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westen44

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Claude Hay
« on: May 11, 2014, 09:42:24 AM »
A friend asked me if I had heard of this guy.  I hadn't.  I looked him up and he is Australian.  It looks like most of the time he has a solo act, literally doing everything himself.  But here is a video of him performing with a bassist and drummer.  It's too bad they don't get together as a real band.  They're better than a lot of people who are supposedly real bands, IMO.  Evidently, this is from a private party.  As for the artist Claude Hay himself, all I know is what I just looked up on Wikipedia.

Edit:  Based on the caption on this video, maybe this is already a real band.  Looking at all the other videos on this on YouTube, it doesn't look like it.  But I just don't know for sure.  Regardless, it's good music to wake up to on a Sunday morning. 

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Re: Claude Hay
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2014, 04:37:18 PM »
Like a lot of blues guys in Australia, Claude does a lot of solo gigs as well as gigs with his full band.  The blues scene doesn't pay very well here, so most of the big names play a lot of solo shows.   I've played at the venue in the YouTube clip a few times - very cool venue with great in-house production (The Vanguard).

His band played at the biggest blues festival in Australia a few weeks ago - Bluesfest
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Re: Claude Hay
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2014, 06:02:25 PM »
Like a lot of blues guys in Australia, Claude does a lot of solo gigs as well as gigs with his full band.  The blues scene doesn't pay very well here, so most of the big names play a lot of solo shows.   I've played at the venue in the YouTube clip a few times - very cool venue with great in-house production (The Vanguard).

His band played at the biggest blues festival in Australia a few weeks ago - Bluesfest

I think he's good.  It's too bad the blues scene doesn't pay well.  If he played Top 40 crap, obviously the pay would be better. 
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society.  It's those who write the songs.

--Blaise Pascal