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Well spotted.

Jealous Guy by Roxy Music, far better than original John Lennon version. Corrected - Doh.

I personally prefer Gladys Knight voice to Aretha, it’s more soulful, Aretha at times was very shrieky.

Yeh, remember him, the Asian guy with the baseball cap, that Rod Stewart band were so tight.

I’m of the opinion, if you are a covers band, you play songs exact or very near to the original. If you are covering a really well known song that has a specific riff or solo i.e. Black Dog, Walk This Way etc, it needs to be bang on IMO.

A bit of music trivia regarding Rod Stewart’s guitarists. I’m pretty sure Robin Le Mesurier (son of John Le Mesurier, Sergeant Wilson Dads Army and Hattie Jacques, Carry on Films) replaced Gary Grainger in the band, the other mainstay guitarist was Jim Cregan.

One of my all time bands, they played at the very first Knebworth Festival in 1973, it was a joy to see them live. Devon (son of Gregg) Allman and his band with Duane ( son of Dicky) Betts are doing a few dates in the UK in September.

Strider, one of my favourite bands at the time, very underrated. A very good guitarist in the band called Gary Grainger, went on to play with lots of big names as a session player and tours.

Blimey, that’s a lot of gigs, you must be pro, surely you don’t have a day job and manage nearly three gigs average a week as a hobby.

Pick any 5 Rush tunes.

I don’t. My volume pot on my bass is always set full on whether I play with my fingers or a pick.

I have Live Catfish in my vinyl collection, great bluesy album from 1971. To my recollection the family members in the band were the brothers Bob and Dallas Hodge.

We have just kicked it out of our set, hoorah, two minutes of boring playing for me and didn’t really fit in with the rest of our set. Replacing it with Turn the Page by Metallica. Our band age ranges from 51 to 62.

Another one of the all time greats have left us.

A winning lottery ticket.

Sums up every experience I have ever had with JMB, 99% of them are flakes and dreamers.

They both have the same name and who is Tom 😀😀

Nice little rig, just the job.

My one and only bass, always wanted one and have zero interest in any other. Teal green and does everything I want for the bands I have played in, never fiddle with the EQ, everything just set flat out, may just knock the tone pot back a bit on some numbers.

Snap Blue, I just found this on YouTube today, Lzzy has a stunning powerful voice.

One.

Oliver’s Army springs to mind.

£36 is a bid 😀

I like Paul Young but that vocal performance is hideous, I would not be impressed by that if I had seen it in a pub for free, let alone pay for tickets to see it. Some of these older vocal performers do not know when to give up when the voice is no longer what it used to be, it’s a real shame as it becomes slightly embarrassing watching them. This is why the really good tribute bands do so well, because a lot of them are now better than the original acts in terms of performance.

Went to the Derngate gig, I’m pretty sure the support act was called Strawberry Switchblade.