Hi Lee and all the band.
I've just managed to find time to look at your website and I can't thank you enough for the kind words you have said for Rob, more tears rolling but made me smile. This truly is beautiful and you remembered Rob's favourite track, thank you for that.
Everything is now set for Monday and I know everyone will be moved by your music. Thank you so much.
Rob is really proud of you all.
Love Pat
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Hi Lee and the band
I want to thank you so much for the tribute to my darling Rob last night. You all excelled yourselves. Rob would be so proud of you and very thankful, I know that for sure. Don't think there was a dry eye in the room when you sang 'Little Wing' for Rob, Everybody was raving about you all, I told them that if they weren't into 'Blues' before last night they certainly will be now and it's true. Blues gets to your heart and stays there. (I've given your website address out so they can buy your music). I will round up a few to come to the 8 Dec night, which will be another night to remember.
Again, I can't thank you enough for Rob's tribute. You are all so gifted and I sincerely wish (God willing) you continue to play together for many years to come and deliver the 'Blues' into people's hearts. Love you all, Pat
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hi lee and all the band
I would just like to say how fantastic I thought you were last night at robs tribute I can certenly say you did him proud as did pat who he would have been very proud of
I know listening to you last night touched my heart and i think I could say that for many others
once again thank you for a brill night clare and martin
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What a great night , as always at Lee's gig at the Globe! Sandra and I really enjoyed it and it was a new experience for Natalie who's never heard a live blue's band before, she mostly listens to (new) R & B,
Thanks to all the Rat's and Lady Rat's who attended making it a complete night! Brilliant fun can't wait for the next one thanx Lee what a great night , as always.
C U all for ride out this Sunday, weather gonna b dry and cloudy let's go for it!
B safe Billy Boy
Keeper of the one true faith Rock 'N' Roll
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Thanks for a great Gig Lee and the Lee Ryder Band at The Globe,
regards Andy & Caroline (The Boss!) let her think it!
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Harley Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain Gig 29/01/05
Good gig - what a great bunch of people - but the only bike in the car park was a Gold Wing! I'm sure you've all been warned before about bringing machines into the venue & burning out, so I suppose you're going to get into trouble about the guy with the Quad and the dog. You were all extremely tight - Alan is very tasteful - probably the cleanest guitarist I've heard since Slash (he is - have another listen) - but he is turning into Eric, isn't he? - even the mannerisms. (Digitech have a new pedal out - The Crossroads - 150 quid for seven Clapton tones, and to think our generation struggled with tubes & touch, kids today!) I actually turned down a ticket to see The Hamsters on Saturday - best 13 quid I never spent.
I gotta say that you were a perfect foil for his cleanliness, you naughty, dirty boy you.
See you at The Globe soon. Cheers, Gavin
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THANKS TO BAZA
Free Spirit
Club Member
Knucklehead (Newbie)
Re: 2005 London Party 29th
January.
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Great night thanks to the London
Crew and any other organisers helpers for what can only be described as
a superb party. What a band absolutely brill.
Cheers
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Old_Bob
Club Member
Shovelhead
Lead them astray Re: 2005
London Party 29th January.
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Thanks for the PARTY you guys
First class.
Not a big Blues fan but the band
were good, specially their performance of Little Wing, bl**dy great.
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badnamemike
Club Member
Twin-Cam
Re: 2005 London Party 29th
January.
« Reply #7 on: Yesterday
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Thanks a lot Tony and the London
Crew for a great party,
Hope you can make the Farm Party
August 13th .
Enjoyed the blues band and the
grub.
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The Lee Ryder Band at
"Famous Monday Blues" at the Bullingdon,
19th February 2007
Lee Ryder is the guitar hero who
was just too young to make it along with Clapton, Page, Mick Taylor and
the rest. Despite being managed by Chas Chandler, he confesses that as
a fourteen year-old determined to play the blues, he missed the boat by
refusing to play pop material put forward by his record company. Instead,
with his band "The Hush", he supported all the big names like Zeppelin,
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, America, Chicken Shack,Collisseum, and Stevie
Marriot, then in 1972 quit the music business in disgust - even selling
his guitars. However, in 1992 he started up again, bringing together a
band of heroes hitherto seen playing for people like Brian May, Eric Clapton,
Gary Moore and so on, to play the blues.
And so it came to pass that Phillip
Davis' Euro-American Music extracted the Lee Ryder Band from their usual
haunts in Watford and at the Globe in Brentford, to play the Famous Monday
Blues session at the Bullingdon last week to a knowledgable crowd that
very rapidly warmed to a progression of solid classics, played in backed-off
style by real experts. These days Lee Ryder sings - an accidental development
forced on him when his singer failed to turn up one evening, his voice
and range not unlike Johnny Winter. His sunburst Strat sounds solid, melodic
and exciting, played clean through a Fender valve amp, but when singing,
he leaves it to virtuoso guitarist Simon Bishop, who plays a combination
of very funky extended chords and often complex scales and melodies on
a Telecaster. HIs so-solid, long term bass player Vince Lewis was suffering
badly from flu and kept thinking he was going to fall over, but it was
all so tight and pulled together the audience would never have guessed.
Roger Brewer created remarkable moments of drama and impact with some very
incisive cymbal and tom tom work. Irishman Dave Lennox created tasteful
honky tonk piano and various organ parts underneath the guitars, as well
and laying down some blistering solos, drawing instant applause from an
appreciative audience.
This was truly classic stuff, with
Ryder calling the solos in each song, and generally comtrolling a band
that believes real blues must never be rehearsed, and certainly never played
the same from one night to the next. They played the Hendrix classic "Hey
Joe" in their first set and utterly nailed it, with a remarkably appropriate
country-style piano solo in the middle. The old John Mayall number "All
Your Lovin'" was equally sorted out; with Ryders' guitar work more interesting
than Clapton's was in the 'Beano' album, and his vocal making the song
far better than ever I remembered it from the old days. (To say Ryder is
a very much better singer than Mayall is not a criticism of either men.)
In their second set, the Lee Ryder Band stormed another Hendrx classic
"Little Wing", Ryder very tellingly simplifying the guitar work, whilst
Simon Bishop did some extraordinary things on hisTelecaster. Brewer's drumming
added something very special to the ending of this song.
I picked their set list out the
rubble afterwards, and discovered they'd played a whole load of completely
different songs - like an ultra musical version of "Hootchie Cootchie Man";
in other words, the whole thing was off-the-cuff, played in response to
the audience, who danced, and like me drank heavily in the finest blues
tradition, having a ball on an otherwise wet and miserable Oxford evening.
I hope they'll be back again very soon.
I've also included a writer pic
in case that's useful to you.
All best,
Hugh
Hugh McManners
Office: +44 1865 209288
Mobile & Messages: +44 7836
763828
Email: hugh@hughmcmanners.com
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2007: a revealing history "Forgotten Voices Falklands War" from Ebury;
and a revised best seller the "Outdoor Survival Guide" from Dorling Kindersley.
Details at www.hughmcmanners.com.
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Saw you at The Sportsman, Croxley
Green, for the first time and had one of the best pub evenings ever.
Will definitely be at The Goat
in Berko on Friday.
Your "Hey Joe" and "Little Wing"
(SRV would thoroughly approve) really are something else.
Thanks mate - Andrew Smith (49y/o
Blues freak)
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