Hello Everybody!

So here's the deal......

.....there I am, quietly playing my Hammond in a soul band, ( I never want to play Knock On Wood' again!!), when some guys ask me if I'd be interested in playing keys in a band specializing in the music of Joe Bonamassa.

Joe who..........??

You gotta realise that I'm a child of the sixties, Stax and Motown were King, progressed in to Steely Dan, blue eyed soul from the likes of Michael MacDonald et al - forget the Eighties!- from then on a mishmash of stuff - but The Blues? No. I'd had a brief flirtation with the British Soul Revival in the late Sixties/Seventies, but I didn't want to get involved with boring 12 bar, thank you very much! Somehow Joe just slipped below my radar.

So I auditioned for these guys because I didn't have anything else much to do. They gave me a CD. I looked on the website. Heard 'Stop'. Saw the RAH concert. Instant conversion!!

I just love it. We play other stuff, ZZTop, Free, etc, but I'm just waiting to get my hands on the Bonamassa tracks in the set! This stuff is just made for Hammond/Leslie, which is my love.

So thank you Joe, and the guys that asked me to join. I hope we do it justice.