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The Deans |
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colin devine |
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Dec 23, 07 - 3:53 PM |
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devinereports@yahoo.co.uk |
| Date of Gig: |
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Wednesday December 19 |
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Arriving a little over half an hour into the Deans set, I immediately recognised the sound of a Blind Willie McTell riff, and then thought, no wait, it was the Allman Bros who made that tune their own.
Of course,the youngster who was playing the Fender tele, decked out in checked shirt, blue jeans and a mop of long curly locks, wasn't about to launch into Statesborough Blues after all, but a tune of their own entitled God Knows what, but it made no difference, these guys wore their influences on their sleeve, and make no mistake, the re-worked McTell tune was great.
The guitarist produced some sweet sounds on his slide, and took it in turns to play his Strat and his Tele, using the Black Tele for the slide sound, and his red Strat the rest of the time.
Playing on stage was a task he took to like a professional who's been at it for 20 years or more!
And so it was for the rest of their set, the Deans from Galway did some great performances, which included tunes clearly influenced by the hard-driving blues-rock of Rory Gallagher, Clapton and every now and then, the unmistakable sound of Stevie Ray.
Not content with trying to re-work a tune from one of the great Blues musicians from the Cream/Stones/Beatles era of the late 60's, the Deans then launched into a really great version of Oh Well part one.
And maybe the guitar player was making some kind of sumblime connection, but instead of, as I was expecting, a dramatic change of pace to the slow blues and almost classical nature of Oh Well Part 2, the Deans went a different direction entirely.
While playing the Oh Well riff, they went into another tune and it took me a couple of bars before I recognised it- none other than Horslips, Trouble!
They did a full version of the song, words and all, and then returned faithfully to Oh Well.
SO there you have it- straight from the strings of the newest and perhaps one of the most exciting young guitar-slingers on the Irish music scene at the minute-- Johnny Fean, Charles O'Connor and Barry Devlin were in fact as influenced by the great Peter Green as they were by the Irish Rover!
The Deans are a three piece from Galway, brothers on the lead/rhythm Guitar and some other dood on the skins.
A tight, exciting Blues/rock outfit whose performance belies their young years (18-20)
They will be returning to this venue on January 19, and my advice is, if blues/rock and Rory G in particular is your bag, don't miss em- they are well worth the effort!
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