John Butler is a madman on the 12 string guitar

Words cannot describe how much the John Butler Trio rock live.

The best word I can think of to even begin to encapsulate the awesomeness of this show is "powerful". Powerful in all of it's meanings. The music, the sound, the lyrics, the attitude - all just blew me away.

The show was billed as an "acoustic" show, but I don't know if it would be possible for them to rock any harder. John Butler has an amazing effect on his acoustic guitars that rivals any electric rock guitarist. Half way through the show he played an eight minute solo instrumental on the 12 string that expanded my known world on what is possible on that instrument. The rest of the show he continued to astound switching from 12 string, to Dobro, to lap slide, to banjo and even some ukulele. The bass and the drummer were equally as mind-blowing on their respective instruments. The final encore song went on for a good ten minutes featuring an incredible bass solo followed by an amazing drum solo that left everyone in the crowd screaming for more. Between songs throughout the night John Butler would bring it down and tell the crowd a little bit about the song and where he was in his life when writing it which gave a very cool intimate "Storytellers" feel to this sold out show at the Fox.

Basically what I'm getting at here is that the John Butler Trio rocks. If you haven't seen them live make it a top priority. That's all I'm saying.