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29th June at 7pm - The BluTone Band Plays Oakington Village Day

 
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BluTone & The Druid Play Chill#2, Station Square, Cambridge.

 

Blutone & The Druid at Chill#2, Cambridge

On Saturday 15th April 2023, my old friend, Drew Keen joined me for delivering the Blutone & The Druid set at Chill#2 in Cambridge.  

I have been in the fortunate position to be able to take a list of songs and deliver the same list in different formats as a soloist,  a duet and with The Blutone Band (next gig the 27th May at The Carpenters).  The process is interesting as each song of course sounds different when delivered in each of the different formats.

The Blutone & The Druid format has been particularly interesting in that having already done a few gigs, we both realised that two guitarists together whilst technically sounds ok, the sounds are so similar and a lot gets lost in the 'mix'.  Whatever it was both of us were not that happy with the sound in that format.  In discussing this, Drew came up with a ingenious solution, what if Drew had a crack at playing bass guitar instead?

It was an idea worthy of a try and on Saturday we did exactly that and the videos below will give you a good idea as to how we sounded:

Blutone & The Druid play Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix.




Blutone & The Druid play Smokestack Lightening by Howlin' Wolf.



Blutone & The Druid play Messin' With The Kid by Junior Wells




We had a great evening and some lovely feedback from the residents of the Ibis Hotel.

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