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If you go to the band website shown on the left you will hear a bigger selection of tracks including some non-acoustic guitar tracks.
REGGAE DANCING
The main vocals on Reggae Dancing were written and sung by Joseph, my 16 year old nephew from New Zealand after we had jammed with an old song of mine and turned it into a reggae number. The acoustic bass was played by his dad Charlie, my brother in law. After they had returned to New Zealand I arranged the song and added the guitar solo.
MY BLURB
S*d this for a game of soldiers I thought, aged around 14, when I got rapped over the knuckles during piano lessons when I got my scales wrong.
I packed them in and from then on I spent all my spare time hanging around the school music room and anytime anyone came in who could play guitar I'd ask them to
teach me a chord. I've been a muso ever since.
When I progressed to college I joined a traditional jazz band called The Clarence St. Washboard Wizards playing banjo, and yes, we did have a washboard player. We also, in the early
years, had someone playing a phono fiddle, a one stringed fiddle with an old fashioned gramaphone horn sticking up from it. We made a weird and wonderful sound and
what's more we got paid for it. Our main claim to fame was that we had been on the same billing as the Rolling Stones as a support band. Strictly speaking this was true.
What we sometimes forgot to mention was that it was an open air concert in Hyde Park and the Stones were playing on the main stage whilst we were about a mile away
on the periphery of the park playing on a small bandstand.
The jazz band having finally fizzled out after some great years, I became involved with folk music and used to take my guitar down to the local pub to sing and play where there was an enthusiastic crowd who would sing along and add the harmonies.
We always used to sing at the end of darts matches which went down well at most of the pubs we played in except one where they banned our whole darts team, I'm not
sure whether that reflected the quality of our singing or was more to do with the fact that one of our team had puked up behind the juke box.
Later I was part of a band in which we spent about 2 years writing our own material and practicing, we finally gigged out two or three times, but shortly after that I left the band as I moved to Hampshire. There I got together with Dave from Lex Elbow and another guy to write our own material. More recently, I have been concentrating on acoustic guitar and have produced some finished tracks, you can hear some of them on the player above.
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