Big Fish Blues Band..
"We Strive To Be A Kick-Ass Bar Band"
"And Take Pride In Being So"
The Big Fish Blues Band, located in the "Great Pacific Northwest", Astoria, Oregon, is basically a "Jump Blues " band with a little bit of a hard edge thereby adopting the phrase, "Power Blues".
Though grounded in traditional "Chicago Style Blues" it's influences are such bands as The Fabulous Thunderbrds, early Feetwood Mac, Cream, Delbert McClinton, Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy and all the other legends that have influenced its' sound.
Though basically democratic, the band is led by lead singer , harp player and guitarist, Patrick McGee, originally out of Raleigh, North Carloina, with a solid background in "Blues" and "Southern Rock" dating back to the late sixties.
Hi Patrick, we ship to USA for £15 international first class. Takes around 4-9 days depending on how the post feel I think. We ship almost as soon as the order comes in or next day at worst. Cheers, Stevie Flynn.
Hi everybody, just here to say our new RORY GALLAGHER HAWK BOOSTER is ready for shipping. Have a listen if you get a chance, All the best, Stevie Flynn.
Everything's okay . Have to spent a few days ,hope so,again in hospital,but only for a therapy and i'm waiting for better weather.A lot work is still do do on the mera ;).
Weekend greetings to you my friend - I'm working on a
collection of songs at present with Liz Clarke from Belfast which my
turn into a album released through itunes etc - These are gospel
inspired and feature your truly in a production role.
Have a listen to couple of tunes when you get a few minutes - I would love some honest feedback on things to improve etc.
We've just added four new tracks to myspace completed at the Weekend, with Phil Innes at the controls. These are the first recordings to feature Alan Ibbotson on drums, and we are all really happy with the results. It's a shame that we've not been able to get back into the studio before this but we've been able to build up new material in the meantime.
The timing was perfect as we all went down with Swine Flu after the session, with Guy just able to complete the last vocals before admitting defeat!.
"Judgement Day" is a totally retro song with a very 70's (complete with cowbell) Bad Company-Free - AC/DC vibe with a storming solo from Guy at the end.
"I Know" - Very fast with a great hook - very unlike anything we've done before, a sort of punk/blues take on things - great vocal and lyrics. The opening section is from a German radio broadcast being picked up from Guy's heavily overdriven Peavey 5150 valve amp - can anyone translate? :)
"Chains" takes us back to our blues roots, with Guy sounding rather like John Lee Hooker in the opening section, before the song hurtles into a very Led Zeppelin style meltdown, complete with some suitably wailing guitar.
"Salvation" is a slowie with added Hammond! - some nice guitar licks too! - almost prog rock at the opening section (reminds me of Andy Latimer and Camel), before building around a very moody bluesy set of chord changes into some very epic choruses. Phil added the keyboard parts - and we got a bit carried away - sounded almost like "Highway Star" for a while - But Phil very diplomatically as ever got us back on track. We argued for weeks about this song prior to the recording - as to whether or not it made the grade - I'm glad we kept it!
Might be tuff since it's Thanksgiving weekend and all, but it would be cool if we could have a post-Turkey-day thang with a bunch of us welcoming Doug back... I'll see what I can do!
Thanks! I'm glad somebody finally noticed - too bad it's a guy!
I'm coming down on Thanksgiving weekend and plan to haul the Fargen and my chipped up MusicMan guitar with me. I'm planning to get with Dave and maybe we can get together as well.
"Peace One Day" - www.peaceoneday.org - An individual had an idea in 1999. Jeremy Gilley is the founder and chairman of Peace One Day. This year millions of people around the world will mark 21st September - Peace Day - in whatever way they can.
“We must make every effort for the promotion of peace and inner values. I fully support [Peace One Day].” His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Laureate."
“My experience of conflict is that those who are involved in it long for even a day of peace. To have a day of cessation of violence, that to me is an idea whose time has come.” Mary Robinson, then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, from a filmed meeting with Jeremy Gilley
Have a good one! Sending Blessings, Love, Light and Peace your way from Canada, Anita aka Angelwingss7
Thanks Patrick! haha ok I'll remind him. This year is going very well so far, and more music to come soon since I have access to a recording lab again!
