Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Wishbone Ash 40th Anniversary concert

Wow and Wow again! What a gig! It was so good to hear Andy, Bob, Joe and of course Muddy play. They were super tight and sounded so good (Thanks Daniel!) So many friends in the audience and a great aftershow party...long live rock'n'roll but not the next morning ha,ha...

Check out some pics here http://www.gillyworld.com/sbme09

It was a pleasure to play 2 songs with WA and to play 3 part harmonies was ...well, you can imagine the sound on stage :-) It was all filmed for a DVD release which you all have to get !!

Thanks to Andy & CO! Jonna and I really enjoyed the evening.

BGB is taking a little break before summer and I'm off to Creete this saturday with the family.

Cheers,

Ben

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Gigs, Gigs and more Gigs..

Big gigs update for ya all! And there's more to come :-)

Cheers,

Ben

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Been a long time...

Sorry for no updates for awhile... been busy!
Great gigs with the band, it's so cool to play with these guys! It seems like we're only getting better and better :-) Jukka Oja aka Beavis our soundtech is a very important part of the team. He finally got me to try inear monitoring and I love it! Its good for the vocals and with the help of ambience microphones I can hear the audience as well.

I don't know if I mentioned anything about the Frankfurt Musik Fair but I was there for 3 days playing at the ENGL stand with Bernd Aufferman. I've been an ENGL endorser for a long time and it's always nice to meet the ENGL family so to speak. At the fair iteslf I really didn't see anything new and spectacular but I saw Steve Lukathers Band a couple of times and they were very good. Steve's a monster player and I prefer his solo stuff to the TOTO stuff.
I also saw Thomas Blug who without doubt is the best Strat player around at the moment...period! His new CD Soul & Pepper has some killer tunes and of course a monster Strat tone.
Another player I saw was Mika Tyyskä aka Mr. Fastfinger. His music is a bit more complex and he has a style maybe a little bit like Steve Vai but more musical in my opinion. He also has a more melodic style I think. Check him out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFXq2VspF0

Still one more gig in Mikkeli and then we'll have short break.
I will update the gig page soon with lots of gigs for the autumn and a few for the summer.

Stay cool and be well,

Ben