Lee muted his trusty old Strat and wiped his forehead with sleeve. He noticed me shouting his name, came in front of me grinning, flicked his eyebrow and swapped his red pick with my jazz-shaped Gibson medium. Perfect!