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 Keith Vingoe - Guitar and Vocals

Keith began playing guitar in his early teens and formed his first band whilst still at school. Then followed the usual career path of a gigging muso including tours of the UK and foreign parts. He spent several years playing sessions, sometimes working with some famous names - but prefers not to say who!  Keith took some time out before tackling the college circuit in the 80's with the ten-piece “Cat Called Blue,” then moved onto the pub rock circuit for nine years with the legendary Cornish based band “Bigfoot,” before being headhunted to run the Truro Ale House Monday Jam night until its demise in 2003. He spent three years with the occasional 15-piece Joe Cocker Experience (latterly known simply as the CockerBand) - now that was fun!

Keith delivers screaming rock or tasteful blues licks with the best and has been known to throw something in that we haven't heard before (sometimes we don't even know what's coming!)

 

Tony Smith - Bass Guitar

Tony has played bass in quite a few bands in the past, covering most styles. He played blues for just over 3 years with Plymouth based band Smokestack Lightning.  He has done the "pink silk shirt" circuit with a function band (Here, he says, he really learned how to play as part of a band) he has even played on a ship in the middle of the South Pacific. Tony reckons his influences are bass players such as Jim Lea, Trevor Bolder, Roger Glover, Bootsy Collins and of course James Jameson... "For me, an audience who are really showing that they are having a good time beats most things, it's one of the best feelings you can get".

He thinks it all comes out as a nice bass mix anyway! (So do we!)

 

 

Pete Whitehead - Keyboards

Pete played keys in Blueswirl (a blues-rock band from deepest Essex) and in function band FrG in Cornwall, which is where he first hooked up with Tony. His rig currently comprises a Korg SP250 stage piano and a Hammond XB2 organ. People at gigs comment that they seldom hear a band using a real drawbar organ.... the sound speaks for itself. Pete also gets to come out from behind his rig to wail away on harp (not the big thing with strings on it i may add) on a few songs. Pete reckons his musical influences are difficult to pin down.
We reckon the fact that his musical taste stalled in about 1966 might explain a few things…

Terry "Slow Leg" Mitchley - Drums

Terry’s played with Blues & Rock Bands in  Germany, London, Surrey & Sussex since the late sixties, with bands such as  blues band, “Isiahs Prophets”, playing alongside and supporting acts like Jeff Beck, Alex Harvey, Brian Auger and Mungo Jerry at venues such as The Marquee in London, and the famous Eel Pie Island, and later with his own bands “Rusty” and “Tall Story” with Larry Miller (now of “The Larry Miller Band”) on guitar and Eric Gosling (now of “Cryin’out Loud” on vocals).  In the 80s he teamed up with the Sussex based “Katy Devereux”,  featuring Eddie Mayhew, and then went on with Eddie to form the “The Shotgun Blues Band”. After moving to Cornwall,  it seems to have come full circle for Terry, he's back playing the stuff he learned his trade on, and still sounds  powerful. "Tel" is a real gent, I don't think there are many people in the industry he doesn't know or  hasn't met.