Forty-plus years ago at Eel Pie Island, The Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones opened our ears and minds to a new music: Chicago electric blues.
What they achieved since then is the stuff of legend. And unreconstructed good-time blues music still has a sufficiently large audience in Brighton to make this evening at the Komedia a success.
John Nemeth reminisced about his time in the California blues scene at some length, and sang several songs which purists would regard as pop R'n'B from the Fifties rather than blues. But they went down well with a crowd that appeared to be more interested in dancing rather than listening.
His blues harmonica playing was, however, of a high standard.
And Junior Watson's guitar playing was equally prodigious. His command of the necessary blues licks was perfect and his wonderful tribute to the instrumental hits of the Sixites from the Shadows to the Surfaris up to Dick Dale was an object lesson in how blues guitar should be played.
I can find nothing about this band to criticise beyond the fact they didn't do anything unexpected.
They did a superb job of providing a nostalgic reminder of the wonderful times I had in the Sixties.
But in the Sixties, the blues was dangerous and exciting. This was safe.
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