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What’s everyone listening to ??

2008-07-13T17:31:55Z

Hello All , just thought I would find out what everyone is listening to at the moment.Also if there are any current ‘must have’ Albums.

Also , maybe Aynsley & Co can tell us what they are currently listening to.Here goes my current:

Dani Wilde - Heal my Blues - Good
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger - Excellent
Aynsley Lister - Everything I need - Good
Jeff Healey - Heal My Blues
Led Zeppelin - Mothership - Good

Larry Miller

2008-10-09T14:49:39Z

Any of you guys caught Larry Miller playing ?
Got to be one of the best live acts on the blues circuit. Cant help but have a good time when Larry lets rip.

All-time Top Five Guitarists of any genre

2008-09-26T17:36:33Z

Things are still a little quiet on the site so I thought I’d throw this out. Obviously there’ll be a Blues slant to the list but don’t forget the greats of other styles of music. I’ll reveal my full list later but for now I’ll just give Joe Bonamassa as a member of my five.

Covers you’d love to hear Aynsley do

2008-07-30T12:10:30Z

Following on from the general cover versions conversation, I thought it might be interesting to think of songs that we would like to hear Aynsley play in the future. This is meant to be lighthearted and not to influence or pressure Aynsley in anyway, although hopefully he may also find it of interest.

Well I guess I should suggest one to start with…

How about a cover of another great British blues singer Peter Green? Therefore I’d suggest Fool No More by Fleetwood Mac.

Britbabe, will you be suggesting Red House by Jimi Hendrix?

Favourite Aynsley Lister songs

2008-09-23T08:50:38Z

Welcome to the new members on the board! Here’s a post you might like to get involved in. What is everyone’s favourite Aynsley Lister songs so far? Do you like the blues songs, the rock songs or the slow songs most? Here are some of mine:

Need Her So Bad - this is an early one which helped Aynsley get a record deal and is found on the Aynsley Lister album. This is a slow song about love and desire, I love the guitar tone on this song, slightly reminiscent of Peter Green.

Identity Blues - I love it when Aynsley plays slide and this is a great early example found on the first album and as a hidden track on Everything I Need.

As The Crow Flies - Aynsley truly makes this song his own, nothing short of superb!

What U Got 4 Me - This is a rocky song from the All Or Nothing album. Aynsley with some attitude and great guitar work as ever, the best from a good album.

Wherever I Am - This is one of Aynsley’s more commercial tracks, some I like more than others, but this one can take the breath away, a great track which is a slow builder starting only with bass and cymbals.

With Me Tonight - This track is probably everthing you’d want in a song from Aynsley. Heavily bluesy with a contempary feel, its a passionate song that slows right down before starting up again.

Find My Way Home - Another rocker, this is the first song on Upside down, and played at a frantic pace, one the best British blues rock songs made since the Hoax were last together!

I’m keen to hear yours (descriptions not necessary!)

Scarborough Warning!!!

2008-10-01T20:30:01Z

Hello all. I’ve just had a message from Mark Horsley who’s putting on the blues gigs at The Cask in Scarborough, he says that an article about Aynsley’s gig has just appeared in the Scarborough Evening News and he expects tickets to go quickly now. Tix are priced at £8 in advance (£10 on the door if any are left!) and you can reach Mark through the ‘Contact Us’ button on the website at: http://www.scarboroughbluesclub.co.uk

Scarborough Gig

2008-10-09T16:01:25Z

How many went to the gig? If you did,nt you missed a belter, I know Britbabe went. Not a big place but good and some great bands coming in the future, check out the site http://www.scarboroughbluesclub.co.uk the guy who runs it needs your support.. KEEP MUSIC ALIVE!!

How did you get to hear Aynsley?

2007-07-01T13:41:26Z

This forum is pretty much dead and I though it would be neat to have some more action going on here.
So here we go: Where and when (and why) did you Aynsley Lister the first time?

I’m playing the lead guitar in a band with some friends and when my friend Josef and me had a pause from writing songs he showed me some CD’s packed with live gigs of various Artist like Hendrix, SRV, Clapton and so on. There also was a video of “Everything I need” on it and he showed to me. I really fell in love with this song and we’re gonna play it the next time we do a gig.

Ipswich gig

2008-10-06T23:08:22Z

It was a rainy Saturday night in Ipswich, but that was no excuse for such a disappointing audience turnout. I had travelled up the A12, daughter in tow, from Mid-Essex for only our second Aynsley gig (having seen the Riga ‘Solo’ show a few weeks ago).
I was really looking forward to seeing Aynsley & Band, and contemplating a ‘massive’ queue outside……… In reality, we walked into a near empty hall. If it hadn’t have been for the equipment on stage, I would have been thinking we’d got the wrong night.
By the time the support band, The Dave Jackson Band, climbed on stage, there were only about 40 people there. The atmosphere was a bit ‘lacking’, but Dave on Guitar, his wife Janet on Bass and ‘Spoons’ sitting in on Drums, ripped into a great set of Blues Rock numbers. Suddenly, you forgot the surroundings and just took in the music.
By the time Aynsley and the Band came on, I’m sure everyone, like me, just wanted to see the maestro perform. And we were not disappointed. It was one superb performance.
Highlight of the night for me, was the ‘cover’ of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ (as a relative ‘newbie’, is this a regular for Aynsley?), which totally eclipsed the original.
There are very few performers, today, who impress me enough to ‘put pen to paper’ and enthuse over (I call it the ‘WOW’ factor). Aynsley (only outshone, in my eyes, by the brilliant Joe Bonamassa) certainly fits into that category.
I just hope that the lack of punters at Ipswich (it must have been a ‘downer’ for the band too, as well as a bit of a ‘commercial’ disaster), doesn’t put Aynsley off of coming ‘down this way’ again sometime soon.
Lets hope that Tuesday’s Scarborough gig ‘Sells out’, as suggested.
I look forward to seeing the band play Down South, to a ‘Full House’ in the future.

All-time Cover songs

2008-07-22T19:23:11Z

What’s your top 5 cover songs that in your mind were better than the originals? An example would be Purple Rain by Aynsley over Prince’s version. Everybody from the Beatles to Fall Down Boy have done them but I’m looking for the ones you all thought were an improvement.