Thursday 24 October 2013

The O T Band feat. Kaiya - Demos & Live























Here are some demos that we made in 1992 for the purpose of getting more live work (tracks 1 - 9) and a few live tracks (10 - 13) all featuring Kaiya on vocals  - Click on Comment
She's great and really is one of the guys ! 
Often we had Earl and Kaiya together  for many gigs and it was dynamite !
BTW Why the Eddie Floyd picture ?..He is a friend of the band and told Steve Cropper ...'We are the English Blues Brothers' ...can you believe it !?! Cheers EF a mega-hero of soul  and a lovely, humble guy. 



Tuesday 22 October 2013

The O T Band - At The Fox

This one file (tracks not separated) is an mp3 audio version taken from the video - It's relatively low-rate (160) but seeing as the whole thing came from a domestic video recorder it's probably no less in quality than the original - Anyhow it is what it is and it's all I got ! It sounds OK to me warts an' all and can't be repeated.

Saturday 12 October 2013

The O T Band - Live At The Fox...video

The O T Band feat Earl Green - Live at The Fox  now to view at YouTube - Here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x14OohXvb3s&feature=youtu.be

2 full sets from the OT's with Earl singing his heart out ! This was an informal gig at our home ground - Years before we played here every Sunday for ages then every other Sunday for a while...This among other gigs was the making of The O T Band...Earl Gwyn and I had played music together for nearly 40 years !.. We were really jamming here...that's why I enjoy it ! You can't rehearse those moments...we got the dynamics right...Glen on Drums is just in the moment...and outstanding...and the Bassman Gwyn is a joy with his busy melodic inventions...from school we were a team...Salt and Pepper !...Andy on tenor sax really made this an R&B band that was a band of brothers...And we laughed ! ...A one-off return gig...Yeah there's some dodgy moments..LOL ! But these guys are just great...I just kept calm and shook my head ! The original songs are the opening instrumental 'O T Blues' , the last track of the first set 'She's So Sweet (Bluesette)' and song 2 of the second set 'Borderline'.

And Eddie 'Knock On Wood' Floyd said ...'...make sure you keep that drummer !' ...and luckily we did !

Various Artists - The O T Band Covers-Influences

Various Artists - The O T Band Covers-Influences Here is a 52 track compilation of the songs that The O T Band regularly covered/featured ...