BLUESTACK Friday 6th October 2006
“Stack’s of Blues”
Having been a friend of Brian May since his ‘Quantizmo’ days, I promised to catch up with ‘Blue Stack’. With a group of friends, we walked into an unusually packed ‘Hanbury Turn’. Was it the great ales or had Brian been on to ‘Kerrang’ Radio again? Anyhow, a nice ‘easy on the ears’ Rock’ n ‘Blues set opens up with ‘Walking by Myself’ done along with a few others in the style of Gary Moore? Adding a little ‘Moore’ life to some of the older tracks? Others to mention in the first set were ‘Moving On’, ‘Story of the Blues’ and ‘Pretty Woman’ all having the crowded pub’s attention and applause! A guest harmonica player joined the band, all obviously enjoying themselves with a live jam feel about things especially on Stevie Ray Vaughn’s ‘Cold Shot’ and a great cream ‘White Room’. After a brief pause for a pint and a chat, the guy’s are back at it again with a storming hard rock 2nd set. Getting’ all singing along and shouting ‘Oi’ in the right place to ‘My Sharona’! The band certainly had the ‘Knack’ of that track! More classics to come too! A double Thin Lizzy’s ‘Suicide’ and ‘Waiting for an Alibi’, both fave’s of mine, were done well and great not to hear obvious ‘Lizzy’ tracks – these were dragged from the archives! More hard rock next up with a ‘Nazareth’ memory jogger – ‘Bad Bad Boy’ along with the harder bluesy ‘Texas Strut’! It’s difficult to keep still and not nod your head now after a few pints of guest ales and great tunes!! Topping off the night with ‘This Flight Tonight’ and John Mayalls ‘All My Lovin’ had gud response and had many old rockers thinkin….. Highly recommended Rock and Blues if you’re in a ‘jam’ for live music!!! Cheers
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