Concert Review
Tom Keifer
Live & Loud 2024
Sunday July 21, 2024
The Warner Theatre
Erie, PA
Review/Photos: Joseph Suto
The 2024 version of the Live & Loud Tour came through Erie, PA Sunday evening. Tom Keifer & Company brought along John Corabi as special opening guest. The summer tour kicked off a few days ago and will find the band on the road throughout August. For fans who want to hear the Cinderella classics this is the only way to see em performed live by the man who wrote and sang em’.
Keifer has been doing this a long time. Sure there were several bumps in the road but he has managed to persevere through it all and does not take anything for granted. The band did a group huddle in front of the drums prior to launching into their first number of the night. “Life Was Here”, one of the standouts from the
the most recent Tom Keifer album Rise kicked off the bands 90-minute set.
The band lineup has not changed in a number of years. His current band consists of drummer Jarred Pope, bassist Billy Mercer, keyboardist Kory Myers and guitarist Tony Higbee. Savannah Keifer and Kendra Chantelle handle backing vocals and percussion.
Keifer may not have the voice he had back in the day but he puts a ton of work in to ensure he can continue to tour and give the fans a performance they deserve without all the gimmicks of backing tracks and vocal enhancements. That says something to his character and how much he tries to maintain rock and roll authenticity.
“We’ve been friends for a long time” Keifer quipped as he dedicated “With A Little Help From My Friends” to the audience before closing with the Cinderella classic “Gypsy Road”. Not only was the set list sprinkled in with some of his solo material, it also was filled out by almost every gem his old band recorded. Tom’s message in “Life Was Here” don’t let it pass you by. He is surely living out his dream and the band he has assembled is helping him do just that.
Set List
Life Was Here
Hot & Bothered
Heartbreak Station
The Death Of Me
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart At The Seams
Coming Home
Nobody’s Fool
Solid Ground
Night Songs
Somebody Save me
The Last Mile
Shake Me
Shelter Me
Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
With A Little Help From My Friends
Gypsy Road
