Tommy Emmanuel live at The Royal Festival Hall London 14-01-2015

Tommy Emmanuel Live At The Royal Festival Hall London 14 - 01 - 2015

Ok folks, the moment you've all been waiting for. After 42 years fronting bands and a wealth of experience both playing live and in the studio, I've now decided to venture into the realm of home recording. It's cost me a small fortune to set up my Mac based studio, but the results are definately worth it as you'll hear from my first ever composition. To be honest, I don't know what all the fuss is about as this masterpiece only took 10 minutes to record, and that included making a cuppa. Pffffffft, easy peasy !!!!!!. I call this first piece "Ali Baba meets Thelonius Monk in Ibetha", and it's fucking brilliant. You can have a copy for a fiver. C'mon, you know you want one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Brian first

Ok, back in the mid 90's, (the 1890's that is lol), I was fronting a London based rock covers  band, "Mainline". We were playing the London circuit and doing ok and we had an idea for doing a bluesy version of an old classic, so we recorded it. I added the backing vocals at the end of the session. Many thanks to my old muso chum from way back when in Australia, Earle Lomas, for getting my juices flowing again :-))))))))))))))).
Mainline
Andy Bradfield-Drums
Pete Rainbow-Lead Guitar
Barry Ivey-Bass
Brian Everingham-Lead vocals-Hammond organ-Sax-Guitar-Blues harps

I Can See Clearly Now

Ok, Crossroads from the same session as I Can See Clearly Now with Mainline.

Crossroads

Ok, thought I'd put this up for historical value. The first song I ever recorded, in 1927.

My Sweetie Went Away

Mr Big

I first met Peter when I moved from Londons East End to South East London and I joined his band The Not Very Dangerous Blues Band. When it folded Peter had the idea of putting together a Free/Bad Company tribute band, and this is a track from the promo CD we cut.
Pete Lugg-Lead Guitar.
Graham Cousins-Bass Guitar.
Stevie "The Weasel Feeder" Rodrigues-Drums.
Brian Everingham. Lead Vocals-Hammond/Piano-Harps

A shelf fell out of the wardrobe tonight, and a bag landed at my feet. It was full of live gig and studio cassettes I haven't seen for about 25 years and had completely forgotten about, and this was among them lol.
When I came to Britain in 1976, the first priorities were a job, and a band. Both followed pretty quickly.
And so I joined this infamous lot, Bwana Dik, known throughout Essex as, The Diks, and quite rightly so lmao.
This was the end of a session at a studio in Essex. Can't remember which one, but we were told to NEVER EVER come back !!!.
The band had a thing about igniting gunpowder onstage, and I've still got the singed jeans somewhere. Also, the lead guitarist was legendary for his bouts of drinking, along with others lmao, and after recording the 4 silly songs we recorded for some Portugese promoter to get gigs there, including Vaya Con Dios, yeah, you heard right, we'd had enough and played a song from our normal set before the engineer walked off among the carnage and the flying beer cans. We were a little bad.
When I joined on lead vocals I was handed a sunburst Gibson Les Paul. Hate those bloody Gibsons, just too heavy for a midget like me.
As for those weird chords at the end, I still can't remember how to play them now lmao.
Anyway, my first band in the UK.
The Diks.
Doug Newhouse-Lead Guitar.
Howie "H" Bills-Bass Guitar.
Don Moore-Drums.
Brian "Boz", coz that's where it started, Everingham-Lead Vocals-Rythme Guitar.