The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: westen44 on May 11, 2014, 09:42:24 AM
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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjOqcddg2I
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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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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.