Bill Murray and His Blood Brothers f/t Mike Zito , Albert Castiglia and Jimmy Vivino w/ Dave Hill @ The Pageant

Saturday was a great day to be a music fan in St. Louis. Not only was it Record Store Day but you had Bill Murray and His Blood Brothers playing a sold out show at The Pageant. When I first heard that Bill Murry was going on tour with The Blood Brothers it had me thinking of Seattle’s post-hardcore band of the same name not the the St. Louis native Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia fronted blues band.

The band kicked things off with a cover of Little Walter’s ‘Boom, Boom Out Goes the Lights‘ and ‘Bad News Travels Fast’ with Chris “Bad News” Barnes on lead vocal. As the rest of the band took the stage for ‘Hey Sweet Mama‘ and ‘Tooth and Nail‘, the only Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia original songs for the night, you could hear some fans wondering where Bill Murray was seeing as the show was billed as Bill Murray and His Blood Brothers. Eventually Murry was introduced and took a spot at the back of the stage playing bongos, shaker, tambourine, and various other things. Eventually the crowd did get what they came for with Murry taking center stage singing ‘Tired of Waiting for You‘ (The Kinks cover) and ‘Catch Us If You Can’ (The Dave Clark Five cover). For most of the rest of the set Murry could be found behind the bongos, walking around the stage playing either tambourines or a shaker, and you could tell he was having the time of his life as were the fans. Murry addressed the crowd that the next song is a Mike Zito original arrangement and was what made him want to go out on tour with the band before the band played a bluesy cover of ‘Little Red Corvette‘ by Prince. The band brought out opener and fellow guitarist Dave Hill, who warmed up the crowd with jokes about Guitar Center, pickup lines that will only work in St. Louis, and a song about getting into his first fist fight a decade into his forty’s, for several songs late into the set one being a cover of ‘Johnny B. Goode‘ to which the band said it took four guitarists to pull off a Chuck Berry. The set was closed out with two more songs sung by Murry ‘In the Midnight Hour‘ (Wilson Pickett cover) and ‘Like a Rolling Stone‘ (Bob Dylan cover). The band came back out for a two song encore of ‘Get Together‘ (The Youngbloods cover) and ‘Love the One You’re With‘ (Stephen Stills cover) also sung by Murry.