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Friday
14th March 2003 Evening click here
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15th March 2003 Evening click here
Saturday
Lunchtime
15th March 2003
The London Resonator
Centre Guitar Workshop with Papa George
www.resocentre.com www.papageorge.co.uk
| Midday on Saturday and
the doors to The Court Theatre at Pendley, Tring are open once again but
disaster strikes! No bar open. How can the blues guitar workshop with Papa
George start! Beer or no beer the workshop starts. Who can not be drawn in
by the small charismatic bluesman figure of Papa George. This was a
workshop from the stage with Papa George playing the National Steel
guitar, explaining his technique and open tunings. He fielded questions to
the satisfaction of the 60 strong crowd. Well it’s not long before bar
staff arrive, delayed due to the bar manager being ill. I guess he can be
forgiven. |
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The Blues Jam hosted by
Roadhouse www.roadhousegb.co.uk
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A short break took place where
there was a rush to the bar before Roadhouse got underway playing a lively
set of songs, many featured on their acclaimed CD ‘Blues Highway’.
Those in the audience who had brought their instruments were by now
champing at the bit to get on stage. First on was Colin McHugh ( he did
all the printing for the festival) and his 16 year old son Sean (he’s
got bottle) both playing guitar with Colin on vocals. They whipped through
versions of ‘All Along the
Watchtower’, nearer to Hendrix than Dylan and the aptly titled 'Born to
be Wild' with some exciting and wild guitar playing from Colin. Not
exactly blues but both numbers brought rapturous applause. MC, Gary Boner
of Roadhouse invited on to
the stage a group of musicians who had never met before, ably backed by
Roger, the Roadhouse drummer (only common dominator all the way through). |
Guitars and bass jammed along to
Crossroads with some good harp playing. This was followed by others including
Woolfie who played sax and sang (not at the same time) holding everyone together
in a stomping version of ‘Sweet Home Chicago’. Blues band Moondog’s
guitarist (and many other bands) Derrick Tims turned up on his way to a gig and
took to the stage with organiser Derek White. With slide in hand DT started on
his own and then brought in DW and Roger playing
‘Josephine’ and
‘Little Red Rooster’. Roadhouse finished the lunchtime session to an
appreciative crowd. Not an easy thing to do to host a jam session and they did
it competently. All in all a very good jam session and workshop with a couple of
acoustic enthusiasts getting some further workshop tuition form Papa George
during the afternoon.
"We all
enjoyed the guitar workshop, jam and thought everybody who had the nerve to get
up on stage were good."
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