Gary's Action Zone
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Welcome!
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Hello!
As you can see of the Web-Page, things
has started to happen.
AN I have manage to restore my mails
and my mailprogram, finished with exams all passed.
There will be an Sweden Only Best of 2 released in August.
Some more gigs during August, but there
are no confirmed gigs after the Drobak Blues Festival 7th August,
there are only talk about some gigs
in Germany later this year, but don't expect anything before end of August.
I would talk all of you that have send
in your reviews from the concerts, I look forward to get reviews from the
remaining gigs.
Issue 23 is planned in end of August
Best Regards from.......
Ole-Johan...............
The content this issue:
1. General News
2. Collectors News
3. Submissions - questions/answers/opinions
from subscribers
4. Submissions - Trade of records
etc.
5. Fanzine Information
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1. GENERAL NEWS
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Gary Moore is currently playing some shows in Europe.
Line Up:
Gary Moore - Guitar/Vocal
Pete Rees- Bass
Vic Martin - Keyboards
Gary Husband - Drums
August
5th - Skanderborg Festival, Denmark
7th - Drobak Blues Festival, Norway
Gary Moore has played following shows:
5th Rock City, Nottingham, UK
7th Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
- as Guest with BB King
8th Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
10th North Sea Jazz Festival, Haguee,
Holland (40 min has been broadcasted at the Dutch Radio)
As we have recieved several reviews
from various fans
Within first 2 weeks of August there will be an official press release which will tell us the name of the new record company of Gary Moore.
There are reported that there will
come a new album in September/October, but I guess the press release will
tell us more.
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2. COLLECTORS NEWS
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Virgin Sweden will release new Sweden Only 2CD best of called: Blood Of Emeralds - Best Of Gary Moore 2 at the 25 August 1999
Disc 1:
1. Thunder Rising
2. Blood Of Emeralds
3. Reach For The Sky
4. Listen To Your Heartbeat
5. Don't Take Me For A Loser
6. Take A Little Time
7. Shapes Of Things
8. The Messiah Will Come Again
9. Murder In The Skies
10. Victims Of The Future
11. All Messed Up
12. Hold On To Love
13. Gonna Break My Heart Again
14. Johnny Boy
15. Sunset (live)
Bouns Disc 2:
1. Friday On My Mind (12" version)
2. Ready For Love (12" remix)
3. Empty Rooms (Ext. version, from
the "Empty Rooms" 12" and CD-single)
4. The Loner (12" version from double-LP-issue
of "Wild Frontier")
5. Wild Frontier (live 1986,from the
"Wild Frontier" 12")
6. Parisienne W. (live, from the UK
"Corridors Of Power" LP bonus-ep)
7. Back On The Streets (live, from
the UK "Corridors Of Power" LP bonus-ep)
8. Rockin' Every Night (live, from
the UK "Corridors Of Power" LP bonus-ep)
9. Murder In The Skies (live 1984,
b-side on "Empty Rooms")
10. Run For Cover (live 1985, from
the 12" for "Wild Frontier")
11. Falling In Love With You (instrumental
version from "Falling..." 7" b-side)
Colosseum II's album 'Strange New Flesh'
has been reissued and remastered at Essential!/Castle with new liner notes;
Catalognr: ESMCD710
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3. SUBMISSIONS - QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
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From: Stephen Humphries [SMTP:HumphrA@aol.com]
Subject: Chelsea Blues...
Dear Ole-Johan,
Hi! Saturday night was tremendous fun. I'd say that this was better than last year. The festival was better organized (with programs and t-shirts and a more professional looking set up) and it was slightly better attended this year. I arrived early in the evening and briefly chatted to Ron Carter and Graham Lilley. Ron Carter only had a 3-piece band this year but he still played with a lot of fire.
The Papa Blues Band took to the stage The Papa Blues band were very solid indeed -- a good rhythm section and Papa George himself was a good guitarist and a soulful singer. He was quite a thin, wily chap and had a brown strat. They played about 3 numbers and then Gary Moore joined them on-stage. He was dressed in black with his hair fairly short. The rest of the gig itself is quite and difficult to describe. It started off with that great riff of Stevie Ray Vaughn's Cold Shot with Papa George handling all the vocals for the night. Gary started off a bit tentatively and then relaxed a bit more as the song went on. It wasn't too long before Gary's Les Paul started duelling with George's Strat. The solo's were all very improvised and each guitarist would nod at each other as to indicate who would be the next one to play lead. One thing that impressed me tonight was Gary's rhythm playing and tremendous mini-riffs and fills. A lot of the rhythm playing had some light jazz inflections to it. Gary had some wonderful little sparks of inspiration during the first guitar duel of the night.
Next up was Muddy Water's I Just Want To Make Love To You. The audience were able to sing along to this one. Gary's guitar was higher up in the mix on this tune too, which was a plus. The third song of the evening was one I didn't fully recognize but I think it was titled The Devil Wears a Blue Dress. Gary began this slow ballad playing a lone solo--alas all too short. This was where Gary really came alive. In his solo spot he playing some achingly beautiful notes with that gorgeous sweet tone. Many wide bends and notes that he held for absolutely ages. The crowd really responded to him well. The next song was another I didn't recognize--I think it was called The Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Woman Lookin' for a Man. But the next song ws Stevie Ray's Pride and Joy -- another audience sing-a-long propelled along by Papa George's jaunty, springy riffing. Papa George had some super solo's too and I seem to recall that he shone through on this tune too. Unlike Gary's experimental approach at last year's gig with Jack Bruce, Gary's playing on Saturday night was more the familiar style we all know and love. He was very relaxed and didn't play a lot of flash stuff; no fast runs up and down the fret board or anything, but he employed lots of his trademark little hammer-ons and pull-offs in his playing.
The band then returned and George said that they were going to play a Peter Green number and he noted that Gary took take a fair share of credit for the return of Peter Green and bringing him to people's attention again. Gary was very humble and shy about the whole thing (actually he was typically shy all night). Then the band launched into Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well. It sounded spot on with the 2 guitars playing the riff and those runs. It was a lengthy version which ended in bass and drum solos which rather undermined the song a bit. And then it was 11 o' clock and the band had to respect the noise curfew and bade their farewell.
A super evening all in all. I saw Gary briefly after the gig but he was very tired and not in the mood to chat -- he just wanted to get home. He told me that the new album is due out in September and said "it's very good." He wasn't too keen on revealing anything more about what sort of style or direction it was going to be. Graham was also very coy about the details but hinted it was a mix of things. He said that they were looking into the possibility of touring at the moment. Ron Carter told me that he'd been speaking to Gary Husband (who once agai plays drums on the new album) about Gary's new album and was told that it was a fairly laid back and mellow affair with less "attack" than normal. So we shall have to wait and see!
Gary did an interview with a free-lance writer after the show and if I see the article then I'll send you a copy.
Well that's all for now....I was glad to have the opportunity to see him play again as I will probably have to miss the next tour as I'll be in the USA...and we all know just how often Gary plays in the USA, right? :-)
adios,
Stephen.
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From: Stephen Humphries
Subject: Nottingham concert report
Set List:
Walking By Myself
Oh Pretty Woman
Since I met You Baby
Tore Down [Freddie King song]
Need Your Love So Bad
I Loved Another Woman
All Your Love
Fire [Jimi Hendrix]
Still Got the Blues
Too Tired
The Sky is Crying
Further On Up the Road
- Encore 1:
The Blues Is Alright
- Encore 2:
Parisienne Walkways
Soundchecked but not played: If You
Don't Love Me.
Dear Ole-Johann.
It was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never ever heard Gary play as well as he did last night. Of course it is very difficult to describe a great concert -- one had to have been there to hear and experience the genius of those hands last night. I'll try to describe it and I hope it isn't too boring.
But let me go back to the beginning of my day. I arrived at the venue at 4:30 pm and met Heike Sieberg outside. We sat and listened to the soundcheck. Gary's fingers were certainly flying at a million miles per hour inside the venue -- some very impressive speedy runs were heard and we also heard STGTB, If You Don't Love Me, Walkin, Tore Down and snippets of other tunes.
I met Gary briefly outside after the soundcheck and gave him a gift I'd wrapped for him [I'd spotted a rare video of Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page playing together in the Royal Albert Hall in 1983 and I knew he'd especially enjoy Eric and Jeff]. I had a brief chat with Stewart and he said that he couldn't give away any details about the new album. Absolutely everyone is keeping very quiet about it....intriguing. I only recognized Gary Husband. I'm not sure who the keyboard player was [my tape ran out before Gary introduced the band], but he certainly hadn't played with Gary before. I recognized the bass player though; he was from the Papa George Blues Band.
The Venue was packed. It is a small club which must have had about 1000 people jammed wall to wall. Gary took to the stage at 9pm after the crow were becoming very restless from waiting. He launched into Walkin' on his cherry red Gibson SG with the crowd singing along. It was a fairly straight forward version. Gary didn't do any of the fret board gymnastics to introduce the song like he does on Blues Alive [or the soundcheck we heard]. Gary was very relaxed and really warmed to the rapturous reception from the ecstatic crowd. After Pretty Woman Gary said "this is one we did with BB King" and then went into a jaunty version of Since I Met You Baby. Gary was sweating profusely by now of course. I recognized Tore Down-- famous blues number.
Then he announced that he would be
playing a slow number. The crowd immediately recognized I Need Your Love
So Bad. Interestingly I'm pretty sure that he kept the red Gibson for this
song even though I could see that Graham Lilley had the 'Green' Les Paul
ready for him at the side of the stage. Need Your Love so Bad was lovely.
Even in the small club with a basic sound set up each note was crystal
clear and gorgeous. It just goes to prove that Gary doesn't need the Green
guitar to get that wonderful tone.
Next up was I Loved Another Woman [a personal fave of mine from the Blues for Greeny album] . Again, the playing was eargasmic. The version he did was much the same as on the Blues For Greeny video with the extended coda but this version was a lot more adventurous and complex. Lots of wide string bends. He played around with a lot of different timings on his phrasings--slowing down and speeding up slightly and then changing the figure completely.
"We're going to do an Otis Rush song now,"he said. I cheered loudly at this and Gary joked "not that one! Nah, we only know the one song, you know that!" All Your Love followed. It was a mid-tempo version which sounded a lot like the version from the last tour because of Gary Husband's distinctive drum rhythm. During the mid part of the solo Gary came in with that piercing note and then his fingers went tumbling over the fret board briefly and then he used a lot of vibrato to end the solo. The set was pretty much made up on the spot and Gary suddenly told his band that they were going to do Hendrix's Fire. This song was done at breakneck speed. I'd always read that Gary could do a great Hendrix impression on guitar but this was my first chance to hear that apart from the brief Highway Chile riff on Livin' on Dreams. He really nailed the solo on that one.
It was appropriate that Gary should do a Hendrix song because his playing last night was remisicent of Hendrix's abandon....What was becoming pretty apparent was that Gary was feeling very adventurous with his playing. Of course the solos and fills in the songs have always been improvised, but Gary just seemed to feel less restrained than usual and he seemed to have an extra dimension of freedom and willingness to really explore radical new approaches to his solos. He would go off on interesting tangents and then find his way back to the usual structure of solo without ever having lost the plot. This was certainly true of SGTB which received a massive cheer from the crowd. The end solo on the Les Paul had some amazingly lightning fast fret runs. At the very end of the song instead of playing the final note he suddenly decided to just improvise more for another minute or two.
At the beginning of Too Tired Gary challenged the keyboard player to follow his guitar leads with a few shapes. Then Gary played some runs that were so complex that the keyboard playing just raised his arms in defeat at one point as if to say 'how do you expect me to copy that?' Too Tired had a longer solo than normal with lots of hammer ons over several bars. Gary ended with the keyboard player playing the basic riff and then Moore exploded into a few stunning runs for an explosive end. He then mentioned 'the late, great Mr Albert Collins.'
The Sky is Crying was much like the 1992 version with the quiet interlude. But the best I've heard it. Very lengthy. This was played on the Gibson SG again. Exhilirating. I wish I could describe it. Quite similar to the version on the Live Blues video with some of the fills echoing ones he's used in the past. But then he deviated from that and did a whole lot of different soloing which pushed the boundaries. This was the best version I've heard. Further On Up the Road had the keyboard VS Guitar dual as usual.
The crowd were baying for an encore: The Blues is Alright started off a bit messily with the keyboard player not quite on the mark. Then in came the bass run and then the guitar erupted. The song ended with Gary getting the crowd to sing the refrain. He got a great response.
The second encore.....Parisienne Walkways. I didn't think he'd play it. Of course the audience went beserk. Gary sang 'I remember Paris' and then stopped because the crowd completed the line for him. He then just decided to let the crowd sing the entire song while he played the fills. It sounded awful with the crowd singing as no one could quite get the timing of the words right. Gary had a great big smile on his face as he thought it was very amusing. The first solo break had some breathtaking pyrotechnics on the fretboard. When the second guitar break arrived he didn't go straight into the sustained note. He played a few shapes and then started the sustained note before ending very soon afterwards. He pretended that he couldn't sustain the note and looked at the audience and shrugged his shoulders. He tried again and broke off and raised his hands in mock defeat. Gary Moore--comedian! The crowd was quite amused. And then he hit that note and it just kept going and going and going until it ended in feedback. And then he began the end of the solo. I had my hand in my mouth the entire time because it was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. And then he started to end the song and it was almost over.....and then Gary just decided to improvise some more. He played for about another 2-3 minutes it seemed. If you remember the astonishing improvisation that Gary does at the end of The Loner on the Live At Isstadion video-- well it was all stuff like that. It was unbelievably beautiful. Even the band behind Gary were all looking at each other in amazement at the stuff he was coming out with.
Gary was smiling and relaxed after the show as he clearly knew how good it had been. He was happy to sign numerous autographs for fans. I went up and simply told him how good it was and he expressed gratitude for the video. A great night.
--all the best,
Stephen.
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From: David Thornton[SMTP:davthor@hotmail.com]
Subject: Gig on 5th July
Yes! I have just got back from Rock City, Nottingham, amazed at what I saw and heard!
The venue is a night club (!) which was a bit unexpected, but it did hold 2,000 people, all paying around £16-£17 each (I wonder how much Gary got paid that night!) Gary opened the set with Walking By Myself, which really got the crowd going. This was followed by Oh Pretty Woman, and from then on you realised it was going to be a blues gig all night.
All the songs he played where from "Still Got The Blues" and "After Hours" pretty much, except "Need Your Love So Bad" from "Blues For Greeny".
Gary also suprised the audience with a cracking rendition of "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix.
His playing was spot on all night, and he still manages to breathe new life into songs he's played thousands of times on stage before, keeping the audience interested.
The band consisted of Gary Husband on drums, and a bass player and keyboard player I've never seen before, but they all wore really eye-catching dodgy shirts so that kind of makes up for it! When they played Parisienne Walkways, Gary (maybe deliberately) couldn't hold the sustained note at first! He got it on the 3rd time though.
Anyway, this gig almost proves that there'll be no more new albums, especially as he played nothing from "Dark Days in Paradise", - a flop if ever there was one.
Oh how I wish it was the 1980's and we still had all the good stuff to come!
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From: GRAF Marcel [SMTP:marcelpgraf@bluewin.ch]
Subject: 8th Montreux Jazz Festival
SETLIST:
Walking by Myself
Pretty Woman
Since I Met You Baby
Need Your Love So Bad
Tore Down
I Loved Another Woman
You Don't Love Me
All Your Love
Still Got the Blues
Too Tired
The Sky is Crying
Further on up the Road
- Encore 1:
The Blues is Alright
- Encore 2:
Fire
- Encore 3:
Parisienne Walkways
hello Ole-Johan
thanx for your mail. ok, i'll try to give a overview about the gary moore-concert at the montreux jazzfestival from the 8th july 1999.
first, the evening startet at 20.30 with the italien gianna nannini. it was ok. but im not a gn-fan, so i've been at the bar with a heineken and my brother. after, BLONDIE gave a really good concert and i enjoined it very much. they played of course all their hits and it was funny to hear live the good old songs.
Garry Moore began at 0.45 and played till 2.45!!! At the drums played gary husband. the bass and keyboard-player i didn't know. in comparison with the concert two years ago in montreux, gary played only blues songs and nothing from the excititng "Dark days in paradise" or others rock songs from the early years..
I had the feeling that he was in a very good mood and had fun to play. I saw the concert from the balcony (Sfr. 99.) and i suppose that nearly the half of the crowed went after the blondie-gig. Anyway the mood was very good. So hey played at first walking by myself, followed up by cold day in hell, story of the blues and so on. the last song he played was a very loooooong version from parisienne walkways.
The sound was quit good and gary played like we know him since years: fantastic. what shall i say more about moore? Today i read the critic in the zurich newspaper Tages Anzeiger. the journaliste wrothe only about GN and Blondie but no words about Gary Moore. That swiss life. Perhaps he had to go to bed.
Best regards to all GM-Fans in the world.
Marcel Graf
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From: Michel Tulen [SMTP:michel_tulen@yahoo.com]
Subject: Gary Moore Show in Holland
Ole-Johan
I've been to the Gary Moore show at the North Sea Jazzfestival. He was absolute fantastic....
SETLIST:
Walking By Myself
Oh Pretty Woman
Since I met You Babe
Need your love so bad
Loved Another Woman
All Youre Lovin
Tore Down (Freddy King Cover)
Still Got The Blues
Too Tired
Further on Up The Road
- ENCORE:
The Blues is Alright
Gary started at 19:30 in the StatenHal, there were between 12.000 and 15.000 people. It was extremly hot. Gary looked like the time he recorded Corridors of Power (short hear). They started with Walking By Myself and from that point the people where at his hand.
The second song was Oh Pretty woman the sound was great also his voice was great. Third song was Since I met you Baby, he even changed his guitar to one who uses BB King. 4 and 5 song were from the Blues from Greeny CD, Need your love so bad and Loved another Woman. Need youre love so bad did it great by the people because of his great guitar solo's.
Song number 6 was All Your Loving followed by a Tore Down Freddie King cover (A song I never heard before). Song number 8 was Still Got the Blues. Followed by Too Tired, the last song was Further on up the road.
He just had 75 minutes to play because
of the festival, but we did get a Encore and that was The Blues is Alright.....
That song mad the Crowd even crazier......
After that the show was over, but I think he was great, his guitar playing was great.......
Just after the show when I walked away to another stage I saw him walking away and did get the change to say Hello and get a autograph.........
This was Gary Moore 7 years after his
last show in Holland........
Take Care
Michel
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Fra: Stephen.Robinson [SMTP:PJ.Robinson@xtra.co.nz]
Sendt: 23. juni 1999 02:39
Til: Backman (Gary Moore Fan)
Emne: Hello
Hello, this is just a quick note to say Hi, and introduce myself.
I'm Steve, an avid fan of GM for a very long time. Unfortunately to my displeasure, he's never managed to find the way to New Zealand, but I live in hope that one day I'll actually get to see him live in concert. Funny enough I was in the U.K in 96 - 98 but never saw any of his concerts advertised then realized he spent most of his time in Europe thanks to your Tour date guide.
Having followed his early days with G-force, Coll II, Thin Lizzy and then his solo metal career leading to the blues. I have to say he's got to be one of the best guitar players of all time, although I don't think he gets the real recognition he so deserves. In NZ he's not really a popular name, due to his diversion from the mainstream music everyone seems to listen to these days.
Interesting enough Dark days in Paradise does seem to be an attempt to fit in with the 90's scene. A more up to date GM. Quite an interesting album, with some really good songs, but if your used to his Blues music abit of a wild swing away. As an interview in Guitarist Magazine suggested the Blues has it's limitations and as a musician you can get abit stale which I'm sure GM is quite aware of moving there from the Rock scene in the first place.
Your website was quite interesting to look through, a lot of info I wasn't aware of. Anyway, is there any news on what he's doing at present and whether an album is on the cards?
I'll be back in touch soon.
Cheers STEVE.
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From: carmen [SMTP:carcards@jps.net]
Subject: Gary's 30 Years
Well, here it is - this week 30 years ago, Gary hit the stage! 1969 The Jacobites. In scanning the websites, it seems like only one other "fan" is aware of this. Not a whole lot of people out there have been around that long. Sure, you've got Mick Lips and the Rolling Uglies (no, I don't hate the Stones) and a few others, but it's still a milestone worth noting. Maybe I'm riding high on just viewing the video "Live Blues" (since I enjoy BB too), but I'm continually blown away by all that talent in one person. Gary has a music style for ANY mood I'm in - Blues, rock, ballad, "electronic" (what is the term for that? - it's not really "techno"), celtic... anything (except country western or rap, thank goodness!!), so I never tire of his music - an amazing feat for me! So, even if noone joins me, I congratulate you, Gary, on a milestone magnificently reached and richly deserved! If you'll just come out of the house to play, I'm on the plane. My passport is ready, just somebody, anybody, let me know when and where!!! We want Moore!!!
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From: Samuel Flores [SMTP:flores@lpmusic.com]
Subject: Blues for Greeny Video
Hello,
I am a big fan of Gary Moore. I am in search of a Video that was released in Europe about 1995-6. This is a performance video featuring the music of his album "Blues for Greeny"
I need to know if and how I can obtain this video. The video format will probably be different, but I can always have the video converted.
If you can help, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Sam Flores
Phone # (201) 487-7639
E-mail - flores@lpmusic.com
samflores1@aol.com
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From: William Steimel [SMTP:wsteimel@home.com]
Subject: Gary Moore VHS Video's or
DVD's
I am interested in purchasing any video concerts that are available with Gary Moore, especially Wild Frontier. Can you provide me with any sites that contain them.
Thanks
Bill Steimel
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