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1 |
Tequila |
DB Fender
Jaguar bass; AFL Eric Clapton signature Strat; GB Yamaha CP piano and
Roland VK7 organ; PB, Gretsch kit set up left-handed; FM tenor sax. It's
instantly apparent that this is going to be a very tight,
nicely-rehearsed show, with new drummer Paul Beavis making an excellent
showing, and manifestly enjoying every moment of it. |
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2 |
No Money
Down |
FM harp |
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3 |
Mary Ann |
FM tenor
sax |
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4 |
She’s
Tough |
FM lead
vocal and harp |
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5 |
Unchain My
Heart |
‘Some
people say I’m the new Ray Charles. I don’t want to be the new Ray
Charles. I want to be me’. FM alto sax |
|
6 |
Too Much
Monkey Business |
FM harp |
|
7 |
Travelling
Light (very nice!) |
AFL lead
voice; GB backup vocal; FM harp |
|
8 |
Route 66 |
AFL lead
voice; FM harp |
|
9 |
Youngblood |
GB vox; FM
tenor sax; AFL and FM voices, DB goofy basso |
|
10 |
Lightning
Boogie (title?) |
A fast
guitar instrumental: AFL lead guitar; GB maracas; FM stuck tambourine |
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11 |
You Got me
Running (Baby What You Want me to Do) |
GB, AFL,
DB voices; FM tenor sax |
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|
Raffle for
Cancer Research has raised £750, says GB. ‘Nearly two pounds each’! GB
forgets what he’s going to say next. ‘Anyone here over 60?’ he quips. DB
starts to play the Hamlet Bach bassline, which GB dismisses: ‘I
thought that was in D!’ |
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12 |
Shotgun |
GB organ
(flexing his wrist somewhat awkwardly, he commented, ‘Let’s warm up next
time’) and piano; GB and AFL, voices; AFL long wah-wah guitar solo; FM
alto sax. Includes Gary's potato / tomato-gathering mime |
|
|
Interval |
Raffle
drawn by our host Franky Brooker, with Gary’s god-daughter Georgia Lee.
Huge numbers of prizes! Then Paul, a US friend of Gary’s takes the
stage, commending ‘No Stiletto Heels’, and says that although GB wasn’t
planning to play A Whiter Shade of Pale, he will if we can fill a
bucket (a pail, of course) with cash. This starts to circulate in
the audience. Gary himself seeds it with fifty pounds (perhaps the only
man in the music business who will pay himself to play something he
doesn’t want to play … but it’s all for an excellent cause!) The
interval is quite long: Gary apologises, saying the band had to visit a
Portakabin in the third field away. |
|
13 |
Let the
Good Times Roll |
AFL
guitar; GB piano and voice; FM tenor sax |
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14 |
Sea Cruise |
FM tenor
sax. The number constantly straining to turn into reggae. GB, AFL and
DB, vocals. ‘That’s what I call a lyric,’ says Gary, applauding ‘the
songs we all grew up with.’ |
|
15 |
I Want to
Walk you Home (title? Fats Domino song) |
GB and
AFL, voices. FM tenor sax. Segue into … |
|
16 |
Blueberry
Hill |
(Excellent
and very well received); FM tenor sax |
|
17 |
Will the
Circle Be Unbroken / Lay My Burden Down |
AFL voice,
FM soprano sax; GB calls DB a polo player. DB retorts that he prefers
Trebor mints. |
|
18 |
I Saw Her
Standing There |
Feat.
Richard Sharpe, young local player, guitar and voice. AFL backing voice,
no guitar. FM tenor sax |
|
19 |
You Can’t
Judge a Book … |
FM harp;
RS guitar; AFL guitar; GB vox (standing at piano) and maracas; FM takes
a solo on bones (‘couple of old cow’s ribs’ says GB) |
|
20 |
Poison Ivy
(in G, good and slow) |
RS guitar,
FM tenor sax |
|
21 |
Goodnight
Irene |
AFL vox
and guitar; RS guitar; FM alto sax |
|
22 |
Old Black
Joe |
FM tenor
sax; GB vox and piano; AFL, RS, DB backup voices |
|
23 |
Woolly
Bully |
GB counts
this one in in Welsh. FM tenor sax; GB vox and organ; AFL, RS, DB backup
voices |
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24 |
(piano
solo) |
GB plays a
strong, slow, gospel piano. ‘It’s a great introduction, but I haven’t
got a song to go with it.’ BtP suspects it’s the chords of a Christmas
carol. Rest of the band off-stage. |
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25 |
O Come all
ye Faithful |
GB, voice
and piano; audience participation. |
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26 |
Rise Up
Shepherd and Follow |
GB, very
passionate voice and piano; audience participation |
|
27 |
Wide Eyed
and Legless |
No
Stiletto Shoes back on: AFL lead vocal, FM alto sax |
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28 |
A Whiter
Shade of Pale |
Three
verses, of which the first was a spoken, ‘patter’ verse explaining that
£1,785 had been raised by the band’s exertions, for Cancer Research [but
see here for the final tally]. No
organ, FM soprano sax. |
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29 |
God Rest
ye Merry, Gentlemen |
Surprisingly, the absolute highlight of the evening: the familiar carol
played over keyboard sitar/hurdy-gurdy effects, DB getting an amazing
Indian drums effect out of his bass; PB playing kit with his hands; FM
flute; RS back on again, AFL co-lead vocal, no guitar. The song was
long, very slow, and played over a single, hypnotic drone chord. It
sounded like the start of Glimpses of Nirvana; think Tomorrow
Never Knows and you’re halfway there. Astonishing! As GB said at the
end, 'That was thanks to Annie Lennox': but the Shoes had taken the
Lennox drone-template to an extreme, suppressing all chord-changes,
upping the Indian influence, and dropping the tempo. |
