SIX are 6 brothers who sing and make all the instrumental sounds. They announce right before they start that all of the sound that the audience hears is being made by the 6 brothers on stage. When they first started performing, I kept thinking that surely they had a tape with guitars and drums. However, they didn't. They made all of the sounds. It was AMAZING.. They introduced each brother and as they did, that brother would step forward and do the sound of whatever instrument he did. I soon heard the guitars and drum. They all sing, so depending on the song, they would switch off on instruments. However, the brother who did the drums most of the time, was the best drums.
They did sets that would highlight each brother in one way or another. One of the brothers could impersonate singers and he sounded just like them. He did an Englebert Humperdink song, a Louis Armstrong song, and a Frank Sinatra song. If you closed your eyes, you would have thought that Englebert Humperdink, Louis Armstrong, and Frank Sinatra were in the house!
They also did sets of different groups and one of the groups was the Beach Boys. Being the beach bum surfer that he is, this could have been Mr. W's favorite set. I do believe that I heard him singing along to every song. Of course, so was about 3/4 of the audience. Everybody's gone surfin', surfin' USA......
During different times of the show, one of the brothers would come down in the audience and do something to involve some member of the audience. It was most of the time the people sitting on the front row. Well, during one song, they grabbed a young couple and brought them on stage to dance. After the song, they asked the guy if they were on a date, married.....the guy replied that they were married. How long they asked. Next month will be a year he replied. If they "involved" you in the show, they would give you a free DVD of the show (which they were taping) to take home. So, they told the couple that they would get a free DVD of the show. The couple then said that they would like to say something to their parents that would be on the DVD at which they announced that she was pregnant! Cool way to tell your parents I guess.
They also did a patriotic set, a gospel set and a tribute to their Mom who died a couple of years ago of cancer at the age of 52. They informed us that there weren't just the 6 of them, there were actually 10 and all boys! Wow! Makes me wonder what the other 4 do.
Their version of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas was awesome too.
This show was at the Mickey Gilley Theatre. Being from H-town, Mickey Gilley and Gilley's is a big thing. I mean, who can forget the movie Urban Cowboy! Come on people, Bud (John Travolta) and Sissy (Debra Winger) and Looking for Love in all the wrong places. Well, anyway, here's what Mickey's sign at the new place looks like.
Mickey has a restaurant right next door. I had dinner there before the show and inside they have memorabilia from the original Gilley's. There is the famous mechanical bull, a couple of suits that Mickey wore to perform, gold records, etc.
After the performance, you can go back to the restaurant and they have karaoke. My friend Mickey's (you met her in the previous post) brother and sister-in-law are visiting. Her brother sings karaoke so I went back to the restaurant to listen to some karaoke. He did a good job.
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