Mr Big has not released a studio album since his very good “Defying Gravity” in 2017. And the American group has on the other hand lost one of its pillars, drummer Pat Torpey, who died in 2018 from complications due to heart disease. Parkinson's. But the three surviving musicians, singer Éric Martin, guitarist Paul Gilbert, and bassist Billy Sheehan, decided to come full circle by carrying out one last world tour. While announcing that this would not prevent them from possibly doing it again, but just for new studio adventures.
It is therefore the trio mentioned above which presents Tuesday evening at the Bataclan in Paris, in the company of two new faces: the drummer Nick D'Virgilio, who usually officiates within the progressive combo Spock's Beard, and a second singer , Michele Luppi, on leave from Whitesnake, where he operates from his keyboards while reinforcing the vocals. The Italian has only been on board the Mr Big machine for a few days, the start of the European tour, where Martin noticed that his voice was experiencing, for an unspecified reason, serious failures.
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