It was a blast from the past on Friday night at Underworld (地下社會) — and what a blast it was! In a rare appearance, the veteran rockers of Celluloid (賽璐璐) swung into the club and mesmerized their audience with a lengthy set of blues-rock originals, along with a few covers of hits such as Neil Young’s My My, Hey Hey and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Little Wings. The covers were good, but even better were the quintet’s own songs, including It Doesn’t Matter (無所謂), Spring Weather (春天の天氣) and The First Time (第一次).
Celluloid has the rich, filled-out sound of a band with chemistry and skilled musicians on the full compliment of blues-rock instruments. And frontman A-yi (王信義) — who runs a recording studio and has produced albums for Ladybug (瓢蟲) and Sugar Plum Ferry (甜梅) — is electrifying as a guitar soloist, as he showed with a note-perfect rendition of the solo from Lynard Skynard’s Free Bird. Audiences in Taipei invariably request encores, but when the crowd on Friday night asked for one, then another, they really, really meant it.
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