Blues night at Barga Jazz Club with the Blues Foundation, a trio from Lucca playing at the Jazz club for the first time. Their repertoire included Muddy Waters, Freddie King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Joining them on stage this evening, Geoff blowing some very mean blues harp with the boys. From blues they then moved onto a more funky style with recent songs by Albert Collins. The bass player Alessandro Cola managing to carry on playing even after bloodying one of his playing fingers. Some masking tape quickly wrapped round the offending finger and on he played.
Whilst on the subject of Alessandro Cola, although many years younger does look remarkably like Lemmy, the Jack Daniel’s-swigging, bass-playing, smoke-belching engine that powers proto-metal band Motorhead.
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By strange coincidence a full length feature film about the life of Lemmy opens in the UK today- Lemmy the movie
Hailed as a godfather of heavy metal, 64-year-old Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister has established himself as the living embodiment of rock and roll over the past four decades. After stints with popular Mersey beat band THE ROCKIN’ VICKERS and influential psychedelic rockers HAWKWIND, and even a brief time spent as a member of Jimi Hendrix‘s road crew, Lemmy formed MOTÖRHEAD in 1975. Going on to record such influential metal classics as “Overkill”, “Ace of Spades” and “Bomber”, the Grammy Award-winning MOTÖRHEAD and Kilmister‘s fusion of punk and metal registered a major influence on such bands as METALLICA, GUNS N’ ROSES and NIRVANA.
2010 marks the 35th anniversary of the birth of MOTÖRHEAD, which features Kilmister, guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee.
Daniele Pacchini -- voce/chitarra | Alessandro Cola -- basso | Andrea Panelli -- batteria
A mention should be made about the great guitar playing of Daniele Pacchini -- technically one of the best in the area but as the video above shows the sound level was just too high for comfort last night