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Doors 7.00pm

Dr Brown 7.45pm

Wishbone Ash

 8.45pm

Close 11.00pm

This is a standing gig.

Dr Brown provide us with an excellent opening act. No-nonsense blues led by ace harp player Dr Brown who favour the music of West Coast America. Styles and influences include the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie Vaughan and Ronnie Earle.

+ Dr Brown & The Groovecats

  The bands equipment arrived at 3.00pm. That's typical of WA always bang on and extremely professional. Thirty minutes later and the crew are beavering away setting up the stage and getting a sweat started when the mobile rings ...... "there's a problem Jim ..... the band are stuck in Gretna. Someone [?] has filled the bus with petrol instead of diesel!" Oh dear .... "We are waiting for the AA to sort it out ...... we will keep you posted." No problem.

Dr Brown arrived from all corners of the Northeast and quickly loaded in for a sound check to ensure we kicked the show off on time.

Brief background blurb ....

Wishbone Ash deserve long service medals for their 35 years of touring the world. The band are renowned for delivering high quality rock, the sort that has depth not just volume. Stalwart Andy Powell remembers back in the 60’s when the band were looking for a guitarist, “they started running advertisements in the music papers and prospective guitarists would come to the house and audition. It finally came down to Ted Turner and me and they couldn't decide between us. So the band decided not to hire a keyboard player, as they'd originally planned and took us both instead!"

The group was subject to a variety of influences - Powell was a veteran of various semi-pro blues and soul outfits and a player who listened to bands from Fairport Convention to the Who. "Pete Townsend had a profound impact on me as a rhythm player", Powell says and credits his experience in soul bands, working with horn section harmonies as the inspiration for the dual lead guitar format that he and Ted Turner developed.

Powell continues, "It was crucial in those days that everybody have their own sound, there was a great spirit in the air in the late 60's. The clubs were very active, there was a lot of R&B and a lot of blues, like the Pretty Things and early Fleetwood Mac. The scene was open to anything that would expand the imagination."

As for the group's name, Powell explains, "We wanted something that wouldn't tie us down to a particular style and came up with a number of wacky names - I remember Third World War and Jesus Duck. Finally there were two lists, one of which had the word Wishbone on it and the other of which had Ash. The combination sounded intriguing - actually, it sounded like more than it was."

Andy Powell .Guitar

Muddy Manninen Guitar

Bob Skeat Guitar

Ray Weston   Drums

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