Geoff Bailie's blog

Close to the Edge... but no cigar

Yes have just announced that they will be joining the list of rock bands who have selected a member of a tribute band as their new lead singer (step up Journey and Judas Priest, and probably lots more). Benoit David (not the pianist with the same name in reverse) is the candidate and you can see from the clip below, he does a fine job of "doing Anderson"


Plus they have the most famous keyboard player (Rick Wakeman) 's son Adam Wakeman on keyboards. He is also a bit of a lookalike, albeit now shorn of his long hair. Here is the "key-tar" battle that won Adam job:


Can bands perpetuate indefinitely using siblings and soundalikes?

For Mr Ellen to aspire to

The recent Podcasts have featured Mark Ellen's uke playing on several ocassions.

But for sheer uke magic, it is hard to beat these two:


Counting with Bruce

With the current Springsteen theme in Word mag, I hope you find this clip helpful, especially those of you with kids who are learning to count.