Starvin’ Sid’s Temporary Quartet!
Those who have been following this band for years will know how its line-up has fluctuated however the past 3 years (?) has been as a classic trio. Bass player Jazz had double-booked himself and was replaced by local guitar hero Micky Broadbent (performing his third gig of the day) therefore an entertaining night was bound to ensue.
All these guys have been around for so long it’s difficult to know what they cannot play without enthusiasm and tremendous expertise with such classics as Sunshine Of Your Love, Gloria, Black Magic Woman, Dimples, Bad To The Bone, I Feel Free, Hi Heel Sneekers and the only Rhythm and Blues track ever to have officially reached #1 in the U.K…Little Red Rooster.
Hooker, Diddley, Dylan, Waters, Cream, Thorogood and many others all came in for some serious Sid attack and just into their second set a friend of the band called Roger was invited to the stage for a couple of tracks on the drums instead of Olly…but that still makes a trio you say!
With Sid when you say you want an encore you get an encore and do not ask me what the track was they played however the audience went wild. At least a ten minute jam session started as Balding Bloke wound up the sound as a sensational drum beat rumbled down the bar. It took yours truly a few moments to realise that Roger had returned to the stage and we actually had two drummers playing one set of drums and boy did they go for it.
Everyone who knows me and my appreciation for drummers is legend however this was something very special and the crowd knew it, that’s not to say Sid and Micky were passengers, far from it, without their supreme guitarmanship this track could easily have fallen apart, but of course it did not and the temporary quartet rounded off an altogether superb night of classic R and B.
I just wonder who will come back with them on 21st November??? I can’t wait.